Charles Toutant

August 09, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Starving artists need legal help, too, and a group of New Jersey lawyers has taken the first step toward creating an organization that will connect artists or organizations with attorneys whose skills match their needs.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

December 21, 2010 | Law.com

New Jersey's alcoholic beverage control law violates the Commerce Clause by requiring out-of-state wineries to sell through wholesalers and retailers while New Jersey wineries have no such restrictions, the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals says.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 25, 2006 | National Law Journal

While nonequity partnership has transformed the old "up or out" construct at law firms, it's still mainly a bridge to full partnership rather than a final destination. Nonequity partners -- also known as "tier" or "income" partners -- have been a growing breed of big-firm lawyer since the mid-1980s. But the reasons for the hybrid status vary from firm to firm and lawyer to lawyer, as does a tier partner's relative rank. The ambiguities led Edge International's Ed Wesemann to try to quantify the practice.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

November 29, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

A judge deciding the fairness of a settlement in behalf of a minor doesn't have the power to impose a structure on the deal if the defendant's insurer insists on a lump sum, a New Jersey court says.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

August 01, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Insurance companies are threatening to take a bite out of the lucrative practice of representing victims of dog attacks.

By Charles Toutant

9 minute read

June 14, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a warning to lawyers who let their own money linger in trust accounts, the Supreme Court has issued a censure for removal of funds money without documentation to prove ownership.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

April 29, 2008 | Law.com

A homeowners policy's exclusion of bodily injury 'arising out of' maintenance, operation, ownership, or use of motor vehicles applies in the case of a man who struck his head on a bumper jack after the policy owner declined his offer of help in changing a flat tire.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

July 08, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

In lawyerless South Jersey real estate closings, title insurance agents and real estate brokers act as professionals, and suing them for negligence therefore requires an affidavit of merit, a state appeals court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

May 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

A New Jersey judge-cum-filmmaker has chosen to step down from the bench rather than abide by a dictum from state judicial authorities that he not publicize his satirical movie painting President Obama as a modern-day Faust.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 08, 2007 | Law.com

The 3rd Circuit has overturned tax fraud convictions for three members of a pacifist religious sect in New Jersey that opposes paying federal taxes, finding the district court's jury instructions constructively amended the indictment. The defendants, members of Restored Israel of Yahweh, had been convicted of conspiracy to defraud the U.S. and other tax-related charges. They ran a home-renovation business employing sect members and nonmembers, but deducted federal taxes only from nonmembers' paychecks.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read