Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

Siblings Danielle and Michael Tallman grew up in a tight-knit multigenerational Hispanic household in Sacramento, California, along with their siblings where they were homeschooled until college. After their oldest sibling was accepted to college in Texas, their entire family moved with her to support her dreams.

Pace University Law Professor Randolph M. McLaughlin equated Trump's legal team's actions to those of children.

"When children do this — go from one parent to another — if the parents aren’t aware of what the kid is doing, the kid can get away with things. But once the parent is aware the child is playing them against each other, the game is over,” he explained.

McLaughlin stressed how rare it is for a lawyer to do what Kaplan did: contact a judge in a separate case to flag questionable behavior. “I’ve never seen a situation like this where a lawyer who’s not before the court puts the court on notice on what the defendant is doing in the federal case. I think Engoron is going to slam with this,” McLaughlin said. “It’s highly irregular. Then again, we’ve never seen so many actions filed against one person all over the place.”

For Mr. Hart, the condo board president, theory and practice are clashing in his six-story, prewar condo in Washington Heights. In his day job as the executive director of the Pace Energy and Climate Center, a policy think tank, he works on cutting-edge renewable energy projects.

The Public Interest Law Center’s Access to Justice Project at the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University presents the 2nd Annual Pace Access to Justice Workshop: Voting, Democracy, and the Law on March 29 at 12:15 p.m.—1:45 p.m. The Pace Access to Justice Workshop will bring together leading voting rights lawyers, advocates, and the Haub Law community to discuss the important issues of voting access, elections, and democracy.

Bennett Gershman, a law professor at Pace University in New York, said he had seen that kind of workload only on misdemeanor or lesser felony cases, which take far less time to clear. “It’s insane,” he said. “How can you handle a criminal justice system with integrity when you have one lawyer with so many cases that it’s almost impossible to navigate and manage in a fair, responsible, professional way?”