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February 28, 2024
Retainer Signature Dispute Ends In Nixing Of NJ Billing Suit
A New Jersey law firm cannot pursue claims for unpaid bills against the operators of a nursing home it once represented, an appellate panel has ruled, upholding a trial court's finding that, because the individuals did not sign a retainer agreement as individuals, they cannot be personally liable.
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February 28, 2024
NY Bar Assoc. Building Owner Hits Ch. 11 Amid Lender Tiff
The company that controls the historic New York County Lawyers Association Building in Manhattan petitioned a New Jersey bankruptcy court for Chapter 11 protection Wednesday, estimating between $50 million and $100 million in debt, as it faces in New York a roughly $28 million lawsuit leveled by a mortgage lender.
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February 28, 2024
NJ County Clerks Raise Concerns About Ballot Lawsuit
Four New Jersey county clerks responded Wednesday to a lawsuit filed by U.S. Senate candidate Andy Kim and two others challenging the fairness of the election ballot layout, saying that "at this late date in the process" any changes to procedures "will have cascading and rippling effects on the election, officials, candidates and voters."
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February 28, 2024
4 Firms Plan To Co-Lead Suboxone Dental Decay MDL
Attorneys from Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise LLP and three other law firms have asked an Ohio federal judge to appoint them co-lead counsel for the new multidistrict litigation over opioid addiction treatment Suboxone allegedly causing dental decay, with 14 other firms seeking appointment to plaintiff leadership committees.
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February 29, 2024
Judge's Ethics Case Over Aide's Remote Work Raises Doubts
An ethics complaint against a New Jersey state judge for allowing his secretary to work remotely shows Garden State jurists are on a short leash in running their chambers, but the unusual case has left some questioning whether the conduct merits disciplinary charges.
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February 28, 2024
US Trustee Taps Ex-Prosecutor To Be FTX Examiner
The U.S. Trustee's Office has urged a Delaware bankruptcy judge to allow Robert Cleary, a former U.S. attorney who is now with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, to investigate FTX's finances as an examiner in the defunct cryptocurrency company's Chapter 11 case.
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February 28, 2024
3rd Circ. Won't Rehear Pfizer Shareholder Suit Coverage Row
Pfizer won't get a second shot at arguing its insurer should indemnify it in a settlement stemming from a 2003 shareholder class action, with the Third Circuit on Wednesday declining the pharmaceutical company's request for an en banc rehearing.
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February 28, 2024
Major Amazon Seller Thrasio Enters Ch. 11 To Cut $500M Debt
Thrasio Holdings Inc., a consumer goods company that is one of Amazon's largest third-party sellers, announced Wednesday that it entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy in New Jersey with the aim of cutting nearly $500 million in debt while bringing in more capital.
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February 27, 2024
Eagles Rocker Testifies His Draft Lyrics Were Stolen, Hawked
Eagles singer and lyricist Don Henley took the stand this week in the criminal case against three men who allegedly tried to sell what prosecutors say were the rock star's stolen draft lyric sheets, telling a state judge he never wanted anyone to see his creative "detritus."
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February 27, 2024
J&J's CMO Says He Would've Pulled Talc If It Caused Cancer
The chief medical officer at Johnson & Johnson told jurors Tuesday that his department's review of the scientific literature showed no link between baby powder use and ovarian cancer, saying he would have pulled the product from shelves if they'd found a link.
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February 27, 2024
NJ Real Estate Fund Executive Cops To $658M Ponzi Scheme
The CEO of a Garden State real estate investment fund pled guilty in New Jersey federal court on Tuesday to defrauding more than 2,000 investors through a $658 million Ponzi scheme, while also evading millions of dollars in tax liabilities, according to federal prosecutors.
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February 27, 2024
Atty Isn't Liable As Husband's Firm Partner, NJ Panel Says
A New Jersey appellate panel on Tuesday said retired attorney Gail Beran isn't liable for malpractice in connection with her husband's failure to file a bankruptcy on time, because his then-clients didn't rely on the idea that she was a partner when they decided to hire the firm.
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February 27, 2024
NJ Investment Adviser Indicted In $5M Financing Fee Scheme
A New Jersey investment adviser has been charged with fraudulently collecting millions of dollars in fees from people seeking funding for commercial projects and misappropriating at least $800,000 for his own personal benefit, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of New Jersey said in an indictment filed on Tuesday.
