KCCBA Past Presidents James Layton Koenig and Andrew Rendeiro congratulated Person of the Year Roger Bennet Adler at the KCCBA Annual Dinner and Dance held Saturday at Russo’s On The Bay in Howard Beach, Queens.

Kings County Criminal Bar Association (KCCBA) President John B. Stella and Acting Kings County Supreme Court Justices Sheryl L. Parker and John P. Walsh. Hon. Barry Kamins presented the husband and wife each with Person {read more...}

JAY STREET — The defense will continue to present its case Tuesday in the trial of a Brooklyn cop accused of sodomizing a rogue pot smoker with a police baton.

Officer Richard Kern is charged with sexual {read more...}

MONROE PLACE — Presiding Justice A. Gail Prudenti of the Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Second Judicial Department, has announced the appointment of Matthew G. Kiernan as Clerk of the Court. The appointment was made with the unanimous approval of the Associate Justices of the Court.

In his new role, Kiernan will hold the highest ranking non-judicial position in the Appellate Division. He replaces James Edward Pelzer, who is retiring after 10 years as Clerk of {read more...}

At the New York State Bar Association’s Annual Meeting at the Hilton New York in Manhattan, Sansone was given the prestigious award for her decades of extraordinary devotion to civil rights and social justice Sponsored by the Committee on {read more...}

REMSEN STREET — Three local bar associations came together last week to collaborate on a project that had nothing at all to do with the law. The event was about money — money for Haiti, that is.

The Brooklyn Bar Association (BBA), Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association (BWBA) and Metropolitan Black Bar Association (MBBA) utilized their collective ability to attract members, lawyers and judges to the BBA headquarters last Thursday night for the purpose of raising funds.

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The next much-anticipated meeting of the Kings County Supreme Court Goldberg/Aronin Civil Forum will get underway 9 a.m., Feb. 24, in the 11th floor boardroom of 360 Adams St., according to Justice Donald Scott Kurtz.

These forums, instituted when Appellate Term Presiding Justice Mike Pesce was Kings administrative judge, have played a {read more...}

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

JAY STREET — As Ivaylo Ivanov stepped into the courtroom Thursday, it was hard to imagine that he was the man who spray-painted swastikas and anti-Semitic {read more...}

CONEY ISLAND – After several days of rumors and unofficial reports, the Municipal Credit Union (MCU) and the Brooklyn Cyclones Thursday officially announced that the minor-league baseball team’s ballpark will now be called MCU Park.

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DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — More than four decades ago, Congress passed legislation that helped birth both the New Orleans Saints and the Super Bowl. Now the two are finally coming together.

In 1966, the National Football League announced plans to merge with its rival American Football League, as cutthroat competition for college players {read more...}

JAY STREET — Real estate fraudsters and rogue attorneys exploiting “a new breed of crime� were targeted Thursday by Kings County District Attorney Charles J. Hynes at a press conference announcing several recent mortgage fraud cases in Brooklyn.

Hynes’ office has indicted 12 people for real estate crimes allegedly committed over {read more...}

JAY STREET – The prosecution rested its case Wednesday in the trial of a Brooklyn cop accused of sodomizing a rogue pot-smoker with his baton, after several medical experts seemed to back up claims of the attack.

Prior to the defense beginning its case in the afternoon, the last witness appearing {read more...}