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July 25, 2023 | Law.com
National truck rental company Penske will pay at least $3 million for not fully and lawfully conducting 189 safety and emissions inspections on trucks, under a lawsuit settlement announced by Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
July 21, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney for Donald Trump, has agreed to settle a lawsuit against the Trump Organization in which he sought more than $1 million in legal fees he has claimed the company agreed to cover but stopped paying once he chose to cooperate in government investigations involving Trump.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
July 19, 2023 | New York Law Journal
A veteran Manhattan attorney has been immediately suspended from practicing law, pending further potential discipline, after not submitting a "responsive" answer to an ethics complaint and bank records indicating that he misappropriated about $1.4 million in client funds when he was purportedly entitled to at most $880,000, according to a state appeals court.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
July 19, 2023 | New York Law Journal
Vivian Wesson, executive vice president and general counsel at The Board of Pensions of the Presbyterian Church, will chair the task force.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
July 5, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"In addition to the measures that the court imposed—precluding defendants from presenting documents that they failed to timely produce during discovery and precluding them from offering evidence pertaining to interrogatories that they failed to answer—plaintiffs are also entitled to an adverse inference charge, to be formulated by the trial judge," wrote the appellate panel.
By Jason Grant
4 minute read
July 3, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The "blue-ribbon" task force is co-chaired by three partners at Paul, Weiss: Loretta Lynch, a former U.S. Attorney General, Jeh Johnson, a former Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security and Defense Department general counsel, and Brad Karp, the longtime chairman of Paul, Weiss.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
June 30, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The New York State Bar Association has created a task force that will make recommendations surrounding difficult end-of-life decisions, focusing in part on New York state's "Medical Aid in Dying" bill, which earlier this month failed to pass through the state legislature for a ninth straight year.
By Jason Grant
3 minute read
June 29, 2023 | Law.com
The complaint was first surfaced by Law.com Radar.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
June 26, 2023 | New York Law Journal
The lower court wrongly inserted an "unwritten category of cases," namely proceedings that may include arguments implicating documents filed under seal, into New York's "statutory exception" to the rule that court proceedings should be open to the public, an appeals panel said.
By Jason Grant
6 minute read
June 21, 2023 | New York Law Journal
"With her extensive experience and diverse background, I'm confident that Justice Renwick will bring honor and integrity to New York State's judiciary and serve New Yorkers with fairness and impartiality," said Gov. Hochul.
By Jason Grant
5 minute read
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