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Taking Us Back to First Year Law School Contracts, the Second Department Answers Whether a contract Must have enumerated consideration to be valid?This week’s Newsletter is full of civil procedure questions for New York practice nerds like me. The First Department tackled forum non conveniens and the thorny pleading requirements necessary to establish the predicate sexual conduct for a Child Victims Act claim.  The Second Department took us back to our first year contracts class, with [...]

Governor Hochul continues to make strides towards her stated goal of improving New York’s antiquated liquor laws. The Governor’s 2023 budget, released in 2022, included temporary legislation legalizing the sale of alcohol for take-out and delivery from restaurants. That temporary legislation is set to expire next year; however, Governor Hochul recently announced her intentions to permanently legalize the sale of alcohol to-go. The temporary legislation was essentially a revival [...]

Posted by: Nicole Green, Michelle Marinello, Timothy Morrison, Scott Shimick and keenan loderTo download a PDF of this article, click here: WOH UPDATE - CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY ACT NOW IN EFFECT.pdfAs follow-up to our Fall 2023 WOH Update, the reporting requirements under the Corporate Transparency Act (the “CTA”) went into effect on January 1, 2024. Below is a summary of key points impacting millions of businesses throughout the United States and beyond. Failure to comply with the [...]

Governor Hochul’s proposed executive budget for fiscal year 2025 (the “Budget”), released on January 16, 2024, includes a number of provisions which, while falling short of proposing sweeping change, should nonetheless have positive impacts on the liquor licensing and permitting process within the state. In 2022, the Commission to Reform the Alcoholic Beverage Control Law (the “Commission”) was formed to vote on whether to recommend changes to state laws to [...]

The rapid growth in e-commerce has transformed global trade and brought producers and consumers closer together than ever before. The e-commerce revolution, accelerated by the COVID pandemic, resulted in the need for society to develop additional infrastructure to get packages to consumers more quickly and more efficiently. It has transformed the way people live, work and shop in the 21st century. Our lawyers are on the front lines of this global revolution. Our extensive experience in [...]