Charles Toutant

March 15, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

The economy has had a noticeable effect on new associate hiring at the state`s largest law firms, with starting salaries leveling off after their recent run-up and new hires dropping about 15 percent.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 09, 2006 | National Law Journal

New Jersey firms bumped up first-year associate salaries this year to an average of $106,410. The fact that salaries, which had been increasing only modestly since the late 1990s, are entering a boom phase means law firms are busy and need to staff up. And while they can't match New York or Philadelphia salaries, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham's William Hyatt Jr. says New Jersey has an edge in other respects: "the number of hours expected from associates, the camaraderie, the quality of life."

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

March 10, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appeals court affirms the dismissal of a damages suit against Herten, Burstein, Sheridan, Cevasco, Bottinelli, Litt & Harz, which engaged a retiring judge in employment talks while he presided over one of its cases.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 21, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Cross-ethnic eyewitness identification of criminal suspects does not necessitate the specially tailored jury charge used in cross-racial identification cases, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 06, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Further bolstering its status as a regional law firm, McCarter & English has expanded its Connecticut office tenfold by taking a 30-lawyer slice of Cummings & Lockwood in Hartford.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

June 07, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Clerkships at New Jersey's largest firms are on a four-year decline. Recruiters are discriminating, extending offers to only about one in four interviewees. Some firms have trimmed their programs to welterweight size. Others have scotched them entirely.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

May 23, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey Supreme Court has resolved, Solomon-style, a dispute over which side's outside expert should shake the bugs out of the state's new drunken driver testing device. Both sides are to hire their own, and a special master will try to make sense of the results.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 12, 2010 | Daily Business Review

A New Jersey judge/filmmaker has chosen to step down from the bench rather than abide by a dictum from state judicial authorities that he not publicize his satirical movie painting President Obama as a modern-day Faust.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

July 24, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

A municipal judge who sentenced a man to prison on a petty disorderly persons conviction, in disregard of a plea bargain that provided for no jail time, is quietly disciplined.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

September 08, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Frustrated by New Jersey's slow progress in creating a centralized database of Alcotest readings as required by the state Supreme Court, a drunken-driving defense lawyer is trying to get his hands on the information himself.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read