Charles Toutant

December 05, 2005 | The Legal Intelligencer

A federal caution about potentially life-threatening effects of Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Evra contraceptive patch has fanned the flames of what could become nationwide litigation.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

September 09, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Scarinci & Hollenbeck's malpractice carrier has taken the Lyndhurst firm to federal court, seeking a declaratory judgment that it does not have to defend a state court suit that alleges two of the firm's attorneys engaged in fraud in a real estate deal.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

January 27, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A litigant shouldn't pay the price for his lawyer's botched adjournment request and consequence failure to appear at trial, the Appellate Division said Thursday in reversing a default judgment in a landlord-tenant case.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 22, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

The attorney disciplinary system is flush with extra cash, but its overseers are reluctant to spend down the surplus. Although the Disciplinary Oversight Committee projects a 2005 end-of-year surplus of just under $1 million, there will be only a slight rollback in annual fees. For most lawyers, the savings will be $8, dropping the annual fee to $126.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 18, 2005 | Law.com

Plaintiffs lawyers in a federal class action challenging the labor practices of Wal-Mart, the world's biggest corporation, think they've got a fighting chance, now that they hold the fruits of a federal criminal probe. They say affidavit testimony from an immigration investigation of Wal-Mart shows that two senior executives knew the company's cleaning contractors employed illegal aliens across the country -- the very scienter the plaintiffs need to prove their case.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

April 25, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

A homeowner's insurer should not defend a suit that asserts intentional tort claims along with negligence, but it may have to pay the insured later on, a New Jersey appeals court rules in a case arising from barroom brawl.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

March 13, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Princeton University, facing liabilities of over half a billion dollars for alleged misuse of trust funds, makes a small concession by announcing it will return $782,375 to a charitable foundation.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 16, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

Drug maker agrees to pay $12.15 million in plaintiffs' legal fees to settle two shareholder derivative suits over its painkiller Vioxx — one in state court in New Jersey and the other in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 25, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Six months after completing a merger that made it New Jersey's fourth largest firm, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter just keeps on growing.

By Charles Toutant

2 minute read

May 13, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Chief Justice Stuart Rabner on Tuesday named Essex County Judge Glenn Grant as the next acting administrative director of the courts, the first African American to hold the position.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read