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Ramos Begins Query Into Tobacco Fees
IN A TENSE court session yesterday, Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos told lawyers for six law firms that were awarded million for their work in the historic 1998 tobacco settlement in no uncertain terms that he will examine whether the fee award is unethical.Academics Appointed as Special Masters To Handle 9/11 Respiratory Illness Cases
Port Authority Ruled Not Liable in 1993 WTC Terror Bombing
The 4-3 majority of the Court of Appeals accepted the agency's position that not only did it have governmental immunity, but that it made no sense for the First Department to hold the agency twice as responsible as the terrorists for the damages.N.Y. contractors battle over 9/11 claims
WHEN CONGRESS WROTE a check for $1 billion in federal emergency money to buy insurance for New York City contractors and subcontractors who worked in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, they expected the firefighters and cleanup crews to get paid for illnesses allegedly caused by unsafe working conditions.Instead what they got is an insurance company that refuses to settle claims.Academics Appointed as Special Masters to Handle 9/11 Workers' Comp Cases
Faced with an avalanche of claims by workers who suffered respiratory illness while cleaning up the World Trade Center site after Sept. 11, Southern District of New York Judge Alvin Hellerstein has appointed two special masters to organize the cases, which plaintiffs lawyers say could eventually number as many as 11,000. Hellerstein named to the positions Aaron D. Twerski, dean of Hofstra University School of Law and James A. Henderson Jr., a professor of Cornell Law School.Matrimonial Litigation and Legal Malpractice
Andrew Lavoott Bluestone, a Manhattan attorney specializing in legal malpractice litigation, writes that given the significance of the money division between the spouses which may comprise their entire net worth, the extreme emotional nature of the proceedings, and stringent statutory structures for the attorney-client relationship, matrimonial judgments are frequently the subject of legal malpractice scrutiny.Daily Routines of Smaller Firms Still Bedeviled by Storm
Many lawyers who have had to scramble to find alternate office space after Hurricane Sandy admit to meeting clients in homes or coffee shops, and several firms say they are still grappling with insurers over business interruption coverage.State AI Legislation Is on the Move in 2024
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