Charles Toutant

March 04, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey`s failure to use objective criteria in deciding hospitals` Medicaid reimbursement has prompted an appeals court to order reopening of two dozen cases, in which $351 million is at stake.

By Charles Toutant

2 minute read

July 07, 2003 | Law.com

There are prep courses to help you get into law school and prep courses to help you pass the bar when you graduate. Now, you can take a class intended to boost your performance in law school itself. Several companies now promote courses, taught by law school professors, which purport to give students a leg up in such topics as study skills and examsmanship -- but do the methodologies get results?

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

January 06, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

A judge's asking of "prosecutorial" questions at a sentencing hearing, though not serious enough to overturn the sentence, was sufficiently grave to prompt an admonition from a federal appeals court. Third Circuit Chief Judge Edward Becker called the sentencing colloquy "troubling" and suggested that it might have flouted the Fifth Amendment had not the defendant waived the privilege.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

June 12, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

The deal sweetener that would place Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione's name atop a Newark skyscraper is getting a sour reaction from other law firms in the building. The tenants don't much care for being housed in a structure on which the name "Gibbons" looms large above the 30th floor - especially since they were never offered the same marquee billing.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

June 13, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Morristown, N.J., firm is hopping the pond in hopes of improving its foothold in London's insurance and reinsurance industries.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

April 14, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A lawyer cum New York Jets fan got another shot Wednesday at convincing a federal court that the New England Patriots should pay damages to ticket holders for the franchise's clandestine videotaping of rival coaches' hand signals.

By Charles Toutant and Shannon P. Duffy

5 minute read

August 14, 2009 | Law.com

A New Jersey Superior Court judge has rejected an effort by ExxonMobil to limit its damages for harming natural resources at two refinery sites. The judge denied the company's motion to dismiss the state's claims that the public trust doctrine can be used for recovery of damages for pollution on private property, in this case uplands and tidal lands. The judge had ruled earlier that the state could pursue ExxonMobil for natural resource damages done by the refineries.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

November 14, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Plaintiffs' lawyers in a federal class-action suit in Newark, challenging the labor practices of the world's biggest corporation, Wal-Mart, think they've got a fighting chance, now that they hold the fruits of a federal criminal probe.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

January 02, 2008 | National Law Journal

The ratio of lawyers to partners at the largest New Jersey firms has been dropping for the past three years, an indication that firms are putting more reliance on partners as billing engines. Managing partners, consultants and analysts say there has been a restructuring of law firm staffing, due to organizational economies and client demands. They say the traditional pyramidal structure of law firms is changing due to increased expectations by corporate clients that senior lawyers will handle the work.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

June 28, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state appeals court on Tuesday extended corporate veil-piercing to limited partnerships under certain conditions, but found it inapplicable to a Voorhees nursing home's parent in a negligence suit.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read