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Legalization of Adult-Use Cannabis Creates New Opportunities for Businesses with a Significant Presence in New York
by Tim Morrison, PartnerNY MJ ACT _ WOH News Alert.pdfOn March 31, 2021, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the “Marihuana Regulation and Taxation Act” (the “Act”) legalizing the use of cannabis in the State by adults 21-years of age and older. The goals of the Act include generating significant new State revenue, ending the racially disparate impact of existing cannabis laws, and creating new industries and employment opportunities for New Yorkers. The [...]
Read More ›Immigration Essentials for Higher Ed and Potential Benefits under Biden Administration Webinar - April 6
- Category: Featured Immigration
Tuesday, April 6, 20219:30 - 10:30 a.m.Register HereThis webinar will cover the most common visa related issues for professionals working for colleges and universities. Attorneys Cianna Freeman-Tolbert and Seth Leech will tackle the full array of nonimmigrant visa options including the H1B, TN (trade NAFTA), O-1 and E-3 and discuss other employment authorization options such as an F-1 OPT. Further, Seth and Cianna discuss lawful permanent residency options including Labor [...]
Read More ›ALBANY, N.Y. (March 31, 2021) – Whiteman Osterman & Hanna LLP, the Capital Region’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce that Mackenzie Brennan, Samantha Choppa and Marcos Grael have joined the Firm as Associates. Mackenzie Brennan graduated, magna cum laude, from the Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law earning her Juris Doctorate and graduated, cum laude, from Villanova University with a B.A. in Communications and a Double Minor in Political Science and [...]
Read More ›Bruce J. Wagner Teaches Attorneys and Judges
- Category: Featured Firm News Matrimonial and Family Law
Bruce J. Wagner, Chair of our Matrimonial & Family Law Department, presented “Matrimonial Update” for the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, New York Chapter on March 18, 2021. The well-received program was broadcast live to a statewide audience of attorneys and matrimonial and family court judges. Mr. Wagner has been practicing matrimonial and family law for over 35 years and in addition to being a Certified Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial [...]
Read More ›Jon Crain Named to Albany Business Review's 40 Under 40
- Category: Featured Litigation and Appeals
Whiteman Osterman & Hanna partner Jon Crain has been named to the Albany Business Review's 40 Under Forty for 2021. Jon joined Whiteman Osterman & Hanna in September 2013 and is a trial lawyer and commercial litigator in the Firm’s Litigation and Appeals Practice Group. Jon has successfully litigated and arbitrated a broad range of matters, including corporate shareholder disputes, litigation regarding trade secrets and proprietary business information, commercial [...]
Read More ›With immigration matters figuring so prominently in the news, one might wonder, how did we get here? Many of us might think that things were always difficult, that legal entry always involved a formalized process, and that our own ancestors surely did things “the right way” after the formation of the sovereign United States of America.There were no bars to U.S. immigration until 1875, when the first exclusionary law barred convicts and prostitutes from entry. In the decades that [...]
Read More ›USCIS Issues New “Notice to Appear” Policy, With Significant Impacts on Applicants for Immigration Benefits
- Category: Articles Immigration
On July 5, 2018, U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) published new guidance regarding its procedures and policies for issuing Notices to Appear (NTA). An NTA is a charging document that is issued to foreign nationals, placing them in removal proceedings and directing them to appear before an immigration judge. The Department of Homeland Security has long relied upon its enforcement arm, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to handle the issuance of NTAs in most cases. [...]
Read More ›USCIS Updates Procedures on Issuance of Requests for Evidence and Notices of Intent to Deny
- Category: Articles Immigration
On July 13, 2018, USCIS issued a policy memorandum, providing guidance to adjudicators regarding the discretion to deny an application, petition, or other benefit request without first issuing a Request for Evidence (RFE) or Notice of Intent to Deny (NOID) if required evidence is not submitted with the initial petition/application package, or if the evidence in the record does not establish eligibility for the benefit sought. This guidance is effective September 11, 2018.This policy memo [...]
Read More ›“Not in my front yard!” is the battle cry for residents and battleground for municipalities across New York, as they prepare for the deployment of the next generation of wireless infrastructure 5G technology. Cellular services providers, with the assistance of federal law and FCC orders, have opted to deploy the latest technology - small cells and DAS systems - in municipal rights-of-way, much to the chagrin, in many cases, of local leaders and residents. By one [...]
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