The pain for patients and staff from COVID-19 was palpable, and colleagues turned to me as a bioethicist for guidance about how they might allocate scarce resources, like ventilators and ICU beds.
As stay-at-home rules meant to slow the spread of the coronavirus are lifted and employers reopen shuttered workplaces, labor and employment attorneys are guiding clients through a maze of unknowns.
It was the sickest he’d ever felt in his life. He had been in overall good health, having twice completed the New York City Marathon, and still works out regularly. The only preexisting condition he had was exercise-induced asthma, which he managed well with an inhaler.
Many of us survived working from home by following those guidelines and made a somewhat successful, if bumpy, adjustment to the new normal. Now we are being faced with a new challenge: returning to the office.
As the state and nation reel from the threat of the coronavirus pandemic, NYSBA is there for our members, for state policymakers and all New Yorkers like never before.
In the post-New York on Pause / pre-vaccine world that we may soon be entering, managing agents and cooperative apartment corporation boards should offer remote apartment closings as an option, if not the norm.
COVID-19 raises insurance coverage issues that are likely to end up in the courts for years to come. How should those cases should be drafted, interpreted and adjudicated?
Family mediation is less adversely impacted by court closures than litigation. It can be a useful problem-solving opportunity for divorcing couples regarding the arrangements for their children and their financial matters.
In the May Journal, The Legal Writer continues its series on what we can learn from the great teachers of writing.
Any meaningful view of New York law from the bench requires an honest discussion of who is on that bench – the composition of the judiciary empowered to interpret and apply New York law.