New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Paul Townsend | March 31, 2024
A more just system would permit judges to take into account all the facts and circumstances of both the crime and the individual's background, and impose a sentence accordingly, a guest columnist for the Law Journal writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Susan Shin and Claudia Wilner | March 28, 2024
New York should enact the Consumer and Small Business Protection Act as an urgent matter of racial and economic justice, two guest columnists write.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By David Scher | March 24, 2024
New York State legislators have twice passed the Grieving Families Act to reform the state's outdated wrongful death statute-Yet Gov. Kathy Hochul has bowed to the special interest groups who want to keep the status quo, the president of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Steve Cohen | March 21, 2024
Pollock Cohen name partner Steve Cohen sat down with Nadine Strossen, a past president of the ACLU and professor emerita at New York Law School, to discuss free speech, the virtue of patience and the advice she received from Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | March 19, 2024
Retired Court of Appeals Judge Joseph W. Bellacosa salutes Presiding Justice Marcus G. Christ of the Appellate Division, Second Department, the most formative mentor of his career.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen | March 18, 2024
Former President Donald Trump's unparalleled ability to "delay" lies directly at the feet of the prosecutors for the three major criminal cases against him and the attorney general of the United States, the Law Journal's Joel Cohen writes.
By Roger Bennet Adler | March 15, 2024
A "clear" response to recidivism is to enhance the penalties for crimes committed while released on a desk appearance ticket, supervised release, probation or parole, a Law Journal columnist writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Dick Lewis | March 15, 2024
New York State's zeal to guard against fraud and abuse with the addition of online notarization, has vastly overstepped in its regulation efforts, the New York State Bar Association president writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Bennett L. Gershman | March 13, 2024
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas should accept John Oliver's offer of $1 million a year and a new RV, which expires on March 19, the Law Journal's Bennett L. Gershman writes.
New York Law Journal | Letter to the Editor
By Norman A. Olch | March 12, 2024
Trump now has until March 18 to file reply papers in the civil fraud case that the New York Attorney General won at trial. This is only one week before his criminal trial regarding alleged hush payments to Stormy Daniels is scheduled to begin.
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