Rollergate regulation must be repealed
May 28, 2026
Local Law 75 rollergate rules could force costly storefront changes, raising concerns among Brooklyn small businesses ahead of enforcement.
Local Law 75 rollergate rules could force costly storefront changes, raising concerns among Brooklyn small businesses ahead of enforcement.
In a moment heavy with symbolism, attorneys retook their Lawyers Oath. A core principle of the oath is supporting the U.S. Constitution.
Law & Order filmed on the Brooklyn Heights Promenade on Tuesday, April 8, 2025. A photo essay by Beth Eisgrau-Heller.
Dick Wolf Productions will be conducting an NYPD-supervised film shoot from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on the steps of Borough Hall.
In a recent article, Nick Allard urged future lawyers to play a critical role in preserving the rule of law in tumultuous times.
A proposed amendment to New York’s constitution barring discrimination based on “gender identity” and “pregnancy outcomes” cannot appear on the state ballot in November because
Manhattan prosecutors on Thursday dropped all charges against a woman who accused the movie star Jonathan Majors of assault, less than a day after she
A 58-year-old man from Maryland came to Brooklyn and allegedly murdered a young woman half his age over a parking spot outside of Home Depot in Bedford-Stuyvesant. District Attorney Eric
The New York State Board of Law Examiners announced on Wednesday that it has completed grading for the July 2023 New York State Bar Examination, marking the earliest release of
On Wednesday, May 31, the legal community gathered for a historic event: the inaugural Hon. Randall T. Eng Award ceremony. The award, named after the accomplished justice, celebrated a legacy
The Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) held its 39th Annual Anniversary Gala last Friday at Chelsea Piers, a night dedicated to the celebration of black excellence in the field of
In response to the recent New York City Department of Investigation (DOI) report regarding the improper recording of attorney-client phone calls in city jails, a coalition of New York City
CITYWIDE — As the Russian invasion of Ukraine continues, the Historical Society of the New York Courts is set to present a special program, “Remarks By & Conversation with Vsevolod
CONEY ISLAND — For the first time in its history a current president of the Columbian Lawyers Association was the guest continuing legal education speaker during the association’s monthly meeting
In her debut novel, “The Survivalists,” Kashana Cauley lends the wit and cogency she’s known for on social media to describe Aretha, a young and perpetually single Black lawyer, who,
The Brooklyn Bar Association recently hosted attorney Brian Chase for a continuing legal education lecture on digital forensics in Brooklyn Heights on Monday, November 21. The one-hour lecture, titled, “Identification
Google and iHeartMedia were forced to pay $9.4 million for airing misleading ads about a Google phone, Attorney General Letitia James announced on Monday. Google paid radio personalities to lie
Different approaches to justice are on the ballot in November 2022 in some public prosecutor and Congressional elections around the country, revealing a deep divide about how differently Americans feel
It happens in court cases from time to time: Lawyers and judges discussing the meaning of a law can’t access the text they need to review. It happened in a
The sentencing of WNBA star Brittney Griner to nine years behind bars and a fine of 1 million rubles – between US$10,000 and $20,000 depending on the exchange rate –
It’s hard to find anyone on board with New York Gov. Kathy Hochul’s plan to toughen the state’s bail laws, two years after they were retooled to keep people from
The Kings County Criminal Bar Association has resumed in-person meetings just in time to install its new president, Darran Winslow, during a ceremony that took place at the Brooklyn Bar
The COVID-19 pandemic has certainly interrupted the local legal community. However, members of the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association have not let the last two years stop them from continuing the
On March 23, members of the Brooklyn Bar Association will log into Zoom at 1 p.m. to hear from Hon. Elizabeth Stong, a judge in the Eastern District of New
Hon. Joanne Quinones, an acting State Supreme Court justice who presides over matrimonial and criminal cases here in Brooklyn, was sworn in as the next presiding justice of the NYS
Prior to the pandemic, the Brooklyn Bar Association building had acted as a meeting spot for all of the various local bar associations and legal groups. Our members used the
The promise of online wills is undeniable. Online programs offer people an easy way to write their wills. Online templates can be completed anywhere, at any time. There is no
Imagine what a lawyer does on a given day: researching cases, drafting briefs, advising clients. While technology has been nibbling around the edges of the legal profession for some time, it’s hard
Despite a constitutional right to a jury trial, more than 94 percent of criminal convictions in the United States result from guilty pleas, not jury verdicts. Even innocent people, those who did
Dear Editor, This year has been especially turbulent. The COVID-19 pandemic has taken the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of New York City residents.
President Donald Trump portrays the hundreds of people arrested nationwide in protests against racial injustice as violent urban left-wing radicals. But an Associated Press review of thousands of pages of
A note from columnist Charles F. Otey, Esq., in whose column this piece originally appeared: With the loss of the incredible Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg this past week, we were
A pair of state lawmakers have introduced legislation to allow law graduates to continue representing low-income clients during the COVID-19 pandemic, even if they have failed the bar exam twice.
The urban legend of the waterway being used as a final resting place isn’t entirely false.
For the third year in a row, a bill to decriminalize every-day folding knives in New York City passed in the State Assembly on Wednesday. It now heads to the
It’s going to be easier to keep guns out of the hands of troubled individuals in New York state following the passage of a package of gun control bills in