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John R. Dunne, Senior Counsel with Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, will be honored with the Haywood Burns Memorial Award by the New York State Bar Association’s Committee on Civil Rights on October 16 at the City University of New York Law in Long Island City, New York.  The award was established by the Committee to honor the late civil rights lawyer and academic, Dean W. Haywood Burns of CUNY Law School, who sought to expand the rights [...]

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna managing partner John J. Henry and associate Gabriella R. Levine, members of the firm’s litigation and appeals practice, recently obtained a favorable judgment dismissing a lawsuit filed against the Town of Coxsackie. The suit alleged that the Town violated the State Environmental Quality Review Act (“SEQRA”) by adopting a local zoning law that restricted the siting of large, utility-scale solar energy systems to commercial and industrial zoning [...]

Whiteman Osterman & Hanna partner Scott Fein co-authored the article "New York Public Authorities:  Who's Running the Railroad", that was recently published in Crain's New York Business.  The article discusses the role of New York public authorities, and who should have oversight and control of these entities.  Click here to read the full article.

By: Thomas A. Shepardson, Esq.Shot clocks are intended to spur action on the part of opposing entities.  For example, the National Basketball Association has the 24-second shot clock, and college basketball opted for a shot clock following the University of North Carolina’s four-corners “offense”.  Even in chess, players must stop the clock after they make a move. The Federal Communications Commission took this to heart and applied the shot clock concept to approval [...]