Charles Toutant

January 02, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge in Newark dismisses about 325 suits by recipients of body parts stolen from corpses, saying the plaintiffs did not show a likelihood of contracting disease from the transplants.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

July 01, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge in Newark, finding insufficient common issues, has denied class certification to magazine subscribers who claim a Time Warner subsidiary charged for renewals without their authorization.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

July 17, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Paralegals in New Jersey earn markedly less than their counterparts in other parts of the country, according to a new survey of paralegal compensation.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

January 05, 2006 | Corporate Counsel

Businesses are scrutinizing their record-keeping procedures now that a New Jersey state law, effective Jan. 1, creates a risk of civil liability for failing to safeguard consumers' personal data. "I think it has some very wide-ranging implications," says Wendy Lario, an employment lawyer whose firm, Pitney Hardin, is sending out advisories and has put together an information security audit program for clients. "For smaller or mid-sized companies, it may be burdensome to meet these requirements."

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

September 02, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

In a rare and possibly unprecedented move, a Camden County, N.J., judge has named a special master to oversee liquidation of assets of a disbarred lawyer who admitted embezzling $2.5 million from clients.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

March 03, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appeals court topples a judge's rejection of a purported will revision that, although it didn't meet statutory execution requirements, made specific bequests the original will had telegraphed were coming.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

April 17, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge on Monday refused to allow an immediate appeal of his dismissal of RICO counts from a class-action suit charging Wal-Mart Stores Inc. with illegal employment practices.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

September 27, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

With branch offices in Princeton and New York, Reed Smith really doesn't need one in Newark, N.J., so the firm has decided to economize by shutting it down next year.

By Charles Toutant ALM

3 minute read

June 27, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

The case of a son who suspects foul play in his father?s death offered an appeals court a chance to amplify New Jersey?s faint law governing when a corpse may be exhumed for autopsy.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

April 17, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Former state attorney general John Farmer Jr. has been named dean of Rutgers Law School-Newark, replacing Stuart Deutsch, who has held the job since 1999, the school said on Friday.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read