ABKLAW In The News: 10 YEARS AGO TODAY - ACQUITTAL - William Rapetti NOT GUILTY in crane collapse Crane man cleared The master rigger blamed by prosecutors for causing the horrific East Side crane collapse that killed six of his friends and a tourist from Florida was...
LANDMARK DECISION ESTABLISHING LGBTQ RIGHTS UNDER TITLE VII OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT. Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued a landmark decision in Bostock v. Clayton County extending the employment protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act to sexual orientation, thus...
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: Employers Could Face Audits and Criminal Liability After Receiving Federal Assistance During COVID The CARES Act, passed during the recent COVID-19 health crisis, made available over $2 trillion in economic stimulus, aid loans and relief to individuals, state...
Bail, Discovery and Speedy Trial: The New Reforms In the midst of an historic pandemic, the Legislature enacted amendments to sweeping legislation it had enacted last year: limitations on monetary bail; expansion of discovery in criminal cases; and the enhancement of the right to a statutory...
Practice Areas: Civil Litigation Personal Injury Commercial Litigation Michael DiBenedetto specializes in Civil Law including Personal Injury, Commercial Litigation, Transactional matters, and Divorce and Family Law. Michael was a Judicial Law Clerk to the Honorable Jodi Lee Alper, J.S.C., a General Equity presiding judge in Essex County. During his clerkship,...
While the press has been reporting this week that Michael Cohen - Donald Trump’s former lawyer, as well as former Republican State Senate Majority Dean Skelos, will be released from federal prison, another Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins client will also be released. These releases, along...
With Deepest Sympathy The Brooklyn legal community has been hit particularly hard by the corona virus epidemic. Two Supreme Court Judges succumbed to the virus over the past few weeks and passed away: the Hon. Johnny Lee Baynes and the Hon. Noach Dear. I remember each...
Earlier today, our Partner Michael Jaccarino was able to secure the release of an #ABKLaw client who had been incarcerated on Rikers Island for the past several months. The client, who had been arrested twice and charged with several felony and misdemeanor offenses, was facing...
BLOG from #ABKLaw Lawrence Spasojevich, Esq.: COVID-19 Post-Employment Checklist As stated in our previous post, unemployment insurance filings skyrocketed last week to almost three (3) million new filings. The St. Louis District of the Federal Reserve estimates that the COVID-19 freeze could cost forty-seven million jobs...
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: DATs or SAP Summons You’ve been arrested and given a DAT or a Summons – Now What? Enforcement of low-level offenses in New York City has always been arbitrary and inconsistent. Examples of such offenses are trespass, consumption of...