Charles Toutant

February 10, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Willing or not, lawyers for clients in real estate transactions have been enlisted by the U.S. government to help fight the war on terrorism. An executive order signed soon after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks requires real estate closing agents to check buyers' and sellers' names against the government's Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

March 14, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

New Jersey's principal trial lawyers' lobby is asking the state Supreme Court to ban attorneys from direct solicitation of accident victims, except those with whom they have a pre-existing relationship.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

March 19, 2007 | National Law Journal

Federal appellate work "can be a lonely kind of practice," says Cynthia Jacob of Fisher & Phillips, and what better way to combat solitude than to join a support group? So on March 5, Jacob and a bunch of other lawyers launched the Third Circuit Bar Association, with the general aim of improving the practice of law in the local federal appeals court. Jacob says the association -- modeled after similar ones in several other circuits -- hopes in part to strengthen bench-bar ties and help shape court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

July 13, 2007 | Law.com

New Jersey's high tribunal for judicial ethics transgressions says censure is the appropriate discipline for Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto for misusing his office to advance a personal interest. The panel found the judge violated canons of ethics and a court rule by speaking to police, prosecutors and court officials about a criminal case in which his son was the complaining witness. Rivera-Soto also faces a potential civil suit for emotional distress from the teenager who clashed with his son.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

March 19, 2007 | Law.com

Federal appellate work "can be a lonely kind of practice," says Cynthia Jacob of Fisher & Phillips, and what better way to combat solitude than to join a support group? So on March 5, Jacob and a bunch of other lawyers launched the Third Circuit Bar Association, with the general aim of improving the practice of law in the local federal appeals court. Jacob says the association -- modeled after similar ones in several other circuits -- hopes in part to strengthen bench-bar ties and help shape court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

September 25, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Hearings on the accuracy of New Jersey's new drunken-driving tester began last week, and judging by opening day, Special Master Michael King seems accurate in his prediction that they will run until Thanksgiving. The reason: sheer numerosity. The state attorney general is proffering 11 witnesses to testify to the reliability of the Alcotest 7110 Mark III, a high-tech device intended to replace the Breathalyzer, and there are 10 defense lawyers cross-examine each of them. And that's in addition to the five o

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

August 15, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Supreme Court's more liberal interpretation of the verbal threshold for no-fault automobile accident injuries will not apply to cases previously dismissed, a Hudson County judge rules.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

July 20, 2006 | National Law Journal

Two New Jersey firms are opening shop in Pennsylvania this month by acquiring existing ones. For McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter of Morristown, the branch office in waiting is 15-lawyer Monteverde, McAlee & Hurd of Philadelphia. And for Princeton's Hill Wallack, it's three-lawyer Sullivan & Sullivan of Langhorne, Pa. McElroy Deutsch managing partner Edward Deutsch says that for years his firm's corporate clients have held out the offer of their Philadelphia work if only the firm had a presence there.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

June 27, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Atlantic City's top lawyer is taking a hard line on tort claims, one he hopes will efface the gambling town's reputation as an easy mark for plaintiffs.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

September 27, 2002 | Law.com

Former Gloucester County, N.J., Prosecutor Andrew Yurick is suing the county and the state for removing him from office when his five-year term expired but before his replacement came on board. Yurick also raises whistleblower and retaliation counts against the county freeholders, who he says subjected him to "administrative harassment" for prosecuting associates of local politicians on drug charges.

By Charles Toutant

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