The New Jersey Supreme Court on Tuesday ordered a new trial for a former PaineWebber in-house attorney who claimed she was fired for complaining to supervisors about allegedly unethical conflicts of interest in the legal department.

The court, in Tartaglia v. PaineWebber, A-107/108-06, agreed with Maria Tartaglia that she did not have to complain first to an external authority in order to sustain a retaliatory discharge claim.

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