The New York Daily News covered our recently filed lawsuit on behalf of drivers for First Corporate Sedans and Elite Limousine. The complaint is here, and alleges a sophisticated financial transaction between FCS and Elite, the effect of which was to strip o...
Strategy counts. In this case, it led to an efficient, clean sweep for our client.
Our client, a well-regarded boutique commercial real estate broker, was sued by one of its former clients—Gerard Fox Law—for breach of fiduciary duty, fraud, and other claims arising out...
"David Slarskey knows where to look to find the communications that can win a case. 'It used to be Bloomberg Terminals where you’d discover the details people didn’t want on the record,' the New-York-based litigator says. 'Today, that information is in emerging communi...
The following thoughts were published on LinkedIn:
For my first ten years as an attorney, I only ever represented lawyers and insurance companies in professional negligence claims. It is a great practice: insurers pay steadily. The law is (unsurprisingly) very protectiv...
In November 2017, Slarskey LLC brought suit on behalf of Wiser & Co., a start-up technology company with innovative search and content-generation technology. Wiser sued social-media pioneer Digg, Inc., a portfolio company of renowned technology incubator Betaworks, bas...
Over the last few years, our client Chabad of Bronxville sought approval from the Village of Bronxville to erect a menorah on one of the town squares near Bronxville's Christmas tree display. The Village holds a tree-lighting ceremony each year--complete with a visit f...
“Behind every great fortune there is a crime.” That is the epigraph to The Godfather, by Mario Puzo. Puzo attributed the quote to Balzac. Balzac was a bit more nuanced: (in translation from the original French):
“The secret of a great success for which you are at a loss...
Today our clients David Knox and Caroline Schacht entered into an agreement with Cengage Learning, the publisher of their textbooks including Choices in Relationships, to resolve their claims in litigation. The complaint, found here, has been dismissed.
In a matter of "first impression" according to the court, we obtained an order imposing maximum sanctions permitted by law against Marian Kornicki, the guardian for her incapacitated mother. The court sanctioned Marian Kornicki for two instances of misconduct: first, f...
In May, we filed a complaint against Cengage on behalf of college textbook authors. The complaint, reported on by Forbes here, alleges three core theories:
(i) Cengage Unlimited, Cengage's one-price, all-access subscription service ("Netflix for textbooks") frust...
