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 is...
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 the...
Behind the scenes with #ABKLaw LIVE with Arthur Aidala and Hon. Barry Kamins Let the renovations continue at our 546 Fifth Avenue offices...
What it’s really like at a NYC law firm...
BLOG: #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq. - New York State recently enacted CPL 160.59 Did you know: Our Partner Michael Jaccarino recently successfully petitioned New York County Criminal Court to seal the prior conviction and criminal record of an Aidala, Bertuna & Kamins client, a great...
You can’t turn on the news without hearing about the Harvey Weinstein case, which is precisely why the hearing on Friday was so important to our #ABKLaw Defense Team helmed by Executive Partner Marianne Bertuna, accompanied by Diana Fabi Samson, Arthur Aidala and Hon. Barry...
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: Vaccines and the 4th Amendment Part 2 - The recent update Update on the vaccine issue that is mounting towards a local legal battle. This past week, the City of New York declared a public health emergency because...
BLOG from our #ABKLaw Partner Michael Jaccarino, Esq.: The Government May Be Monitoring Your Purchases DEA agents thought that criminals purchase money-counting machines. A recent report shows that the Drug Enforcement Administration secretly collected data in bulk about Americans' purchases of money-counting machines, which are obviously legal...
2019 marks the 54th annual Charles A. Rapallo and Justice Antonin Scalia Award presented by the Columbian Lawyers Association of the First Department. This year's honoree, Nicholas J. Iacovetta, Justice of the Supreme Court of the State of New York serving in the County of the...