Telling a federal judge she was truly sorry and would never make the same mistake again, a 36-year-old New Jersey legal assistant was sentenced to probation instead of prison for…
Reprimanded for failing to disclose a romantic relationship with a bailiff in his courtroom, a former part-time New Jersey municipal judge says he has filed a federal lawsuit against the…
Mark Frost has been through some hard times since the breakup of his New Jersey law firm, so he sought a reduction in the $9,500 per month alimony he is…
A Philadelphia-area lawyer who punched his opposing counsel in a courthouse stairwell will serve six months of probation and 75 hours of community service for the assault.
Slapping a teenage child isn’t admirable. But it also falls short of establishing a basis for removing the girl from her home, even when that home has a broken furnace…
When South Jersey Legal Services had to lay off 30 employees last year due to funding cuts, four former workers there saw an opportunity to “bridge the justice gap.”
A New Jersey lawyer has been reprimanded for forging two clients’ signatures on releases for an unauthorized settlement, appending his own signature as a “witness” and then attesting in the…
Hackers used a so-called 3G account slurper script to hack into AT&T servers last June and steal passwords and other information for some 120,000 iPad users, federal authorities contend.
A federal appeals court has ruled that an elderly widow can sue a law firm for unfair debt collection practices, even though the alleged wrongdoing occurred in communications between the…
An inexperienced attorney, licensed in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, got into trouble by helping a Delaware accountant prepare estate documents, including wills for his clients.
Charged a $5 fee for a compact disc recording of a 2008 municipal meeting in Bridgewater, N.J., resident Tom Coulter thought the fee, which is set by a municipal ordinance,…
Jill Patella clearly enjoys Christmas. A video of her New Jersey home shows decorations in every window and a plethora of holiday lights. She even has her toilet decorated with…
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