Charles Toutant

November 02, 2000 | Law.com

When Greg Lloyd asked attorneys at his firm to write up individual business and marketing plans, one partner was particularly concise: "I have all the business I need, thank you," the one-sentence report said. As the operations chief of a small firm with ambitious growth plans, Lloyd has had to force some rethinking among lawyers who tend to liken marketing to selling used cars.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 25, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Filing a frivolous pleading requires not only the act but the intent, a state appeals court says in reversing a $6,500 sanction against a lawyer.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

January 26, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's new, stricter drunken driving law has a built-in mechanism that creates a strong incentive to refuse to take a Breathalyzer test, defense attorneys say.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

March 22, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel presses lawyers on whether a symbolic religious enclosure strung to a New Jersey town`s utility poles is an unconstitutional mixing of church and state.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

May 31, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

An application for public defender representation is protected by attorney-client privilege, since the information it contains might aid the prosecution, a state appeals court rules.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 02, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Nothing sparks attention to a courthouse parking problem like threats to lawyers' and court workers' safety, and Passaic County is a case in point. Ever since the city shut down a 450-car lot adjacent to the courthouse, lawyers and other court patrons have had to take their chances on the gang-infested Paterson streets.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

January 12, 2006 | The Recorder

Rick Ross, who manages a blog which focuses on alleged cults and other suspect entities, has been sued a half-dozen times for his comments and has won all but one case.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

December 01, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A default judgment for tax foreclosure is held void because the plaintiff failed to locate and serve the deceased homeowner's out-of-state heir.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

April 08, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A "dangerous" and unnecessary" 30-day lockdown at Bayside State Prison after a 1997 murder of a guard made the state liable for ensuing abuse inflicted on inmates by the Department of Corrections' Special Operations Group, says a federal court special master.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

August 15, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Middlesex County jury awarded $11.43 million last Wednesday in a wrongful death suit on behalf of a railroad worker whose lung disease was claimed to have been caused by inhaling asbestos and other hazardous substances on the job.

By Charles Toutant

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