With more than nine out of 10 graduates securing jobs in their first ten months after law school, Touro Law Center’s Class of 2017 found employment at a record rate, according to the American Bar Association’s latest employment report.
Read MoreIt was supposed to steer people with criminal convictions toward a second chance, but so far, a state record-sealing law has been stuck in first gear.
Read MoreCUNY School of Law students will encounter nine new faculty members, including three alumni, when classes resume later this month.
Read MoreHe swindled a centenarian out of house and home. Now he’s facing 15 years in the big house.
Ricardo Bentham, 58, was hit with a slew of charges for allegedly filing a fake deed and stealing a home from his 101-year-old neighbor, Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown announced Thursday.
Read MoreMurder dropped boroughwide last month, contributing to a citywide decrease in crime that resulted in the safest July on record and earned plaudits from top city officials. But in Queens, the number of shooting incidents, shooting victims and rapes all increased in Queens over the past 28 days.
Read MoreSlipping through the closing emergency door, squeezing two people into one section of a revolving subway entrance, hopping over the turnstile — every straphanger has seen it. So have the cops.
Amid an immigration crackdown, affordable housing crisis and pervasive poverty, one Jamaica organization is reaching out to low-income residents and putting power and knowledge into their hands.
Read MoreIn an ode to the Holy Father and his own father, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Thursday that he will introduce legislation to ban the death penalty in New York State once and for all.
When students return to CUNY School of Law later this month, they will encounter a new cohort of professors who, like them, reflect the diversity of Queens and New York City.
Read MoreAn attorney championing record-sealing for individuals with past convictions said the state’s sealing law has two major problems, and only one can be addressed at next week’s Know Your Rights Week.
Read MoreQueens County District Attorney Richard Brown will not join his Manhattan counterpart in declining to prosecute low-level marijuana offenses — at least not yet.
Read MorePolice say the suspect in a New York City murder-suicide was armed with a pair of pistols and seven extra magazines loaded with about 70 more rounds.
Read MoreTwo Queens landlords were hit with major penalties totaling tens of thousands of dollars for the illegal conversion and transient use of their buildings.
An attorney championing record-sealing for individuals with past convictions said the state’s sealing law has two major problems, and only one can be addressed at next week’s Know Your Rights Week.
Read MoreThe Bronx District Attorney’s Office recently issued a press release about the sentencing of a young inmate for his role helping another prisoner viciously slash a Correction Officer’s face. Given the volume of criminal offenses handled by that county prosecutor’s office, spotlighting this particular case meant that the DA had a very particular message she wanted to air, loud and clear.
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