Alumna Irene Koch ’89, executive vice president and chief legal officer at Hospital for Special Surgery in New York City, was recognized by Crain’s New York Business as one of their 2019 Notable Woman in Healthcare. Irene Koch, who joined Hospital for Special Surgery in 2015, deals with a complex array of legal, regulatory, compliance and risk-management issues. Hospitals increasingly depend on information technology, and Koch has expertise in that, as well as privacy and security. In addition to HSS’ core business of hospital operations and research, she also addresses matters related to its geographic and international expansion. Previously, she…
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Founder and academic director of the Fashion Law Institute, Professor Susan Scafidi, was quoted in a Los Angeles Magazine article about a west coast trademark infringement case. In July 2018, Fuentes sent a cease and desist letter to Lauren Moshi as a courtesy before pursuing a trademark infringement case—but he didn’t have a chance to take the case to court. In an aggressive legal maneuver, Lauren Moshi preemptively sued Fuentes and Lethal Amounts, arguing that Fuentes did not have the right to the trademark to begin with. The nearly yearlong legal saga that ensued sapped resources from Fuentes’s already small operation.…
Clinical Associate Professor and director of the law library at Fordham University School of Law, Todd Melnick, spoke with host Ed Walters on the Legal Talk Network podcast On The Road about the implications of the Supreme Court’s decision to hear Georgia v. Public.Resource.Org. “I think the court in the eleventh circuit said that annotations are not the law but they are close enough. They are important to understanding the law and more importantly I think, the legislature has adopted them as official and I think Kyle is right, that that’s the aspect that really makes this a different case.
Haug Partners LLP announced the appointment of Dr. Sandra Kuzmich ’01 to take over as Managing Partner of the firm. Dr. Kuzmich joined Haug Partners in 1999 as a scientific advisor and became a partner in 2006. Since becoming a partner, she has served in multiple leadership positions in the Firm. Dr. Kuzmich served as Head of the Associates’ Committee, and was elected to the Firm’s Executive Committee and Compensation Committee. Until her election to Managing Partner, she has served as co-chair of Haug Partner’s Life Science practice. Dr. Kuzmich received her undergraduate degree in chemistry from Douglass College of…
2011 Fordham Law Graduate, Damien H. Weinstein has teamed up with Brian G. Klein to form Weinstein + Klein P.C. Damien H. Weinstein and Brian G. Klein are pleased to announce the formation of a new boutique law firm, Weinstein + Klein (WK), which focuses on labor and employment counseling, litigation, and business matters. Operating from offices in Manhattan and New Jersey, Messrs. Klein and Weinstein have more than 16 years of combined experience representing businesses, individuals, and entrepreneurs in a wide diversity of legal needs. “After years of practicing law at other firms, Brian and I have decided to…
Professor John Pfaff is cited in an article published by The Marshall Project that provides a closer look at the debate on criminal justice within the context of the July Democratic primary debates in Detroit. For one, prison populations started to rise in 1973 and reached record highs in the 1980s, before the law ever came into being. “This was a national phenomenon, largely taking place at the state level, where more than 85 percent of prisoners are housed,” wrote Marc Mauer, executive director of the Sentencing Project, in a commentary for The Marshall Project. State legislators were already implementing laws…
In an op-ed published in Law360, Professor Nestor Davidson analyzes indications that the nearly decade-long trend of state policymakers enacting legislation that overrides city and local government policies could be shifting. State preemption has undermined local authority across a wide array of other policy areas that cities have been active in addressing in recent years. These policy areas include: minimum wage, fair scheduling and paid sick leave; tobacco regulation, sugary drink taxes, firearm safety and other aspects of public health; plastic bags, agricultural nuisances, fracking and other environmental issues; the sharing economy, autonomous vehicles, 5G deployment and community broadband; immigration…
Awards and recognition do not drive academic excellence at Fordham, but it has been wonderful to see the law community take notice of the groundbreaking scholarship generated by our faculty and students. I am particularly inspired by the collaboration and innovation taking place here at Fordham Law. The result has been a level of research and learning that is having real and lasting impacts on how we as a nation, and as global citizens, address many of the legal issues of our day. I share these well-deserved honors from the past year with my sincere congratulations and thanks for the…
Professor James Cohen is quoted in a New York Times article about the disparity in how public defenders charge parents who have lost their children in “hot car” cases. The wide variation in charges highlight the complex ad fraught nature of the decisions confronting prosecutors — in New York and nationally — who must decide whether to indict grieving parents who said they simply had forgotten that they had left a young child in a hot car, a nightmarish phenomenon that claims about three dozen lives a year across the country. Those decisions are influenced by many factors: a desire…
Adjunct professor Joel Cohen wrote an op-ed for Law.com about why it was important to appoint an outside special counsel to conduct the investigation on Russian interference inside the Justice Department. A more articulate, forceful and willing testimony by Mueller could have changed all that, and maybe allowed or even forced the Trumpers (or the mostly Trumpers) to see more light—but it is what it is. We probably won’t know for a while precisely “what happened with Mueller.” And maybe because something obviously did, the individual citizen’s going-in partisanship will largely determine how he or she judges the president’s conduct…