Charles Toutant

April 10, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge has ground to a halt a suit that claimed allowing a cement plant to operate in a poor neighborhood violated the residents' civil rights.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 20, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. has agreed to pay up to $236 million to settle a class-action suit over defective hoses in radiant home-heating systems. U.S. District Judge Stanley Chesler gave preliminary approval on Oct. 9 to the settlement, which covers purchasers in 44 states and Canada. A class action on the same product in the six New England states is pending in Boston's federal court.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

January 08, 2009 | Corporate Counsel

Gov. Jon Corzine has signed a bill that exempts New Jersey corporations from tax on income earned in other states, a measure designed to keep existing businesses in the state and to attract others to come here. The bill undoes a 2002 amendment that assesses corporate income tax based on a formula that includes income not taxed by other states. Even though the state has repealed the exclusion rule, an appeal by a group of multistate corporations will continue.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

April 06, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Amid a period of rapid growth, McCarter & English's New York office has installed its first woman leader: Mary Jane Augustine, a five-year veteran of the firm, who became managing partner on April 1.

By Charles Toutant

2 minute read

April 12, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Montclair solo has been reprimanded for running up a high balance on the credit card of an elderly, blind client and allowing the account to fall into arrears.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

June 30, 2011 | New York Law Journal

Defendants in a legal malpractice case are seeking to make Wolff & Samson partner Laurence Smith and his firm responsible for informal advice he gave his sister during her divorce. At issue is his review of documents, his meeting with opposing counsel and his receipt of copies of emails in connection with his sister's case.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 21, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Owners of Burlington County dams that failed during a "1,000-year rainstorm" last July are facing a deluge of damage claims. Three putative class actions in state Superior Court allege that flooding in the town of Lumberton was intensified by dam failures upstream.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

June 03, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

At many of New Jersey's largest law firms, summer is starting later and ending earlier. The shorter stints save expense but also give the firms less time to evaluate summer associates for permanent offers - for jobs that are likely to be scarcer when they graduate.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

September 21, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection is asking the New Jersey Supreme Court to raise the caps on payments to claimants, which have not been adjusted for a decade.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

March 29, 2004 | Law.com

Plenty of retired cops practice law, but it is the rare breed that juggles both jobs at once. And since 1967, the state Supreme Court has said they can do it, provided there's no overlap.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read