Credit: Shutterstock.com Appellate Court Rejects Relief: 'Attorney's Lack of Diligence' Doesn't Satisfy Failure to Appear for Court-Ordered Arbitration
"An attorney's lack of diligence, or inadvertent failure to act timely, is generally insufficient to satisfy the circumstances requiring relief from an arbitration award," according a June 14 per curiam opinion.
June 14, 2023 at 05:16 PM
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Civil Appeals
The New Jersey Appellate Division declined to reinstate plaintiff Leslie J. Deans' personal injury claim and found that she failed to demonstrate extraordinary circumstances as to why she and her attorney failed to appear for court-ordered arbitration in the matter.
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