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Conduct Panel Accuses Surrogate of Inaction in P.A. Counsel Scandal
New 'Hybrid' Judges Split Time to Attack Burgeoning Caseloads
Seeking flexibility to deal with burgeoning foreclosure and consumer debt caseloads, court administrators have promoted 13 New York City Civil Court judges to Acting Supreme Court justices. The new judges?four in Manhattan, three each in Brooklyn and Queens, two in the Bronx and one on Staten Island?are splitting time between the courts.
Fall Forecast: Top Law Schools Ready for Flood Of Job Changes
As Robert Sitkoff, 32, unloads his moving boxes this fall to join the faculty at Harvard Law School from New York University School of Law, he may spot Arthur Miller, 73, toting his own belongings in the opposite direction. The moves not only signify a generational shift at Harvard, but they also demonstrate the abundance of job hopping occurring among professors at the upper echelon of law schools.
No Special Treatment: The Government and E-Discovery
In their Federal E-Discovery column, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison partners H. Christopher Boehning and Daniel J. Toal discuss how a recent decision might indicate a trend that courts will hold government entities to the same exacting standards for e-discovery to which they hold private parties.
New York as the World's Courthouse in Enforcing Economic Sanctions
Benito Romano, a partner with Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer U.S., and Glen Kelley, counsel with the firm, write: Abduwali Abdukhadir Muse?the headline-grabbing Somali pirate awaiting trial for attacking the Maersk Alabama in April?was probably surprised when his activities in the Gulf of Aden landed him in a defendant's chair in federal court in downtown Manhattan. He is not the only one. In recent years, foreign individuals, banks and companies that deal with Iran or other targets of U.S. economic sanctions have also been surprised to learn that they have become the subjects of unexpected criminal proceedings in New York. If, as expected, the Obama administration continues to emphasize the use of sanctions to increase pressure on Iran to respond positively to U.S. and multilateral nuclear proliferation and anti-terrorism concerns, this will mean still more extraterritorial enforcement against foreign persons.Paterson Hit With Ethics Charge For Accepting Yankees Tickets
The state Commission on Public Integrity charged that Governor David A. Paterson accepted as many as five $425-a-seat tickets from the New York Yankees as gifts and did not intend to pay for the tickets, trying to do so only after media inquiries about the presence of his party at the Oct. 28 opening Series game against the Philadelphia Phillies. The commission also referred the matter to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo and Albany County District Attorney P. David Soares to examine whether the "governor or anyone else may have committed a crime or crimes by swearing falsely during the Commission's interview of him and by causing a check to be back-dated" as the governor's office sought to pay for the tickets.Trending Stories
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