In an annual salary report released by Payscale.com, Fordham Law School ranks #18 among the top 25 highest earning graduate schools. The list primarily features J.D. and M.B.A. programs; Fordham Law is 6th in terms of the schools that list their J.D. programs. …Fordham trains lawyers that are clever and tenacious. According to payscale.com, it also trains lawyers that end up being well compensated, indeed, for their efforts. Median early career pay there is $81,300 and, by mid-career, the median pay for its JDs is $171,000. See the full rankings on The Street.
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Professor Olivier Sylvain spoke with WNYC for a story on how a law passed before Airbnb existed shaped internet companies’ ability to do business and why it’s making some lawmakers very frustrated. Listen to the full podcast.
David Udell, the executive director of the National Center for Access to Justice at Fordham Law, will testify on Monday, September 26, at a New York City Council hearing in support of right to counsel for tenants in housing court. In 2015, 21,988 New York City families were evicted. Many thousands more left their homes under duress mid-way through eviction proceedings. This wave of evictions is driving our homeless crisis. The IBO reports that eviction is the single most common reason that families in New York City end up in shelters, and that over the past decade the share of…
Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), as defined by the Department of State in a recent CVE joint strategy document, “refers to proactive actions to counter efforts by violent extremists to radicalize, recruit, and mobilize followers to violence and to address specific factors that facilitate violent extremist recruitment and radicalization to violence.” Muslimmatters. org mentioned a study produced by Fordham Law School’s Center on National Security (directed by Professor Karen Greenberg) which analyzes ISIS prosecutions in the United States. The study shows that 59% of all ISIS prosecutions in the US were determined to have involved informants or undercover agents (this, out of a paltry 101 cases in total).…
Fordham law alumni Udi Ofer ’01 and Damian A. Treffs ’11 were mentioned in The New York Times where the article follows up on where their lives are today, five years after participating in Occupy Wall Street protest in Lower Manhattan. I photographed Udi on Nov. 15, 2011, the morning that protesters were ejected from Zuccotti Park. I didn’t know at that time that he was a lawyer with the New York City chapter of the A.C.L.U. He stood out that day among the throng of protesters and police officers with his neatly pressed suit and tie. He seemed an island…
Fordham Law alumna, adjunct professor and former domestic-violence prosecutor, Deanna Paul wrote an op-ed in The Marshall Project where she discusses how she handled the case of domestic abuse of her own sister. Plastic tubes dangled from her nostrils, and the gown revealed bandaging taped to her stomach and electrode stickers glued to her chest. The heart monitor beeped. Julia looked up and tried to smile, and I tried not to stare at the gap where her bottom tooth belonged. When I sat down on the edge of the bed and asked what really happened, she began to cry.“It’s…
The Irish Echo reports on the keynote address of Ireland’s Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Charlie Flanagan, at Fordham Law School during his visit to New York for the opening of the United Nations General Assembly. Read full article.
Fordham Law alumnus Paul Sweeney, who is currently working at Certilman Balin, has been mentioned in New York Real Estate Journal in the 2016 New York Super Lawyer List. Sweeny earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Fordham University School of Law in 1992. Read full article.
Professor Aaron Saiger was quoted in Bloomberg BNA where he discussed the effects of Department is Labor’s overtime requirements. “This is a classic kind of argument,” Fordham University law professor Aaron Saiger told Bloomberg BNA. “The question is not whether the Fair Labor Standards Act gives the Labor Department some authority. The question is whether the department has gone outside of that authority.” Read full article.
Professors Kimani Paul-Emile, Robin A. Lenhardt and Tanya K. Hernández were quoted in Brown Alumni Magazine where they discussed about the new Center on Race, Law and Justice at Fordham Law School. “The country is in a unique moment in the sense that we’re in the midst of a national conversation about race and equality unlike anything in a generation,” says Paul-Emile, who is leading the center’s domestic programs and initiatives. … “The need for this particular lens and intervention has only become more important,” Lenhardt says, referring to the latest killings of blacks and police. … “It’s one thing for the students to speak their…