Fordham University School of Law, in partnership with DLA Piper, is launching an in-house counsel institute on Sept. 5, 2025, featuring weekly online classes and aimed at mid-career lawyers everywhere. Toni Jaeger-Fine, senior counselor and adjunct professor of law at Fordham who will co-lead the institute, spoke with Law360 Pulse following the announcement. The institute is led by Toni Jaeger-Fine, senior counselor and adjunct professor of law at Fordham, and Amadeu Ribeiro, a DLA Piper partner in New York and Brazil, who also teaches corporate law at Fordham. They are guided by an advisory board of in-house counsel, including Allen Waxman, a former general counsel at Pfizer Inc. and now of counsel at the law firm. Jaeger-Fine told Law360…
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In this article for Diligent, Barbara-Ann Boehler, senior director of the Corporate Compliance and Ethics program at Fordham Law School, shares insightful tips on how to make compliance training meaningful and engaging. Compliance training is necessary — and a crucial element of any robust compliance program. In fact, I’d argue training is the answer to nearly every compliance issue. New policy? Training. New product? Training. New or changed regulation? Training. Complaint, remediation, misunderstanding? You guessed it — training. Training demonstrates action to regulators. It shows growth, accountability and a willingness to improve. In many industries, compliance training isn’t just a…
Fordham Law Professor Tanya Katerí Hernández is quoted in this South Florida Times article, arguing that racial bias has influenced the attitude of Cuban Americans towards African Americans. The Herald did not explore whether racial bias has influenced the attitude of Cuban Americans towards African Americans. Tanya Katerí Hernández would argue that it does. The AfroPuerto Rican, a Fordham University School of Law professor and graduate of Yale and Bown universities, published a book on the subject in 2022, “Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle For Equality.” Hernández knows of what she wrote. Her grandmother’s family had pressured…
Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader warns to Bloomberg Law that predicting the future of white collar criminal enforcement may become difficult given the Trump administration’s latest overhaul of law enforcement priorities and pardons of several U.S. executives. The Trump administration’s overhaul of law enforcement priorities is presenting an opportunity and a source of angst for the white-collar defense bar. Lawyers are seizing on diminished foreign bribery and crypto enforcement in an attempt to get their clients’ cases dropped or reconsidered. But those shifts, combined with White House pardons of several US executives, are also creating uncertainty about what shape corporate and financial enforcement will…
Fordham Law Professor John Pfaff explains the difference between executive orders and laws, in this Minnesota Reformer article. Executive orders are not laws, but rather statements of administration policy. “An EO is nothing more than an interoffice memo from a boss to his underlings telling them what he wants them to do,” as Fordham law professor John Pfaff describes them. Read “Attorney General Ellison sues Trump administration over trans athlete ban” in The Minnesota Reformer.
Recently speaking at the New York City Bar Association’s Manhattan Headquarters on a series of panels focused on judicial independence, Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller warned of deepening threats to the independence of the judicial branch of government. Read “NYC Bar President sounds alarm on political threats to judicial independence: ‘it must not be normalized’” on amNY.
Recently speaking at the New York City Bar Association’s “Defending Justice: Mobilizing the Legal Profession to Stand Up for the Rule of Law” series, Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller discussed the roles of judges and threats against the judiciary. He is quoted in this New York Law Journal article: “We have a loss of trust in all our public institutions,” Fordham University School of Law professor and Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller said. “I think loss of trust in the judiciary is a piece of that, and it’s a reflection of the growing polarization in our society.” While the courts are…
Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller appeared on RTL News New York (Netherlands) to share his expert legal opinion on the impact President Donald Trump’s latest executive orders have had on law firms and the rule of law in general. Watch the segment, “Trump bindt de strijd aan met advocaten (Trump Takes On Lawyers),” on RTL News New York (Netherlands).
Prosecutors must weigh the obstacles before retrying a man for a murder that occurred 22 years ago, after the first trial ended in a deadlock. Criminal Law expert and Fordham Law Professor Cheryl Bader comments on the issues in this article for the Mid-Hudson News. Trocino and Cheryl Bader, a Law Professor at Fordham University, said another variable to consider in moving forward with another trial is what it will cost. Cornachio and the other special prosecutor in the case, Laura Murphy, tried Holley with an allocation of $1 million from the Orange County Legislature. The special prosecutors were needed…
Americans must rely on the lower courts to defend attacks on the Constitution under this presidential administration, argues Fordham Law Dean Emeritus Matthew Diller in this op-ed for The Hill. Three months into the Trump administration, the rule of law in our nation is being tested in unprecedented ways as an avalanche of executive orders and declarations ignores both statutory and constitutional requirements. The White House is waging a campaign of intimidation and retribution intended to silence critics and remove opposition both within and outside the government. The scale of the administration’s actions is staggering and transforming our national government by…