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August 06, 2009 |

Sluggish July sales show tight-fisted consumers

Shoppers, worried about job security and finding fewer options among the sales bins, remained tight-fisted in July, resulting in sluggish sales for many merchants and raising concern about the back-to-school shopping season's health.
4 minute read
August 31, 2007 |

Internet Gambling Law Challenged

An association of Internet gamers claims the federal law is a restraint on "expressive association."
5 minute read
January 31, 2011 |

Delegates Back Changes in Disciplining Judges

After spirited debate, the New York State Bar Association's governing body on Friday adopted several recommendations advanced by the New York County Lawyers' Association that would alter the Commission on Judicial Conduct's procedures for disciplining judges. The state bar's House of Delegates endorsed proposals to give judges notice of investigations at an earlier stage, to expand judges' discovery rights and to separate the commission's investigative and adjudicative functions.
6 minute read
May 19, 2010 |

Tenants Have No Right to Notice of Blight Determinations, Court Says

A long-term commercial tenant with a right to purchase a property does not have to be given written notice that the property has been targeted for condemnation in a redevelopment scheme, the state Supreme Court rules.
4 minute read
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June 07, 1999 |

Backlash

Thomas Watkins predicts that today's young lawyers will have at least two grievance complaints filed against them during their career. Watkins says individuals other than legal clients are tapping into the system. "... A number of people are starting to use the grievance process as a way to get something they want to achieve" from a lawyer, says Watkins, who is a member of the Commission for Lawyer Discipline. Since the current system went into effect in 1992, the number of lawyers sanctioned has exploded.
7 minute read
September 28, 2007 |

Last Man Standing: Case Against Tax Lawyer Who Worked for KPMG Proceeds

In July, when Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled that prosecutors had bullied KPMG over legal fees, the government's case against the accounting firm imploded, but the case against tax lawyer Raymond "R.J." Ruble may just be heating up. Ruble, a former partner at Brown & Wood (now Sidley Austin), faces trial in October on 43 counts of tax evasion and conspiracy to defraud the IRS. He allegedly worked with KPMG to cook up and sell illegal tax shelters, and hid a portion of his earnings from his firm and the feds.
4 minute read
October 06, 2008 |

Backdating cases trigger feud between law firms

Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins is attempting to derail settlement discussions in two cases involving allegations of stock-options backdating, charging that the defense attorneys clandestinely excluded the firm from agreements that would resolve its lawsuits. Attorneys for the defendants counter that Coughlin Stoia is pursuing such actions to obtain attorney fees, which would be nonexistent in the event of the settlements.
4 minute read
February 17, 2004 |

Law Firm Sued by Action Star's Former Producer

The former producing partner of action movie star Steven Seagal has sued the law firm of Loeb & Loeb for $25 million, alleging malpractice and breach of fiduciary duty. Julius R. Nasso, who last fall pleaded guilty in Brooklyn federal court to trying to extort money from Seagal, is claiming Loeb & Loeb represented him and the actor both as partners in Seagal-Nasso Productions. The firm then allegedly violated its obligations to Nasso by taking Seagal's side in a subsequent dispute.
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