Charles Toutant

December 27, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A lawyer's motion for reconsideration of an order to pay opposing counsel's legal fees in a fractious franchise dispute was one motion too many, according to a federal judge.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

November 21, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The property at the center of last summer's seminal state Supreme Court ruling that narrowly redefined "blight" in condemnation cases is again a target. Only this time around, there's a different condemning authority and it's following a different tack: a taking for public use rather than redevelopment.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

January 02, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Businesses are scrutinizing their record-keeping procedures now that the New Jersey Identity Theft Protection Act, effective Jan. 1, creates a risk of civil liability for failing to safeguard consumers' personal data. And lawyers on both sides of the aisle are lining up for new business.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

July 20, 2006 | Law.com

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

July 21, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A lawyer's failure to present mitigating evidence of domestic abuse when his client pleaded guilty to aggravated manslaughter of her husband was ineffective assistance of counsel, the N.J. Supreme Court says.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 23, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

In sync with its march toward regional influence, McCarter & English is trying to shore up its Connecticut presence by negotiating a merger with a contingent of that state's second-largest firm. The target is the 30-lawyer Hartford office of Cummings & Lockwood.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 14, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

An extra round of software tests and testimony hasn't changed a New Jersey Supreme Court fact-finder's conclusion that the Alcotest 7110 is scientifically reliable enough to be put into use.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

March 31, 2011 | New York Law Journal

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 15, 2005 | Law.com

Testimony from an immigration investigation into the labor practices of the corporation shows that two senior executives knew the company hired illegal immigrants, plaintiffs' lawyers say.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

September 27, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Lawyers in a New Jersey burglary case seem to have stumbled upon a new terrain for photographic evidence: Google Earth.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read