A lawyer who helped obtain a $1.25 billion settlement for thousands of Holocaust victims told the New Jersey Supreme Court yesterday that he didn’t misappropriate any client funds.
An unusual lawsuit filed against a veteran New Jersey real estate attorney by a major title insurance company has caused fellow practitioners to sit up and take notice.
A retired lawyer and investment banker in Montville, N.J., recently learned that his variable annuity with a guaranteed minimum income isn’t a sure thing.
A former New Jersey municipal judge who admittedly had some problems himself abused his authority by imposing harsh sanctions on others, the state supreme court held yesterday. For this and…
A New Jersey solo practitioner has been reprimanded for telling an opposing party in a courthouse hallway that she should be cut up and sent back to India.
Prosecutors overreached when they charged a prominent New Jersey criminal defense lawyer in a federal racketeering case, relying on unsubstantiated hearsay accusations to try to persuade a judge he is…
A second New Jersey attorney is facing federal criminal charges in connection with an claimed conspiracy by high-profile criminal defense lawyer Paul Bergin.
Embattled New Jersey criminal defense lawyer Paul Bergrin reportedly worked on at least eight state Superior Court cases in which witnesses were either murdered or allegedly paid or coached to…
Conflict-of-interest rules apply not only to lawyers in practice, but to law professors—including in-practice attorneys teaching only a single course, an adjunct professor at a state law school in New…
A former state and federal prosecutor who is now a prominent criminal defense lawyer in Newark, N.J., has been indicted in a racketeering case. It includes allegations that he conspired…
A New Jersey family court judge admittedly used bad judgment when he joked about the disabilities of two individuals appearing before him and implied in another comment apparently intended to…
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