Paul, Weiss won a major victory yesterday in the New York Appellate Division, First Department for our client The Andrew Lloyd Webber Art Foundation in a dispute involving Pablo Picasso's Blue-Period painting "Portrait de Angel Fernández de Soto" aka "The Absinthe Drinker" (1903).

In a multiparty real estate deal described by CUNY officials as "the most complex the university has ever undertaken," CUNY, together with the Lois and Samuel Silberman Fund of the New York Community Trust, will sell Hunter's current building on East 79th Street to developer The Brodsky Organization. Brodsky will design and construct the new Hunter school building on the Harlem site using the proceeds from the sale and other state funds, before beginning development of the property that Hunter will vacate.