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For 28 years I covered the legal scene in New York City for the New York Law Journal. I am now freelancing and am regularly posting exclusives on WiseLawNY.
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
Chief Judge Janet DiFiore’s daughter, Alexandra DiFiore Murphy, is planning to run in 2019 for a County Court seat in Westchester County, according to an article in the Yonkers Times. The move has stirred controversy, the Times reported, because ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
From 1988 through 2017, I appeared before more than 100 judges on Long Island and in NYC (that’s a very conservative estimate). The vast majority did not take the bench until well after 9:30 am and almost all never worked past 4:30 pm, even when on trial. While some of the short hours were probably caused by court-officers and court-clerks who were loathe to be in court anytime past 4:30, I did not see a strong work-ethic among judges. This is a reflection of the political nature of the judicial-selection process which is merit-based only by accident. I would say that those judges appointed ar ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
The circumstances surrounding the forced resignation of Melissa Ringel on April 20th , who had headed the Appellate Division, First Department’s program for mediating appeals has raised questions about former Appellate Division Justice James M. McGuire’s conduct after he left ..read more
Read Dan Wise’s Article in WhoWhatWhy About Wayne Barrett, Blinkered Donald and What Could Have Been
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
Documents recently released by the federal appeals court in Manhattan show the in 2011 it barred two New York lawyers from talking to the late Wayne Barrett, a prize-winning Village Voice reporter. But for the court’s bar, Barrett would have ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
There is good reason to believe that Staten Island Justice Judith N. McMahon is under investigation by the New York State Judicial Conduct Commission, the only official body with the power to punish judges for misconduct. On Dec.19, the New ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
On Friday (Dec. 15) the flamboyant lawyer, Richard A. Luthmann Jr., was arrested on charges of defrauding buyers of scrap metal. Justice Judith P. McMahon’s lawyer is attempting to use Luthmann’s bombshell arrest to discredit whistleblower Michael Pulizotto, who is ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
Staten Island Administrative Judge Judith P. McMahon is not out of the woods yet. Last September, McMahon and her court’s chief clerk, Michael Pulizotto, were both mothballed to lesser jobs in Manhattan after Dennis Quirk, the head of the New ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
As WiseLawNY predicted after oral argument on Oct. 18, the New York Court of Appeals today ruled that Jesse Friedman, who served 13 years in prison for molesting pre-adolescent boys attending an after-school computer class in his home should be ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
In the 16 years since Jesse Friedman, the subject of an Oscar-nominated documentary, was released from prison in 2001, he has sought—largely without success—to clear his name of sexually abusing young boys who took after-school computer lessons in his home ..read more
WiseLawNY | NYC legal news and analysis
3y ago
Felix Sater, who is in the crosshairs of Special Prosecutor Robert Mueller, dodged a bullet on Wednesday when State Supreme Court Justice Charles E. Ramos booted a $70 million tax fraud case brought by his two longtime foes, New York ..read more