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May 23, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Max Mitchell |Amanda O'Brien |Ellen Bardash |Riley Brennan |Avalon Zoppo
President Joe Biden on Thursday issued a slate of new judicial nominees, including a nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit and a nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania. The nominee for the First Circuit is Maine Superior Court Justice Julia Lipez. If confirmed she would be serving on the same circuit where her father, Kermit Lipez, serves as a senior judge. Want to continue reading?
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May 23, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Max Mitchell |Charles Toutant |Colleen Murphy |Amanda Bronstad
As Orlando-based Red Lobster begins reorganization under Chapter 11, displaced workers at the chain’s New Jersey restaurants are filing suits. The litigation will provide an early application of New Jersey’s recently beefed-up version of the state’s Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act.
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May 23, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda O'Brien |Geoffrey D. Ivnik |Max Mitchell |Donovan Swift
Riker Danzig has has announced the addition of three new attorneys: counsel Jeanmarie Dunn-Kane, who joins the firm’s corporate and tax groups, associates Matthews A. Florez, who joins the commercial litigation group, and Amelia Whiting, who joins the environmental group. Dunn-Kane joins the firm from McManimon, Scotland & Baumann. She has experience representing business entities in contractual and transactional matters across both existing and emerging industries.
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May 16, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Geoffrey D. Ivnik |Max Mitchell |Donovan Swift
Goldberg Segalla has announced the addition of Christopher J. Major as partner to the firm’s worker’s compensation group in Newark. Major joins the firm from the Lois Law Firm. Major is a workers’ compensation attorney, who counsels and defends employers, insurance carriers and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation matters throughout New Jersey and New York.
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May 10, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Amanda O'Brien |Brian T. Pakett |Geoffrey D. Ivnik |Max Mitchell
A Fort Lauderdale team of lawyers is representing the family of a missing woman in civil proceedings, as a parallel criminal case unfolds against the woman’s husband. The attorneys’ efforts come as a Broward Circuit Court judge denied bail late Friday for 36-year-old David Knezevich due to his flight-risk status. Want to continue reading?
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May 9, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Max Mitchell |Amanda O'Brien |Donovan Swift
Margolis Edelstein has announced the addition of partner Anthony Del Guercio to its Berkeley Heights office. Prior to joining the firm, Del Guercio was counsel with Saiber. Del Guercio brings over two decades of experience in insurance coverage and defense litigation, reinsurance law, and general liability.
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May 9, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Max Mitchell |Aleeza Furman |Colleen Murphy |Amanda Bronstad |Charles Toutant
A federal judge in Camden, New Jersey, dismissed a suit accusing lawyers from Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman of collecting excessive contingency fees in the $358 million settlement of multidistrict litigation over alleged defects in the blood pressure drug Olmesartan. The attorneys have framed the dispute as one among former law partners, now embroiled in a “longstanding vendetta” since their firm’s breakup. Want to continue reading?
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May 8, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Max Mitchell |Amanda O'Brien |Jane Wester
The former chief financial officer at McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter has pleaded guilty to embezzling more than $1.5 million from the firm. John Dunlea, 61, pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree theft by deception and five counts of third-degree failure to pay taxes before Superior Court Judge Stephen J. Taylor in Morris County Superior Court.
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May 8, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Joshua Robbins |Ross Garrett |Max Mitchell
The New Jersey State Bar Association and the chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court have issued statements opposing an anticipated proposal to amend the New Jersey Constitution to make it so Appellate Division judges are appointed by the governor, rather than by the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
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May 3, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Max Mitchell |Amanda Bronstad |Colleen Murphy |Aleeza Furman
In a Friday evidentiary hearing, Beasley Allen partner Andy Birchfield refuted accusations from Johnson & Johnson that he opposed the company’s bankruptcy plans out of a desire to collect higher fees out of the talcum powder litigation. Birchfield, facing possible disqualification from the talc litigation over his work with a former Johnson & Johnson lawyer, said his disapproval of the bankruptcy deal was based on client interests. Want to continue reading?
