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Jason Grant is a staff writer covering legal stories and cases for the New York Law Journal, the National Law Journal and Law.com, and a former practicing attorney. He's written and reported previously for the New York Times, the Star-Ledger, the L.A. Times and other publications. Contact him at [email protected]. On Twitter, pls find him @JasonBarrGrant
March 22, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The law firm says the company suddenly argued that it was "not required to pay" White & Case anything in legal fees because it didn't have a successful merger.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
March 16, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"Under the lower court's decision, so long as the targeted entity has committed any technical infraction whatsoever, it would have no redress for the blatant violation of its First Amendment rights," the brief from Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors partner William Brewer III, who represents the NRA, contends.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
February 16, 2022 | New York Law Journal
Caplan had been suspended for two years in the wake of him pleading guilty inside a Massachusetts courtroom to a felony based on him paying a consultant $75,000 to rig his daughter's ACT college admissions score. The suspension came with some controversy. Many had expected him to be disbarred, since he'd committed a felony.
By Jason Grant
8 minute read
June 7, 2021 | Law.com
"I think I was going into 2020 just sort of drifting along. And in some ways, everything that happened to me [with COVID-19] was a much-needed wake-up call. And I feel that my life and career are very on track right now," Lat said.
By Jason Grant
16 minute read
February 23, 2021 | New York Law Journal
"The truth is if Mr. Caplan had not been someone who had a great [ethics] lawyer, and if he hadn't been from a white-shoe law firm, he may not" have ended up with a retroactive two-year license suspension from the First Department court, but rather could have received a harsher sanction, said University of Connecticut law professor Leslie Levin.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
February 18, 2021 | New York Law Journal
"The Referee noted that the record itself showed that [Caplan's] criminal actions were 'out of character with his professional life and his desire to make amends,'" the First Department panel of five justices wrote in their decision Thursday.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
January 29, 2021 | Law.com
"The risk of invisibility is even more acute with women of color," attorney Debbie Epstein Henry said during a recent New York State Bar Association panel on the challenges of retaining and advancing women attorneys.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
January 4, 2021 | New York Law Journal
The facts stipulated to by lawyer Aaron Schlossberg and an attorney grievance committee, as set out in the opinion, painted a clear and detailed picture of what happened inside a busy Fresh Kitchen to-go-style restaurant on the afternoon of May 15, 2018.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
December 30, 2020 | The American Lawyer
In 2020, David Lat, an Attorney of the Year finalist, did what he has always done: bring transparency and vital information to many. But this time, the information was different—it was his story of survival.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
June 18, 2020 | New York Law Journal
In a recent interview, David Lat said he's back to full-time work and "open for business." But like many patients who are among the first to survive a severe COVID-19 infection, he said he'd wondered whether he'd ever be the same.
By Jason Grant
1 minute read
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