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December 10, 2002 | Law.com

Fired Lawyer Challenges Employee Handbook Waiver of Jury Trial

More and more companies in New Jersey are requiring new employees to agree to rely on arbitration rather than the courts to settle workplace disputes. The question argued Dec. 2 at the state supreme court is what steps employers must take to assure that the employee's waiver of a jury trial is a knowing and voluntary waiver. In this case, the employee trying to get out of the arbitration clause is a lawyer.
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December 15, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

Natural Resource Damage Claims: A Transactional Perspective

The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection recently announced a new initiative designed to compel responsible parties to compensate the State of New Jersey for the value of injury to the state's natural resources. These natural resource damage claims will provide an additional source of concern for New Jersey's business community and counsel.
8 minute read
December 04, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

Accident Caused by Intentional Wrong Found Covered by Workers' Comp

When a worker is hurt as a result of his employer's alteration of industrial machinery, the workers' compensation carrier is on the hook despite policy language excluding "intentionally caused" injuries from coverage, New Jersey's Supreme Court has ruled.
4 minute read
January 12, 2004 | New Jersey Law Journal

U.S. Education Department Probing Seton Hall for Reverse Discrimination

Seton Hall University School of Law is the focus of an investigation by the U.S. Department of Education for allegedly discriminating against white law students, according to officials at the school and the department. The probe, by the department's Office for Civil Rights, is looking at a minority mentoring program and a job fair held last July.
6 minute read
April 20, 2000 | Law.com

New Jersey's Biggest Firms on Track With Modest Growth

New Jersey's legal economy continued on a path of cautious expansion in 1999, as the state's bellwether firms added lawyers at a modest 3 percent rate.
3 minute read
June 01, 2007 | Law.com

Wal-Mart Workers' Wage and Hour Suit Valid as Class Action, N.J. Court Says

Hourly employees of Wal-Mart who claim they were forced to work off the clock and to miss rest and meal breaks may pursue a class action suit in New Jersey, the state's Supreme Court said Thursday. The justices found that the workers had raised common questions of law or fact, that a class action was the superior method of adjudication and that case-management problems predicted by trial and appeals courts could be overcome. The putative class consists of about 72,000 current and former hourly employees.
4 minute read
November 30, 2009 | New Jersey Law Journal

In the Matter of the Provision of Basic Generation Service for the Period Beginning June 1, 2008

The Board of Public Utilities properly approved the pass-through to utility ratepayers of a portion of the costs of solar renewable energy certificates.
6 minute read
February 26, 2001 | Law.com

Movers & Shakers

Follow lawyers' career moves and law firms' transformations each week with "Movers & Shakers." This week, Philadelphia's Cozen & O'Connor has hired two new attorneys. Judge Seymour Benson, a Seminole County, Fla., Circuit Judge, joined the Orlando office of Tampa's Holland & Knight. And Dorsey & Whitney will expand its Asian practice with an office in Shanghai.
3 minute read
May 15, 2001 | Law.com

Turnpike Incident Colors View of New York City Bar Lawyer

Laila M. Maher set out from Washington, D.C., for what she thought would be a pleasant visit to New York City in 1995. But the trip turned nightmarish when, she alleges in a lawsuit, a New Jersey state trooper put a gun to her head during an unwarranted traffic stop. "I don't enjoy talking about this," says Maher, an advocate for homeless New Yorkers. "But it's the only hope of changing society -- to keep talking."
8 minute read
June 04, 2007 | Law.com

Wal-Mart Workers' Wage and Hour Suit Valid as Class Action, N.J. Court Says

Hourly employees of Wal-Mart who claim they were forced to work off the clock and to miss rest and meal breaks may pursue a class action suit in New Jersey, the state's Supreme Court said Thursday. The justices found that the workers had raised common questions of law or fact, that a class action was the superior method of adjudication and that case-management problems predicted by trial and appeals courts could be overcome. The putative class consists of about 72,000 current and former hourly employees.
4 minute read

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