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Charles Toutant

Charles Toutant

Charles Toutant is a litigation writer for the New Jersey Law Journal.

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December 01, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

N.J. Appeals Court Takes Judge to Task Over One Cent

New Jersey Superior Court Judge Alexander Lehrer got a tongue-lashing recently from the Appellate Division, which said he paid lip service to its order to reduce a $3 million verdict found to be excessive.

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June 30, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

McCarter & English Plan 'Grosses Up' Workers Insuring Same-Sex Partners

Joining a growing number of firms and companies around the country, McCarter & English has adopted a plan to offset unequal tax treatment faced by employees who cover same-sex partners in their health-insurance plans.

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September 21, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Malicious Use of 'The Drifters' Bars Promoter's Discharge in Bankruptcy

A concert promoter in Chapter 7 bankruptcy can't discharge a $24 million claim for infringing on the trademark of the R&B group The Drifters, says a federal judge in Trenton.

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August 01, 2003 | The Legal Intelligencer

Releasing Sex Predator Wouldn't Be a First in Calif.

For months, defense attorneys in Contra Costa and Santa Clara counties have been fighting to free Cary Verse and Brian DeVries from confinement under California's Sexually Violent Predator law. But political pressure and bureaucratic glitches have kept the pair locked in Atascadero State Hospital long after their release dates.

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May 09, 2006 | Law.com

N.J. First-Year Associate Pay Pushed Up 7 Percent

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."

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August 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

N.J. Justices Reject 30-Day Ban on Contacting All Prospective P.I. Clients

Thirteen years after the imposition of a 30-day moratorium on attorney contacts of mass-disaster victims, the New Jersey Supreme Court has declined to extend it to all events causing personal injury or death.

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November 20, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

Parental Immunity Protects Minder of Child From Suit Over Backyard Injury

A state appeals court upholds a no-cause verdict in a negligence suit against a woman whose child injured another child during backyard play while under her supervision.

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October 20, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

What's in a 'Name Partner'? Not a Law Partnership, Appeals Court Says

An appeals court reverses a $2.9 million award to a former 'name partner,' finding that a law firm's profit-sharing agreement didn't vest him with sufficient indicia of partnership to warrant a payout.

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March 01, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Judges Keep Voiding Local Laws Restricting Sex Offenders' Abodes

A New Jersey judge has overturned a Cherry Hill law banning sex offenders from living near schools and parks - the third time in three months restrictions of this kind have fallen under judicial review

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February 16, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Reading, Pa. Firm Chops Off Half of Smith, Stratton

Yet another expanding regional firm has taken a bite of the Garden State. This time, the raiders are from Reading, Pa., and the repast is one of Princeton's oldest and most venerable firms. Sixteen lawyers left Smith, Stratton, Wise, Heher Brennan on Feb. 1 to open a new office under the banner of Stevens Lee. The departure eviscerates the corporate finance, trusts and estates and real estate departments, reducing Smith Stratton - once a firm of more than 50 lawyers - to a small liti

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