Elisabeth Haub School of Law News

The firm faces “a host of intangibles,” said Bennett Gershman, a professor at Pace University’s law school. “The parent company, as a felon, could be barred from having contracts with government agencies, and it could make it more difficult to do business with banks,” Gershman said in an interview before the verdict. “This is a big deal.”

"It spells doom for the Trump Organization — I really see it as a death knell," Bennett Gershman, a professor at Pace University's law school and a former prosecutor in the New York State Anti-Corruption Office, told CBS MoneyWatch. "It would be implausible for any responsible lending institution, bank, insurance company or institutions that provide financial support for companies to have anything to do with the Trump Organization now."

“The consequences could potentially be devastating for the company,” said Ben Gershman, a former prosecutor in the New York State Anti-Corruption Office and law professor at Pace University. “The Trump Organization is now toxic. Nobody wants to touch them.”

The uplisting of northern long-eared bats won’t have an impact on the Costco plans, said Todd Ommen, managing attorney for the Pace University law school environmental litigation clinic. That’s because the case against the store already had been adjudicated.

The firm faces “a host of intangibles,” said Bennett Gershman, a professor at Pace University’s law school. “The parent company, as a felon, could be barred from having contracts with government agencies, and it could make it more difficult to do business with banks,” Gershman said in an interview before the verdict. “This is a big deal.”

Legal Hand Inc., a New York state not-for-profit corporation, has partnered with the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University to launch the Legal Hand Call-In Center to serve Westchester County.

Haub Law Adjunct Professor Erin Gleason Alvarez provides insights on mediation with The New York Law Journal.