The New York State Senate passed a bill this week that could affect the lives of more than 200,000 domestic workers—many of whom have long gone without the…
In a new chapter of the ongoing, much-debated saga about appropriate attire for female professionals, a former business banking officer at a Citibank branch in New York City contends she…
A 76-year-old New York personal injury lawyer has been suspended for six months after allegedly making unwelcome sexual advances and seeking oral sex from a client.
Tearful and apologetic, Paulette Reed was sentenced today to one to three years in prison for stealing a total of $556,756 from two upstate New York law firms and taken…
A 13-year-old boy suspended from his New York school for wearing rosary beads can return to school after a federal judge ordered a hearing to determine whether the student’s civil…
A former patent litigation partner of Kirkland & Ellis has purchased 4,500 patents and is establishing a new law firm that will sue to enforce both his own patents and…
Robert Morris Morgenthau takes a seat at his desk, sipping coffee from the vacuum-insulated, stainless steel cup he carried in when he arrived moments earlier. After 35 years as district…
Former Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, now of counsel at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, was appointed yesterday to oversee efforts to diversify the New York Fire…
Updated: Forget cupcakes and cookies, a culinary alternative-career option that has offered the sweet taste of success to a growing number of enterprising law school graduates.
An Ohio lawyer and a Florida business executive have been criminally charged in New York in connection with an alleged $60 million scheme to steal from a Manhattan public holding…
Last month, a law school classmate filed suit against a Bronx Supreme Court justice, contending that George Villegas hasn’t repaid $500,000 she loaned him over a 19-year period in what…
Representing, at various times, both the defendant in an attempted murder case and witnesses that the prosecution intends to call at trial put a New York prosecutor and public defender’s…
A federal jury’s award of $250 million in punitive damages today in a corporate sex-bias case is reportedly the largest ever in a gender discrimination case.
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