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February 27, 2024
Hospital Groups Allege Opioid Crisis Damaged Their Finances
More than 20 hospitals and related companies have joined multidistrict litigation over the opioid epidemic, alleging in a massive new complaint that pharmacies, drug distributors and others contributed to a crisis that damaged hospitals' finances and strained their ability to help patients.
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February 27, 2024
NJ Jeweler Charged With Wire Fraud In Duty-Dodging Scheme
A New Jersey-based jeweler has been accused of dodging customs duties by misrepresenting what countries his goods were coming from and using his multiple businesses in New York's Diamond District to conduct millions of dollars of unlicensed money transfers.
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February 27, 2024
Careismatic Creditors Lash Out At DIP Proposal
Prepetition lien lenders for bankrupt medical scrubs distributor Careismatic Brands LLC are using an agreement aimed at funding the company's Chapter 11 case to swipe potential recoveries from unsecured creditors, those unsecured creditors have told a New Jersey bankruptcy court.
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February 27, 2024
NJ Panel Rebuffs Patent Atty In Breakup Feud With Ex-Firm
The efforts of a Garden State intellectual property lawyer to get additional compensation when he cashed out of a law firm partnership in 2019 were rebuffed Tuesday by a New Jersey appellate panel, which tossed his appeal but sent the question of $830,000 in attorney fees back to the trial court for reconsideration.
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February 27, 2024
3rd Circ. Won't Reconsider Coverage Ruling For Deli Stabbing
The Third Circuit declined to review its decision that an insurer for a Philadelphia deli does not owe coverage for a $900,000 settlement reached with a man stabbed on the premises.
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February 27, 2024
Law Firm Must Pay Rust-Oleum After Expert Divulged Formula
A New Jersey federal judge has ordered de Luca Levine to pay attorney fees to Rust-Oleum Corp. amid ongoing litigation over property damage that allegedly occurred when a company wood stain caused a house fire, saying the firm failed to obey a discovery confidentiality order.
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February 27, 2024
Feds Want Classified Info Shield In Menendez Bribery Case
Prosecutors asked a Manhattan federal judge to shield classified information they plan to introduce in the bribery case against Sen. Robert Menendez.
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February 27, 2024
NJ Town Residents Say Cannabis Laws Violate Federal Law
A group of residents of Highland Park, New Jersey, are suing the town, aiming to overturn town ordinances allowing for the sale and distribution of cannabis, saying they are in conflict with the federal Controlled Substances Act and state law.
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February 26, 2024
Clement, Prelogar Odd Bedfellows In Social Media Showdown
After GOP-led states targeted perceived stifling of conservative voices on social media, Monday's oral arguments at the U.S. Supreme Court could have featured predictable partisan fissures. But the case instead illustrated that legal ideology in the digital age is sometimes surprising.
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February 26, 2024
Justices Say Social Media Speech Laws Pose 'Land Mines'
The U.S. Supreme Court seemed skeptical Monday of the constitutionality of Florida and Texas laws prohibiting social media platforms from removing content or users based on viewpoint, but struggled with whether the still-developing records in the lawsuits challenging the regulations could support a meaningful ruling on platforms' First Amendment rights.
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February 26, 2024
Dry Cleaning Magazine In NJ Must Pay $8.2M For Defamation
A dry-cleaning industry publication was hit with an $8.2 million verdict by a New Jersey federal jury on Friday on claims that it ran a yearslong defamation campaign in its magazines against a dry-cleaning supply business and its competing trade publication.
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February 26, 2024
JetBlue, Spirit Tell 1st Circ. $3.8B Deal Is Good For Most Fliers
JetBlue Airways and Spirit Airlines told the First Circuit on Monday that a $3.8 billion merger should not have been blocked because the judge who stopped the sale sought to protect a small, hypothetical subset of travelers to the detriment of the vast majority who stand to benefit from the deal.
Expert Analysis
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Lawyer Discernment Is Critical In The World Of AI
In light of growing practical concerns about risks and challenges posed by artificial intelligence, lawyers' experience with the skill of discernment will position them to help address new ethical and moral dilemmas and ensure that AI is developed and deployed in a way that benefits society as a whole, says Jennifer Gibbs at Zelle.
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Opinion
8th Circ. Judge Is Right — Climate Suits Should Be Federal
While the Eighth Circuit recently ruled that Minnesota v. American Petroleum Institute, a climate change lawsuit, belongs in state court, a concurring opinion from one judge on the panel offers a convincing argument that questions involving alleged climate liability can only be resolved at the federal level, says former Maine Attorney General Andrew Ketterer.
