Charles Toutant

May 07, 2010 | Law.com

A New York lawyer who represented clients in a New Jersey real estate case without crossing the Hudson is subject to New Jersey's jurisdiction in a legal malpractice suit, an appeals court has found. Overturning a judge below who "relied almost exclusively on the absence of credible evidence of defendant's physical presence in New Jersey," the New Jersey Appellate Division said personal jurisdiction was warranted because the lawyer was hired to stop a New Jersey foreclosure, which provided sufficient minimum contacts.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 27, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

Pfizer Inc., facing a raft of New Jersey suits over its birth-control product Depo-Provera, wants the litigation handled as a mass tort - a centralized-control technique that could reduce costs and the risk of inconsistent results.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 01, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Supreme Court has dismissed an ethics complaint against a Union County judge who made an off-color remark in the presence of a Jewish lawyer about a 1930s American pro-Nazi organization.

By Charles Toutant

7 minute read

January 22, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

An appeals court holds a Morristown firm vicariously liable for $198,340 that a client sank into a failed restaurant franchise at a partner's urging.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

May 25, 2007 | Law.com

The New Jersey Supreme Court has resolved, Solomon-style, a dispute over which side's outside expert should shake the bugs out of the new drunken driver testing device, the Alcotest 7110. Both sides are to hire their own expert, and a special master will review the resulting reports. The court's order is likely to further delay a final decision on whether Alcotest readings are scientifically accurate for use in drunken driving cases. So far, over 6,000 of those cases are in limbo pending a final decision.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

February 28, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

With the prospect of some financial support from the state, Mercer County is getting serious about replacing its decrepit criminal court building.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

March 01, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Division on Civil Rights says it has found probable cause that a New Brunswick electrical contractor's repeated use of a black racial epithet created a hostile work environment that prompted an Asian bookkeeper to resign.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

June 25, 2007 | Law.com

A new law barring "gender identity or expression" discrimination, in effect as of June 17, is already stirring debate among New Jersey employment lawyers, who say its provisions are so broad that they will require fine tuning by the courts. The immediate effect of the statute, which shields transsexuals and others never before protected as a class, may be a new awareness of gender-identity issues, followed by the emergence of civil rights cases based on employment, housing and public-accommodation bias.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

May 06, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

A federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a suit by former state judge Patricia Talbert, who alleged that discrimination and retaliation against her by her superiors resulted in her failure to be renominated after her initial seven-year term.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

August 01, 2008 | New Jersey Law Journal

With the pressure of regulatory compliance on corporations showing no sign of letting up, corporate and securities law will offer the most job opportunities for lawyers in the coming decade, according to a national poll.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read