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The Confidentiality Clause – The Abuse That Keeps on Giving
Jul 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 0 0 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Bill Cafaro   |   Jul 25, 2017   |   confidentiality clause The First Amendment guarantees us the right to free speech, but unfortunately, it is generally legal to force employees (or anyone e...
What Losses Does a Workers’ Compensation Cover?
Jul 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 1 1 recommendations | email to a friend
What Losses Does a Workers’ Compensation Cover? by   Pyrros & Serres LLP   |   Jul 25, 2017 When you have been injured at work, your injuries can extend beyond the obvious ones. What happens if you...
Queens Construction Site Accident Injures Workers in Long Island City
Jul 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 2 2 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP   |   Jul 12, 2017 On June 26, when a scaffolding collapsed, six construction workers suffered injury at a Queens construction site accident in Long Island City....
Race Discrimination Lawsuit: Rosebud Restaurants Settled, Paying $1.9 Million
Jul 26, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 5 5 recommendations | email to a friend
Author: NYC Employment Defense Attorneys In a race discrimination lawsuit, the EEOC sued Rosebud Restaurants and parties settled for the amount of $1.9 million. The   EEOC   brought a lawsuit again...
NEW YORK FIFA — THE FREELANCE ISN’T FREE ACT
Jul 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Stephen D. Hans   | Jul 6, 2017 |   Employment Defense Attorney ,   The Freelance Isn’t Free Act What does FIFA mean for business owners? Small business owners in New York City already are und...
NYC Carwash Law Ruled Illegal Due to Promoting Unionization
Jul 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 87 87 recommendations | email to a friend
Recently a NY federal judge ruled that the NYC Carwash law was illegal because it promoted unionization of carwashes.   In 2015, the NYC Council passed a law to regulate car wash businesses. The Co...
What Is a Consequential Injury in a Workers’ Compensation Case?
Jul 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 57 57 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Pyrros & Serres LLP   |   Jun 29, 2017 Understanding Consequential Injuries in Workers’ Compensation Cases New York City | Queens | Brooklyn | Bronx Workers’ Compensation Lawyers In the afterm...
Deadly Truck Accident in Long Island City, Queens
Jul 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 43 43 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Sackstein Sackstein & Lee, LLP   |   Jul 7, 2017 On Saturday, June 24 around 6:00 a.m., a car crashed into a tractor-trailer in Long Island City, Queens. According to   CBS New York   , the dr...
Milo Yiannopoulos Sues Simon & Schuster – Bet They Wish They Had a Morals Clause, but What’s a Morals Clause?
Jul 12, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 46 46 recommendations | email to a friend
by   Bill Cafaro   |   Jul 11, 2017   | According to the   lawsuit   he filed on Friday, July 7, 2017, Simon & Schuster refused to publish his most recent book,   Dangerous , because of allegations...
BOOK EXPO AMERICA 2017: Lots of great authors!
Jun 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 241 241 recommendations | email to a friend
  Article by Tiziano Thomas Dossena BEA’s annual encounter in New York (which by the way has missed a step last year by exhibiting in Chicago instead) started under a bad auspice on Wednesday, May ...

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Shamrocks Reserves captain Paul McDaid scored twice during Sunday's 5-1 win over Polonia's second team in the Cosmopolitan Soccer League Division 1 Reserves game at Randall's Island. (Photo: Dennis Schneidler/NY Shamrocks)
Six wins for Rocks set up exciting couple of weeks
The sun shone on six Shamrocks successes on Sunday, setting up multiple intriguing finales as the spring season finally took off. With next weekend bringing cup showdowns into play, all six league ...
Apr 04, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 159 159 recommendations | email to a friend
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Final Four for NYSAA boy’s hoops tourney set
Brooklyn Latin looks to repeat as girl’s champs
Mar 28, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 221 221 recommendations | email to a friend
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Who to watch when Dick’s Nationals invades Queens
To end March, the madness will extend to the high school level, where the best teams in the country will determine who’s number one. For the boys, it’s an eight-team tournament spanning this upcomi...
