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September 26, 2011 |

Client Sues Crowell Over Missing Escrow

Crowell & Moring was sued Friday for $5.5 million in missing real estate escrow money that a client says was improperly diverted by former firm associate Douglas R. Arntsen.
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February 03, 2009 |

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April 02, 2010 |

Gamache v. State of New York

Boxer Fails to Prove State Liable for Career Ending Injuries Suffered in Match
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October 16, 2012 |

Considering Foreseeability in Shaping Liability Under Labor Law

In his Construction Accident Litigation column, Brian J. Shoot, a partner with Sullivan Papain Block McGrath & Cannavo, addresses two current controversies regarding application of Labor Law §240: One concerns the extent to which the element of foreseeability is relevant in assessing liability under Labor Law §240; the second concerns a largely unnoticed trend in which courts have penalized the plaintiff-worker for the transgressions of his or her employer in overstepping the bounds, temporal or geographic, in which the employer was authorized to work.
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February 27, 2009 |

Concerns 'Legitimate' But Project Proceeds

Proponents of the Atlantic Yards, the largest single-developer project in the history of New York, scored another legal victory yesterday as a First Department panel upheld the dismissal of numerous claims by Develop Don't Destroy Brooklyn regarding the lead agency's environmental impact statement and eminent domain findings. "While we do not agree with petitioners' legal arguments, we understand those arguments to be made largely as proxies for very legitimate concerns as to the effect of a project of such scale upon the face and social fabric of the area in which it is to be put," the majority held.
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September 08, 2010 |

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June 19, 2006 |

Lawyer Says Fiduciary Rule Restricts Political Activities and Hurts Job Search

Lawyer Bonnie Kraham, who lost the first round of her challenge to a rule prohibiting political party officials and their law firms from receiving court appointments, is taking her case to the 2nd Circuit. She says her First Amendment right to political association was violated by a rule approved after her selection as co-chair of a county Democratic Committee. She also alleges that the rule has hampered her job search at firms where the attorneys want to be able to take fiduciary appointments.
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