Charles Toutant

May 11, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A Warren municipal prosecutor who was replaced after reporting the town's judge for holding court while intoxicated was awarded $1.3 million, most of it punitive damages, in her whistleblower suit.

By Charles Toutant

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November 05, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

The New Jersey judiciary is considering a request from Passaic County's top judge for mass tort status for a growing number of suits alleging strokes and other serious health problems from the oral contraceptives Yaz, Yasmin and Ocella.

By Charles Toutant

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February 10, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

In a case of first impression, a Superior Court judge ruled last Monday that a redevelopment agency created and controlled by a city does not meet the definition of a public body under the Open Public Meetings Act. Mercer County Assignment Judge Linda Feinberg dismissed a media suit seeking access to meetings of the Lafayette Yard Community Development Corp., which the city of Trenton established to develop a hotel-conference center on a vacant lot near the Statehouse.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

July 11, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's high tribunal for judicial ethics transgressions says censure is the appropriate discipline for Supreme Court Justice Roberto Rivera-Soto for misusing his office to advance a personal interest.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

August 15, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A New York plaintiffs' class-action firm that tried to challenge a rival firm's tactics suffered the ultimate defeat last Tuesday: Not only was it turned down as lead counsel, but certification of the putative class was denied.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

March 05, 2009 | The Legal Intelligencer

Employers are allowed to monitor online activities when workers use company computers, but a case in federal court in Newark, N.J., has a twist.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

January 17, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

The day state Senator John Lynch began serving a three-year prison term for federal mail fraud and tax evasion, the New Jersey Supreme Court disbarred him.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

January 18, 2011 | Daily Business Review

Part-time schedules at law firms are growing in popularity as a way of improving recruitment and retention of talented lawyers, but attorneys working reduced hours ? predominantly women ? remain a fraction of the total population, according to a new survey by the National Association for Law Placement.

By Charles Toutant

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June 17, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

Rutgers Law School-Camden would get a million facelift, and expand its academic space by 50 percent, under a Camden revitalization package Gov. James McGreevey is proposing.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

August 03, 2007 | Law.com

New Jersey's organized Bar is calling on law firms to relent from mandatory retirement rules for partners, in favor of more flexible policies that recognize the value of older lawyers. The New Jersey Bar's trustees have endorsed a position paper issued by the New York State Bar Association, which states that forced retirement at a fixed age is "inconsistent with accepted employment practices, against public policy and not in the best interest of either law firms or their clients."

By Charles Toutant

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