Don’t forget you can visit MyAlerts to manage your alerts at any time.
Get alerted any time new stories match your search criteria. Create an alert to follow a developing story, keep current on a competitor, or monitor industry news.
Thank You!
Don’t forget you can visit MyAlerts to manage your alerts at any time.
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
May 12, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"Workers who observe a coworker in peril may feel a heightened obligation to assist that coworker, with whom the rescuer may have a bond of shared experience and endeavor," said the Appellate Division, First Department court in a detailed, signed opinion.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
May 11, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"The Board of Elections properly construed 'member of the council who . . . is removed from office' (NY City Charter § 25 [a]) to include a council member who is expelled by vote of the council (see NY City Charter § 45)," wrote the Appellate Division, First Department panel. "This interpretation is consistent with the common meaning of 'remove,'" it added.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
May 9, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"The allegations ... which employed rhetoric or detailed defendant's misconduct toward other women and his relationships with notorious third parties, were scandalous and prejudicial, and not necessary to establish any element of plaintiff's causes of action," the Appellate Division, First Department court states in its opinion.
By Jason Grant
8 minute read
May 9, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"Although the proposed amended pleadings were verified only by counsel, the existence of the relevant contracts was within counsel's knowledge," said an Appellate Division, First Department panel in its decision.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
May 4, 2023 | Law.com
The complaint, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
May 2, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"Each of the alleged acquired benefits [of the ultimate agreement regarding how the election would proceed] were provided to the members of Local 372 without the need for filing a lawsuit since the constitutions and election code provided plaintiffs with internal administrative remedies," said the Manhattan-based appellate court.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
April 28, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement should first decide a gambler's claim that his craps-table dice had been "tampered" with, before a court rules on the Golden Nugget casino's lawsuit against the gambler, ruled the Appellate Division, First Department.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
April 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"After the motion court dismissed this action without prejudice, to be restored with an affidavit of merit, plaintiff immediately hired and paid an expert to opine on the merits of the case," but that "plaintiff lost contact with that expert, and then the COVID-19 pandemic occurred," said the Appellate Division, First Department court in its opinion.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
April 13, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The lawyer for Stormy Daniels is trying to get Donald Trump's co-lead defense lawyer pushed off the "hush-payments" case, and Trump's attorney is firing back, telling the New York Law Journal late Wednesday that he's written to the judge to complain that Daniels' lawyer has engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
April 12, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The lawyer also faces a separate complaint lodged with a grievance committee by a client who claimed the attorney didn't contact him from 2016 to the time of the grievance complaint in June 2021, and that he discovered, via assistance of a different lawyer, that a personal-injury suit brought on his behalf was dismissed in 2019.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
The New York Law Journal honors attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession in New York.
Law firms & in-house legal departments with a presence in the middle east celebrate outstanding achievement within the profession.
The premier educational and networking event for employee benefits brokers and agents.
A large and well-established Tampa company is seeking a contracts administrator to support the company's in-house attorney and manage a wide...
We are seeking an attorney to join our commercial finance practice in either our Stamford, Hartford or New Haven offices. Candidates should ...
We are seeking an attorney to join our corporate and transactional practice. Candidates should have a minimum of 8 years of general corporat...
MELICK & PORTER, LLP PROMOTES CONNECTICUT PARTNERS HOLLY ROGERS, STEVEN BANKS, and ALEXANDER AHRENS