Photographers’ Lawyer Hit With Sanctions by Federal Court

A New York lawyer who has represented clients in more than 500 copyright cases in the last two years faces $10,000 in sanctions for failure to comply with a federal court’s notification requirements.

Richard P. Liebowitz of the Liebowitz Law Firm PLLC, Valley Stream, N.Y., created unnecessary legal expenses for the defendant, a small cleaning service, by failing to give it notice of a pretrial conference date, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York ruled Feb. 28.

“The district court’s recent decision to issue sanctions is driven by a false and defamatory stereotype that the Liebowitz ...