The Los Angeles Times reached out to Professor James Cohen for his opinion on the arrests of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, two Ukranian businessmen accused of violating campaign finance laws, and what it will mean for Trump Lawyer, Rudy Giuliani. Federal prosecutors and agents are still examining financial dealings involving Giuliani, Parnas and Fruman, according to a U.S. law enforcement official who did not want to be identified discussing the case. A lawyer for the two men told Congress last month they had assisted in Giuliani’s representation of Trump and have also been “represented by Mr. Giuliani in connection…
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Professor Bruce Green comments to Bloomberg on questionable practices that were used in wrongful conviction cases by the California Attorney General’s Office while now Senator Kamala Harris was the acting Attorney General. Diaz was convicted in 1984 of rape and attempted rape. He was paroled in 1993, became a registered sex offender, and began the work of proving his innocence. It took 19 years for his conviction to be reversed — and two more years for the State of California to grant him compensation for the time he was wrongfully imprisoned. Diaz’s battle with Harris’ office began in 2012 when…
Ellyde Thompson ’08 of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is featured as a Law360 Rising Star among sports and betting law practitioners under age 40. Thompson is being honored for work that includes helping two MLB players accused of buying performance-enhancing drugs overcome a news organization’s First Amendment defense to their defamation claims. Why she’s a sports attorney: “I wouldn’t say I set out to be a sports lawyer, but I think it speaks to my versatility as a lawyer, because a sports law case can be any sort of case from defamation to antitrust violations,” Thompson said. Thompson…
The entire Fordham Law community is mourning the death of Frances M. Blake ’45, a director emeritus of the Law School’s Alumni Association. Blake, who just celebrated her birthday last month, passed away on Oct. 10 at the age of 97. Former Assistant Dean at Fordham Law School Robert J. Reilly had maintained an ongoing friendship with Blake since 1984, talking with her on the phone and exchanging Christmas cards every year. He elaborated on her deep-set roots with the school and her long-lasting impact within the academic and alumni communities. “Fordham Law was very much a part of her…
October 6 to October 12 marks the recognition of mental illness awareness week and here’s what we know about mental illness. We know that mental illness does not discriminate. We know that it reaches across all racial, socio-economic, geographic, and professional lines. For lawyers the statistics are alarming. They are 3.6 times more likely to be depressed, 28 percent of employed lawyers suffer from depression, 19 percent have symptoms of anxiety, and 21 percent are problem drinkers. To address this pervasive issue, open up the dialogue, and fight the stigma surrounding mental illness in the law profession, we sat down…
Professor Matt Gold was featured in a BBC News article and appeared on BBC World News with Rico Hizon to discuss the ongoing trade dispute between China and the U.S. This week the US government blacklisted 28 Chinese entities it said were “implicated” in human rights abuses. The US also imposed additional visa restrictions for Chinese government officials. Without progress, the US plans to raise tariffs on $250bn worth of Chinese goods from 25% to 30% next Tuesday. As the first day came to a close, US President Donald Trump said the talks had gone well. He is expected to…
Professor Susan Scafidi explains why it is so difficult to sue businesses and organizations who are using photos from public social media accounts and the relatively nascent employment of right-of-publicity laws in the digital age. Imagine finding that a strip club is using the bikini pictures you posted to social media from your beach vacation to promote its end-of-summer party. What could you do about it, legally? Under intellectual property law, unless your image is worth something to the marketplace, the answer might be nothing. … “Given that people are offering images for public consumption on a regular basis in…
John D. Feerick ’61, Norris Professor of Law and dean emeritus at Fordham Law School, spoke with America Magazine to help break down the steps of an impeachment process. “I think the framers of the Constitution saw the electoral process as the roots for changing who might occupy the office or not,” said John D. Feerick, the Norris Professor of Law at Fordham University School of Law and dean emeritus, in an interview with America. “But [they] did feel that there needed to be a process to deal with abuse of power…. A public official, in the case of a president,…
Richard Rubano ’07, a partner at DLA Piper, was recognized as a Law360 Rising Star among sports and betting law practitioners under age 40 for his work guiding some of the most significant sports team acquisitions in recent years. The biggest deal of his career: Amid the skyrocketing valuations for sports franchises — particularly in the NBA — Rubano led a DLA Piper team representing Tilman Fertitta, a billionaire restaurateur and Houston native, in a $2.2 billion acquisition of the Houston Rockets. “That was a record price paid for an NBA franchise,” Rubano said. “It was a highly competitive auction. It required…
Cédric Burton LL.M. ’07, the managing partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC’s Brussels office, was selected as one of five cybersecurity and privacy attorneys honored by Law360 as a Rising Star. Why he’s a data protection attorney: Burton, who describes himself as “kind of a geek” when it comes to technology, said he began looking into how tech and the law collide while working as an academic researcher after graduating law school. He continued to pursue his interests as a research fellow in privacy and data protection law with posts at the University of Namur in Belgium and…