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    HOW CAN WE HELP YOU?

    Confidence and Common Sense

    February 14, 2018

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    Camille M. Abate

    Having just won a Not Guilty verdict in a federal conspiracy and Hobbs Act robbery trial in the Southern District of New York, I want to say a few words about federal criminal practice. 

    The federal sentencing guidelines are so stringent that the idea of actually g...

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    Defeatist Attitudes and Self-Censorship

    August 1, 2016

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    Camille M. Abate

    There are certain attitudes that are death to a case. I’m not talking about attorney errors made during trial – we all make mistakes, and a mistake by itself will rarely alter the trial dynamic so drastically that your chance of winning disappears. But bad attitudes ca...

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    Arbitration Requires Advocacy

    November 17, 2015

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    Camille M. Abate

    The New York Times recently ran an article about the new trend for corporations to build into every contract for credit or goods an arbitration clause. Entitled “Arbitration Everywhere – Stacking the Deck of Justice,” the article points out how this trend is taking awa...

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    From Legal Analysis to Nuts and Bolts

    September 3, 2015

    Last term the United States Supreme Court held that pretrial detainee excessive force claims against corrections officers are governed by an objective reasonableness standard. It resolved a dispute between the Circuits, choosing the more plaintiff-friendly “objective r...

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    The Only Thing We Have to Fear

    August 27, 2015

    Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

    -- John F. Kennedy


    The best way to negotiate a settlement is to be prepared to go to trial and fight. However, if you’re afraid of going to trial, that fear will manifest in the negotiations and adv...

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    An Excellent Example of Case Theory

    August 12, 2015

    Eastern District Judge Jack Weinstein upheld a jury verdict of bias against a lesbian UPS worker this past week, in Roberts v. United Parcel Service, 13-CV-6161. The decision is instructive to trial lawyers because it displays each side’s creative and potentially poten...

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    A Dubious Confession & Third Party Guilt

    May 11, 2015

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    What Happened to Etan Patz?

     The trial of Pedro Hernandez was an attempt by the Manhattan District Attorney's Office to answer the question, what happened to Etan Patz? Etan was never found after his mom watched him walk down the street to catch the school bus in 1979, the last time he was ever s...

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