• March 22, 2010 | New York Law Journal

    Judges to Hear Challenge to Indigent Defense System

    ALBANY - The state's high court tomorrow will hear a wide-ranging challenge to New York's 45-year-old system for providing legal representation to indigent criminal defendants. At oral argum

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  • June 28, 2013 | New York Law Journal

    Ruling Rebuffs Precedent to Say Judges Must Determine YO Eligibility

    ALBANY - Overturning a 36-year-old precedent, the state Court of Appeals held Thursday that sentencing judges must affirmatively determine if defendants eligible for youthful offender status

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  • February 2, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Milbank Tweed Adds Compensation Specialist From Dewey Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy has recruited Dewey Ballantine's compensation and benefits practice head. Paul J. Wesse

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  • July 10, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Shearman & Sterling Opens Shanghai Office Shearman & Sterling has opened an office in Shanghai to be headed by project finance partner Andrew Ruff. It is the New York-ba

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  • January 31, 2007 | New York Law Journal

    Newsbriefs

    Man Sentenced to Death in Killing of 2 NYPD DetectivesA man convicted of shooting two detectives in the head during an undercover gun buy-one as he begged for his life-was sente

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