Firm Profiles

Plaintiffs Counsel Defend Fee Request in Madoff-Related Settlement

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Christine Simmons : New York Law Journal : March 18, 2013

Responding to criticism from the attorney general's office, lead plaintiffs counsel Barbara Hart of Lowey Dannenberg Cohen & Hart told Southern District Judge Colleen McMahon during a March 15 hearing that there was "no scandal here" and that the objections to the $42 million fee request were "personally offensive."

New City Law Will Permit Suit Over Bias Against Jobless

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Christine Simmons and Jennifer Peltz : New York Law Journal : March 15, 2013

New York City will soon have the nation's most far-reaching laws barring employers from shunning out-of-work job applicants, after lawmakers passed the provisions on March 13 over a mayoral veto.

Realty Law Digest

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Scott E. Mollen : New York Law Journal : March 13, 2013

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, reviews recent decisions that dismissed an attempt to stop a project to repair and replace part of the Coney Island boardwalk without an environmental impact statement and that vacated a settlement entered into by a tenant who was then pro se and who submitted medical evidence of possible impairment.

A.G. Blasts Fee Request From Counsel for Madoff Investors

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Christine Simmons : New York Law Journal : March 8, 2013

A $42 million request for legal fees and expenses has been labeled "wildly excessive" by Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office, which claims the 118,000 hours the class counsel say they devoted to a suit against Ivy Asset Management "is an astounding number to develop the same body of evidence that the Attorney General developed in 6,000 hours."

New Partners Yearbook 2013

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: New Jersey Law Journal : March 8, 2013

The past year saw a continued resurgence in new partners at New Jersey firms, which, if not quite as robust as the year before, still held its own as an indicator that the firms are sanguine about expansion.

Realty Law Digest

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Scott E. Mollen : New York Law Journal : March 6, 2013

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, reviews recent cases of interest involving the application of the Martin Act and the voting standards to apply in a proposed privatization of a Mitchell-Lama cooperative housing project, and a landlord's attempt to recover a leased Section 8 unit after the tenant stopped paying extra rent on an attic that was not part of the Section 8 unit.

Personal Notes on Lawyers

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: New York Law Journal : February 27, 2013

Polsinelli Shughart, Troutman Sanders, Foley & Lardner and Morrison Cohen all welcome new additions.

Realty Law Digest

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Scott E. Mollen : New York Law Journal : February 27, 2013

Scott E. Mollen, a partner at Herrick, Feinstein, discusses recent cases including Section 8 landlords' putative class action against the NYC Housing Authority over Housing Quality Standards, an attempt to annul a non-judicial sale of cooperative shares, and an appeal of a determination that several apartment buildings were general nuisances based on the number of calls for service to the police.

Residential Tenants Explore Rent Abatements

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Brendan Pierson : New York Law Journal : February 25, 2013

The widespread property damage and power failures after Hurricane Sandy have opened uncharted legal territory for both residential and commercial landlords and tenants, who will likely be wrangling over who is liable for what for some time, attorneys say.

VERDICTS & SETTLEMENTS

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: The National Law Journal : February 25, 2013