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Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo predicted yesterday that "hundreds and hundreds" of attorneys will ultimately be implicated in his office's investigation of government entities improperly enrolling non-employees in public pension funds. While his investigators have only exposed the "tip of the iceberg" so far, Mr. Cuomo said the problem is not limited to a few school districts on Long Island which were initially exposed for having put attorneys doing work for the districts on the public pension rolls.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Harvey M. Stone and Richard H. Dolan, partners at Schlam Stone & Dolan, analyze recent cases covering identity theft, labor disputes and the travails of an interstate traveller packing a gun post-9/11, along with other noteworthy decisions.
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Friday, May 9, 2008
Abby Tolchinsky and Ellie Wertheim, partners at Family Mediation, write that because mediation is a process without procedural safeguards, there may be an added layer of concern as to whether the resulting agreements will hold up over time. Ironically, they say, it is the personal input from the parties to mediation that increases the likelihood that the decisions they make together will stand the test of time.
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Free With Registration: Making Seven Minutes Count
Friday, May 9, 2008
Each week day, hundreds of litigants show up at Brooklyn's Family Court, nearly four-fifths of whom are unrepresented by an attorney and, to varying degrees, unprepared for what may be six or seven of the most important minutes of their lives.
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Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Peter C. Neger, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, has a suggestion for a Mother's Day gift: Taser's consumer-oriented "electronic control device" - the C2 model - comes in "Fashion Pink," "Black Pearl" and "Desert Camouflage" styles and is marketed as an item "that can fit in a pocket or purse."
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Domain Names as Collateral for Loans
Friday, May 9, 2008
Christopher G. Dorman, a partner with Phillips Lytle, writes that the methods of accessing domain names as collateral support for debt are likely to develop rapidly in the coming years as creditors' and debtors' appreciation of the value of domain names evolves along with the law's understanding of this creature.
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Preferential Rent
Wednesday, May 7, 2008
Warren A. Estis, a founding partner at Rosenberg & Estis, and Jeffrey Turkel, a partner at the firm, write that under the Rent Stabilization Law and Code, the "legal" rent for an apartment is the rent charged on the base date, plus applicable Rent Guidelines Board increases. Owners, however, are free to charge tenants a "preferential rent," i.e., a rent below the legal rent. However, once an owner charged a lower, preferential rent, all future rents for that apartment would be based on the lower amount.
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Employment Law Issues
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Philip M. Berkowitz, a partner at Nixon Peabody, looks at two recent cases in London which make clear that U.S. lawyers need to anticipate in draft choice-of-law and choice-of-forum clauses that foreign law may rule, and that the matter may be heard in a foreign court - particularly (as may seem obvious) where the employee competes overseas.
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New York Law Journal Magazine
May 5, 2008
These are tough times--and we're not just talking about the economy. There is an uneasiness in the profession as law firms struggle to hire and retain the "best" lawyers, whomever they may be. The picture is complicated, of course, by diversity, gender and generational issues, and then there really is the economic climate. Discover how to meet these challenges in this issue of the New York Law Journal Magazine.
Free: Also, in the highlighted article from this section, When All Efforts Fail to Retain Them, Unintentional Biases May Be at Work
Ellen Ostrow, a psychologist and founder of Lawyers Life Coach, writes that rates of associate attrition from the largest law firms in the United States are higher than ever, in spite of years of efforts to reduce them. Women and attorneys of color share with white male lawyers many reasons for leaving, however, diverse attorneys bump up against other cultural norms that have been part of law firm mores for so long that they appear to be professional requirements.
Law Day
May 1, 2008
Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Law Day with essays on the public perception of the rule of law, evolving ideas of international justice, civic education and service in this Special Report from the New York Law Journal.
Free: Also, in the highlighted article from this section, The Value of an Independent Judiciary
Judith S. Kaye, Chief Judge of the State of New York, writes: Called the "weakest" or "least dangerous," the judicial branch is perhaps better described as the least understood, beginning with the terminology "judicial independence" and "independent courts," which to some signal arrogance, imperialism, freedom from accountability. Not at all true. More accurately, we are neutral and impartial - the only nonpolitical branch of government.
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