A New Jersey lawyer who was disbarred for misappropriating mortgage settlement funds can’t be criminally convicted for the same conduct, a state appeals court ruled today.
The oldest federal prosecutor in the country celebrated her 80th birthday last week with an office party and birthday greetings from President Barack Obama.
A former New Jersey judge has been suspended from law practice for three months for an incident in which he allegedly told police officers who had arrested him on a…
Ruling yesterday on free-speech grounds, the New Jersey Supreme Court said a municipal ordinance banning a labor union from displaying a 10-foot-tall inflatable rat at protest sites was a violation…
Unhappy with the mail-order penis enlargement product he bought in 2007, a New Jersey attorney was also unhappy with the initial result of the class-action consumer fraud litigation he brought…
More than nine years after 14 lawyers leaped from a well-known New Jersey partnership to Lowenstein Sandler, a trial is nearing over claims that the 260-attorney firm went too far…
An opinion by the Advisory Committee on Attorney Advertising banning New Jersey lawyers from participating in publications touting them as “Super Lawyers” and “Best Lawyers in America” has been voided…
Criminally charged in 1995, after a police officer allegedly found marijuana in her car, Renee Felton didn’t show up for her court date and spent more than a decade dodging…
A public defender who told a judge he thought his bail ruling was “outrageous” didn’t deserve a criminal contempt finding and $100 sanction, a New Jersey appeals court has ruled.
The online dating service eHarmony will launch an online matchmaking option for gays called Compatible Partners as a result of a settlement with the New Jersey Attorney General.
A disbarred New York lawyer and TV commentator who lost her gambling addiction lawsuit has been arraigned on charges that she looted the escrow accounts of several clients, failing to…
News that a New Jersey municipal judge had allegedly caused a ruckus in a go-go bar was the last straw that led to his resignation, his former assignment judge testified…
A losing party in a business dispute is suing its opponent’s law firm for offering a job to a New Jersey judge before he had distributed his final ruling in…
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