In a prior post, I extolled the virtues of coffee, both as a close companion and a healthy dietary component. Another friend—a human of the non-coffee-drinking genus – recently won an espresso machine, and she gave it to my wife. The device now sits prominently on our kitchen counter looking rather judgmentally at the every-day […]
Much of my day revolves around drinking coffee. My relationship with the beverage is not one of dependence (like it is for many), but of reverence. Coffee emits the only aroma I can detect five rooms away, as I am quite sense-of-smell-challenged. Whether I am at my desk, a deposition or meeting with a client, […]
A father of three and an owner of several canines, I am no stranger to safety gates. Whether to keep toddlers off the stairs or pups off the couch, my wife and I have purchased and have given away innumerable such devices over the past 25 years. Some were plastic with lift gates, some wood […]
Those of us who defend property owners in lead poisoning litigation always look for an alternate source of the infant plaintiff’s exposure. Sometimes the child has spent summers in a country which does not prohibit lead-based paint in housing interiors and/or does not regulate leaded gasoline emissions as carefully as does our own federal government. […]
In 2003, the New York City Council amended Local Law 1 of 1982 to make it “the responsibility of every (multiple dwelling) owner…to investigate for lead-based paint hazards, to address such hazards on a case-by-case basis as the conditions may warrant,” and to remove lead paint that is peeling or chipping (as opposed to intact.) […]
