Emery Celli Brinckerhoff Abady Ward & Maazel LLP, Dec. 18, 2024 "Under a legal settlement presented to the court today by ECBAWM and Benno & Associates, P.C., New York City has agreed to pay up to $92.5 million to resolve claims by individuals who...
Prof. Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, May 17, 2024 "New York has over 470,000 open jobs across all sectors. The health care industry is still reeling from the pandemic, when 20% of all health care workers left the field. The number of jobs available in that field...
Marielena Hincapié, Stephen W. Yale-Loehr, Feb. 23, 2024 "The number of newly arriving immigrants who have come to New York to establish new homes in our communities and flee life-threatening danger in their countries of birth has captured the nation's...
Claire Fahy, New York Times, Jan. 22, 2024 "A Bronx lawyer and his son were arrested on Monday and charged with orchestrating a seven-year immigration scheme that defrauded hundreds of immigrants and caused some of them to be deported, federal prosecutors...
Prof. Alexandra Dufresne, Dec. 13, 2023 writes : "Our clinic is pleased to release a new report: The Dignity Not Detention Act: Transforming Immigration Detention Practices in New York State (December 2023) gives a detailed inventory of immigration detention...
Tim Balk, NY Daily News, Nov. 13, 2023 "Gov. Hochul, who had pursued the idea of issuing state-approved work papers to migrants, took the plan off the table Monday, saying she would not have been able to protect New York employers from criminal exposure...
By Eric Geringswald | CSC New Jersey Laws Governing Business Entities New Jersey lawmakers added legislation to the state’s business entity laws allowing conversions and domestications of all entity types, including foreign and domestic corporations....
By Eric Geringswald | CSC New York Laws Governing Business Entities Annotated 2023 Legal professionals around the country need a comprehensive and up-to-date resource to handle complex M&A transactions and related corporate litigation for New York entities...
Prof. Jacob Hamburger, Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr, Oct. 8, 2023 "As major cities across the country struggle to welcome thousands of migrants who are in desperate need of housing and social services, mayors and governors are calling on the Biden administration...
Luis Ferré-Sadurní, New York Times, Sept. 12, 2023 "Frustrated by the federal response to the migrant crisis, Gov. Kathy Hochul said on Tuesday that New York State was considering ways to issue work permits to asylum seekers in a bid to circumvent...
Cyrus D. Mehta and Kaitlyn Box, Sept. 11, 2023 "In recent weeks, New York City Mayor Eric Adams has made a series of increasingly uninformed and disparaging comments about migrants arriving in New York. In a town hall meeting on September 6, Adams said of...
Joshua Solomon, Times Union, Aug. 27, 2023 "[M]igrants are falling behind in the process of seeking asylum to gain working papers, despite elected leaders repeatedly highlighting the need for that authorization to fill well-documented labor shortages and...
By Bruce Bergman | Partner, Berkman, Henoch, Peterson, Peddy & Fenchel, P.C. The Voluntary Payment Doctrine and Mortgage Foreclosures In the real world of mortgage foreclosure , there are events which occur with some apparently increasing frequency: after...
Crystal Bermudez, WENY, Aug. 17, 2023 " Nearly 100,000 migrants have arrived in New York City since the Spring of 2022. While asylum seekers are granted permission to come to the U.S. to await their hearings, new numbers show the concrete jungle is running...
Matthew Chayes, Newsday, June 19, 2023 "Most asylum-seeking migrants who have been arriving in cities like New York — some of whom the mayor wants to relocate to Long Island and beyond — aren’t likely to be allowed to stay legally in the...