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• The Sunlight Disinfectant Principle: Transparency & Full Disclosure Are Necessary Safeguards for Consumer Litigation Funding (January 2024)
• Perez Broke Records ... But Should He Have Settled Earlier? (January 2024)
• The Significant Impact of Interest Taxation as a Settlement Valuation Bridge (October 2023) 
• Anchoring Abuse: Evolution & Eradication (August 2023)
• The Rise Of The Improper P2P Tactic (August 2023)
• The Preservation Maze (June 2023)
• Correcting Unnecessary Misapprehensions Regarding Interest Calculation In NY Wrongful Death Cases (May 2023)
• Debunking the Myth of Differing Bifurcation Rules Among the Departments (March 2023)
• Hoylman, Half-Truths and the Grieving Families Act (December 2022)
• The Snake Attack Phenomenon: The Courts Must Stop Overlooking and Facilitating The Continued Poisoning of Our Jury System (December 2022)
• The Mythical ‘Bucket Brigade’ Recovery Scheme (July 2021)
• Inefficiency in The Courthouse: The Nonsense in Withholding Settlement Amounts From Non-Settling Tortfeasors (July 2021)
• The Riddle of State Actor Status for Private Foster Care Agencies (March 2021)
• The Punitive ‘Failure To Take Responsibility’ Trope Must Be Entirely Policed Out of Tort Actions for Compensatory Damages (November 2020)
• The Bar’s Most Common Repeated Mistakes in Applying CPLR 5501(c) (October 2020)
• When a Pattern Jury Instruction Contrary to New York Law Arrogates the Law (September 2020)
• When Dicta Runs Amok: Untangling PJI 2:320 (September 2020)
• A Lie is a Lie is a Lie: Toward a Broader Application of the Tailored Testimony Rule (August 2020)
• Ahead to the Past (Part III of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts (July 2020)
• Ahead to the Past (Part II of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts (July 2020)
• Ahead to the Past (Part I of III): The Evolution of New Rules of Engagement in the Age of Social Inflation and Nuclear Verdicts (July 2020)
• Improper Summation Anchoring Is Turning the New York Court System on Its Head and Contributing to the Demise of New York State (April 2020)
• Time To Repair the Split In Application of Labor Law §200 (September 2019)
• CPLR 5501(c) Review of Excessive Future Medical Expenses Awards (July 2019)
• CPLR 5501(c) Review in the Age of Summation ‘Anchoring’ Abuse (June 2019)
• What Really Happened in 'Carlos Rodriguez v. City of New York'? (September 2018)