News & Resources

A recent fair hearing decision denying a home care application, based on language in a trust that New York City Medicaid previously had routinely approved, has been vacated.  Read More… Elder Law section of the New York Law Journal, By Daniel G. Fish

John Brickman and Brett Gallaway, partners in the firm’s litigation department, have won an appeal, affirming a million-dollar-plus judgment they obtained for clients whose upper East Side duplex penthouse apartment was rendered uninhabitable by persistent water leaks of more than a decade. In the case, which Brickman and Gallaway tried, […]

Steven Hyman, Partner at McLaughlin & Stern, argued before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in New York, on behalf of Mr. Sam Kerson, the artist who painted murals commemorating Vermont’s participation in the Underground Rail Road to help slaves escape to freedom. The case, Kerson v. […]

Mollie Lustig, partner at McLaughlin & Stern, participated in a panel at the Eighth Annual C. Clyde Ferguson Jr. Symposium. The panel, “OUT: An Attempt at Clemency Through Marijuana Pardons,” was focused on the topic of clemency for prisoners serving sentences for marijuana related convictions, and particularly on President Biden’s […]

On March 8, Mollie Hartman Lustig, Chair of the Firm’s Cannabis Practice Group, will speak at the NJ Cannabis Insider Cannabis Conference. She will take part in collaborative and interactive discussions and help business owners and other professionals learn more about the legal aspects of the cannabis industry. To learn […]