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Attorneys who represent low-income New Yorkers ask Hochul to grant first wage increase in 18 years
Lawyers assigned to represent children and low-income litigants in matters such as child neglect and domestic violence are quitting due to low pay. Gov. Kathy Hochul is being urged to increase their hourly rate in the pending April 1 budget.
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Chau Lam
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Activists And Lawyers Are Preparing For Trump's New Travel Ban To Drop At Midnight
JFK's Terminal 4 is providing lawyers with tables, chairs and power strips starting tonight.
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Emma Whitford
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UPDATES: New Trump Travel Ban Bars Citizens From Muslim Countries, Refugees Starting March 16th
Lawyers are planning to arrive at JFK Airport as soon as the ban is announced.
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Emma Whitford
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Trump Draws Condemnation From Northeastern Bar Association Popular With Federal Prosecutors & Judges
The president "threatens to undermine our constitutionally created judicial system," the group wrote in a statement.
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Nathan Tempey
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JFK Lawyers: We Now Have A 'Replicable' System To Keep Fighting Trump
"When [ICE teams] go to a dairy farm in Upstate New York... we need to all pile out there," one lawyer explained.
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Emma Whitford
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'This Is Ethnic Cleansing': Immigration Lawyers Work The Graveyard Shift At JFK
As detainee count dips, attorneys continue calling for reinforcements.
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Emma Whitford
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Lawyer: NYU Student Set On Fire Was Drunk, So Maybe She Was Cool With It?
The lawyer suggests that maybe the victim was actually participating in being set on fire, because she was drunk, and we all know how drunk people love...being set on fire?
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Ben Yakas
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Airbnb Will Now Hand Over Hosts' Records To Attorney General
The AG's office will use redacted information to identify hosts who are breaking state renter laws.
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Rebecca Fishbein
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[UPDATE] Judge Rejects AG's Subpoena For Airbnb User Data
A State Supreme Court judge has quashed Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's subpoena for Airbnb user data.
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John Del Signore
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Law Firm Christie Hired Spent $1M To Tell Us Christie Didn't Know Of Lane Closures
Who spends $1 million on a firm, one inexplicably linked to that person, just so the firm can tell them they committed the crime?
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John Surico
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