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New York Law Journal

Ex-CEO Confirms Use of NRA Assets for Personal Expenses

Wayne LaPierre's health has been a point of contention throughout the trial, and defense attorney P. Kent Correll last week requested a medical accommodation for his client.
4 minute read

New York Law Journal

What I Wish I Knew Then: Twyla Carter

In an interview with Pollock Cohen name partner Steve Cohen, the Legal Aid Society's attorney-in-chief and CEO discusses the importance of being able to own up to one's mistakes. This is the latest in an occasional series.
10 minute read

New York Law Journal

NRA Didn't Hold Ex-CEO Accountable, Even As It Knew of Profligate Spending, Witness Says

NRA president Charles Cotton admitted under questioning by an assistant state attorney general that the gun-rights nonprofit never moved to penalize Wayne LaPierre.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

NRA Hid Improper Spending by Billing Third Party: Ex-CFO

Under questioning at trial by Senior Litigation Counsel Monica Connell of the New York Attorney General's office, Wilson "Woody" Phillips said the system was set up to conceal information from prying employees.
3 minute read

New York Law Journal

'An Unusual Lawsuit': NRA Lawyer Says Group Is Victim 'Betrayed' by Execs

NRA lawyer Sarah Rogers of Brewer Attorneys & Counselors told jurors. "Any damages you award in this case will be paid to the NRA. The government acknowledges that my client is the victim."
6 minute read

New York Law Journal

'Wayne's World': AG's Office Says Wayne LaPierre Ran NRA as If He Were a 'King'

In opening statements Monday, jurors heard that NRA executives violated New York not-for-profit and whistleblower laws.
4 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Not Here: New Jersey Courts Shut Out Pennsylvania Clergy-Abuse Claimants

The issue of cross-border jurisdiction in clergy abuse suits has come up often in New Jersey courts because the state has relaxed the statute of limitations for civil suits by adult survivors of sexual abuse since 2019, while Pennsylvania has not enacted such a law.
5 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Debate Over Taxpayer-Funded Private Education Comes to Pa.

On the heels of a landmark ruling from the Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court declaring that the Pennsylvania Constitution guarantees a "comprehensive, effective, and contemporary system of public education," and a court order directing the state to fund its public schools to provide every child with "a meaningful opportunity to succeed academically, socially, and civically," Pennsylvania has nevertheless found itself in a debate over the state's investment in private education.
8 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

A Way In and a Way Out: Guilty Pleas and the Innocent

Though the barriers to overturning a wrongful conviction remain staggering—particularly here in Pennsylvania, where jurisdictional bars to reviewing a conviction hold firm even in the face of compelling evidence of actual innocence—this awareness has led directly to innocent Pennsylvanians coming home.
8 minute read

Corporate Counsel

Veteran Boeing Lawyer Takes Legal Reins of 21-Museum Smithsonian Institution

Jennifer Brosnahan McIntyre, who was an associate counsel to President George W. Bush and a deputy general counsel of the U.S. Department of Transportation, now will help advance the nonprofit's noble purpose of increasing the diffusion of knowledge.
2 minute read

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