By Josefa Velasquez | October 18, 2017
Paul Feinman on Wednesday was sworn in as an associate judge on the Court of Appeals, New York state's highest court, making him the first openly gay member and filling the vacancy created by the death of Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam last spring.
By Jason Grant | New York Law Journal | October 17, 2017
The settlement came after a whistleblower in 2011 filed a sealed qui tam complaint in Manhattan Supreme Court that alleged violations of the New York False Claims Act in connection with a 2005 renovation of a Manhattan hotel.
By Josefa Velasquez | New York Law Journal | October 17, 2017
The state Court of Appeals said in an opinion that the removal of J. Marshall Ayres, a Conklin Town Court justice, is warranted because it was “improper and a violation of the petitioner's ethical duty for him to use his judicial position to interfere in the disposition of his daughter's traffic ticket.”
By Colby Hamilton | October 17, 2017
The Legal Aid Society's Attorney-in-Chief, Seymour James, announced on Tuesday his intent to retire as head of the nation's largest legal aid organization in June 2018.
By Jason Grant | New York Law Journal | October 17, 2017
The amendments to the rules will help encourage increased mediating of disputes by taking certain pressures off of litigators.
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By Miriam Rozen | The American Lawyer | October 16, 2017
Michael Grimm, who once threatened to throw a reporter off a Capitol Hill balcony, somehow managed to shed a six-figure debt to Squire Patton Boggs.
By Scott Flaherty | New York Law Journal | October 16, 2017
The sewer district in New York's Rockland County is looking for more than $8.8 million in a malpractice lawsuit alleging its former law firm, Nixon Peabody, botched a long-running eminent domain dispute.
By Ben Hancock | October 16, 2017
Litigation funders Vannin and Bentham separately announced continued growth in their U.S. operations Monday, with Vannin bringing on several former judges as advisers while Bentham announced hires to oversee a new bankruptcy unit.
By Susan DeSantis | New York Law Journal | October 16, 2017
Bankruptcy filings are decreasing nationwide but not in the Southern District, where judges are presiding over "a record high number of large mega cases," according to the State of the District report released today.
By Sue Reisinger | Corporate Counsel | October 16, 2017
Wells Fargo & Co. has named Michael Roemer, former group head of compliance for Barclays bank, as its new chief compliance officer even as it reported third-quarter revenue at least two percent below the same quarter a year ago in a U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing.
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