Law Offices of Lorraine M. Medeiros, Esq.

04/06/2020

https://nypost.com/2020/04/03/sick-of-you-lawyers-see-coronavirus-divorce-uptick/?fbclid=IwAR2CZoSJ_LOjiGij5zr_l4-79TaDwcgpNM4kbfkuaBt6Cm3ISc1uSjjR1EY

Cooped-up New Yorkers are flooding lawyer phone lines with divorce inquiries — with an avalanche of filings expected once the courts re-open. “People are realizing that they can’t stand each other,…

03/12/2020

Can you cancel that contract? This is a good read for both parties to a contract in light of the Coronavirus.

Parties should scrutinize their existing contracts to see if those contracts include a force majeure clause and to see whether coronavirus is a force majeure event.

01/15/2020

Attention fellow New Jerseyans: We are about to get screwed like we've never been screwed before by state Sen. President Steve Sweeney, the rest of the legislature, and, if he

11/24/2019

New Jersey employers beware.

Attention fellow New Jerseyans: We are about to get screwed like we've never been screwed before by state Sen. President Steve Sweeney, the rest of the legislature, and, if he

08/19/2019

A New Jersey judge has landed in hot water for suggesting to a female plaintiff that she peddle n**e photos of herself to Pl***oy. Middlesex County Judge Alberto Rivas was overseeing the woman’s co…

07/29/2019

Cases involving discrimination, retaliation or harassment, including sexual assault and sexual harassment, fall under the new law.

03/19/2019

The Supreme Court on Tuesday backed the Trump administration’s ability to detain immigrants with criminal records at any time and hold them indefinitely while they await deportation, even if they served time for their offense years ago.

03/18/2019

Kentucky’s would-be ban is just the latest in a growing number of Roe challenges.

03/08/2019

The measure would make institutions who harbor victimizers liable and would provide that any person who knowingly permitted or acquiesced in the sexual abuse would be civilly liable.

02/19/2019

Congress and the Supreme Court do not appear to view 'aging out' of immigration benefits as an absurdity Third Circuit Judge Thomas Ambro wrote.

01/24/2019

On the 46th anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision, New York passed the Reproductive Health Act and Governor Cuomo celebrated by lighting landmarks in pink