New Jersey Law Journal | Live Coverage
By Colleen Murphy | December 7, 2023
"As we sit listening to prospective judges, and judges for reappointment, it is one of the first times in a long time that you cannot tell a Democrat from a Republican," Sen. Jon M. Bramnick said. "What you hear is the same type of love for their family, the same type of love for justice."
By Brenda Sapino Jeffreys | December 5, 2023
Litigation boutiques and other small firms compete for the same top law students as Big Law, so they are likely to move to the new, higher market salary and bonus scales for associates.
By Charles Toutant | December 4, 2023
Plaintiffs lawyer Jon Green said he heard messages of encouragement from lawyers whose clients were faced with fees of as much as $1,500 an hour in cases ranging from police civil rights to clergy sexual abuse.
By Charles Toutant | November 21, 2023
"As a law clerk, if the artificial intelligence tools can enable you to do what might have taken 100 hours of legal research in five or 10, that helps your judge. That helps the court get to the right answer," said Peter Torcicollo, managing director at Gibbons in Newark.
By Charles Toutant | November 17, 2023
"I think that judges generally are mindful about the fact that the litigants are paying themselves when they go to a discovery master," said Lisa Crystal, a former Superior Court judge who now is practicing alternate dispute resolution with Brach Eichler.
By Charles Toutant | November 13, 2023
The judge was wealthy and didn't need to earn a living, and as a woman, she was not encouraged to participate in her family's real estate business, said James Grimmelmann, a former law clerk.
New Jersey Law Journal | Commentary
By John Michael Vazquez | November 10, 2023
The following list of tips is by no means exhaustive. Instead, it is designed to give new lawyers a guide on important considerations when preparing a witness to testify. The following insights apply equally to expert witnesses; however, experts have additional factors to account for, which are not discussed here.
By Charles Toutant | October 23, 2023
The state is generally immune from suits, and the state's decisions concerning hiring judges are personnel decisions that are protected by the Tort Claims Act, the Attorney General's Office said in a court filing.
New Jersey Law Journal | Analysis
By Charles Toutant | October 10, 2023
When judges become eligible for a pension, the combination of the pension and earnings from being a mediator is much more than they earn on the bench, William Strasser, president of the Bergen County Bar Association, said.
By Charles Toutant | October 10, 2023
Bergen County Presiding Civil Judge John D. O'Dwyer has "really kept things moving along to the extent that it's in his control," said litigator April Gilmore of The Epstein Firm.
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