Charles Toutant

October 24, 2007 | New Jersey Law Journal

A parent need not have supported a child to qualify as a parent for purposes of intestate inheritance upon the child's death, a New Jersey appeals court says.

By Charles Toutant

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July 22, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

As firms grow and diversity, new management practices are catching on, among them the placing of term limits on managing partners. Advocates of the practice say it ensures an influx of new ideas, guards against generational conflict within the firm and promotes smoother leadership successions.

By Charles Toutant

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August 29, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

There are proportionally fewer women in the associate ranks at New Jersey's largest firms this year, and no one seems to know quite why. While the overall associate population increased slightly at the firms studied in the Law Journal's annual census of women and ethnic lawyers, the number of women associates declined. At 19 firms surveyed, women made up 37.4 percent of all associates in 2005, down from 41.9 percent last year.

By Charles Toutant

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August 05, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Noncompliance with the affidavit of merit statute in a legal malpractice suit does not preclude a plaintiff from bringing a common-law fraud case against her lawyer, a state appeals court ruled on Tuesday.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

November 13, 2001 | Law.com

With the two-year statute of limitations almost up, lawyers representing victims of the Seton Hall University dormitory fire are working frantically to find parties to sue. The fire, which authorities believe was intentionally started, broke out in the Boland Hall dormitory on Jan. 19, 2000, killing three students and injuring 58 others.

By Charles Toutant

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August 01, 2006 | National Law Journal

Though the dust has scarcely settled in this year's law-firm salary derby, the 2007 race is already heating up. Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione is raising its first-year associate salaries to $120,000, effective Jan. 1, at its Newark, N.J., and New York offices. That's a 23 percent jump from the 2006 rate of $97,000. Gibbons Del Deo's action comes a month after Roseland, N.J.'s Lowenstein Sandler announced plans to hike first-year associate compensation to $125,000 on Jan. 1.

By Charles Toutant

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December 10, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

An ethics complaint made public on Thursday alleges that Phillipsburg Municipal Judge Dennis Baptista used the power of his office to gain an advantage in a private dispute with another parent over damage to his son's car.

By Charles Toutant

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April 21, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Superior Court Judge Mary Thurber will have to answer for alleged malpractice and excessiveness of fees charged as a lawyer, now that a suit by her former clients has been reinstated.

By Charles Toutant

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February 19, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

Uninsured motorist coverage does not extend to a victim of a random, drive-by shooting, even though PIP coverage does, a sharply divided N.J. Supreme Court rules.

By Charles Toutant

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December 26, 2006 | The Legal Intelligencer

Plavix, a popular blood-thinning drug, is the target of multiple lawsuits by users and third-party payers, who charge that manufacturers Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sanofi-Aventis US marketed the drug in disregard of its potential health risks.

By Charles Toutant ALM

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