Donovan Swift

January 31, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

In short, this legislation expands the scope of permissible business activities by certain manufacturers, creates new license categories, ratchets up the pressure on inactive retail licenses to be put to productive use, and creates a new mechanism for bringing otherwise inactive retail licenses back into active use.

By Andrew Heck

8 minute read

January 30, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's new legislation becomes the 13th comprehensive state privacy law in the U.S. But given the law's applicability thresholds, organizations can expect to fall subject to the New Jersey law more easily than other state privacy laws.

By Greta Messer

5 minute read

January 30, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

"Although the U.S. Supreme Court has addressed numerous facets regarding the circumstances under which the death penalty can and cannot be imposed, it has not yet directly addressed the question of jury unanimity being a requirement," say attorneys Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack.

By Elisa Reiter and Daniel Pollack

7 minute read

January 29, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The NJSBA's weekly report.

By New Jersey State Bar Association

7 minute read

January 29, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

States have long grappled with the question of how to properly source the income of an employee who works at home in one state, for an employer in another state. In response to the tax burden placed on its residents and the tax revenue it was losing, in 2023 New Jersey passed its own Convenience of the Employer Rule.

By Jason Feingertz, Katherine Gallagher and Zach Roop

5 minute read

January 26, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

CSG Law names a new chair for their corporate & securities group; Littler Mendelson promotes a new shareholder; and more moves.

By Donovan Swift

7 minute read

January 26, 2024 | Texas Lawyer

"Boutique firms are not the right fit for everyone, but they have many features that can significantly benefit attorneys," says legal recruiter Karen Vladeck.

By Karen S. Vladeck

4 minute read

January 26, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The primary reason that ethical issues arise when an attorney is representing a client in the cannabis industry stems from the fact that cannabis remains federally illegal.

By Michael F. Schaff and Seth Tipton

7 minute read

January 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

This case was decided in accord with other similar negligence cases in which the courts use a "foreseeability analysis" in determining whether a duty of care should be imposed upon a defendant for an incident resulting in an injury to a third party.

By Betsy G. Ramos

7 minute read

January 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

In November 2023, New Jersey's Supreme Court declared the testimony of drug recognition experts (DRE) reliable enough to be used as evidence in 'State v. Olenowski,' 253 N.J. 133, (2023). Unfortunately, in doing do, the court lowered the standard for reliability to allow DRE evidence.

By Joshua S. Bauchner

4 minute read