Office of Labor Relations Commissioner Robert Linn addresses CityLaw Breakfast attendees. Image Credit: CityLand

On Friday, October 31, 2014, the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School hosted a City Law Breakfast featuring Robert Linn, Commissioner of the Office of Labor Relations, as the guest speaker. The special sponsor for this CityLaw Breakfast was Proskauer Rose LLP.

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Ross Sandler

Environmental litigation from more than 40 years ago has been revisited in a new book by Robert Lifset, Power on the Hudson: Storm King Mountain and the Emergence of Modern American Environmentalism (U. of Pittsburgh Press 2014). The book portrays a time when environmental law was new and polluters were really polluters. (more…)

New York City Procurement Law:

Managing Contracts with New York City

CPC Chairman Carl Weisbrod address record breaking CityLaw Breakfast attendees. Image Credit: CityLand.

On Friday, September 5, 2014, the Center for New York City Law at New York Law School hosted a City Law Breakfast, featuring Carl Weisbrod, Chairman of the New York City Planning Commission, as the guest speaker.  The special sponsors for this CityLaw Breakfast were GoldmanHarris LLC and Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP.

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Ross Sandler

When trial lawyers gather they tell stories. When older trial lawyers gather they tell the same stories over and over, only they tell them better and better. James Zirin, trial lawyer and an assistant in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District during the 1960’s, is a born story teller. His new book, The Mother Court: Tales of Cases That Mattered in America’s Greatest Trial Court (ABA Publishing 2014) tells the tales of lawyers and judges and the trials that occurred within the federal court house in Foley Square, home of the Southern District of New York. The tales produce laughter, insight, and recognition of a time and place. Zirin loves lawyers, judges and litigation. The book will make you love them too. (more…)