Litigators whose local courts are facing trial stoppages are exasperated but resigned to the New Jersey judiciary’s plan to halt civil and matrimonial trials in six counties because of a shortage of judges.

The pandemic taught plaintiff-side lawyers that settlements are rare when there are no trial dates hanging over lawyers’ heads, and that phenomenon is expected to continue under the moratorium.

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