Charles Toutant

May 12, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Users of Levaquin, an antibiotic linked to muscle ailments, are asking the New Jersey Supreme Court to accord mass-tort treatment to their suits against the manufacturer, Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Ortho-McNeil Pharmaceutical Inc.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

August 02, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Starving artists need legal help, too, and a group of lawyers has taken the first step towards an organization that will connect artists or organizations with attorneys whose skills match their needs. Last Tuesday, the New Jersey State Council on the Arts approved a $50,000 state grant to New Jersey Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

August 29, 2007 | Law.com

The software that runs New Jersey's new drunken-driving breath tester has some flaws, but dueling experts disagree on whether the imperfections are fatal to the machine's accuracy. Judging from reports filed Aug. 28 with a state Supreme Court special master, the source code of the Alcotest 7110 MkIIIc is either laden with programming errors that cripple its performance or generally reliable despite a few quirks.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

July 17, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

A winning New Jersey plaintiff's lawyer in a whistleblower suit - who then had the whistle blown on him for creatively augmenting his fee - is fighting a court order to give some of the money back.

By Charles Toutant ALM

5 minute read

September 20, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A litigation trend that started in California — class-action suits alleging invasion of privacy by retailers that collect zip codes from customers — is catching on in New Jersey.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 02, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A plaintiff who sued his lawyer three times, two of them pro se, was 'using successive litigation as a club' and 'should not be able to sue, then investigate more, then sue, then investigate even further, ad infinitum,' the Appellate Division says.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 01, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's first salvo at corruption in high places has got the New Jersey State Bar Association steamed.

By Charles Toutant ALM

5 minute read

December 19, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

New Jersey's new digital device for divining blood-alcohol levels got a seal of approval when a Camden County judge found the Alcotest 7110 scientifically reliable and accurate.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

August 28, 2002 | The Legal Intelligencer

The New Jersey defense bar has won its battle with the state over the right to examine the high-technology device being groomed to replace the Breathalyzer in police departments statewide.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 26, 2010 | Law.com

John Frohling -- a lawyer for half a century, mostly in municipal bond work -- no doubt regrets his brief foray into real estate practice. He and his firm were used to facilitate three fraudulent house-flipping deals, leading to ethics charges and a censure recommendation. Frohling represented buyers and sellers in each of the deals, despite their conflicting interests, and also failed to properly supervise the paralegal who did the paperwork, a disciplinary board told the New Jersey Supreme Court.

By Charles Toutant

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