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New York Law Journal

Trump-Appointed Judges' Letter on Not Taking Clerks From Columbia Law Shows Inability To Dispense Individual Justice

The 13 judges who said they're boycotting Columbia Law students over disagreements with administration reveal their utter lack of capacity to serve in a role that requires them to dispense individual justice, a Fordham Law professor writes.
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New York Law Journal

Sidebar Series: The Trump Gag Order

Judge Juan Merchan's second order holding ex-president Donald Trump in contempt is a blockbuster. In his first order, the court minced no words that this defendant violated the gag order no less than nine times.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Support Magistrate Provides a 'Breath of Fresh Air' For Family Court

[Editor's note: This letter was submitted in response to a column by Sondra Mendelson-Toscano, a support magistrate in Nassau County's family court,…
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New York Law Journal

Trump's Trial Provides a Stage for Daily Campaign Events

The court presiding over Donald Trump's criminal trial and the media have likely been hoodwinked into being handmaidens of a strategy portends yet another historic blow to truth and the justice system, a Syracuse Law professor writes.
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New York Law Journal

SBF's Fascinating, Rueful Tale: Michael Lewis' 'Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon'

While author Michael Lewis also catalogues Sam Bankman-Fried's wildly out-of-bounds amoral conduct and anti-social attitude, it is the trial, not the book, that strips the emperor down to his skivvies.
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New York Law Journal

'People v. Donald Trump': The Falsifying of Business Records Case (Part II)

Donald Trump's proclivity to social media posting and public statements both while in office, and since, renders his testifying in his criminal trial little short of a perilous legal minefield, a Law Journal columnist writes.
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New York Law Journal

Trumped Up Charges: Unraveling the Unfairness of Political Prosecution

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has wrongfully prosecuted a criminal justice reform advocate, an NYPD officer, and a former Republican President of the United States, for seemingly political reasons, a Law Journal contributor writes.
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New York Law Journal

The Declining Presence of Lawyers in Elected Office: A Trend to Be Reversed

The decline in lawyers serving in legislatures has been driven in part by economics and changes in the legal profession as significant financial incentives exist for lawyers to practice law rather than run for office, a former president of the New York State Bar Association writes.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

NYC Law Department Invests in Bar Retakers

New York City's Law Department has launched a new program in collaboration with New York Law School allowing staffers to keep their jobs with the agency while they retake the bar exam.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Trump: If the Public Doesn't Remember This, It Should

Weighing in on Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan, two veteran criminal defense attorneys say that the defense will have to deal with the prosecution's theory of why the payments were made—and create its own countertheory.
5 minute read

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