Charles Toutant

November 17, 2004 | The Legal Intelligencer

There's no getting around the facts: Law is a business, law firms are companies and companies need corporate counsel.

By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

April 18, 2005 | New Jersey Law Journal

A trial judge has let the air out of a car dealer's offer of coupons instead of cash to settle a class action suit over alleged overcharges to customers.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

April 28, 2010 | Law.com

A federal jury in Newark, N.J., has found, after a 14-day trial, that three generic drugmakers infringed Pfizer Inc.'s patent on its acid-reflux drug Protonix. The jury found that Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Kudco Ireland and Sun Pharma Global infringed on the patent when they filed applications with the Food and Drug Administration to sell generic versions of Protonix. The patent is held by Nycomed of Switzerland. Pfizer said it will seek treble damages for its lost profits.

By Charles Toutant

2 minute read

October 22, 2010 | New Jersey Law Journal

Despite a state Supreme Court dictate that Alcotest machines be recalibrated every six months, failure to do it is not grounds to suppress a reading, an appeals court says.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

February 25, 2002 | New Jersey Law Journal

A law firm can represent a murder defendant even though it once represented the man he is accused of murdering, as a split appeals panel rules that any ethical concerns about conflicts of interest and appearance of impropriety do not mitigate against allowing a capital defendant the counsel of his choice.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

December 29, 2006 | New Jersey Law Journal

A law firm that abandoned a school superintendent so it could keep the school district as a client is disqualified from representing both, an appeals court rules.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read

January 04, 2010 | Corporate Counsel

The owners of a successful pretzel business allege in a malpractice suit that a Philadelphia lawyer's inexperience cost them as much as $100 million worth of licensing dough, reports sibling publication the New Jersey Law Journal.

By By Charles Toutant

6 minute read

April 20, 2011 | New Jersey Law Journal

A candidate for a State Bar Association trustee seat who sent campaign literature via the organization's e-mail distributor has been banned from using it for the rest of the election, while her opponent gets one shot at a fair response.

By Charles Toutant

4 minute read

January 23, 2006 | Law.com

Drunken driving prosecutions based on New Jersey's new blood-alcohol testing device may go forward now that the state Supreme Court has ruled the test results admissible. The justices said readings from the Alcotest 7110, in use in 11 counties, may support a drunken driving conviction, and lifted stays of Alcotest-based drunken driving cases entered last month. But the court also said sentencings generally would be delayed until a special master holds hearings about the device's scientific reliability.

By Charles Toutant

5 minute read

May 05, 2003 | New Jersey Law Journal

The state Supreme Court last Wednesday suspended without pay Stephen Thompson, a respected and popular Camden County judge, following his arrest the same day for possession of child pornography.

By Charles Toutant

3 minute read