Charles Toutant

January 24, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether a malpractice suit can proceed against a public defender who hatched a bizarre scheme to foil identification of her client.

By Charles Toutant

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March 22, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

With the New Jersey Supreme Court about to evaluate the accuracy of the state's new drunken-driver breath tester, the manufacturer wants to intervene - lest it be handed a big bill.

By Charles Toutant

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November 29, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's indemnification fund for victims of dishonest lawyers is more flush with cash than any state in the nation. Still, the state Supreme Court has no intention of reducing the Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection's reserve, which was $14.1 million at last year's end.

By Charles Toutant

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March 21, 2000 | Law.com

By Charles Toutant

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August 19, 2004 | Corporate Counsel

Lawyers working for corporate clients can no longer expect to get paid by simply stuffing their bill in an envelope and gluing on a stamp.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

March 09, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

For the first time in 18 years, the State Bar Association is witnessing a battle over the position of secretary, the first rung to the presidency.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

September 16, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a year marked by troubled economic times, progress has been elusive for the numbers of minority and women lawyers at the state's 20 largest law firms.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 20, 2010 | Law.com

Just months after a federal judge decertified a class action suit charging retail giant Wal-Mart with complicity in janitorial contractors' exploitation of illegal aliens, a second attempt has been filed. Although the first suit failed to meet class action requirements, it was allowed to proceed on behalf of the 17 janitors listed as named plaintiffs. The new complaint is on behalf of 42 other janitors who are known to the plaintiffs lawyers but were not listed as named plaintiffs in the first case.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 07, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs in a Hudson County wrongful death case hope a third trial will be the charm after two earlier juries went to opposite ends of the damages scale: from $20 million to $825,000. Now plaintiff's attorney Stuart Feinblatt wants a third damages trial in Boryszewski v. Daimler Chrysler. In a motion filed last Wednesday, he argues that the judge who presided at the second trial, gave incorrect jury instructions on evaluating emotional trauma to Annette Boryszewski's three sons.

By Charles Toutant

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December 29, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Warren County jury no caused Ford Motor Company in a wrongful death suit alleging that a design defect caused a door jam that prevented a New Jersey state trooper from escaping his Crown Victoria patrol car as an assailant was firing at him.

By Charles Toutant

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