http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/index.jsp Updated daily en-us 02/11/2008 Copyright 2006 ALM Properties, Inc. All rights reserved. http://www.law.com/service/terms_conditions.shtml http://www.law.com/img/nj/alert/nj_rss.gifhttp://www.law.com/jsp/nj/index.jsp A New Jersey appeals court on Friday reversed a judge's order that had disqualified a former assistant attorney general from defending a state trooper implicated in a rape investigation.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202297443185&rss=njTwo lawyers facing one-year suspensions for sharing fees with employees at the defunct Tomar, Simonoff firm argue that the payments were part of an ethical "bonus" plan, not a sleazy scheme like using runners.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202211785168&rss=njThe New Jersey Supreme Court calms the worries of lawyers, lenders and brokers that a 2006 ethics ruling spelled doom for sellers' concessions in real estate deals. It doesn't, as long as there's no fraud on the lender, the Court says.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202297431393&rss=njA New Jersey deputy attorney general on Tuesday begged the state Supreme Court to 'stop the insanity' in drunken-driving trials by letting prosecution expert witnesses testify by video remote or other means that don't require their appearance.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202211784997&rss=njThe bar organization that represents federal court practitioners in New Jersey is giving unalloyed support to mandatory continuing legal education and wants the Supreme Court to use neighboring states' programs as models.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202423012898&rss=njWhen Irwin Seligsohn surrenders to law enforcement authorities on March 1, he will be the first New Jersey lawyer to be jailed for using runners to drum up personal injury cases.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202297429524&rss=njInstallation of cabinets and other woodwork in a new house is "home improvement" within the meaning of the N.J. Consumer Fraud Act and its regulations, and a cabinetmaker hired directly by a homeowner for finish work is subject to suit, a state appeals court rules.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202297432845&rss=njA case with sympathetic facts could lead to a New Jersey Supreme Court ruling that opens up automobile insurers to suit for misrepresenting coverage limits to policy holders, leaving them partially uninsured when disaster strikes.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202385712572&rss=njThe state Supreme Court is deliberating whether an allegedly beaten child's hospital-bed statement to a social worker is admissible in a criminal trial without the child's cross-examinationhttp://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202385712568&rss=njThe National Arbitration Forum wants to overturn a New Jersey Supreme Court committee's ruling that nurse appearances as insurance-company representatives at PIP arbitrations constitutes the unauthorized practice of law.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202136229036&rss=njLegislation that would give federal judges their first substantial pay raise in 17 years have been cleared by committees in both houses of Congress.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202136230129&rss=njObituarieshttp://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202469645727&rss=njThe New Jersey Assembly on Thursday passed a measure to require Internet service providers to remove images of child pornography from their servers or face criminal contempt.http://www.law.com/jsp/nj/PubArticleNJ.jsp?id=1202469645782&rss=nj