Fordham Law graduate and Cramer & Anderson Partner, Daniel E. Casagrande ’79, has been named a 2019 Marvin J. Glink Private Practice Local Government Lawyer of the Year by the International Municipal Lawyers Association (IMLA). The prestigious award recognizes an attorney in private practice who represents a local government and “exhibits those qualities that made Marvin Glink one of the truly remarkable lawyers working on behalf of public clients,” according to IMLA, which says the award “seeks to recognize a practitioner who has provided outstanding service to the public and who possesses an exemplary reputation in the legal community, the highest of ethical…
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Law & Crime consulted Professor Karen Greenberg on the unseen cyber warfare taking place within the larger tensions between the U.S. and Iran. Adding to those tensions is a largely unseen cyber war, Karen Greenberg, the Executive Director of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School, explained to Ross. “It’s almost like a parallel conversation that’s going on in the conflict between the United States and Iran. Lots of it we know we don’t hear about, but we’ve heard about some of it, which has to do with us attacking Iranian intelligence networks and Iranians targeting our financial…
In a joint effort, Fordham Law School, the African Centre on Law & Ethics (ACLE), White & Case, and GIMPA Law School, launched the fourth annual Legal Ethics Training Program. Taking place in Rwanda, this year’s program included 71 law students from 12 African countries. The four-day interactive course covered the principles and rules central to professional legal practice – in Rwanda as well as other jurisdictions. The program’s innovative format made use of practical exercises in small group sessions to discuss issues relating to the legal codes of ethics, regulation and enforcement, the relationship between attorneys and judges, confidentiality…
Cozen O’Connor announced the addition of alumnus Ariel Holzer ’05 to its national Real Estate Practice Group. Cozen O’Connor is pleased to announce Ariel S. Holzer, a New York City-based litigator who brings nearly 15 years of experience guiding developers, property owners, architects, and other related entities through the city’s complex zoning and land use application processes, has joined its national Real Estate Practice Group. Holzer comes to the firm from GoldmanHarris LLC and joins Cozen O’Connor’s midtown Manhattan office as counsel. He is the fourth prominent, senior-level attorney to join the firm’s East Coast Real Estate Practice in the past nine…
Adjunct professor Mark Davies was quoted by the Clarion Ledger for an article that polled six leading gubernatorial candidates in Mississippi on if they would support a law restricting lobbyist gifts to lawmakers and other public officials. Democratic Attorney General Jim Hood said he, too, would support an outright ban. He also advocated for banning corporate campaign contributions, and all campaign contributions during the legislative session, so as not to influence legislation. “We’ve got to cut the money out of politics, and then we’ll see some results for the people,” Hood said. Two other Democrats, Velesha P. Williams and Hinds…
Professor Jed Shugerman was quoted in Al Jazeera in an article discussing the predicted actions of both House Republicans and House Democrats in the wake of Robert Mueller’s testimony to the US House of Representatives. Republicans say the investigation started because of false information and unwarranted spying by the FBI on people involved in Trump’s campaign committee. Attorney General William Barr has opened an internal investigation at the Justice Department into how the FBI began its inquiry into Trump and Russia. And the department’s Office of Inspector General, an internal watchdog, is preparing a report on whether rules were broken.…
Professor Jed Shugerman talked with Virginia Heffernan on Trumpcast, a podcast produced by Slate, breaking down Robert Mueller’s House testimony and looking at his intentions when he set out to write the report? I do think it’s at least worth noting and it’s a valid question – that now becomes I think a bigger concern that so much of Mueller’s stature or so much of the validity of the Mueller report was a perception that Mueller had command over every piece of this team and over every piece of this investigation. And so to the extent that there was a…
Professor John Pfaff’s research was cited in a Vox article about the recount in the Democratic primary for the Queens District Attorney race that indicates Melinda Katz will be selected as the Democratic candidate in the November general election. Cabán ran on a very progressive platform, focused on racial justice and criminal justice reform. She promised to end cash bail; decriminalize drugs, sex work, subway turnstile jumping, and other crimes of poverty; and set up an internal unit to review wrongful convictions. When I spoke to Cabán in May, she also talked about taking violent crimes seriously — speaking to…
Professor Joel Reidenberg provided his take in a Law360 article that analyzes the recent settlement between Facebook and the Federal Trade Commission. Facebook had already agreed not to mislead users about how the company shares their data with third parties as part of a consent decree finalized with the FTC in 2012. The deal announced Wednesday essentially calls for the company to do the same — while explicitly threatening civil and criminal penalties if individual executives, including CEO Mark Zuckerberg, lie in annual certifications. … “We’ve just seen that the FTC wasn’t willing to pursue a serious fine against Zuckerberg,…
Professor Jed Shugerman was quoted in an ABA Journal article looking at two key points from Robert Mueller’s July 24 Congressional hearing testimony. Fordham law professor Jed Handelsman Shugerman noted Mueller’s comments on the OLC opinion. He also noted Mueller’s agreement that Department of Justice policy allows for the indictment of a president after the president leaves office. Rep. Mike Quigley, an Illinois Democrat, raised a related issue with this question: “What if a president serves beyond the statute of limitations?” Mueller said he didn’t know the answer to the question. Shugerman said the problem is that a two-term president…