JAY STREET — When long-serving court attorney Kerry Ward was summoned to the administrative judge’s chambers on the top floor of Brooklyn Supreme Court, this hard worker said she expected to be asked about “a problem case.�

But Ward wasn’t being asked to use her legal expertise to help with a case. In fact, she was informed that she had been chosen as Brooklyn Supreme Court Employee of the Year. And she said she hasn’t stopped blushing {read more...}

After handling a motion in her courtroom, Justice Dowling explained to the {read more...}

The Brooklyn Bar Association, led this year by dynamic President John Lonuzzi, has singled out a number of legal luminaries who will certainly enliven the proceedings when the BBA holds it big Annual Dinner on Dec. 7 at the Brooklyn Bridge Marriott on Adams Street.

Recipients of the BBA’s coveted Annual Award are Kings {read more...}

A co-worker has been calling in sick a lot and confided in me that her husband is physically abusive, but she doesn’t want to have him arrested. Is there somewhere that she can get help?

I saw firsthand what domestic violence did to my mother and our family. As a {read more...}

DOWNTOWN BROOKLYN — After years of fighting lawsuits filed in opposition to his multibillion dollar Atlantic Yards project, developer Bruce Ratner continues to get pounded by waves of litigation.

Another lawsuit was filed Thursday, making it the third in less than 40 days. But if landowners facing eviction win their biggest legal battle, which will possibly be decided next week, then these lawsuits will be mostly moot.

This latest lawsuit, which challenges the project’s app-roval process, comes at a time when both sides of the legal controversy are eagerly awaiting the state’s high court to rule on the most important issue of all the cases — whether {read more...}

By Beth Sarafraz
Freelance Reporter

SUNSET PARK – Except for a few episodes of vandalism and rowdy-youth issues over the years, Bay Ridge, where 68th Precinct Deputy Inspector Eric Rodriguez recently reported a dramatic 23 percent dip in crime this year, has escaped the gang turf wars of nearby Sunset Park.

Bay Ridge mainly deals with bar noise and occasional unruly teens, but that’s nor the case in Sunset Park.

That neighborhood has been a spike in gang-related homicides. {read more...}

Breazil, 45, was convicted last month at his retrial of a 1995 {read more...}

New York City’s Deputy Chief Administrative Judge Fern Fisher says 11 lawyers trained in housing law will represent low to moderate income {read more...}

Police and prosecutors say the arrests are the result of five {read more...}

MILAN (AP) — In a decade-long journey, the Tunisian went from drug pusher on the streets of Milan, to Islamic militant trained in Afghanistan to kill Americans, to potential key witness against Guantanamo Bay {read more...}

By Ryan Thompson
Brooklyn Daily Eagle

JAY STREET — For the first time, the festive Judiciary Night celebration was held within the walls of the courthouse.

This year’s Judiciary Night, sponsored by the Brooklyn Women’s Bar Association, was held inside the Kings County Supreme Court Criminal Term courthouse on Jay Street in Downtown Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Women’s Bar traditionally hosts the annual event at the bar association as a way of welcoming in the {read more...}