NJLJ.com http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/index.jsp Updated daily en-us 11/08/2009 Copyright 2009. Incisive Media US Properties, LLC. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml NJLJ.com http://www.law.com/img/nj/alert/nj_rss.gif http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/index.jsp Supreme Court Eases Restrictions on 'Super Lawyer' Advertising The state Supreme Court put New Jersey back in step with the rest of the nation Wednesday and changed the ethics rules to allow lawyers to mention their inclusion in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America or Martindale-Hubbell AV rankings. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435187615&rss=nj Firms Scammed by Overseas 'Clients' Sue Handling Banks At least two New Jersey law firms that were victimized by phony check scams have gone to court seeking to get the money back from the banks that handled the checks. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435163160&rss=nj UMDNJ Appealing McElroy Deutsch's Ouster as Counsel The University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey is challenging a judge's booting of its defense counsel, McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, from a whistleblower suit on conflict-of-interest grounds. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435218562&rss=nj Levinson Axelrod Files Suit Against Its Web Nemesis Former Levinson Axelrod associate Edward Heyburn — who expected retaliation for trashing the firm on the Web - got it last week as the firm went to court in an effort to shut down his gripe site, "Levinson Axelrod Sucks." http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435252929&rss=nj GPS Evidence in Criminal Case Held Inadmissible Absent Expert Testimony Global Positioning System readings are inadmissible without expert testimony establishing the accuracy of the specific device used, a state appeals court rules. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435191661&rss=nj Fee Award in Contract Case Must Bear Relation to Damages, High Court Says The New Jersey Supreme Court remands a $3.8 million legal fee award in a contract case so that a trial court can consider the large gap between the fees and the $2.3 million recovery. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435125988&rss=nj Municipal Lawyer's Flawed Bill Records Held To Explain 'Secret' Town Meetings Meetings with town leaders that turned up on a municipal lawyer's billing records were not secret sessions in violation of the Open Public Meetings Act, a Camden County judge has held. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435190546&rss=nj Entire Controversy Doctrine Applies to Pro Se Litigants, Appeals Court Says A plaintiff who sued his lawyer three times, two of them pro se, was 'using successive litigation as a club' and 'should not be able to sue, then investigate more, then sue, then investigate even further, ad infinitum,' the Appellate Division says. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435125218&rss=nj Law Commissioners Seek End to Writ That Permits Debtors To Be Locked Up The New Jersey Law Revision Commission wants the Legislature to erase the last vestige of civil law that allows the jailing of debtors in the state: the writ of capias ad satisfaciendum. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435128132&rss=nj N.J. to Army Corps: No Toxic Sludge New Jersey is suing to block the federal government's proposed dredging of the Delaware River, charging that plans to dump the potentially toxic sediment in New Jersey would violate a host of federal laws. http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202435159792&rss=nj