Lies, Damned Lies, and Alternative Facts

Rebecca Roiphe is a law professor at New York Law School. She has her Ph.D in American History from the University of Chicago and her J.D. from Harvard Law School. She teaches Professional Responsibility and Criminal Practice.

Nicole Hyland is an associate in the Litigation Group. She handles a wide variety of cases, including commercial business disputes, intellectual property matters, securities lawsuits and arbitrations, employment disputes, and legal malpractice cases. Ms. Hyland volunteers as an arbitrator with the New York Small Claims Court and is a lecturer on arbitration laws and procedures. She also conducts CLE presentations on legal ethics, and counsels individual attorneys and law firms on their professional responsibilities. Ms. Hyland currently serves as the News Editor of Entertainment Law Matters (www.entertainmentlawmatters.com), a Frankfurt Kurnit blog about disputes and developments in the film, television, publishing, theatre, music, art, gaming, and fashion industries.

Prior to Frankfurt Kurnit, Ms. Hyland was associated for two years with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP where she worked primarily on international arbitrations. Ms. Hyland graduated with honors from Fordham University School of Law (2002, Cum Laude, Order of the Coif) where she was notes and articles editor of the Fordham Law Review and published, "On the Road Again: How Much Mileage is Left on the Privileges or Immunities Clause." She participated in Fordham's Justice and Welfare Clinic, representing Welfare recipients in connection with benefit claims and housing matters. She is a member of the New York State Bar and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.

She graduated from Columbia University (BA, 1990) where she was active in student government.

Professor Bruce A. Green is the Louis Stein Professor at Fordham Law School, where he directs the Louis Stein Center for Law and Ethics. He teaches and writes primarily in the areas of legal ethics and criminal law, and is involved in various bar association activities, including many in the field of legal ethics. He is a member and past chair of the NYSBA's ethics committee and a member of the NYSBA's Committee on Standards of Attorney Conduct, as well as a member of the ABA's ethics committee and a former member of the City Bar's ethics committee. He serves on the Multistate Professional Bar Examination drafting committee and is Chair of the ABA Criminal Justice Section. He formerly served on the NYC Conflicts of Interest Board and on the Departmental Disciplinary Committee. Before joining the Fordham faculty in 1987, Professor Green was a law clerk to Judge James L. Oakes and Justice Thurgood Marshall and an Assistant U.S. Attorney and Chief Appellate Attorney in the Office of the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York.