Because she repaid her employer in full after allegedly stealing nearly $32,000, a former bookkeeper and office manager for a small New Jersey law firm could avoid having any conviction…
Four U.S. marshals will be in the courtroom as attorney Paul Bergrin goes on trial in federal court in Newark, N.J., next month. He faces a racketeering case in which…
A New Jersey criminal defense lawyer who formerly worked as a Hudson County prosecutor had taken a plea in a tax evasion case and agreed to give up his law…
A federal judge in Albany has agreed with a New Jersey solo practitioner that a New York law is unconstitutional. It requires out-of-state attorneys licensed to practice in New York…
A disbarred lawyer and a paralegal in New Jersey are accused in a state lawsuit of duping inmates with a phony nonprofit promising legal aid and consulting services.
Updated: Once a New Jersey criminal defense lawyer best-known for his trial work on behalf of major gang figures and rap artists, Paul Bergrin has been jailed since 2009 on…
In a landmark ruling today, the New Jersey Supreme court changed procedural and evidentiary rules concerning eyewitness identification of suspects, saying that 30 years of scientific research had showed it…
A bank that sued to foreclose a New Jersey mortgage in 2008 is back on square one after a state appeals court ruling yesterday that its filing was defective because…
A New Jersey lawyer is facing criminal charges for allegedly participating in a scheme to bilk real estate investors by falsely claiming they were the target of an Internal Revenue…
A motion to disqualify Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman from continuing to represent the plaintiff insurer in a hard-fought lawsuit against multiple hedge funds contends that the law firm contacted…
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been asked to expand its investigation of possible telephone voicemail hacking in the United States by individuals and entities related to Rupert Murdoch’s News…
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