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Professionals Not Protected From Long Arm of Consumer Fraud Act
Doctors are members of highly regulated professions, but when they enter the marketplace, they step into the noose of the state Consumer Fraud Act, the Appellate Division ruled last Thursday. The ruling is a warning for lawyers, as the judges explicitly cast aside the idea of treating professionals differently than other advertisers of services to the public.N.J. Firms Hike First-Year Pay, Bulk Up on New Hires
New Jersey's large firms are hiring larger classes of new associates and boosting first-year salaries by more than 10 percent, a Law Journal survey findsTwo N.J. Firms Cross Delaware by Acquiring Compatible Pa. Shops
Two New Jersey firms are opening shop in Pennsylvania this month by acquiring existing ones. For McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter of Morristown, the branch office in waiting is 15-lawyer Monteverde, McAlee & Hurd of Philadelphia. And for Princeton's Hill Wallack, it's three-lawyer Sullivan & Sullivan of Langhorne, Pa. McElroy Deutsch managing partner Edward Deutsch says that for years his firm's corporate clients have held out the offer of their Philadelphia work if only the firm had a presence there.Federal Judge Dismisses Suit by Prosecutor's Former Political Rival
A federal judge last week largely dismissed a lawsuit that alleged Brooklyn District Attorney Charles J. Hynes and New York state court officials had violated the rights of Sandra E. Roper, a former political challenger of Hynes. Judge William H. Pauley III said Roper could not sustain her allegations against the defendants in their official capacities. Roper lost her job as a court attorney for Civil Court Judge Peter Sweeney after a special prosecutor indicted her for fraud, forgery and larceny in 2003.Bill Would Make It a Crime to Use Public Records for Solicitation
Lawyers have debated for years whether it's good marketing to gather names of potential clients from court and police records and woo them with solicitation letters. But under a Senate bill introduced last month in New Jersey, lawyers who engage in the practice would be committing a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. State Bar President Wayne Positan, however, says it's not the Legislature that regulates lawyers: "It's the province of the Supreme Court and the Rules of Professional Conduct."However Hard the Market Falls, Soft Landing Seen for IP Lawyers
Despite gloom among the dot-coms, intellectual property law will remain the hottest big-firm practice area in New Jersey in 2001, and employment law will be strong, too, recruiting experts predict. Placement executives and hiring partners around the state also say that although a downturn in the business cycle now appears to be inevitable, there are no signs of a slackening legal market.Social Security Payments Creditable Under Statute
Like insurance premiums, Social Security contributions may be credited in determining deductions from personal injury awards under New Jersey's collateral-source statute, the Appellate Division has ruled.Summer Associates Are N.J. Firms' Fall Hires
New Jersey's largest firms are offering full-time jobs to this year's summer associates at a rate of 87 percent. Hiring partners and coordinators say it's a sign that this year's crop worked hard and that the firms made accurate estimates of their entry level lawyer needs for 2006. At the 18 big firms that have decided on offers to summer associates, 97 of the 110 eligible students were picked.Trending Stories
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