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Celeste Sloman Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to a fight. After waging battles with the Trump administration, New York’s top legal officer – and the first woman of color to hold statewide office – is keeping her attention trained on the former president’s questionable real estate ventures, while also taking on Facebook, Google, the New York City Police Department and the National Rifle Association. This year, her office issued a damning report on New York’s undercount of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19, and she appointed two independent attorneys to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a former ally who she might be well positioned to replace at some point in the future. ....
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Silverman Some prominent business defense lawyers, reacting to a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) report about the relatively paltry number of Covid-19 exposure lawsuits to date, say we are merely at the starting gate for virus-related injury claims. “One has to keep in mind that the lawsuit numbers reflect a time when many large entertainment, sports, food, schools, offices, and other venues are closed or have significantly reduced their operations,” Cary Silverman, partner at Shook, Hardy & Bacon, told Legal Newsline in an email. “This limits the potential for an outbreak that plaintiffs’ lawyers are most likely to take advantage of, even when the business responsibly did its best to follow public health guidance.” ....