ADOPTEES A Senate panel approves a bill to allow them, as adults, to seek birth certificates through the state Health Department.
CIVIL LAWYERS, LITIGANTS The chief justice convenes a committee to come up with ways to expedite civil case processing and resolution.
VETERANS A package of newly introduced bills is aimed at making it easier for them to finish college and to get jobs.
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CONVERSION THERAPISTS A bill approved by an Assembly committee would ban providing gay-to-straight therapy to children.
MICHAEL W. KWASNIK The Cherry Hill attorney must pay $1.2M in restitution for misappropriating client funds.
STATE FIREMEN'S ASSOCIATION A state appeals court finds the organization, owing its existence to state law and supported in part by taxes, is a public agency subject to the Open Public Records Act.