Charles Toutant

May 03, 2010 | Law.com

A New Jersey appeals court heard arguments over whether a hospital can end life-sustaining treatment for a patient in a persistent vegetative state contrary to his family's wishes. Though the patient has died since the case began, the hospital's lawyer said judicial guidance is needed because a similar situation is bound to recur. Equally interested are amici representing disabled patients, who fear a ruling in the hospital's favor would allow caregivers to end treatment in the interests of expediency and cost savings.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

November 30, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Paul Bergrin, a Newark, N.J., criminal defense lawyer accused of being at the center of a criminal enterprise, pleaded not guilty in federal court last week to a raft of charges that include murder and drug trafficking.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

April 14, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

February 23, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

Allen Etish, a lawyer from Cherry Hill, has gotten the nod as the favored candidate for State Bar Association secretary, the bottom rung on the ladder of ascension to the presidency.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

December 07, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

An indicted insurance claimant may invoke the Fifth Amendment in response to a carrier's investigation of her claim but she does so at the risk of not carrying her burden of proof, a New Jersey judge says. In a Pyrrhic victory for the insured, the judge refused to stay an arbitration of the claim, even though the underlying facts are germane to her criminal prosecution for insurance fraud.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

June 24, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

August 11, 2009 | Law.com

Next year, Day Pitney will introduce a short and intensive summer "apprenticeship" for its interns. Through concentrated assignments, pro bono activity and workshops on law firm finances, client development and networking, students will learn about the nuts and bolts of lawyering. Though Peter Wilson Jr., director of diversity and legal recruiting. says financial strain was not the main impetus, the firm will reap a cost savings by having an 8-week summer program, compared with this year's 10-week program.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 11, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Three murder cases were before the state Supreme Court last Wednesday, but the arguments had nothing to do with the underlying crimes. At issue instead was who will be sitting at counsel table when those cases are considered. In one case, solo practitioner Eric Kleiner, in Hackensack, has sought to have the entire legal staff of the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office disqualified because of a pending investigation into allegations of prosecutorial wrongdoing.

By Michael Booth and Charles Toutant

12 minute read

November 07, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

Three plaintiffs' class-action firms have vowed to appeal Monday's federal court ruling in Newark that preliminarily approved a $225 million settlement of a class action against accounting giant KPMG and its lawyers, Sidley, Austin, Brown & Wood.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

October 28, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A state appeals court upends a redevelopment plan for soon-to-be-closed Fort Monmouth, finding the overseeing agency did not meet its affordable-housing obligations.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read