Trenton Correspondent who covers the N.J. Supreme Court, Governor, Legislature. She also contributes to The Legal Intelligencer and law.com. Suzette joined New Jersey Law Journal in Jan. 2019 from the Philadelphia Inquirer where she was a former Trenton Statehouse Correspondent and Business Reporter/Columnist. Awards: 1st Place for 2020 coverage of NJ Supreme Court; 2019 Specialized Writing Category, 5-time winner of the Business Financial Writing Portfolio Award from the New Jersey Press Association. Graduate of the Fels Center of Government/University of Pennsylvania. Email: [email protected] or follow on Twitter: @SuzParmley
October 24, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
New Co-Chairs Named for Brach Eichler's Litigation PracticeKeith Roberts and Rosaria Suriano will lead the practice of nearly three dozen attorneys, taking over for longtime practice leader Charles Gormally.
By Suzette Parmley
5 minute read
October 23, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Atlantic City Mayor the Latest to Learn of NJ Forfeiture Act's 'Teeth'Within hours of pleading guilty to wire fraud, Mayor Frank M. Gilliam Jr. was served with a forfeiture order from the state. Since April 2013, roughly 56 public officials have been convicted in federal court for crimes related to their offices, triggering the New Jersey Forfeiture of Public Office statute.
By Suzette Parmley
9 minute read
October 23, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Time to Leave: A Sample of NJ Public Servants Whose Forfeiture Orders Were Signed in 2019Each entry (culled from a list provided by the New Jersey Attorney General's Office) includes the name, date of conviction, date that the forfeiture order was signed, and a brief description of the charges.
By Suzette Parmley
3 minute read
October 23, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Office Manager Pleads to $1.7M Bank Fraud SchemeThe defendant used her position to issue fraudulent checks to herself or forged the signature of her manager on company checks, which she would later cash, prosecutors said.
By Suzette Parmley
2 minute read
October 22, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
NJ Hacker Faces Prison for CybertheftU.S. Attorney Craig Carpenito announced Tuesday that a Morris County man pleaded guilty to his role in a computer-hacking scheme that targeted two companies in New Jersey and stole employee and company data from both.
By Suzette Parmley
3 minute read
October 21, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Former Judge and Defense Attorney Named Acting County ProsecutorJames Pfeiffer, a former state Superior Court judge and longtime private practitioner handling defense and municipal work, replaces Richard Burke, the Warren County prosecutor since March 2012.
By Suzette Parmley
4 minute read
October 18, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Morris County Couple Awarded $1.3 Million in Dental Malpractice CaseA Morris County jury on Sept. 26 awarded $1.33 million to a couple in a dental malpractice case, Seergy v. Ricker. The case involved claims that…
By Suzette Parmley | David Gialanella
4 minute read
October 18, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Court to Examine Social Host Liability for Underage Adults"Prospectively ... we hold that an adult ... who is under the legal drinking age shall owe a common law duty to injured parties to desist from facilitating the drinking of alcohol by underage adults in his place of residence," said the court below in the case, which now heads to the Supreme Court.
By Suzette Parmley
4 minute read
October 17, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Porzio Opens in Puerto Rico With Former Government Official, Eyes 'Compliance Intensive' Recovery WorkBuilding on work it began there in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria, Porzio, Bromberg & Newman opened an office in Puerto Rico with the hire of former secretary of state and corporate attorney Luis Rivera-Marin.
By Suzette Parmley
4 minute read
October 16, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal
Defendant Convicted of Watching Porn in Parking Lot Fails in Constitutional Challenge to Public Obscenity Law"Watching pornography in public serves no legitimate purpose. ... [and] doing so with one's window's down, and at a restaurant's busy parking lot in full view of families, recklessly exposed pornography to young children," the Appellate Division ruled.
By Suzette Parmley
6 minute read