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Opinion
It's Time For Lawyers To Stand Up For Climate Justice
The anniversary this week of the Deepwater Horizon disaster offers an opportunity for attorneys to embrace the practice of just transition lawyering — leveraging our skills to support communities on the front lines of climate change and environmental catastrophe as they pursue rebuilding and transformation, says Amy Laura Cahn at Taproot Earth.
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Don't Forget Alumni Engagement When Merging Law Firms
Neglecting law firm alumni programs after a merger can sever the deep connections attorneys have with their former firms, but by combining good data management and creating new opportunities to reconnect, firms can make every member in their expanded network of colleagues feel valued, say Clare Roath and Erin Warner at Troutman Pepper.
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NJ's Natural Resource Damage Order May Be Helpful For Cos.
A recent New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection order clarifying its natural resource damage enforcement practices may finally provide regulated companies with long-sought guidance to assess environmental liability at contaminated sites in a reasonable and cost-effective manner, say attorneys at Archer & Greiner.
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Without Stronger Due Diligence, Attys Risk AML Regulation
Amid increasing pressure to mitigate money laundering and terrorism financing risks in gatekeeper professions, the legal industry will need to clarify and strengthen existing client due diligence measures — or risk the federal regulation attorneys have long sought to avoid, says Jeremy Glicksman at the Nassau County District Attorney’s Office.
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Insureds' Notice Pleading May Be Insufficient In Federal Court
A recent New Jersey federal court ruling in Bauman v. Hanover Insurance held that bare-bones notice pleading was insufficient and dismissed the policyholder's coverage complaint, a reminder that courts may require more than an expression of general disagreement with an insurance company's denial letter to proceed with the case, says Eugene Killian at The Killian Firm.
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Cannabis Labor Peace Laws Lay Fertile Ground For Unions
State legislatures are increasingly passing cannabis laws that encourage or even mandate labor peace agreements as a condition for licensure, and though open questions remain about the constitutionality of such statutes, unionization efforts are unlikely to slow down, says Peter Murphy at Saul Ewing.
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Every Lawyer Can Act To Prevent Peer Suicide
Members of the legal industry can help prevent suicide among their colleagues, and better protect their own mental health, by learning the predictors and symptoms of depression among attorneys and knowing when and how to get practical aid to peers in crisis, says Joan Bibelhausen at Minnesota Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers.
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Building On Successful Judicial Assignment Reform In Texas
Prompt action by the Judicial Conference could curtail judge shopping and improve the efficiency and procedural fairness of the federal courts by implementing random districtwide assignment of cases, which has recently proven successful in Texas patent litigation, says Dabney Carr at Troutman Pepper.
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Do Videoconferences Establish Jurisdiction With Defendants?
What it means to have minimum contacts in a foreign jurisdiction is changing as people become more accustomed to meeting via video, and defendants’ participation in videoconferencing may be used as a sword or a shield in courts’ personal jurisdiction analysis, says Patrick Hickey at Moye White.
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Prepare Now To Comply With NJ Temp Worker Law
New Jersey temporary staffing firms and their clients must prepare now for the time-consuming compliance requirements created by the controversial new Temporary Laborers' Bill of Rights, or face steep penalties when the law's strict wage, benefit and record-keeping rules go live in May and August, say attorneys at Duane Morris.
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Opinion
Humanism Should Replace Formalism In The Courts
The worrying tendency for judges to say "it's just the law talking, not me" in American decision writing has coincided with an historic decline in respect for the courts, but this trend can be reversed if courts develop understandable legal standards and justify them in human terms, says Connecticut Superior Court Judge Thomas Moukawsher.
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Don't Let Client Demands Erode Law Firm Autonomy
As clients increasingly impose requirements for attorney hiring and retention related to diversity and secondment, law firms must remember their ethical duties, as well as broader issues of lawyer development, culture and firm integrity, to maintain their independence while meaningfully responding to social changes, says Deborah Winokur at Cozen O'Connor.
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Distressed Cannabis Cos. Have A Few Options, With Caveats
As the cannabis industry falls on tough times and a potential recession looms, attorneys should understand the limited restructuring options available to distressed cannabis businesses, absent key bankruptcy protections — and the pitfalls these options may present, say Griffen Thorne and Ethan Minkin at Harris Bricken.