Alumna Christina Conroy ’09 has been elected partner at King & Spalding, an international law firm that represents a broad array of clients, including half of the Fortune Global 100, with 1,000 lawyers in 20 offices in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. Christina Conroy (New York) represents accounting firms and corporations in a variety of civil and regulatory enforcement matters, including professional malpractice claims, securities litigation and government investigations. Read full report.
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Susan Scafidi was quoted in a Vox article about cultural appropriation. What do Beyoncé, Bruno Mars, Awkwafina, and a Utah high school student have in common? In 2018, they all faced accusations of cultural appropriation, signaling how a term unfamiliar to most Americans even a decade ago has become pervasive today. … To put the cultural appropriation debate into perspective, I reached out to professor Susan Scafidi, the founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute at Fordham Law School and the author of Who Owns Culture?: Appropriation and Authenticity in American Law. That book came out in 2005,…
Karen Greenberg was quoted in an NBC News article about President Trump’s involvement in the case of a former Army Green Beret charged with murder. President Donald Trump’s announcement on Twitter over the weekend that he will be “reviewing” the case of a former Army Green Beret charged with murder has caused worry in national security and military circles — since it is the kind of thing a president is not supposed to do. … But Trump’s actions are worrying national security experts, who fear presidential involvement in a still-pending military court case will make it harder to have a…
Adjunct Professor Jerry Goldfeder wrote an op-ed in the New York Law Journal regarding constitutional democracy. Daniel J. Kornstein’s excellent article reviews how voter disenfranchisement subverts our constitutional democracy. … As he points out, lawyers have a critical role in rectifying state laws that restrict access to the voting booth. That said, I want to add two points, one depressing and the other encouraging. With respect to his reference to the United States Senate, we are stuck with it. At our founding constitutional convention, each state was given an equal vote regardless of population. This feature was an important…
Bruce Green was quoted in The Atlantic regarding how prosecutors build a case. “Few defendants admit that they knew they were breaking the law. So prosecutors ordinarily prove the defendant’s state of mind circumstantially, by asking the jury to draw inferences from the defendant’s words and deeds,” said Bruce Green, a law professor at Fordham and a former associate counsel in the investigation of the Iran-Contra affair. “One of the traditional ways of proving intent is through statements or actions that demonstrate ‘consciousness of guilt.’ And one of the traditional ways of showing ‘consciousness of guilt’ is through lies and…
Deborah Denno was quoted in an America magazine article about lethal injection as a form of capital punishment. Until this decade, lethal injection had been widely regarded within the justice system as a “humane” way to end a life, though some, like Deborah Denno, a professor of law at Fordham University in New York, have always been skeptical of that characterization. “The first lethal-injection execution was in 1982, and that was botched,” says Ms. Denno, who adds, “we’re just looking at this with much more criticism and scrutiny than we did before.” Ms. Denno says that problems with executions are…
Invisible: The Forgotten Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful Mobster, a book about the life of alumna Eunice Carter ’32, was featured in the New York Times. Carter’s prosecutorial work inspired a character in the HBO series Boardwalk Empire. “It is the curse of historians … to judge the past by the norms of the present.” Stephen L. Carter, a Yale Law School professor and the author of, among many other works, the novels “The Emperor of Ocean Park” and “New England White,” has good reason to make this blunt judgment early in his…
Professor Catherine Powell was quoted in a CNN piece about Nobel Peace Prize recipients Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad and their ongoing campaign to defeat the Islamic State. Awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Denis Mukwege and Nadia Murad says one thing: survivor stories matter. Mukwege, a gynecologist who set up a hospital in the Democratic Republic of Congo, has treated thousands of rape survivors who suffered traumatic injuries at the hands of warring militias, while Murad is an Iraqi Yazidi human rights activist who survived enslavement at the hands of Islamic State militants. These two indefatigable campaigners…
Adjunct Professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed in the New York Law Journal about whether there are factors beyond competence that should go into determining if an attorney is suited for a case s/he has been assigned to. If a criminal lawyer has no conflict as an ethical matter that might decisively preclude him from representing a particular client, and has the skillset to “competently” represent him, one might firmly conclude that’s that—he can appropriately represent the client. Sure, a client might want the ideal or even perfect lawyer to represent him—assuming such a person actually exists—but that’s not always…
Bruce Green was quoted in the New York Law Journal regarding President Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen’s recent guilty plea. Michael Cohen’s admission that he lied to Congress, along with details in his recent sentencing materials, raise questions about how closely he followed the advice of his then-lawyer, a McDermott Will & Emery partner, some legal observers said. But Cohen’s former lawyer is far from the only attorney who has had a client go astray in government interviews, said legal ethics experts, noting that strong-willed defendants have frequently lied to the government, even when represented by skilled counsel.…