By Jane Wester | April 24, 2024
The White House's choice has served as a magistrate judge for 12 years and began serving as the district's chief magistrate judge earlier this year.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By David B. Saxe | April 24, 2024
Judge David Saxe reflects on a chance meeting he had with the late Judge Judith Kaye.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Corinne Ball | April 24, 2024
In March, the Seventh Circuit held that the same safe harbor provisions in the Bankruptcy Code may also extend to leveraged acquisitions structured as a purchase of privately held stock.
New York Law Journal | Expert Opinion
By Noah J. Hanft and Lorraine D. Mandel | April 24, 2024
Arbitration has evolved significantly in the last decade. What general counsel once viewed skeptically has now become the norm and an effective method to resolve disputes. Noah Hanft, arbitrator and mediator with FedArb, along with co-author Lorraine Mandel, also an arbitrator and former general counsel, will walk readers through the many historic concerns of arbitration and update for its current approach.
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By James J. Beha II and Brendan F. Quigley | April 24, 2024
In a significant decision regarding the scope of the federal securities laws' anti-fraud provisions, the U.S. Supreme Court held that "pure omissions" are inactionable under Section 10(b) of the Securities Exchange Act and its enabling rule, SEC Rule 10b-5.
By New York Law Journal | April 24, 2024
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By Committee on Judicial Ethics | April 23, 2024
(1) A judge who previously served as General Counsel to the District Attorney is disqualified from presiding over any matter that the judge knows he/she was personally involved in or supervised in any way as an attorney, even minimally.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joel Cohen and Laura A. Brevetti | April 23, 2024
Weighing in on Donald Trump's criminal trial in Manhattan, two veteran criminal defense attorneys say that the defense will have to deal with the prosecution's theory of why the payments were made—and create its own countertheory.
New York Law Journal | Commentary
By Joseph W. Bellacosa | April 23, 2024
Gov. Kathy Hochul and the state Legislature got the job done before the Passover observance and recess—what a difference a couple of hundred years, many zeroes, and politico-speak make, a Law Journal columnist writes.
By Brian Lee | April 23, 2024
The Empire State's attorney countered by painting the New York Civil Liberties Union's request for 20 years' of state troopers' disciplinary records as "unduly burdensome," while estimating that it would take a full-time employee working on nothing else about 22 years to respond, and a part-time employee more than 40 years.
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