Alumnus Eric F. Grossman ’93 was honored at the 18th Annual Stephen E. Banner Corporate Counsel Event hosted by the UJA Federation of New York Lawyers. The Stephen E. Banner Award is bestowed upon an in-house lawyer who exemplifies a strong commitment to the Jewish community. Stephen E. Banner was a dedicated supporter of UJA-Federation. After practicing corporate and securities law at Simpson Thacher for nearly 25 years, he became senior executive vice president and general counsel of the Seagram Company. Given Mr. Banner’s stature in the industry, his tremendous devotion to UJA, and the values he exemplified, this year…
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Adjunct Professor Lawrence Brennan was quoted in a Navy Times article about the collision of the USS Fitzgerald. An opinion piece blaming the warship Fitzgerald’s 2017 collision on the crew and commanding officer that was shared on Big Navy’s social media accounts last month also went out in Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson’s official newsletter. The commentary by retired Navy officer Bryan McGrath was published on the War on the Rocks website on Feb. 8 and redistributed on official military channels. That became a hot issue in court, where two Fitz officers are on trial for their alleged…
Dean Matthew Diller was interviewed by Law.com about the slowdown in foreign attorneys who want to come to the United States to get an LL.M., and what’s contributing to that decline. In a bid for clarity, I rang up Matthew Diller, dean at Fordham University School of Law. He cautioned that he doesn’t have national statistics on applications and enrollment of foreign students, but his anecdotal evidence points to a slowdown in the number of international students trying to come to the U.S. in the past two years. “It feels to me like a more competitive market for strong international…
Dean Matthew Diller wrote an op-ed in the National Law Journal about the importance of law schools integrating technology-focused courses in their curricula. The legal profession is sometimes criticized as being willfully resistant to change. Some within the industry even wear this stubbornness as a badge of honor; partners may boast that, if their white-shoe law firm has weathered economic and social vicissitudes for decades or even centuries, then surely the firm’s continued existence is inevitable. In my more than 30 years in the legal profession, the only inevitability I have observed is the accelerating pace of technological change and…
James Cohen was quoted in the Observer about the possible retrial of Mexican drug cartel boss Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzmán. El Chapo has been convicted, but now it might be time to pass judgement on the jury. After three grueling months and tons, literally, of evidence, convicted drug kingpin, and now maybe child molester, Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman could be granted a retrial because of a rampant case of juror misconduct. The definition of juror misconduct includes talking about the trial with outsiders and looking at information related to the case that has not been included as evidence. The El…
Alumna Deneen Donnley ’92, EVP, general counsel and secretary for USAA, was honored by the Asian American Bar Association of New York (AABANY) on February 27, 2019. Asian American Bar Association Executive Director Yang Chen, above left, and President-Elect Brian Song, right, present the Women’s Leadership Award to Gabrielle Lyse Brown, executive director of diversity & inclusion for Morgan Stanley. Pictured below, Brian Song presents the Corporate Leadership Award to Deneen Donnley, EVP, general counsel and secretary for the United Services Automobile Association. The awards were presented during AABANY’s 30th annual dinner at Cipriani on Wall Street on Wednesday, Feb.…
Adjunct Professor George H. Friedman was quoted in an Investment News article about a new bill that might prohibit mandatory arbitration for customer disputes involving investment. New legislation that would prohibit mandatory arbitration for customer disputes involving investments could raise the profile of the issue with the public and decision makers. … But the arbitration legislation must navigate difficult terrain on Capitol Hill, where Democrats control the House and Republicans hold the majority in the Senate. It’s likely the GOP will resist arbitration reform. “In my view, neither of these bills is going to get enacted,” said George Friedman, former…
Joel Reidenberg, founding academic director of the Fordham Center on Law and Information Policy (CLIP), appeared in an NBC News video where he talked about privacy concerns related to at-home DNA tests like Ancestry, 23andMe, and MyHeritage. I have counseled many family members not to do them because we just don’t know where this data will wind up. Watch full video.
Fordham Law 3L student Jessie Boas has been selected as a 2019 justice fellow by Immigration Justice Corps. IJC is the country’s first fellowship program wholly dedicated to meeting immigrants’ needs for high-quality legal assistance. Twenty-seven graduates from top law schools from around the country were chosen from a select pool of law graduates for the prestigious Fellowship at IJC, which was conceived of by Robert A. Katzmann, Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and incubated by The Robin Hood Foundation in 2013. … The new class of Fellows brings a wealth of immigration…
Adjunct Professor Arina Shulga wrote an op-ed in Bloomberg Law about the consequences that investment managers may face if they disregard securities laws when raising capital for their fund even if the fund is a crypto fund. On Dec. 7, 2018, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued a cease-and-desist order (Order) against CoinAlpha Advisors LLC (CoinAlpha) for failure to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, while raising capital. CoinAlpha was a Delaware LLC, created to act as the managing member of, and manager to, CoinAlpha Falcon LP, a Delaware limited partnership (Fund) that invested…