U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has likened President Donald Trump as a client, calling Department of Justice attorneys “his lawyers.” Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, told Law.com that is an incorrect conception of the Justice Department’s mission. Read “’President Trump’s Lawyers’? Who Exactly Is the Justice Department’s Client?” on Law.com.
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On the latest episode of Bloomberg Law Podcast, Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller discusses with host June Grasso a judge finding President Donald Trump’s order targeting law firm Perkins Coie unconstitutional. Listen to “Law Firm Wins Against Trump” on Bloomberg Law Podcast.
Fordham Law Professor Zephyr Teachout served as a guest speaker on a panel with The New York Review of Books that discussed organized opposition. For the third installment in a series of online events hosted by Fintan O’Toole, New York Review contributors Astra Taylor and Zephyr Teachout and AFA-CWA, AFL-CIO President Sara Nelson discuss what successful opposition looks like today. … Zephyr Teachout Zephyr Teachout is a Professor at Fordham Law School. She is the author of Corruption in America: From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuffbox to Citizens United and Break ’Em Up: Recovering Our Freedom From Big Ag, Big Tech, and Big Money. (October 2024) Watch…
Less than a week after the filing of a lawsuit by the Town of Rhinebeck and local residents to overturn zoning decisions by Hyde Park and Clinton on behalf of a proposed Six Senses resort project, attorneys for the developer have filed a motion to try and remove Rhinebeck’s town attorney from the case. Fordham Law Professor Bruce Green, director of the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics, told The Daily Catch that attorney Kenneth Stenger’s arguments to disqualify Warren Replansky, legal counsel for the Town of Rhinebeck, are unlikely to hold in a court of law. According to Bruce Green,…
Barbara-Ann Boehler, senior director of the Corporate Compliance and Ethics program at Fordham Law School, explained the benefits of a law school education in any compliance role, to The National Jurist. The bottom line? J.D. advantage careers are wide ranging. Barbara Boehler, senior director of Fordham Law School’s Compliance Program, has seen this for herself. Boehler has worked in compliance for most of her career. As a result, she knows how beneficial a law school education is for any compliance role. “Compliance officers in heavily regulated industries, such as financial services and health care, must be comfortable with assessing and…
After President Donald Trump called for the Internal Revenue Service (I.R.S.) to revoke Harvard’s tax-exempt status, Fordham Law Professor Gowri Krishna ’06 told The New York Times that this is not the first time the agency has challenged the tax exemptions of educational and other institutions. In the past, the I.R.S. has challenged the tax exemptions of educational and other institutions under both Republican and Democratic administrations, according to Gowri Krishna, a professor at Fordham University School of Law who specializes in nonprofit law. In one well-known example, Bob Jones University in South Carolina, a fundamentalist Christian institution that had banned interracial dating, lost its…
In this CNN Business article, Fordham Law Professor Atinuke Adediran says diversity, equity, and inclusion has been losing with corporate America, with one big exception: the people who actually own the companies. Most institutional shareholders like BlackRock and Vanguard still believe having a diverse workforce and customer base are good for business, said Atinuke Adediran, an associate professor of law at Fordham University who studies corporate governance and racial diversity. “The rhetoric has been DEI is dead, but you have large, multinational shareholders upholding what companies are doing on DEI,” she said. Read “DEI is winning with Costco, Apple and…
Susan Landrum, executive director of academic success and bar programs at Fordham Law School, shares thoughts with Bloomberg Law on how major changes to the bar exam may impact law schools, as the New York State Bar Association pushes for a more rigorous bar exam. If there are major changes to the bar exam, law schools should have adequate notice so they can prepare their curriculum and their students, said Susan Landrum, executive director of academic success and bar programs at Fordham University School of Law. Classes at Fordham, she said, already incorporate examples of New York law because faculty…
Fordham Law Professor Susan Block-Lieb voiced concerns over the House Financial Services Committee’s proposed cuts to funding for the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and joined others in urging Congress to reject attempts to gut consumer protections. Susan Block-Lieb, Fordham Law School, New York: “The CFPB was created as an independent agency precisely because Congress understood how unpopular a strong CFPB would be with banks (big and small), non-bank lenders who push payday loans and car title pawns, financial service providers, and the lobbyists who “protect” these financial interests. But guess what: The CFPB has been hugely popular with the ordinary…
Members of the Fordham Law community spoke with The New York Times about why they decided to participate in the National Law Day of Action, which drew roughly 1,500 people in New York City on May 1. In interviews, attendees in New York pointed to actions such as Mr. Trump’s targeting of law firms, wrongful deportations and the arrest of a Wisconsin judge on charges of obstructing immigration enforcement. “I’m horrified by what’s going on,” said James Kainen, 71, a law professor at Fordham University and a former assistant U.S. attorney in the Southern District of New York. “We had ethics.…