Charles Toutant

January 04, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

The owners of a successful pretzel business allege in a malpractice suit that a Philadelphia lawyer's inexperience cost them as much as $100 million worth of licensing dough, reports sibling publication the New Jersey Law Journal.

By By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

April 20, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A candidate for a State Bar Association trustee seat who sent campaign literature via the organization's e-mail distributor has been banned from using it for the rest of the election, while her opponent gets one shot at a fair response.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

January 23, 2006 | Law.com

Drunken driving prosecutions based on New Jersey's new blood-alcohol testing device may go forward now that the state Supreme Court has ruled the test results admissible. The justices said readings from the Alcotest 7110, in use in 11 counties, may support a drunken driving conviction, and lifted stays of Alcotest-based drunken driving cases entered last month. But the court also said sentencings generally would be delayed until a special master holds hearings about the device's scientific reliability.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 05, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Supreme Court last Wednesday suspended without pay Stephen Thompson, a respected and popular Camden County judge, following his arrest the same day for possession of child pornography.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

May 29, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge in Newark on Friday refused to grant bail to former Assistant U.S. Attorney Paul Bergrin, who stands indicted on charges of leading a racketeering conspiracy that included the murder of a drug-case witness and the attempted murder of an informant.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

April 22, 2011 | Legaltech News

Sara Cores, a candidate for a New Jersey Bar Association trustee seat who sent campaign literature via the organization's e-mail distributor, has been banned from using it for the rest of the election, while her opponent gets one shot at a fair response. Cores says she sent only one campaign-related e-mail using the distributor and that the policy on campaign e-mails is unclear.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

March 14, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

With a flair for self-marketing, A. Kenneth Weiner energetically built a criminal defense practice into a high-profile eight-lawyer firm. For years, he garnered headlines representing such notorious clients as "car baby mom" Chant� Fernandez. But there were problems seething beneath the surface waiting to erupt, and they've cost Weiner his home, his practice and probably his future as a lawyer.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

January 11, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The name Gibbons connotes in other realms a natural foods guru or a simian species, but in New Jersey it's the new name of an 80-year-old law firm � and it will soon be emblazoned atop one of Newark's tallest towers.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

April 16, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Delaware has authority to prevent a liquefied natural gas shipping terminal from being built on the New Jersey side of the Delaware River, since the states have concurrent power to regulate piers and other structures extending into the water, a U.S. Supreme Court fact finder says.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

January 23, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Drunken driving prosecutions based on New Jersey's new blood-alcohol testing device may go forward now that the state Supreme Court has ruled the test results admissible.

By Charles Toutant ALM

5 minute read