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Two ex-John Jay College of Criminal Justice students have filed a New York Federal suit accusing four faculty members of egregious sexual misconduct and the school of conducting only a “sham” investigation into their complaints. (1:19-cv-05428, SDNY). The students said ...

Tagged with: Lindy Korn Workplace Issues

Let’s say that you are planning the Great American Summer Vacation – a cross country trip with your family. You are renting an RV for two weeks. There are two left on the lot. There’s a 3-year-old model — it ...

Every summer, during the course of conducting research for the annual update to the book I co-author with Judge Karen Morris, “Criminal Law in New York,” I often come across cases that offer an interesting take on the intersection of ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

With greater frequency, clients expect, request and sometimes insist that non-lawyers, such as public relations firms, participate in in the litigation process. Responding to and managing these client expectations requires that the attorney be well-versed in the ways in which ...

Tagged with: Advocate's View Mary Jo S. Korona

Everybody likes a bargain. One such bargain today lies in municipal bond closed-end funds. Although they are not as attractive as they have been at in other points in time, municipal bond closed-end funds currently have an average discount to ...

Tagged with: Brett Gardner Money Management

It has been about nine months since my last patentable subject matter (aka “Alice”) update, tracking cases and other important information in the wake of the Alice Supreme Court decision. Things continue to improve at the Court of Appeals for ...

Tagged with: IP Frontiers Wayne F. Reinke

Over the last decade, development of shale gas through hydraulic fracturing has blossomed in Pennsylvania. The shale gas boom has led gas companies, including National Fuel Gas Supply Company from New York, to explore and expand opportunities south of the ...

Tagged with: Environmental Law George Van Nest

“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” — Nelson Mandela This quote has meant so much to me that I have literally carried it with me during this past year. Each day of my bar presidency, I have had an ...

Tagged with: Jon Getz MCBA President's Message

The automobile industry has been going through a flux in recent years. Though realizing an elevated occurrence of 17,270,000 domestic vehicle sales in 2018, the horizon appears challenging to duplicate this phenomena going forward (Source: Statista.com). The affordability of a ...

For most lawyers, email is their primary method of correspondence with clients, courts, opposing counsel and others. Over the years, we’ve become increasingly reliant on email because it’s a fairly simple and cost-effective way to communicate. Of course, as technology ...

Tagged with: Legal Loop Nicole Black

As a citizen, business owner and HR professional, I’ve taken a strong interest and active role in state and federal legislative advocacy for more than two decades. I’ve had the great fortune to meet, and discuss regulatory issues with, dozens ...

Tagged with: Frank Cania HR Connection

In the context of personal injury cases, social media can be a blessing for the defense and a curse to an unwitting plaintiff. Prior to the age of social media, a defendant seeking to undermine a plaintiff’s claimed injuries would ...

Tagged with: Trials and Tribulations Victoria Gleason