Jim Montes ’00 has been appointed president of Carver Community Development Corporation per an announcement made by Carver Bancorp, Inc., the holding company for Carver Federal Savings Bank. In his capacity as President of CCDC, Mr. Montes is responsible for fulfilling the Bank’s mission to bring economic and community development to the diverse markets it serves. Since 2006, CCDC has allocated approximately $150 million in New Markets Tax Credits through its participation in more than a dozen projects in low-income communities in the Greater New York City region. “Jim is a highly skilled legal and business professional who comes to Carver with a strong…
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“The United States is the world’s largest jailer,” said Dean Matthew Diller in his opening remarks at a Fordham Law School panel entitled, “Who, What, How & Why Now: Putting Violent Offenders at the Center of Mass Incarceration Reform.” CBS News correspondent Scott Pelley moderated a lively and engaging discussion between five expert panelists that covered topics including the purpose of American prisons, violent offenses stemming from mental illness, and how best to rehabilitate those convicted of violent offenses and reintegrate them into society. Diller referred to mass incarceration as “one of the great social justice issues of our time,”…
Professor Tanya Hernández, author of Multiracials and Civil Rights: Mixed-Race Stories of Discrimination, was quoted in a CNN article about the birth of the son of Duke and Duchess of Sussex and the implications public reaction to the baby could have on perpetuating myths about racial progress. Here’s why we should be cautious. The royal baby watch has already resurrected some of the most dangerous stereotypes about race. And in many cases, the commentators who are reinforcing these stereotypes are totally unaware of the damage. … “She was raised by her mother to embrace her blackness in a world that…
Winston & Strawn, LLP shared a recap of year two of an annual in-house pro bono program that engages volunteers from Winston and the LVMH legal department to commit to serving dozens of low-income New Yorkers. The program was developed by two Fordham Law School alumnae, Tara S. Moss ’14, Pro Bono Counsel at Winston & Strawn LLP and Louise Firestone ’85, General Counsel of LVMH. The full-day program featured legal training, hands-on client counseling, and informal networking amongst Winston and LVMH volunteers. City Bar Justice Center’s project leader, Ramona Morel, led an engaging training session during which volunteers learned…
Professor Bruce Green was quoted in a Law360 article regarding U.S. Attorney General William Barr’s recent comments in which he indicated that special counsel Robert Mueller should have never investigated if he didn’t intend to make a prosecutive decision. “I think that if he felt that he shouldn’t go down the path of making a traditional prosecutive decision, then he shouldn’t have investigated. That was the time to pull up,” Barr said. Former Colorado U.S. Attorney John Walsh, now a Democratic candidate for Senate, said Barr was incorrect in saying the investigation should have finished before it started. “Attorney General…
Professor Jed Shugerman was quoted in a Washington Post opinion piece by Jennifer Rubin on the testimony of Attorney General William P. Barr at the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 1. So far, Attorney General William P. Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee has done himself and the administration no favors. To the contrary, former acting solicitor general Neal Katyal observes, “Barr has been evasive and misleading from the first paragraph. It’s conduct totally unbecoming of an attorney general. He’s not even very good at misleading.” Fordham law professor Jed Shugerman were more blunt. “This is nuts . . . just…
Adjunct Professor Kimberly E. Diamond co-wrote an article for NAIOP about leveraging private-public partnerships and new innovation to increase resilience and sustainability when it comes to water access and infrastructure. Flooding is a critical problem for property owners and developers in coastal areas. The search for solutions has opened the door to innovative approaches involving architects, city planners and investors. Advanced adaptive architecture and design principles are creating buildings that use — and even benefit from — water flow in coastal cities. These promising technologies have the potential to generate opportunities for public and private investment. … Many types of…
A press release from O’Melveny & Myers LLP recognizes their chair and Fordham Law alum, Bradley J. Butwin ’85, for being honored with the Leonard F. Manning Achievement Award at the Fordham Law Review Alumni Association Annual Reception in April. “Brad is not only an excellent lawyer, but he’s also an excellent leader in the legal community,” said Rita Glavin, president of the Fordham Law Review Alumni Association, who presented Butwin with the award. She noted that during Butwin’s tenure as chair O’Melveny has consistently earned high marks for its culture, and diversity and inclusion efforts, which she described as hallmarks of…
Professor Andrew Kent speaks to June Grasso on the Bloomberg Law podcast about Attorney General William Barr’s testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee. “I think he had a lot of serious questions to respond to and his answers for the most part were narrow, lawyerly, parsing, kind of really fine grain hair splitting that to my mind didn’t really aswer the many legitimate questions that have been raised about how he had handled both the trasmission of the report and his public statement about the report.” Listen to full podcast.
Bronx Justice News covered Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark ‘s participation in Fordham Law’s “Who, How & Why Now: Putting Violent Offenses at the Center of Mass Incarceration Reform” panel event on April 30. Speaking on a panel that included Philadelphia District Attorney Larry Krasner and former Chief Judge of New York Jonathan Lippman, Clark addressed a packed auditorium at Fordham University’s Law School as part of a forum titled “Putting Violent Offenses at the Center of Mass Incarceration Reform.” “I have tried to change my office,” Clark said. “But, you know, sometimes it’s hard changing a culture. I took over…