By Cheryl Miller | October 31, 2023
The state bar's latest discipline report looked at gender, race and ethnicity for the first time.
By Lisa Willis | October 31, 2023
Two attorneys were disbarred, one had the license revoked, and four were suspended.
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By Colleen Murphy | October 31, 2023
Suspended New Jersey attorney Scott Marinelli of Mountainside has pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud and an additional six counts of aggravated identity theft in federal court in Pennsylvania.
By Colleen Murphy | October 31, 2023
Suspended New Jersey attorney Scott Marinelli of Mountainside has pleaded guilty to six counts of wire fraud and an additional six counts of aggravated identity theft in federal court in Pennsylvania.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 30, 2023
(1) A part-time town justice may appear as assigned counsel in another county, or before non-lawyer judges or full-time judges in the same county, and may submit vouchers for assigned counsel work already completed.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 29, 2023
(1) A full-time city court judge whose part-time co-judge is an assistant county attorney need not recuse from cases in which other attorneys from the county attorney's office appear, provided that the co-judge has had absolutely no involvement in the matter. (2) A full-time city court judge may accept an appointment by the city to serve on the board of a not-for-profit organization that receives state funding to rehabilitate blighted properties, provided the organization is not likely to appear in the judge's court or to be engaged regularly in adversary proceedings in any court.
By Cheryl Miller | October 27, 2023
Former Girardi & Keese attorney Keith Griffin is facing disbarment for failing to tell the truth to families of victims of the 2018 Lion Air crash. But Griffin said former leaders of the now-defunct firm are responsible for withholding the families' settlement funds, not him.
By Allison Dunn | October 27, 2023
A recent ruling allowing Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison to continue representing Google in antitrust litigation, despite not seeking a waiver from former client Yelp, shows it takes more than alleging an inherent client conflict to get a large firm kicked off a case.
By Committee on Judicial Ethics | October 26, 2023
(1) A full-time judge may assist a not-for-profit organization in developing a training program designed to educate medical professionals, first responders and others on assessing, evaluating and responding to domestic violence situations, provided the program and participants are not so imbalanced as to cast doubt on the judge's impartiality. (2) The judge may also participate in presenting the training, provided the panels on which the judge serves are "balanced" and the judge abides by generally applicable limitations on judicial speech and conduct, including the public comment rule.
By Lisa Willis | October 26, 2023
Prosecutors say an alleged scammer got one law firm to offer him a job with a $185,000 salary and $5,000 signing bonus, while another was set to pay him $195,000 with a $10,000 signing bonus.
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