Law student Brian Govern says he was searching for law books on Amazon.com when a suggestion popped up that he might like a particular T-shirt. Govern wrote a tongue-in-cheek review, setting off like-minded reviews and boosting the shirt’s popularity so that it is now one of Amazon’s hottest selling items,…
Updated: Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. has not exactly faded into oblivion since his 1997 death, having been memorialized in busts, buildings and, last year, a U.S. postage stamp.
The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that attorney-client privilege protects e-mail discussing a possible employment lawsuit that was transmitted on the corporate laptop of the would-be plaintiff. Sending and receiving personal, password-protected e-mails on a corporate laptop did not eliminate the attorney-client privilege that protected them, the court ruled…
Larry Loigman has a general practice in New Jersey. But the 55-year-old Middletown practitioner is best-known for what amounts to volunteer work litigating against local government, reports the Asbury Park Press. From alleged fiscal mismanagement by government officials to illegal duck crossings, Loigman doesn’t hesitate to step in and file…
Two New Jersey judges have been reprimanded for making remarks in the courtroom that touched on race, ethnicity or physical disabilities. One of the judges, James Citta of Ocean County, ridiculed a defendant’s English-speaking skills and compared another to O.J. Simpson, according to the New Jersey Law Journal, NJ.com and…
A journalist who was embedded with his three-man unit during the Iraq war to write an article for Playboy, wound up making him look bad, a soldier says, by reworking it into a screenplay for The Hurt Locker that falsely portrayed him as a “messed up” bomb disposal officer. In…
Philip Morris USA filed lawsuits on Monday against eight retailers it says is selling counterfeit versions of the company’s popular Marlboro brand cigarettes in New York and New Jersey. In a news release about the filings, Philip Morris says New York and New Jersey are particularly vulnerable to counterfeit cigarette…
London-based Clyde & Co. has poached five lawyers from the insurance coverage group at Roseland, N.J.-based Connell Foley to open an office in the Garden State. The lawyers—led by Daren McNally—are especially well-versed in policies written by offshore insurers, the New Jersey Law Journal reports. “Joining Clyde & Co gives…
An unhappy secretary has brought ethics troubles for a prominent product liability lawyer in New Jersey. The New Jersey Disciplinary Review Board has recommended that litigator David Gross be disbarred for failing to share a $50,000 check with his law firm partners, the New Jersey Law Journal reports. Gross’ secretary,…
The female owner of a New Jersey tire store has a viable quid-pro-quo sexual harassment claim concerning her allegations that a male manager of a rental-equipment store customer withheld business after she refused to have sex with him, a state appeals court has ruled. Applying a public accommodations provision of…
A surrogate who is not biologically the mother of the twin girls she bore for her brother and his male partner is nonetheless their legal parent, a New Jersey judge has ruled. In a custody dispute reminiscent of the so-called “Baby M” suit that dominated the headlines two decades ago…
Needing a break after a workday spent on white-collar insurance fraud defense matters in New York City, Matthew Litt started reading printouts of archived 1945 newspaper articles on his ride home on the subway, years ago. A politics major in college, the now-32-year-old New Jersey lawyer says he didn’t even…
Seven years working on Wall Street in the banking industry gave David Witherspoon the impression that bad behavior was tolerated, his lawyer says. But now the “totally remorseful” New Jersey lawyer understands the seriousness of attorney ethics rules and is ready to accept a three-month suspension recommended by the state…
McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney and Carpenter is said to be in merger talks with a smaller Connecticut-based firm, Pepe & Hazard. Multiple sources told the Connecticut Law Tribune about the merger talks, but the publication was unable to get anyone to confirm the report on the record. McElroy Deutsch is the…
Delay in providing clients with a full copy of the applicable retainer agreement for their matter has cost a New Jersey law firm a six-figure sum. Reversing an earlier award of $163,000 to Alpert Butler & Weiss for unpaid legal fees and the cost of pursuing their collection action, a…
