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May 30, 2008 |

The A-List (51-200)

Lawyers like to lament the passing of their fabled past, when partners knew each other on sight, firms contented themselves to operating in one ZIP code and junior associates were not a menacing anonymous horde threatening to take out their frustrations via the blogosphere. As it happens, in the big-firm world those days aren't gone, they've just moved to the Am Law Second Hundred ranks, where firms are prosperous and growing steadily but retain the possibility of old-fashioned cohesion.
28 minute read
August 08, 2003 |

In the Forefront of Terror Cases

New Jersey, often used as a petri dish for new legal processes since the Sept. 11 attacks, may boast the largest number of lawyers and judicial officers with hands-on experience in terror issues. Two such lawyers are looking at options for freeing an "enemy combatant" held incommunicado in a South Carolina military jail. Noting that the man was not captured in battle or accused of links to 9/11, attorney Lawrence Lustberg says, "We have an issue that nobody else has litigated."
8 minute read
July 11, 2005 |

Eminent-Domain Opponents Using 'Kelo' as a Sword

When the U.S. Supreme Court ruled last month that economic development can be a valid public purpose for eminent domain, Justice Anthony Kennedy's concurrence left a chance that the Court might revisit the issue if "confronted with a plausible accusation of impermissible favoritism to private parties."
6 minute read
August 04, 2003 |

New Jersey Lawyers Take Lead Roles Defending 'Enemy Combatant' Cases

Arguably, New Jersey now offers more lawyers and judicial officers with hands-on experience in terror issues than any other state. Two of the three "enemy combatant" cases are represented by New Jersey lawyers. In the third case, an idealistic nonlawyer filed a "next friend" habeas petition on behalf of a U.S. citizen arrested on the battlefield in Afghanistan.
8 minute read
March 18, 2004 |

Franchiser's Lawyers Conduct 'Drug Raid'-Style Discovery

Disqualification motions filed against lawyers for 7-Eleven Corp. over strong-arm discovery tactics have brought a case involving millions of dollars and public policy issues to a standstill. One issue is that lawyers for 7-Eleven showed up without notice at an opposing lawyer's New Jersey office requiring immediate production of documents to bolster allegations that franchisees were defrauding the company.
9 minute read
February 07, 2005 |

Businesses May Face Heavier Cleanup Costs

For the second time in ten years, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection is seeking to establish regulatory cleanup standards for contaminated soils.
14 minute read
August 16, 2002 |

New Court Rules You Needed -- and Some You Didn't

A 2-inch thick raft of changes to the New Jersey rules of court is due to be implemented Sept. 3. Highlights of the changes include: allowing jurors to ask questions in civil trials; shielding initial drafts of expert reports from the pretrial discovery process; raising the dollar limits of suits in small claims and special civil courts; and allowing the state's high court to suspend judges more easily.
6 minute read
September 14, 2005 |

Summer Associates Are N.J. Firms' Fall Hires

New Jersey's largest firms are offering full-time jobs to this year's summer associates at a rate of 87 percent. Hiring partners and coordinators say it's a sign that this year's crop worked hard and that the firms made accurate estimates of their entry level lawyer needs for 2006. At the 18 big firms that have decided on offers to summer associates, 97 of the 110 eligible students were picked.
6 minute read
June 03, 2004 |

Defenses to Preference Actions

One of your bigger customers has filed a Chapter 11 petition in bankruptcy court, leaving you with unpaid invoices. To add insult to injury, you receive a summons and complaint in the mail from the lawyers for your debtor or the bankruptcy trustee suing your company for recovery of payments that you received from the debtor within the 90 days prior to the bankruptcy based upon the preference section of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. What are your options?
7 minute read
February 24, 2003 |

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