Law Firm principal Joel Rudin today was honored by the highly prestigious American College of Trial Lawyers at a conference in Palm Springs, California, for his role in winning an $80 million damage award for his client, the Estate of Darryl Boyd, in November, 2025, in Rochester, New York. Joel presented to an audience of […]
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Today Jennifer Gonnerman published in The New Yorker Magazine website a full length feature article on our upstate New York case, the “Buffalo Five.” Last year, in two federal civil rights trials held in Rochester, N.Y., our firm, together with co-counsel WilmerHale and Hoover & Durland, recovered a total of $108 million in compensatory damages […]
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The Appellate Division, Second Department, today granted our firm’s appeal of the dismissal of our client Julio Negron’s Unjust Conviction or Section 8-b claim seeking damages for his 10 years’ imprisonment for an attempted murder he did not commit. We previously won Mr. Negron a $6.25 settlement of his claims against the City of New […]
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A jury in Rochester, N.Y., returned a verdict of $80 Million against Erie County, N.Y. – the largest wrongful conviction civil damage award in U.S. history – on behalf of our firm’s client, Estate of Darryl Boyd, following a 2 ½ week trial. Darryl Boyd and his original codefendant, John Walker, were convicted in 1977 […]
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The American Lawyer magazine today announced our law firm’s nomination, together with the international law firm WilmerHale and Buffalo’s Hoover & Durland, for its annual “Best Provider Collaboration” award for our work together earlier this year in achieving a $28 million verdict for our client John Walker. The record-setting verdict was handed down by a […]
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Today, The AmLaw Litigation Daily recognized Joel Rudin and co-counsel Ryanne Perio of WilmerHale and Spencer Durland of Hoover & Durland as its “Litigators of the Week” for their work in obtaining a $28 million verdict for John Walker, a 65-year-old man who was wrongfully convicted in 1977 of a murder he did not commit in Buffalo, […]
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A federal jury today awarded $28 million in compensatory damages to our client, John Walker, for his unlawful murder conviction and 21 years of imprisonment, following a three-week trial in federal court in Rochester, New York. The damage award is believed to be the largest ever in this country for misconduct by a District Attorney’s Office. […]
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The Appellate Division, First Department, has vacated the murder conviction of our client, Fabian Coke, and dismissed the indictment, agreeing with our argument that the evidence was legally insufficient to support the conviction. Importantly, the Appellate Division then went even further, taking the rare step of finding that the jury’s guilty verdict was against the […]
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Today the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, in a rare en banc ruling, decided that criminal defense lawyers are required by the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution to advise a client who is a naturalized citizen and wishes to plead guilty of the risk of denaturalization and then deportation. Firm […]
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A New York judge has reversed the 2023 manslaughter conviction of our client, Gregory Thayer. (See previous posts on this case here and here.) As we alleged in our motion papers, Mr. Thayer’s local attorney never told Mr. Thayer or his lead attorney, Robert Gottlieb, that he had improperly met privately with the trial judge’s law clerk, who made […]
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