Cheryl L. Wade – Harold F. McNiece Professor of Law – St. Johns University
“I teach law at St. John’s University School of Law. James Vagnini was a featured speaker at a major conference I organized on race and gender issues in the corporate workplace. Every year I invite James to teach a class in employment discrimination. James is the highlight of the semester for me and my students. I invite James because I want my students to hear about the complexity and variety of the cases he so expertly handles. I most admire the fact that James works extremely hard for his clients in the courtroom and outside of the courthouse. He is a talented litigator, a patient counselor for his clients, and a civil rights activist who engages the media, politicians and the public in general on the pressing issue of workplace discrimination.”
The family behind a massive Brooklyn Navy Yards film studio complex stands accused of stiffing local partners out of $50 million in profits, a new lawsuit contends.
Steiner Studios — where films such as Steven Spielberg's"West Side Story" and Lin-Manuel Miranda's "Tick Tick Boom!" were filmed — has been named in a civil suit filed by a group of local entrepreneurs who says they developed the complex then were cut out of profits, court records show.
