Michael Booth

February 04, 2005 |

The New Jersey Supreme Court has given little quarter to late filers of medical malpractice claims, holding that the discovery rule - which can delay the accrual date until a party discovers or should have discovered an actionable claim - is not a license to fish endlessly through medical records before filing suit.

By Michael Booth

2 minute read

September 10, 2009 |

Atlantic County Superior Court Judge Steven Perskie is charged with violating ethics canons by failing to disclose his close political relationship with a witness in a legal malpractice case and not being candid about it during his tenure hearing last year.

By Michael Booth

7 minute read

January 26, 2009 |

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday reprimanded and suspended for three months lawyer Anthony Fusco Jr., who paid his office manager $780,000 for steering personal injury cases to the firm. Fusco's partner Roy Macaluso was censured for related conduct. The firm Fusco & Macaluso had paid the office manager sums equivalent to more than one-third of the fees generated in about 700 cases, in recognition of his networking with friends, relatives and an unidentified chiropractor for prospective clients.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

November 15, 2007 |

The New Jersey Supreme Court weighs whether a lawyer's history of neglecting clients and botching cases - conduct that eventually got him disbarred - permits an inference that he did the same in defense of a criminal suspect.

By Michael Booth

3 minute read

July 03, 2007 |

A lawyer's failure to tell a court and his adversary that he is counsel of record in an appeal involving the same legal issue is cause for throwing out a settlement based in part on the murky state of the law

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

December 18, 2008 |

The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a former PaineWebber in-house attorney who claimed she was fired for complaining to supervisors about allegedly unethical conflicts of interest in the legal department. Justice Helen Hoens said the lower courts wrongly interpreted precedential rulings in concluding that mere voicing of complaints about corporate behavior within the corporation is not sufficient to uphold a retaliatory discharge claim.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

August 03, 2011 |

An American Bar Association panel is recommending an overhaul of New Jersey's attorney disciplinary system, suggesting first and foremost that the functions now handled by the district ethics committees be assumed by the Office of Attorney Ethics.

By Michael Booth

5 minute read

March 29, 2002 |

The New Jersey Supreme Court justices walk a tightrope as they try to balance First Amendment free press guarantees with a well-publicized murder suspect`s right to a fair retrial.

By Michael Booth

7 minute read

January 09, 2008 |

Real estate lawyers say they've been snake-bit by an ethics ruling that bans closing side deals known as "sellers' concessions," but the state Supreme Court doesn't seem to see a malady, much less the need for a remedy.

By Michael Booth

4 minute read

December 04, 2009 |

Free With Registration: Columbia Expansion Hits Roadblock as First Department Blocks Condemnation of 17 Acres

By Michael Booth

62 minute read