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Andrew Denney is the bureau chief for the New York Law Journal. He can be reached at [email protected]. Twitter: @messagetime
October 7, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Attorneys have an ethical obligation to tell their clients if documents such as wills, deeds and negotiable instruments or active case files are destroyed, according to an advisory opinion issued by a committee of the New York City Bar Association.
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October 7, 2015 | New York Law Journal
A man who maintains he was wrongly convicted in a notorious 1990 tourist killing deserves a new trial, a judge said Tuesday, throwing out a verdict in a case that helped crystallize an era of crime and fear in New York City.
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October 6, 2015 | New York Law Journal
This past Sept. 11, the students of the Charter High School for Law and Social Justice in the Bronx were like most other students talking about the terrorist attacks that struck the city 14 years ago. But unlike most students, the charter school students were asked to argue about how the attacks continue to affect their lives and the laws that govern them.
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October 1, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman unveiled a set of reforms to New York's bail system Thursday, including a pilot electronic supervision program for Manhattan Criminal Court, new review procedures for setting bail and promotion of alternative forms of bail.
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September 30, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Prior to his snowboarding lesson at Hunter Mountain Ski Bowl, David Karlsberg signed a release stating that any disputes would be litigated exclusively in Greene County Supreme Court. But he filed his suit in Suffolk County, where he resides.
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September 29, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Providing civil legal services to low-income New Yorkers not only benefits the clients directly but benefits society as a whole by reducing spending on social programs and bringing more federal funding into the state, witnesses said at a hearing Tuesday held by Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman in Manhattan.
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September 28, 2015 | New York Law Journal
The New York City Bar Association is calling on state and federal lawmakers to take action to reduce prison populations and has announced it will form a task force to advocate for legislation to address the issue.
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September 28, 2015 | New York Law Journal
A Suffolk County judge has tossed out a lawsuit by an elected Town of Riverhead official seeking to overturn a new local law prohibing elected officials from holding leadership posts for political parties.
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September 25, 2015 | New York Law Journal
Rather than establish a new office to handle claims of prosecutorial misconduct, courts should ensure that allegations of misconduct are referred to existing appellate division disciplinary committees, the Commission on Statewide Attorney Discipline recommended in a report released Friday.
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September 25, 2015 | New York Law Journal
A former pharmacist for Rite Aid who suffers from a fear of needles and was fired when he said he could not give immunizations had jury awards for back-pay and front-pay upheld, but Northern District Judge Thomas McAvoy said a $900,000 award for compensatory damages shocks the "judicial conscience," and reduced it to $125,000.
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