Charles Toutant

September 28, 2000 | Law.com

Support for a plan to split New Jersey into two federal judicial districts is growing among lawyers and politicians, but the acid test will be the assent of the U.S. Judicial Conference, whose members have yet to weigh in.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

March 31, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

An Atlantic City, N.J., lawyer has just learned the hard way that a client's seeming nonchalance over dismissal of her case due to the lawyer's error doesn't make for a license to conceal it from the malpractice insurer.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

July 26, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Merck & Co., already besieged with thousands of lawsuits over its painkiller Vioxx, is facing a new litigation onslaught, this one by users of Fosamax, its drug for treating osteoporosis.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

May 05, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Women lawyers in New Jersey are more likely to quit if their law firm does not have flexible work arrangements and they are gravitating toward firms that do, says a new survey of women lawyers across the state.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

March 12, 2010 | The Legal Intelligencer

What may have been a case of oversharing on the part of a DLA Piper associate has dragged the firm into court to defend a legal malpractice lawsuit.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

August 11, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

Calling the drug manufacturer's protests overblown, a Bergen County, N.J., judge last week consolidated five Fen-Phen diet drug cases as the first of 5,800 to go to trial in New Jersey.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 24, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey courts have jurisdiction to issue restraining orders where an act of domestic violence occurred in another state but the victim has fled to New Jersey and is pursued by her assailant, the state Supreme Court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

November 20, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Edward Imperatore, a litigator with a client base in real estate and transportation interests held by his prominent Bergen County family, will head the New Jersey office of New York's Phillips Nizer

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

March 14, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

Condominium owners do not enjoy the same rights to protest zoning changes that are accorded other property owners under the Municipal Land Use Law, the Appellate Division rules.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

October 29, 2010 | Law.com

Office-supply retailer Staples has agreed to a $42 million settlement of a class action lawsuit alleging that it failed to pay overtime to 5,500 assistant managers.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read