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New Jersey Law Journal: Top Stories April 13, 2009

By David Badertscher, PLL

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Trial Looms in Suit Charging One Firm's Wooing of Partners Capsized Another
" Lowenstein Sandler, New Jersey's second-largest firm, is set to go on trial in a case that could refine the law on the methods firms use to recruit lateral partners and practice groups."

Two N.J. Judges Face Ethics Charges Over Derogatory Comments on Bench
" Two New Jersey trial judges ā?? James Citta and James Convery ā?? are in hot water for belittling litigants with remarks from the bench that an ethics prosecutor calls discourteous, undignified and discriminatory."

Non-Equity Partner Has Fiduciary Duty To Old Firm, Must Pay $84,850 Verdict
"An appeals court affirms a $84,850 verdict against a lawyer in a fight with his old firm over receivables, shedding light on the duties owed by non-equity partners when a firm ceases operations."

Court Sets Firm Guidelines on Need for Custody Hearings in Child Abuse Cases
" New Jersey's Supreme Court gives seven thumbs down to a trial judge's cursory decision to award child custody without an evidentiary hearing, based solely on ex parte findings that there was abuse and neglect by one of the parents. "

UM/UIM Policy Limits Put Brake on Offer-of-Judgment Sanctions
"In a potential boon for automobile insurers, a N.J. appeals court says sanctions imposed under the state's offer-of-judgment rule cannot be grounded on verdicts that exceed a policy's uninsured motorist coverage limits. It is the judgment molded to the policy limit that controls."

Suit By Heirs to 1950s Singing Groups Moot as State Regulators Change Tune
" A challenge to New Jersey's Truth in Music Act by progeny of 1950s-vintage crooner groups The Drifters, The Platters and The Coasters has been dismissed, now that the state has backed off its previously broad view of the law's reach."

Full post as published by New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library on April 13, 2009 (boomark / email).