New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Jerry H. Goldfeder and Karen Friedman Agnifilo | May 9, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary|Letter to the Editor
By Peter Galasso | May 8, 2024
[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,…
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Gary Kelder | May 8, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | May 4, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Roger Bennet Adler | May 4, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Cary London | May 1, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Henry M. Greenberg | May 1, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix | April 29, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Laura A. Brevetti | April 23, 2024
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.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Roger Bennet Adler | April 18, 2024
As we move toward counsel's opening statements, and the presentation of evidence, it is clear that this initial criminal trial of former President Donald Trump poses a myriad of both legal and factual challenges for both sides, a Law Journal columnist writes.
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