By Jane Wester | July 19, 2022
Federal prosecutors said allegations in the case against the former lieutenant governor are sufficient to satisfy the explicit quid pro quo standard articulated by the U.S. Supreme Court.
By Jane Wester | July 18, 2022
Lawyer told lottery winners he could help them figure out how to manage their jackpots.
By Andrew Denney | July 18, 2022
"I don't want to be thought of as a white-collar lawyer. I want to be thought of as a lawyer who represents people because they need representation," Shargel said in 2012 during an interview with Michael Stoler for CUNY TV's BuildingNY series. I want to be thought of as a lawyer who's willing to give my all…I'm not worried about the color of the collar."
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Bennett L. Gershman and Joel Cohen | July 15, 2022
Even with powerful evidence of guilt, prosecutors will face daunting challenges to persuade a jury of Trump's guilt, and then defend that conviction in appellate courtrooms.
By Jane Wester | July 14, 2022
The newly public sections center on prosecutors' alleged "eleventh hour" effort to change Migdol's allocution and insert what defense lawyers termed "the three magic words—quid pro quo"—to describe his interaction with Benjamin.
By Jane Wester | July 12, 2022
The defendant attorney was accused of filing at least 300 lawsuits in New York and Florida federal courts on behalf of people who had not retained him as counsel, according to court filings.
By Jason Grant | July 8, 2022
When former lawyer Elizabeth Vila Rogan found out a judge she was looking for was not presiding in court in Georgia, "she signed his initials to the [court clarifying] order, with full awareness that she did not have permission to do so" and then "presented the order to the clerk of the court," wrote a New York appeals court that has disbarred her.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan | July 7, 2022
In this edition of their Eastern District Roundup, Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan report on several recent and significant representative decisions, including reduction of a lengthy prison sentence due to defendant's medical impairments; a holding that, under ERISA, unionized workers had standing to sue trustees of their former union regarding dollar amounts transferred to their new union; and a holding that plaintiffs failed to establish a bank's liability under the Truth in Lending Act regarding disclosures related to their mortgage.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Benjamin Rosenberg | July 5, 2022
Can the court abrogate the employer's privilege over the objection of the employer, and if so under what circumstances? This article discusses two cases in which the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit addressed this question, holding that the court could not abrogate the employer's privilege.
By Jane Wester | July 1, 2022
Jason Kurland, a former partner at Rivkin Radler who represented the winners of lottery jackpots, had a professional liability insurance policy through Fireman's Fund Insurance Co.
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