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July 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

New Jersey Top 40: Specialty Practices, Room for Rate Increases Boosted Law Firm Revenue

According to this year's annual New Jersey Top 40 report, only four firms saw significant revenue declines, while 17 saw gross revenue growth of more than 5% compared with 2022.
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July 25, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

3 New Jersey Supreme Court Decisions Significantly Impact Megan's Law

"It is heartening that ... the New Jersey Supreme Court has taken another step toward bringing the law into line with psychological science," write Robert Perry and Zachary Yeoman.
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July 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Attorney: Evenly Divided NJ High Court Still Offers 'Flexible, Protective Standard' for Employment-Related Tort Claims Against Religious Institutions

"Today is a very good day for religious liberty. The court unanimously adopted a flexible and protective standard for evaluating employment-related tort claims brought against religious institutions, and its specific holding will provide those institutions with important legal protections in communicating with their faith communities without fear of groundless defamation claims," said Akiva Shapiro, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher who served as counsel for the Rosenbaum Yeshiva defendants.
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July 24, 2024 | Law.com

Things Could Get Confusing After Dueling Rulings on Noncompetes

"Come September, if this situation persists, there will be garden-variety, noncompete employment cases in courts across the country where defendants, whether employees switching companies or companies hiring employees in the face of noncompetes from their prior job, will likely assert that the FTC is a defense to the enforcement of a noncompete," attorney John Siegal said.
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July 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

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July 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

$220K Settlement Reached For Injured Elbow in Slip and Fall

A man who suffered an injured elbow as a result of a slip and fall has won a $220,000 settlement. The case, Rodriguez v. Chen, was filed in Bergen…
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July 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Federal Circuit's 'LKQ' Decision Strikes Down Long-Standing Test for Design Patent Obviousness

"Whether the 'new' standard will prove significantly less stringent in practice is just one of many open questions," writes Greenberg Traurig's James Ryerson.
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July 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Jackson Lewis Enters Appearance for US Chess, Seeks to Move Whistleblower Suit to Federal Court

In a post on social media, Jennifer Shahade said U.S. Chess "has thus far ignored my lawyers follow-ups on their own mediation offer." She also said her legal team anticipates that U.S. Chess will attempt to take the case out of New Jersey and move it to a state more beneficial to the defendants.
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July 24, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Draws Yet Another Challenge

"So it doesn't matter what the content of the act is. If the act violated the quorum clause in the way it was passed through Congress, then it's invalid, no matter how laudable the goals of the legislation might be. If a law is unconstitutional, it's unconstitutional," plaintiff's attorney Eric Heigis said.
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July 23, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

$1.6 Million Settlement Reached for Construction Worker Injured in High-Rise Scaffolding Accident

A $1.6 million settlement has been reached for a Hackensack construction worker injured when an electrical cord broke free from the scaffolding above and fell nearly 37 floors, striking the man and causing serious injuries.
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