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July 02, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Panel Rejects City's Plan to Phase Out 19 Public Schools

A unanimous First Department panel yesterday upheld a lower court injunction barring New York City from proceeding with a plan to phase out intermediate and high schools the Department of Education had identified as failing. The court ruled the injunction was correctly issued because the department had failed to comply with a 2009 law requiring it to compile "educational impact statements" before closing schools.
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May 03, 2010 | Law.com

When Judges Google

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was recently faced with an unusual appeal in which a criminal defendant raised an intriguing question about the perspectives that a judge can properly bring to bear on the bench. Joel Cohen and Katherine A. Helm examine the events in that case and the related ethical issues involving judges who Google.
9 minute read
January 28, 2008 | National Law Journal

Why a public outing?

The Mitchell Report's public identification of 85 baseball players as illegal drug users is a dangerous practice. U.S. history is replete with public accusations, often false, of people being witches and communists. While the Mitchell Report may seem to continue this prejudicial behavior, the report would have appeared less credible and received less attention if players hadn't been named.
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October 08, 2007 | National Law Journal

When to fault client choices

The news of presidential candidate Fred Thompson's involvement in the legal representation of two Libyans charged in the Pan Am 103 bombing is not about a lawyer's ethical choice to defend an unpopular client. The real question is whether Thompson and his partners had any affirmative obligation to represent the terrorists, and whether the public has a right to consider that choice of representation � and subsequent justification � in evaluating Thompson's character and fitness to be president.
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September 21, 2004 | New York Law Journal

Obituary

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January 20, 2010 | New York Law Journal

Monserrate and the Question of Pink Slips for Elected Officials

Jerry H. Goldfeder, special counsel at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and a teacher of election law at Fordham Law School and University of Pennsylvania Law School, writes: There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but the options are decidedly fewer for ousting an objectionable elected official. Now that a committee of the New York State Senate has recommended to the full body that it consider expelling Senator Hiram Monserrate, it is worth previewing some of the legal issues that might be raised over the next few months in connection with Mr. Monserrate's future in the Senate.
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November 28, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Large Firm Lawyers On the Move

Mark Mandel, formerly wit White & Case, joins Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy's global corporate group as partner in New York and will focus on representing clients in domestic, cross-border and global mergers and acquisitions, financings, private equity and restructuring transactions. Plus more law firm movers in this week's column.
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May 04, 2010 | Daily Business Review

Ethical issues involving judges who Google?

The 2nd Circuit faced an unusual appeal in which a criminal defendant raised an intriguing question about the perspectives that a judge can properly bring to bear on the bench.
9 minute read
May 26, 2003 | National Law Journal

One Firm's Quick Start to Profits

McKee Nelson was founded less than four years ago by a pair of King & Spalding partners who wanted to pave their own way. Today, the capital markets firm has hit the 90-lawyer mark and is still luring top-flight lateral partners.
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August 07, 2006 | New York Law Journal

Working With a Private Eye

Joel Cohen, a partner at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan and an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School, writes that although there are bad apples among them, most private investigators dig up stuff using only proper means. But still, issues sometimes arise, and recent events have raised the consciousness of lawyers, particularly criminal and divorce lawyers who employ private investigators on a regular basis.
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