BLOG from #ABKLaw Lawrence Spasojevich, Esq.: New Development in Employment Law: Dramatic Increase in Employees Eligible for Overtime Pay “Remember, everything is right until it’s wrong.” – Ernest Hemingway Everyone, paid either by salary or paid by the hour, is entitled to receive overtime pay
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: New York City’s “Vision Zero” Law New York City’s “Vision Zero” Law, which we detailed in an earlier blog post, allows criminal charges to be filed against drivers who strike, and either kill or seriously injure a
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: “NOT GUILTY” Verdict on all Felony charges after a jury trial in Manhattan Supreme Court Our Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins client was facing a mandatory sentence of 7 years incarceration if convicted, and was found NOT GUILTY
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: Can the police Photoshop a mugshot before showing it to a witness? Continuing on our discussion from last week concerning the use of facial recognition software to identify suspects, another disturbing trend has developed in the area of
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: NYPD Using Facial Recognition Software to Identify Suspects On August 16, the police arrested a man after he placed a pair of rice cookers in the subway, sparking terror among many who thought they were bombs. They
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: The Criminal Justice System & the Vanishing Trial They say lady justice is blind, for her blindfold represents objectivity, the ability to allocate justice without the fright of bribe, without the influence of money, wealth, power and
New York Eliminates a Criminal Defense: A Due Process Violation? On June 30th, New York became the seventh state to ban what is referred to as the “gay and trans panic defense”. Under the new law (Ch.45, L. 2019) that became effective immediately, a defendant
Aidala Bertuna & Kamins, PC partners Arthur L. Aidala and Imran H. Ansari are lead attorneys for renowned attorney and Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz. Arthur and Imran are defending Dershowitz in a highly publicized defamation lawsuit filed by one of the Jeffrey Epstein accusers,
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: Gravity Knife ban lifted A gravity knife, small, easy to use blades that are defined under New York law as a knife with the blade in the handle that can be opened with a one-handed flick of
Behind the scenes with #ABKLaw LIVE with Arthur Aidala and Hon. Barry Kamins Let the renovations continue at our 546 Fifth Avenue offices…take a tour with us. The construction continues for the next two weeks, and we’re sharing the progress along the way. We’re expanding