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Court Panel Suggests Rules Change To Allow Touting of Super Lawyer Status 
" A state Supreme Court committee on lawyer ethics is recommending a simple nine-word change in the rules of professional conduct to make it legal for New Jersey lawyers to advertise their inclusion in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers in America or other rating publications."

Lowenstein Settles Suit Charging Firm Precipitated Ravin Sarasohn's Demise 
" A confidential settlement has ended the trial of a suit charging that the firm of Ravin Sarasohn was destroyed by overagressive recruitment of its high-billing bankruptcy practice group by Lowenstein Sandler, New Jersey's second largest firm."

Tavern Held Not Liable for Letting Patron Drink and Ride 
" The Supreme Court on Thursday overturned a ground-breaking appeals court decision that would have required taverns to prevent drunken patrons from getting into cars with drunken drivers and to monitor drivers to whom they had served no alcohol."

What Makes A Court Supreme 
" The New Jersey Law Journal publishes the first of nine installments of Justice Daniel O'Hern's book, What Makes a Court Supreme. This installment focuses on Chief Justice Robert Wilentz."

Judge Invokes ISRA Rescission Clause To Void Foreclosure Sale of Tainted Site 
" In a novel interpretation, a Gloucester County judge has voided a tax sale foreclosure by dint of a section of the Industrial Site Recovery Act that allows voiding a transfer if the property is contaminated and the transferor has ignored its statutory obligation to remediate it."

Sex-Offender Residency Restrictions Held Pre-empted by Megan's Law
"Ordinances that ban sex offenders from living within certain distances from schools, day care centers, playgrounds and parks are void because Megan's Law has preempted the field, the New Jersey Supreme Court rules."

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