Mar 28, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 322 322 recommendations | email to a friend
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The Underdog Yankees?
As we get set to kick off the 2017 season in Major League Baseball, there is a much different feel around the New York Yankees. Spring is in the air, hope springs eternal and the Yankees have finis...
Mar 28, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 261 261 recommendations | email to a friend
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It’s ‘just’ the NIT, but here’s why you should care
The NCAA Tournament has been as ludicrous, exciting and nonsensical as advertised. Meanwhile, college basketball’s stepchild, otherwise known as the National Invitational Tournament, just goes abou...
Mar 28, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 260 260 recommendations | email to a friend
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Shamrocks Women blank Kickers
The NYMWSL Division A leading Shamrocks Women’s team solidified their table-topping form with a big 6-0 win over Manhattan Kickers at East River Park on Sunday. Top scorer Chloe Wheeler chipped in ...
Mar 28, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 262 262 recommendations | email to a friend
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PHOTOS: TOM HOGAN/K2 PROMOTIONS
‘Miracle Man’ nearly does the impossible...again
Following a booming left hook to the head ending an authoritative three-punch combination, cancer survivor Daniel Jacobs screamed in the face of the middleweight kingpin Gennady Golovkin, his oppon...
Mar 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 324 324 recommendations | email to a friend
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In Lost Season, Knicks Turn To Lottery...Again
As we prepare for the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament, the story lines are endless. With the exception of the East Region at Madison Square Garden, the Blue Bloods are out in full force. It’s...
Mar 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 265 265 recommendations | email to a friend
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Believe it or not, Nets have made progress this year
Grueling, rugged, unideal, cumbersome – any fancy adjective you could think of, that’s been the Brooklyn Nets’ 2016-17 season. It’s year one of a likely three to five-year rebuild, so “shocking” is...
Mar 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 303 303 recommendations | email to a friend
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St. John’s advances in NIT
Leading 55-53 with just under three minutes left in the fourth quarter, the St. John’s women’s basketball team outscored Harvard, 7-4, down the stretch to come away with a 62-57 victory in the Seco...
Mar 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 266 266 recommendations | email to a friend
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Shamrocks return to action
Shamrocks 1960 are through to the quarter-finals of the Saunders Cup after a dramatic penalty shoot out win over Manhattan Kickers Reserves on March 11. Ryan McKinley saved three penalties and scor...
Mar 21, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 337 337 recommendations | email to a friend
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How To Win Your Office Bracket & Impress Your Friends
The Madness is officially upon us! Although my beloved alma mater Syracuse will not be a part of the 2017 NCAA Tournament, my enthusiasm for the event can never be diminished. Why? The NCAA Tournam...
Mar 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 262 262 recommendations | email to a friend
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Red Storm rise will continue...if LoVett stays
After upending the Georgetown Hoyas by one point on Wednesday night, the St. John’s Red Storm advanced to the Big East Tournament quarterfinals for the first time since 2011. And then Villanova hap...
Mar 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 360 360 recommendations | email to a friend
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Lincoln, South Shore make it an ‘All-Brooklyn’ affair at MSG
Last Saturday, Brooklyn ran Madison Square Garden. It began with the Lady Vikings of Canarsie’s South Shore campus, where the girls donning purple and gold aimed to complete the rare three-peat. Th...
Mar 14, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 149 149 recommendations | email to a friend
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A favorite for Big East Freshman of the Year, Shamorie Ponds leads St. John's into the conference tourney. (Photo: Jeffrey Armstrong)
Red Storm to face Hoyas in Big East tournament
On Wednesday, March 8, the St. John’s Red Storm (13-18, 7-11) will enter the Big East Tournament field in eighth place after completing their regular season losing to Providence at Madison Square G...
Mar 07, 2017 | 0 0 comments | 214 214 recommendations | email to a friend
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