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How New York lawyers are dealing with a pandemic that’s put the law on hold
Eight attorneys, each with 60+ years experience, talk about everything from LSAT-less law schools to Freedom Rides to John and Yoko
How Jennifer Frankola’s work as a Bronx middle school teacher informs her special-needs practice
Fred Brewington combats the costs of unequal voting access: hopelessness, hatefulness and helplessness
How long can Broadway stay shuttered? A Q&A with entertainment attorney Loren Plotkin
Four New York lawyers talk about how the COVID pandemic is affecting real estate, estate planning, employment and bankruptcy law
Steve Cohen began law school at 58; now, at 68, he’s on the Rising Stars list
Why did Trump supporter Douglas H. Wigdor take on Fox News? The same reason he’s sued the Weinstein Company, NY1 and, yes, Uber
Discovery with Carine M. Williams
H. Rodgin Cohen looks back at the Great Recession—and guesses where the next banking crisis might come from
How Block O’Toole & Murphy helped turn the St. Jude Autumn Wine Tasting into an event
Lewis Tesser’s book of his father’s World War II photos is now in the National Archives
David Paget survived Lower East Side gangs to become New York’s go-to environmental lawyer
Husband-and-wife team Randolph McLaughlin and Debra Cohen are building a new kind of civil rights practice
Sports lawyer Irwin Kishner’s highlight reel includes developing the country’s first regional sports network
Victoria Cook’s viral Facebook post helped expose gender bias in documentary filmmaking
Victoria “Cookie” Cook on why she’d make an effin’ bad morning-show host
Brooklyn’s RoseAnn Branda tells us what’s good in the neighborhood
An oral history of those who fought “We don’t hire women” law firms and handsy judges to make legal history
Former clerks to the U.S. Supreme Court talk about their experiences at the center of American law
After a troubled childhood in the Bronx, Ross J. Charap emerged to fight for truth, justice and intellectual property
Richard Lobel follows in the footsteps of his father, Sheldon, who followed in the footsteps of his father-in-law
How CEO training and a sense of humor helped Monica Richman build a fashion IP practice
How did a bastard orphan go on and on to become a musical phenomenon? Loren Plotkin and Nancy Rose on the legal work behind Hamilton
Real estate icon Jonathan Mechanic tells us what’s good in the neighborhood
Betsy Plevan’s career has been based on finding the right fit: for her, for her clients and for a generation of female lawyers
“You cannot be great at what we do if you don’t have compassion for people,” says personal injury attorney Robert Kelner
Before same-sex marriage was the law of the land, business litigator Robbie Kaplan became a hero of the movement
The Chinese legal system has come a long way in a short time; but what’s getting lost in translation?
Barry Scheck talks Louima, Lyons, and whether the state has executed an innocent man
David Boies, Ted Olson, and the federal constitutional right to same-sex marriage
How Kathleen M. Sullivan went from academia to the only female name partner among the 100 largest firms in the country
Family lawyer Sue M. Moss talks comedy, the begging strategy and losing your mind on Oprah
Michael J. Amoruso is known as a listener even though he was born with bilateral hearing loss; he’s known for seeing solutions even though he’s legally blind
Med mal attorney Duane M. Fiedler strives to even the playing field—in the courts and on the court
Before taking up entertainment law, Marilyn G. Haft worked for the ACLU, Bella Abzug, the White House and the U.N.
Mary Kay Vyskocil reps insurance companies in cases ranging from the Rocky Mountain Arsenal to the collapse of the World Trade Center
Labe Richman’s monologue benefits the Immigrant Defense Project
Columbia student Andrea Johnson led a Care-A-Van to Native American tribal lands
As a child he walked the precincts for the first African-American running for mayor of New Haven; now he represents cities and states in a public sector-related practice
Gerald Shargel defends collars of every color … as well as the mob
Marcia Paul doesn’t relish being center of attention, but her clients, including J.D. Salinger, Mel Brooks and Dustin Hoffman, often put her there
Bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman on tough cases, humorous deal toys, and how to handle power brokers like Carl Icahn and Donald Trump
Since appearing in the 2011 Super Lawyers Magazine article, Shargel has moved from small law to big
Starwood Hotels & Resorts’ Ken Siegel helps craft a corporate culture that is globally minded and socially aware
How Gary Naftalis beat Perry Mason, defended Michael Eisner, and sank a shot at Madison Square Garden
Backstage with Broadway lawyers Seth Gelblum, Elliot Brown, Jean Ward, Loren Plotkin and Nancy Rose
Real estate lawyer David Alan Richards transfers everything from Kipling books to air
Greg Joseph is the corporate litigator you want answering that 3 a.m. (or 4 a.m.) phone call
From the Salad Oil Scandal of ‘63 to Lehman Brothers today, Harvey Miller is the bankruptcy lawyer you don’t cross
Sheila Birnbaum was often the first woman in the room, but it’s in products liability that she blazed a trail
How an all-star line-up of lawyers helped ensure that Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers were bought, and someone, somewhere, cared about Bernie Madoff
Murray Schwartz of Schwartz & Perry has been practicing for 60 years. He currently focuses exclusively on all facets of employment law, including employment discrimination.
Lon Jacobs helped News Corporation take over The Wall Street Journal and MySpace
David Boies looks back at a brilliant career... and a Supreme Court decision that changed a nation
Thomas Moore and Judith Livingston share three children and multimillion-dollar verdicts
Three civil rights lawyers—Michael Ratner, Arthur Eisenberg and Manuel Vargas—and their organizations fight for our most basic rights
L. Londell McMillan learned business and advocacy from the best: his mother
Floyd Abrams on the Pentagon Papers, Judith Miller and why clerkships are great (it’s not why you think)
If you still think women can’t have it all, check out Valerie Ford Jacob
Bill Beslow’s celebrity divorce clients appreciate his closed-mouth policy
No, he’s not God, but his clients rank Ben Brafman just a few rungs below that
Gerald Lefcourt counts Abbie Hoffman, Sid Vicious and hotelier Harry Helmsley among the clients he’s had in his legendary career
Martin Garbus tells stories as good as those told by the entertainers he protects
They may be invisible — they like it that way — but the lawyers who protect the Guggenheim, The Metropolitan Opera and The New York Public Library system watch over the city’s cultural icons
Debra Brown Steinberg wants immigration status granted to the families of 9/11 victims