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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
April 10, 2023 | Law.com
The 35th annual "National Consortium on Racial and Ethnic Fairness in the Courts" will be in Seattle from May 21 to 24, and registration is now open. As part of the conference, on May 22 it will feature Washington State's "Annual Supreme Court Symposium" event.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
April 10, 2023 | Law.com
"Given the unique circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic and its threat to the health and safety of the public, the decision to remove the testing alternative in the defendants' COVID-19 policy constituted a nondelegable policy decision," the Massachusetts high court wrote.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
April 7, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Attorney for the Child offices statewide are "suffering an unprecedented crisis of underfunding" marked by "essentially flat budgets for close to twenty years," one of the letters from the city bar association to Gov. Hochul and legislative leaders says.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
April 6, 2023 | Law.com
Making both statutory and equal-rights arguments, two lawyers, including one from the ACLU, argued before Michigan's high court that an unwed former same-sex partner should qualify as a legal "parent" to a child she and her former partner agreed to have, via in vitro fertilization, but is no longer allowed to see.
By Jason Grant
8 minute read
April 3, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The Appellate Division, First Department court has ruled in part that "issues of fact exist" regarding the soundness of the law firm's advice given to a former client about nonsolicitation of customers after the client was bought out of her partnership in a high-value investment and financial management group.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
March 31, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The appeals court said it was "readily apparent" a judge had tossed out the lawsuit based on a mediator documenting "egregious" behavior by plaintiff's nonparty representative, but that "plaintiff was never apprised of any ADR rule" that she'd purportedly broken, and she wasn't "given any opportunity to refute or otherwise respond to the allegations in the mediator's email."
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
March 30, 2023 | Law.com
A solo practitioner focusing on family law in Maryland has been disbarred after using assigned power of attorney to make cash withdrawals from a client's trust account, and then allegedly misappropriating funds and failing to account for $594,247, according to a Maryland Supreme Court opinion.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
March 29, 2023 | New York Law Journal
A spokesperson for Chairman James Dolan's Madison Square Garden Entertainment Corp., which last summer put in place the controversial blacklist policy, said Tuesday, "We are very pleased with today's appellate ruling."
By Jason Grant
9 minute read
March 27, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"White & Case LLP hereby affirms that the parties have amicably resolved their disputes and the above-entitled action, including all causes of actions, are hereby voluntarily discontinued with prejudice," said the firm's filing, in part.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
March 23, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Citing a "substantiated excuse" of law office failure, a state appeals court has reversed a lower court's dismissal of what is believed to be the first lawsuit lodged under New York City's "revenge porn" law, which was instituted in 2018.
By Jason Grant
7 minute read
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