In 35 Q&As over the course of 2025, this newsletter asked New York lawyers about challenges they faced, reasonable people, and where to head for lunch. Here’s a look back at their answers.

Here are five things we learned about the court in 2025.

Ex-prosecutor David O’Keefe set out to make one point — that Big Law should have fought Trump’s executive orders — but now finds himself at the fore of another heated issue: whether the public can protest at privately owned public spaces.

The company that runs a Brooklyn food store filed a petition with the US Tax Court arguing the IRS didn’t explain why it cited the store as having $11.9 million in tax deficiencies.

Paul Weiss’ ex-pro bono chief Steve Banks, who left after the firm’s deal with President Donald Trump, will lead the New York City Law Department, Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani said, putting a longtime liberal advocate in the city government’s top legal position.

New York will embark on a redevelopment of the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, a project aimed at modernizing an aging wholesale complex that feeds much of the city but has become increasingly strained by pollution and decades-old infrastructure.