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5 days ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
The judge presiding over Harvey Weinstein’s retrial had news for jurors on Friday: After over a month of hearing evidence, they’d finally start deliberating this week. But exactly when—and who they’ll hear from before that—remains up in the air. That’s because the defense may have one big witness left before the case goes to the 12-person jury.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
An NYPD officer tasked with protecting the mayor is being probed for a connection to two crypto entrepreneurs charged with torturing a tourist for his Bitcoin password. The detective on Mayor Eric Adams’ security team has been placed on modified duty after authorities discovered a link to the two men, my colleagues Myles Miller and Laura Nahmias report.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
New York would allow family members to sue for emotional harm in wrongful death cases under a bill gaining steam in the Legislature, but its fate remains uncertain with the governor. The legislation, which passed the New York State Senate on Wednesday and is expected to pass the Assembly next, is a top priority of the New York State Trial Lawyers Association.
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1 week ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Mets owner Steve Cohen’s plan for a casino next to the team’s stadium took a step forward Tuesday, with the state Senate passing a bill that clears the way for Cohen to compete for a gambling license. If signed by Gov. Kathy Hochul (D), the measure would allow Cohen to throw his hat in the ring to develop one of three New York City-area casinos the state will allow. The move signals the race for a downstate casino license is heating up, with Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund magnate, well positioned.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Manhattan federal prosecutors have elicited weeks of dramatic evidence against Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs. But whether jurors find the provocative testimony proves federal crimes were committed remains an open question. “He can be a jealous jerk and a stalking psychopath, and that’s separate and distinct from whether he headed a criminal conspiracy,” former Manhattan state prosecutor Jeremy Saland told me.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
The rapper Kid Cudi said his Porsche was set ablaze after Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs learned Cudi was dating Combs’ girlfriend, testimony prosecutors sought Thursday in an effort to prove their claims that Combs ran a criminal enterprise. “I knew he had something to do with it,” the rapper, whose name is Scott Mescudi, told jurors, referring to Combs, before the judge sustained a defense objection to the witness stand remark.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft intends to satisfy its pro bono pledge to the president by assisting Brooklyn District Attorney Eric Gonzalez. But first they’ll have to run it by Gonzalez. And the president. “If we can deploy some talented attorneys to assist Eric in that office, that is something I am confident would be viewed as meeting the obligations,” Nicholas Gravante, co-chair of Cadwalader’s global litigation group, told my colleague Justin Henry.
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2 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Mike Vilensky |Danielle Dunn
A New York law professor said he will continue to pursue his legal challenge to the state’s taxation of remote workers, keeping alive a case closely monitored by lawmakers in neighboring states who are seeking to weaken or kill the statute.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloomberglaw.com | Mike Vilensky
Free legal work for President Donald Trump wouldn’t count towards pro bono legal hours required for New York bar admission under a new bill quickly gaining steam in Albany. The legislative measure, printed Thursday in the waning weeks of New York’s legislative session, exempts free legal work “performed pursuant to an agreement with the federal government” from the required 50 hours law graduates must show to become barred.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.bloombergtax.com | Mike Vilensky |Tatyana Monnay
Free legal work for President Donald Trump wouldn’t count towards pro bono legal hours required for New York bar admission under a new bill quickly gaining steam in Albany. The measure, printed Thursday in the waning weeks of New York’s legislative session, exempts free legal work “performed pursuant to an agreement with the federal government” from the required 50 hours law graduates must show to become barred.
