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New York Law Journal

King of the Bugs: A Tribute

His legacy in all he accomplished is a compelling one. And in the area of electronic surveillance it is a standard that will be difficult to ever match.
7 minute read

New York Law Journal

Court Delays 
Work an Injustice 
on Litigants

Court delays work an injustice on both individual and corporate litigants. In the case of the former, delaying justice can have significant consequences on someone's life, whether the matter in dispute pertains to that individual's financial or personal circumstances or, as is often the case, both.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

Bar Associations Must Invest in Millennial Lawyers To Survive

Belonging to a bar association used to be a tradition and a privilege. Years ago, becoming an attorney almost automatically meant joining the bar association. It was the norm.
9 minute read

New York Law Journal

Remembering the Tumultuous Years Under Special Prosecutor Maurice Nadjari

It all began in 1972 when a New York City Police officer named Frank Serpico went to the New York Times to tell his story of widespread police corruption. That was a big deal. It was even a bigger deal when Frank Serpico was shot in the head shortly after that.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

A Call for Higher Education Reform

Former Yale Law School Dean, Anthony Kronman, echoes the role of a latter-day prophet, boldly urging reform of the fault lines that he sees fracturing higher education today. His "Assault on American Excellence" is an expository defense of aristocratic educational excellence.
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

Chess Is a Serious Game but Reading About It Is a Delight

Comparisons between law and chess are common enough. Many articles have explored that metaphor and explained how the two fields are similar—up to a point. The literature is full of such analyses. But such studies are typically no more than short articles. Now we have a new book on the subject, and it is a good one.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Rudy Giuliani Is Not A Defense Lawyer

I have been a defense lawyer in our nation's state and federal courts for more than forty years. I am very proud of that and most of my colleagues…
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

We Lost One of New York's Legal Giants

He is, one might say, perhaps the last of a generation of luminaries—along with Richard Denzer, Richard Bartlett and others who were instrumental in producing the Penal Law of 1967—a work so good as to have endured for decades.
2 minute read

New York Law Journal

NY State's New Revenge Porn Law Will Likely Be Effective

Technology is almost always a step or two ahead of the law, and that gives the criminal element a bit of a head start. Until the law catches up, those who would misuse technology often get a free pass.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

Department of Justice Seeks to Silence Immigration Judges' Union

The stakes for people in immigration court proceedings could not be higher. Deportation can, as the Supreme Court recognized almost a century ago, deprive a noncitizen of "all that makes life worth living." Yet for the past two years, the integrity of immigration judges' adjudications has been under attack.
3 minute read

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