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May 16, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Frederick P. Sisto |Peter D. Espey |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton
Attorneys and the public are not used to thinking about cannabis as a cause of injuries. There is a false perception that marijuana and other cannabis products such as cannabidiol (CBD) are harmless. However, cannabis use has proven to cause many personal injuries. See “Risks of Marijuana Use.” aalm.info. There are also property damage claims due to marijuana growing that creates nuisances.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Maria Dinzeo |Andrew Heck |Charles Toutant
The Federal Trade Commission’s announcement Tuesday that it adopted a rule barring employers from enforcing noncompete clauses against workers was a significant one. Although the outcome of litigation appealing the new rule is uncertain, some employment lawyers already think the days of the noncompete clause are numbered.
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Apr 24, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Maria Dinzeo |Charles Toutant
The Federal Trade Commission’s announcement Tuesday that it adopted a rule barring employers from enforcing noncompete clauses against workers was a significant one. Although the outcome of litigation appealing the new rule is uncertain, some employment lawyers already think the days of the noncompete clause are numbered.
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Mar 11, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Colleen Murphy
The New Jersey Supreme Court has imposed a three-month suspension on an assistant general counsel at LG Electronics USA over ethics violations arising from three cases he handled in his spare time. John T. Wynn was suspended based on the Disciplinary Review Board’s findings that he charged excessive fees for work on an estate case and displayed neglect and lack of diligence for failing to complete his administration of the estate after nine years. Want to continue reading?
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Feb 27, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton
Opponents of a new cannabis dispensary in Highland Park, New Jersey, have hit the town with a suit seeking to halt cannabis sales. The suit claims that local ordinances allowing the sale of cannabis in Highland Park go against a federal ban on that substance. But some cannabis lawyers have doubts about whether the suit’s preemption claim will work for the plaintiffs. Meet the Lawyer Want to continue reading?
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Feb 21, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton
A New Jersey attorney’s inexperience with the kind of pro bono work he volunteered for has resulted in an admonition from the Disciplinary Review Board after taking on a veteran’s service-related disability claim and failing to advance it over the course of 10 months. In 2010, attorney James E.
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Amanda Bronstad
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Feb 20, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Colleen Murphy |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Amanda Bronstad
Plaintiffs attorney Andy Birchfield will face an evidentiary hearing next month on whether to disqualify him and his firm from the talcum powder litigation. Judges in both state and federal courts in New Jersey found that more evidence was needed to determine whether Birchfield and Beasley Allen, based in Montgomery, Alabama, should be disqualified based on an alleged conflict of interest. Want to continue reading?
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Feb 16, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Colleen Murphy
In a precedential case before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, the court declined to follow the same path taken by a sister court and instead agreed with a group of retired federal law enforcement officers that they have the right to carry concealed firearms. The case, Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association v.
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Feb 14, 2024 | 
feeds.feedblitz.com | Charles Toutant |Michael F. Schaff |Seth R. Tipton |Colleen Murphy
The New Jersey Appellate Division rejected the argument made by the commissioner of New Jersey’s Department of Labor and Workforce Development that a 2010 legislative amendment granting an exemption to court reporters under the Unemployment Compensation Law was “effectively meaningless.” The issue of first impression before the court was whether N.J.S.A. 43:21-19(i)(10) provides an exemption for court reporters under the Unemployment Compensation Law, or whether they must still establish a...
