Alumna Elizabeth Frayer ’05 was elected partner by Thompson Hine LLP. “These future leaders of our firm exhibit outstanding skill in their practice areas and embrace the innovative ideas that drive our commitment to providing enhanced value to clients. Each of them is dedicated to helping clients achieve their business goals by efficiently and transparently delivering exceptional legal services. We are proud to welcome these attorneys to our partnership,” said Deborah Z. Read, Thompson Hine’s managing partner. … Elizabeth Frayer is a member of the firm’s Commercial & Public Finance practice group in New York. She focuses her practice on…
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Alumna Stacey J. Rappaport ’96 was named to Crain’s New York Business’ “2019 Notable Women in Law” list. The Crain’s list highlights 100 trailblazing female attorneys, including law firm partners and corporate counsel at companies in New York City, who have excelled in their professional fields and impacted their immediate or greater New York City communities. According to Crain’s, those on this year’s list are “an exceptional pool of talented of female attorneys in New York City.” … [Ms. Rappaport] both founded and chaired Milbank’s Women’s Initiative Committee, is a current member of the Pro Bono Committee, and has previously…
Professor Corey Brettschneider’s book The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents was reviewed in the New York Law Journal by adjunct professor Joel Cohen and Dale Degenshein. In this extremely timely book, Prof. Brettschneider reminds us that, in order for our government to work as it was meant to, each branch—Executive, Legislative and Judicial—must work with the other. Checks and balances are built in to our system of government so that no one person or group can act alone. “The [presidential] oath requires that the president uphold the Constitution—even parts which he or she…
Adjunct Professor Jerry H. Goldfeder wrote a letter to the editor of the New York Law Journal in response to a lawyer’s analysis of the National Popular Vote. I was delighted to read William Josephson’s comprehensive analysis of the National Popular Vote (NYLJ, Jan. 7) in response to my suggestion that the New York bar take up its cause (NYLJ, Dec. 17). While I may not agree with all of his points, readers should be aware that Mr. Josephson is an expert in the history and implementation of the electoral college system. His fundamental disagreement in supporting the NPV involves…
In a Washington Post article written by Deanna Paul ’11, Gerald Dickinson ’13 is quoted about the possibility of President Trump declaring a national emergency to construct the border wall. According to Gerald S. Dickinson, assistant professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, the military has always had the authority to seize private land. But as a nation, he said, Americans have been uncomfortable with enforcing domestic law through the military. Trump’s threat of a “military version” of eminent domain necessitates the military acquiring privately owned land along the border to build a wall. “That raises…
Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed in The Hill regarding the ramifications if President Trump were to fire special counsel Robert Mueller. The president, no doubt, would prefer that Mueller come into the daylight and make his claims — or intentions — to the news media. If he did, the president’s accusations about Mueller’s intentions would be far more believable (though Trump’s base apparently still believes most of what he tells them). Were Mueller to speak about the president publicly, Trump could more credibly argue that Mueller is “out to get him,” through any means and at any cost.…
Benjamin C. Zipursky was quoted in Bloomberg BNA about federal drug labeling laws. Two tort professors supporting the plaintiffs said Merck’s “understated and muddled warning” isn’t clear evidence the FDA would have rejected a warning from atypical femoral fractures. Professor John C. P. Goldberg at Harvard Law School and Fordham Law School Professor Benjamin C. Zipursky also urge the court to take a “restrained approach to implied preemption,” and said defense attorneys’ concerns about the Third Circuit’s giving too much power to the jury are overblown. Read the full article.
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, by Stephen L. Carter, the story of alumna Eunice Carter ’32, has been cited by the New York Law Journal and The Louisiana Weekly as a must read. After graduating from Fordham Law School in 1932, Eunice Carter became the only black, female prosecutor among 19 others (all male) selected by special prosecutor Thomas E. Dewey to take on the Mafia. Her work led directly to the conviction of Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Read the New York Law Journal article. Read The Louisiana Weekly article.
The Fordham Law community is mourning the death of William Pickering Jones III ’20. Will passed away on Christmas day, Tuesday, December 25. He was 27. “I came to know Will well during his time at Fordham. He had a passion for justice and for helping others. We are all stunned and deeply saddened by his death,” said Matthew Diller, Dean and Paul Fuller Professor of Law at Fordham Law School. “Will contributed a great deal to our community during his too brief time with us.” Will was actively involved in criminal justice issues and took a lead role in…
Jed Shugerman was quoted by NBC News about the investigation of the Trump Foundation and possible overlap into the Trump Organization. “The intermingling of Trump Foundation and Trump Organization interests and expenditures will implicate both — that’s one part of why it’s a tax fraud problem,” Jed Shugerman, a Fordham law professor who advised unsuccessful Democratic New York attorney general candidate Zephyr Teachout this year, told NBC News. “They were using the Trump Foundation for the business purposes of the Trump Organization. That’s the easiest case.” Read the full article.