Missing a criminal court date is serious. A person is guilty of bail jumping in the second degree when they have been released from custody in connection with a felony charge, and when they do not appear on the required date or within thirty days. Therefore, the People were not
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In a recent decision penned by Judge Sheila Abdus-Salaam, Jacobsen v. New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation,1 the Court of Appeals addressed the obligations of an employer when an employee puts it on notice that he has a disability. The court ruled that an employer's failure to consider the
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Your witnesses are lined up and well-prepared; trial notebook is tight and memorized; all evidentiary issues are anticipated and briefed. Trial day—you are confident because you are prepared. "Your client interested in a high-low?" your adversary chirps at you looking over the frame of his lowered spectacles. If your reaction
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Using Attorney Statements to Impeach Clients: Beware 'Brown-Burgos-Santos' In a letter laden with sage advice, virtue and probity, a lawyer wrote to his soon-to-be-admitted-son that, "…before you take any precipitous legal step, you ask yourself whether you are doing harm, then you will care well for your clients. At the
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The case Perl v. Meher,1 decided by the Court of Appeals on Nov. 22, 2011, is a trilogy of automobile accident personal injury cases out of the First and Second Departments addressing the vexing application of the serious injury threshold under the New York State Insurance Law in a litigation
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