Charles Toutant

February 17, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

It's been nearly half a century since The Duprees, a Jersey City doo-wop group, started a successful recording and performing career, and the battles between original members and their successors over rights to the name are as enduring as the music.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 07, 2010 | Law.com

Lawyers jockeying over where to consolidate federal litigation against hip-replacement device maker DePuy Orthopaedics seem to agree on only one thing: District Judge Susan Wigenton in Newark, N.J., shouldn't handle it. Plaintiffs counsel, the Lanier Law Firm, had originally sought to consolidate the DePuy suits with Wigenton, who has been assigned a similar multidistrict litigation over Zimmer's Duram Cap hip implants. But the defense lawyers' opposition evidently persuaded the plaintiffs lawyers to change their minds.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 23, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Even while it's trying to stanch a steady falloff in membership, the New Jersey State Bar Association has made it easier to kick lawyers out.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

April 07, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's attorney general has consented to partial dismissal of the contempt convictions against four news reporters who contacted jurors in the first Rabbi Fred Neulander murder trial and published their names.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

November 30, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A matrimonial judge was out of line when he capped legal fees at $50,000 for each side in a divorce case because he was offended by the sums charged, a state appeals court rules.

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4 minute read

June 16, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

The long-controversial practice of putting new judges on the family court bench - which a state chief justice vowed two decades ago to discontinue - shows no sign of abating.

By Charles Toutant

8 minute read

September 21, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Superior Court Judge Jamie Happas has been named the state's newest mass tort judge and has assumed management of more than 2,300 complex commercial suits against pharmaceutical companies.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

September 05, 2007 | The Legal Intelligencer

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.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

August 01, 2007 | The Recorder

The New Jersey bar has followed New York in opposing law firms' mandatory retirement policies. The ABA will take up the issue at its annual meeting this month.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

January 09, 2001 | Law.com

The National Smokers Alliance, which successfully challenged Princeton, N.J.'s smoking ban, is pursuing an ethics complaint against an official who voted for the ordinance while her law firm worked for anti-smoking organizations. The complaint charges that Katherine Benesch had a conflict of interest because the American Cancer Society and New Jersey Breathes had paid her law firm $8,500 to study local tobacco ordinances.

By Charles Toutant

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