New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Jerry H. Goldfeder and Karen Friedman Agnifilo | May 9, 2024
Judge Juan Merchan's second order holding ex-president Donald Trump in contempt is a blockbuster. In his first order, the court minced no words that this defendant violated the gag order no less than nine times.
New York Law Journal | Commentary|Letter to the Editor
By Peter Galasso | May 8, 2024
[Editor's note: This letter was submitted in response to a column by Sondra Mendelson-Toscano, a support magistrate in Nassau County's family court,…
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Gary Kelder | May 8, 2024
The court presiding over Donald Trump's criminal trial and the media have likely been hoodwinked into being handmaidens of a strategy portends yet another historic blow to truth and the justice system, a Syracuse Law professor writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By David Lenefsky | May 6, 2024
Rembrandt and Hals, frequent litigants, demonstrate what every litigator knows, or should know: character and behavior of a party and counsel—trustworthiness, reliability and civility—can significantly influence the outcome of litigation.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | May 4, 2024
While author Michael Lewis also catalogues Sam Bankman-Fried's wildly out-of-bounds amoral conduct and anti-social attitude, it is the trial, not the book, that strips the emperor down to his skivvies.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Roger Bennet Adler | May 4, 2024
Donald Trump's proclivity to social media posting and public statements both while in office, and since, renders his testifying in his criminal trial little short of a perilous legal minefield, a Law Journal columnist writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Cary London | May 1, 2024
Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has wrongfully prosecuted a criminal justice reform advocate, an NYPD officer, and a former Republican President of the United States, for seemingly political reasons, a Law Journal contributor writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Henry M. Greenberg | May 1, 2024
The decline in lawyers serving in legislatures has been driven in part by economics and changes in the legal profession as significant financial incentives exist for lawyers to practice law rather than run for office, a former president of the New York State Bar Association writes.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix | April 29, 2024
New York City's Law Department has launched a new program in collaboration with New York Law School allowing staffers to keep their jobs with the agency while they retake the bar exam.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By David B. Saxe | April 24, 2024
Judge David Saxe reflects on a chance meeting he had with the late Judge Judith Kaye.
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