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The New York Law Journal and VerdictSearch recently recognized as one of New York’s Top Verdicts for 2013 the jury verdict rendered in the case Chellappa Shanmugam v. SCI Engineering, Shahid Iqbal, et ano. The case had been tried before a jury by Steven J. Hyman and Jonathan R. Jeremias. At […]

By Susan Edelman | New York Post On Dec. 7, 2009, New York State Police narcotics investigator Richard O’Brien fell off a ladder while fixing his mother’s roof. He lived for only three more hours after the fall — but in that brief time, fellow troopers tried to have him […]

McLaughlin & Stern, LLP is pleased to announce that Michael F. Armstrong has joined our firm as Of Counsel. Mr. Armstrong served as Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York, where he was Chief of the Securities Fraud unit, then as Chief Counsel to the “Knapp […]

Joel Stashenko, New York Law Journal The wife of a state police investigator was not unfairly denied disability retirement because he died seven minutes before his application for benefits was received by the state, a divided appeals court has determined. New York Law Journal

Christine Simmons, New York Law Journal Daniel Horwitz, chairman of the New York State Joint Commission on Public Ethics, has joined McLaughlin & Stern as an equity partner. Horwitz, 53, was previously a name partner at 10-attorney litigation boutique Lankler Carragher & Horwitz. He focuses on white collar defense, regulatory […]