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August 05, 2010 |

New Jersey Lawyers' Fund for Client Protection v. Stewart Title Guaranty Co.

The title insurance company is not liable for an attorney's theft of his clients' funds when there was no agency relationship between the company and the attorney at the time of the theft.
5 minute read
February 11, 2010 |

Travelers Indemnity Co. v. Dammann & Co. Inc.

The economic loss doctrine bars plaintiff's attempt to assert a tort claim seeking damages for foreseeable losses for which it could have contractually allocated risk.
5 minute read
November 19, 2012 |

Uncommon Application of the Commonality Requirement

Recent decisions demonstrate that in deciding motions for class certification after Wal-Mart v. Dukes, federal courts in New Jersey require plaintiffs to demonstrate that questions common to the class will produce common answers that can resolve issues central to the validity of each claim in the class action.
8 minute read
October 26, 2009 |

New Associates Find Work but Remain Mindful of Bad Economy

Before graduating law school, Jennifer Brooks had already lined up her first associate job -- until the firm rescinded her job offer. About a year and a half later, Brooks is now a first-year associate at Conway & Stoughton. Associates have been cut by the hundreds since last year, and law school students who thought they had jobs this fall found that they wouldn't start until next year or that they didn't have a job at all. So new associates who are finding jobs aren't taking things for granted.
6 minute read
October 17, 2012 |

Induced Infringement Is in the Limelight

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has rewritten the law of induced patent infringement. A slim majority held that a person may be liable for inducing infringement even though no other person is liable for infringing the patent directly. Supreme Court review is possible, and lengthy dissents appear to lay the groundwork for further consideration.
6 minute read
April 26, 2010 |

Bank lobbyists swarm Senate

Lobbyists for banks and finance companies big and small were crawling all over Capitol Hill last week as the Senate worked on a bill to overhaul the financial regulatory system. But senators, it seemed, only saw the ones that represented local business back home.
6 minute read
March 07, 2012 |

A New Act for Trade Secrets

What it means that N.J. has adopted the Uniform Trade Secrets Act.
7 minute read
January 17, 2007 |

Is Succession Planning Necessary for Law Firm and Law Department Success?

As a nod to the most ancient roots of the legal profession, a majority of law firms and legal departments rely on informal apprenticeships, rather than more structured programs, when grooming successors, a national study reports. Robert Half Legal, a staffing agency for firms and legal departments, found that 53 percent of 300 lawyers surveyed at large law firms or companies said they had no set plan to identify and groom successors. But is that as dangerous as playing a game of Russian roulette?
5 minute read
October 09, 2013 |

Thanks to Dunes Case, Compensation for Partial Takings Will Likely Go Down

How much is an ocean view worth, compared to the protection offered by dunes?
7 minute read

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