Judge Should Consider Punishing NYC Officials Over Rikers, Monitor Says A contempt finding could force the Correction commissioner, Louis A. Molina, to implement new policies to improve conditions in the jails.
How Defense Lawyers Are Using Video to Aid Their Clients Wealthy defendants can hire video crews to help them argue for more lenient treatment. Public defenders are trying to get in on it, too.
What’s Wrong With Getting a Little Free Legal Advice? State laws prohibiting the “unauthorized practice of law” hurt those who cannot afford a lawyer.
New York Evictions Accelerate After a Two-Year Dip Activity in the city’s housing courts, which used to process more eviction cases than any other city in the nation, is rising after a pandemic moratorium.
Family Court Lawyers Flee Low-Paying Jobs. Parents and Children Suffer. New York hasn’t raised the attorneys’ fees since 2004, creating a shortage that has denied the most vulnerable their constitutional right to a lawyer.