Practice Area: Commercial & Federal Litigation

Nineteen Chief Legal Officers To Share Expertise at New York State Bar Association’s Corporate Counsel Institute

The chief legal officers of 19 prominent companies — including Citigroup, Nasdaq, NBCUniversal, Ford Foundation, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Mastercard, The Bank of New York Mellon, KPMG, New York Life Insurance and The New York Times Company — will discuss the ethics of new technologies, the essentials of data privacy and the key to minimizing risk at … Continued

Artificial Intelligence Will Transform Legal Profession

Panelists at a New York State Bar Association conference predicted that lawyers who are in charge of high-level legal strategies for clients have nothing to fear from artificial intelligence, but the jobs of attorneys who conduct the research and draft the legal documents will change dramatically. “The battle won’t be between humans and AI but … Continued

A Case of Negligent Fraud

A recent First Department decision[1] dealt with several troubling issues. The following is a cautionary tale in the tangled, inconsistent web of litigation and appeal. This article is also a tale with a warning: put carve-outs in your legal opinions or you may be accused of fraud. Background The issues arose from a $15 million … Continued

NYLitigator – Vol. 28 No. 1

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