Law Journal Editorial Board

January 21, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

If we were truly serious about enforcing the immigration laws, we would set up a national biometric identity system with a central database.

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January 14, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

The lesson for lawyers is not that they must foresee the unforeseeable and advise their clients to negotiate over every remote contingency. But well-drafted provisions that acknowledge that there are always future risks that cannot be fully discussed and negotiated, will go a long way to settling their expectations and allocating those risks in a mutually acceptable way, and thus avoid having one party be at the losing end of a question of first impression.

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January 14, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

More than two years ago, we asked the New Jersey Division of Taxation to join the modern business world: to fax or email tax escrow documents. But the Division of Taxation continues to use the mails.

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January 07, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Appellate Division held that appellant could not have a “reasonable expectation of continuing employment.” We agree.

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January 07, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

We think that a prosecutor should avoid expressing that opinion in relation to a pending case.

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January 07, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

We expect that our Judiciary will provide an exemplar for responsibly serving the public's needs, even if, at the moment, a casual observer might have difficulty discerning such an exemplar from the other two branches of government.

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January 02, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

A recent American Bar Association publication reminded its readers that the ABA Standing Committee on Ethics and Professional Responsibility's Formal…

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January 02, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

Responding to Congressional pressure and the problem of substantial delinquencies in court-ordered child support payments—much of it owed to the…

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December 21, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

The multi-disciplinary Center On Gun Violence Research at Rutgers will deploy public health, criminal justice, and legal expertise, among other disciplines, to develop new understanding of the causes of, and possible responses to, the epidemic of gun violence in our nation. We look forward to the results this new initiative can achieve.

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December 21, 2018 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey's large-capacity magazine restriction not only withstands the scrutiny of law, as the Third Circuit majority correctly ruled, but also passes the test of common sense.

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