By Jane Wester | August 10, 2023
Chief Judge Debra Ann Livingston described the loss of Pooler, the second female judge appointed to serve on the Second Circuit, as "heartrending."
By Lisa Shuchman | April 10, 2023
Benjamin Ferencz, the first prosecutor to use the term "genocide" in a court of law, fought tirelessly for peace and accountability in the years after he secured guilty verdicts against 22 high-ranking Nazi officials for murders committed during World War II.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Frederick P. Hafetz | December 14, 2022
For many criminal defense attorneys as well as opposing prosecutors and judges who had the good fortune of seeing Jay Goldberg try a case, the experience was memorable.
By Andrew Denney | December 13, 2022
In his long and fascinating career, the Brooklyn-born Goldberg assisted with a prisoner exchange with the Soviet Union, fought crime in Chicagoland and provided counsel for a long list of top celebrities, reputed mobsters and former President Donald Trump.
By Emily Saul | December 9, 2022
Known as the "Serpico Judge," Namm made waves during his term on the bench in Suffolk County, exposing police perjury in several murder cases and asking two separate New York governors to investigate county law enforcement.
By Andrew Denney | November 14, 2022
"She had an uncanny ability to have her finger on the pulse of every office within the Legal Aid Society family," Steven Banks, who is now special counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, said.
By Cooley | November 11, 2022
For decades, he was one of New York City's leading bankruptcy lawyers, a mentor to dozens of young attorneys and a dedicated professor of bankruptcy law.
By Jane Wester | October 12, 2022
One of Johnson's former clerks, U.S. Attorney Breon Peace of the Eastern District of New York, said he would remember the judge as both an excellent jurist and "more significantly … a wonderful human being."
By Andrew Denney | September 27, 2022
Through his lengthy career, Clurman worked in both the private and public sectors and penned a number of legal volumes.
By Andrew Denney | September 5, 2022
"He held a mirror up to the legal profession—warts and all—and I think that helped the public better understand the legal profession, and help the legal profession understand its role in public life," H. Rodgin Cohen, Glasser's longtime friend and senior chair at Sullivan & Cromwell, told the Law Journal.
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