Publications and Lectures by Lawyers in the Firm
Nancy Connery, Speaker, Cooperative and Condominium Committee of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, addressing proposed legislation requiring cooperatives to, among other things, develop a standard residential apartment purchase application disclosing the cooperative's purchase requirements and disclose reasons for rejection of any purchase application (June 2008).
Mindy Stern, Lecturer, "Trusts and Estates" section of New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section program "Tax Aspects of Real Property Transactions" held on June 4 and June 5, 2008.
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quoted in Article entitled, "Servant of Two Masters: Avoiding Conflicts of Interest" by Greg Olear, which appeared in the May 2008 edition of The Cooperator Magazine (Vol. 28, No. 5).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, "Negotiating Your Compensation and Severance," Minority Corporate Counsel Association (2008).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Author, “FDA Proposes Revised CBE Rules and Reiterates Preemptive Authority,” FDLI's UPDATE, Issue 2 (2008).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Panelist, "Bridging the Gap: Disparity in Compensation and the Gender Equation," Young Lawyers Section of the Chicago Bar Association (2008).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, "Best Practices for Managing the Risks of Nanotech Medical Products," Food and Drug Law Institute's First Annual Conference on Nanotechnology Law, Regulation and Policy (2008).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, 2007 National Survey on Retention and Promotion of Women in Law Firms, National Conference of Women's Bar Associations,Webinar (2008).
Beth Kaufman, Speaker, “What Works/What Doesn’t," New York University School of Law’s Center for Labor and Employment Law Forum (2008).
Norman L. Greene, Speaker, Fordham University School of Law "An Evening on Judicial Selection Reform: Where Are We and Where Should We Be Going in the Selection of Our State Court Judges?” New York, NY (2008).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, Risk Management Strategies for Prescription Medical Products, Central Business Intelligence, Webinar (2007).
Norman L. Greene,"Appointive Selection of Judges, Limited Jurisdiction Courts with Non-Lawyer Judiciaries, and Judicial Independence," 43 Court Review 80 (2007) (Court Review is a publication of the American Judges Association).
Mindy Stern, Lecturer, "Mortgage Financing" section of New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section program "Practical Skills: Purchases and Sales of Homes" held on November 13, 2007.
Mindy Stern,
Chair and Participant in "Surviving the Residential Real Estate Closing: Better than Reality TV" program sponsored by the New York City Bar Association held on October 29, 2007 .
Mindy Stern,
Lecturer, "Mortgages and Mortgage Issues" section of New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section program "Real Estate Titles and Transfers" held on October 13, 2007.
Nancy Ann Connery, "Tenant Buyouts," NYSBA N.Y. Real Property Law Journal, Vol. 36, No. 1, Winter 2007.
Norman L. Greene, "Reflections on the Appointment and Election of State Court Judges: A Response to Adumbrations on Judicial Campaign Speech and a Model for a Response to Similar Advocacy Articles," 43 Idaho L. Rev. 601 (2007) (response to article supporting judicial elections and expanded judicial campaign speech).
Norman L. Greene, "The Judicial Independence Through Fair Appointments Act,” 34 Ford. Urb. L.J. 13 (2007).
Mindy Stern, Lecturer, "Mortgage Financing" New York State Bar Association program "Practical Skills: Purchases and Sales of Homes" (2007).
Nancy Connery, Lecturer, "Pre-Contract Due Diligence " New York State Bar Association program "Practical Skills: Purchases and Sales of Homes" (2007).
Mindy H. Stern, Speaker, "Mortgages and Mortgage Issues," Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association (2007).
Norman L. Greene, “What Makes A Good Appointive System for the Selection of State Court Judges: The Vision of the Symposium," 34 Fordham Urb. L. J. 35 (2007).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, Post Sale Duty to Warn, Recall, and Retrofit: Prescription Devices and Pharmaceuticals, American Bar Association, San Francisco, CA (2007).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Moderator, Appellate Advocacy in Illinois: Best Practices for Written and Oral Argument, National Association of Women Lawyers, Chicago, IL (2007).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, Developing the Next Generation of Firm Leaders: Creating Leadership Opportunities, American Conference Institute, New York, NY (2007).
Stephanie A. Scharf, "Punitive Damages in the Supreme Court: How Much is Too Much?," FDLI's UPDATE, Issue 3, May/June 2007.
Mindy Stern, Lecturer, "Primer on Cooperatives and Condominiums" portion of New York State Bar Association Trusts and Estates Section program held on April 20, 2007.
Stephanie A. Scharf, Speaker, Drug/Device Co-Development: Litigation Risk Management Strategies, 50th Annual FDLI and FDA Conference, Bethesda, MD (April 13, 2007).
Nancy Connery, Speaker, Practicing Law Institute's "Negotiating the Sophisticated Real Estate Deal 2007 (High-Stakes Strategies in Challenging Times)" (2007).
Nancy Connery, Speaker, Practising Law Institute Program, "Negotiating Commercial Leases: How Owners and Corporate Occupants Can Avoid Costly Errors" ( 2007).
Stephanie A. Scharf, Co-Author, "Foreign Plaintiffs Battle to Keep Class Claims in U.S. Courts," FDLI's UPDATE, Issue 1, January/February 2007.
Marilyn J. Chimes, L.B. Ergin, & K.A. Donohue, Confidential and Proprietary Information, in J. Silverman et al. eds., The IACUC Handbook 407 (CRC Press, 2nd ed. 2007)
Marilyn J. Chimes. Medical Corporations, in Business Entities and Corporate Law in Illinois, Matthew Bender, 2006.
Mindy H. Stern, Published response to reader inquiries about ownership of cooperative apartments by trusts, and inter-family transfers of cooperative apartments to trusts, appearing in the Q&A column of the November, 2006 edition of The Cooperator Magazine.
Stephanie A. Scharf, "New Rulings in Drug Cases Highlight Debate Over Pre-emption," Law.com, October 2006.
Stephanie A. Scharf, Co-Author, "FDA’s Comments Herald New Strength for Preemption Defense in Drug Product Litigation," FDLI's UPDATE, Issue 5, September/October 2006.
Mindy H. Stern, Co-Author, “RPLS Report of the Task Force on Attorney Escrows – Current Practice, Alternatives and Improvements” published in Fall 2006 Vol. 34 No. 2 edition of the N.Y. Real Property Law Journal of the Real Property Law Section of the New York State Bar Association Section.
David Black, “FDA’s New Labeling Rule Asserts Federal Pre-emption of State Product Liability Claims,” Product Liability Law & Strategy. April 2006.
Mindy H. Stern, Lecturer, “Financing” segment of “Selling and Buying a One Family House”, sponsored as a pro bono CLE Community Outreach Program by the American Bar Association Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section, the New York State Bar Association Real Property Law Section, and various minority bar associations, January 18, 2006.
Mindy H. Stern, Moderator and Lecturer on Due Diligence Issues since mid-1990’s of annual CLE program sponsored by The Association of the Bar of the City of New York, first titled “Representing Buyers and Sellers of Residential Property”, now titled “Residential Closings: Soup to Nuts”