New Jersey

  • July 09, 2025

    NJ Justices Revive Bias Suit After Altice Evidence Falls Short

    The New Jersey Supreme Court on Wednesday revived an Altice USA customer's discrimination suit against the cellular provider, ruling that there is not enough evidence to show that it was a regular business practice of Altice to email customers an agreement containing an arbitration provision.

  • July 09, 2025

    Eckert Seamans Adds Commercial Litigator In Princeton

    Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott LLC grew its Princeton, New Jersey, office this week with the addition of a partner specializing in complex commercial litigation, corporate transactions, bankruptcy and creditors' rights.

  • July 09, 2025

    NJ Justices Disbar Fla. Atty For Misappropriating $100K

    The New Jersey Supreme Court has disbarred a Florida attorney based on Disciplinary Review Board findings that she misappropriated more than $100,000 in client funds.

  • July 09, 2025

    Feds Charge Pair In Alleged $650M Investment, Crypto Scam

    Two men have been indicted in Puerto Rico for allegedly operating and promoting OmegaPro, an international investment scheme that prosecutors say defrauded investors of more than $650 million.

  • July 09, 2025

    Freshfields Guides Merck's $10B Deal For Verona Pharma

    U.S. biomedical heavyweight Merck said Wednesday that it will buy Verona Pharma for $10 billion to add a drug used to treat lung disease to its portfolio of respiratory therapies.

  • July 08, 2025

    Breaking Down Stewart's Nonstop Discretionary Denial Orders

    Acting U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Coke Morgan Stewart inundated the patent community in May and June with dozens of rulings altering the landscape of discretionary denials at the Patent Trial and Appeal Board. Here, Law360 goes through what you should know.

  • July 08, 2025

    Product Liability Cases To Watch In 2nd Half Of 2025

    The fate of a $2.5 billion punitive damages award against Ford and looming bench verdicts in the first PFAS trials brought by a state are among the cases that product liability attorneys will be following closely in the second half of 2025.

  • July 08, 2025

    Teva Challenge To J&J Antipsychotic Patent Fails At Fed. Circ.

    The Federal Circuit on Tuesday rejected Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc.'s challenge to the validity of claims in a Johnson & Johnson unit's patent covering a lucrative schizophrenia drug, disagreeing with the generic-drug maker that one of the patent's claims should be presumed obvious.

  • July 08, 2025

    States Back Enviro Orgs. Bid To Block EPA's Halt Of $3B Grant

    A group of Democratic attorneys general on Monday told a D.C. federal district court that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's decision to terminate environmental justice grants deprives vulnerable communities of funding "necessary to achieve a healthy environment."

  • July 08, 2025

    Ex-DC Prosecutors Rip Pick Of Emil Bove For 3rd Circ.

    In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of former federal prosecutors in Washington panned Emil Bove as a "dangerous" pick for the Third Circuit and criticized his record as a prosecutor as that of a loyal follower of President Donald Trump.

  • July 08, 2025

    3rd Circ. Probes Constitutionality Of NJ Judicial Privacy Law

    A Third Circuit panel on Tuesday dug into the constitutionality of a New Jersey judicial privacy statute, with data brokers, a data protection company and the state debating whether the law provides a vital safeguard or imposes too-burdensome restrictions on the publication of publicly available information.

  • July 08, 2025

    3rd Circ. Gives Philly Bus Driver Fresh Chance At FMLA Suit

    The Third Circuit on Tuesday reinstated a former Philadelphia bus driver's lawsuit alleging public transit authority SEPTA bucked the Family and Medical Leave Act when it fired him for missing work due to his sickle cell anemia.

  • July 08, 2025

    NJ Judge Disciplined For Signing Client's Name In Atty Role

    A part-time Garden State municipal judge was reprimanded by the New Jersey Supreme Court for an ethics complaint against him in his capacity as an attorney, alleging he signed an order without his client's authorization.

  • July 08, 2025

    Pa. County Wants 3rd Circ. To Revive Dominion Contract Suit

    A central Pennsylvania county in hot water with state officials for unauthorized inspections of its voting equipment wants the Third Circuit to reconsider its commissioners' standing to bring a lawsuit against Dominion Voting Systems.

  • July 08, 2025

    Judge Says Khalil Not Required To Check In With ICE

    A federal judge in New Jersey said Palestinian green card holder Mahmoud Khalil, whom the Trump administration sought to deport for harming U.S. foreign policy interests, need not report to immigration officials as a condition of his release from immigration detention.

  • July 07, 2025

    Fox Rothschild Seeks To Exit NJ Case Over Litigation Funding

    Fox Rothschild LLP urged a New Jersey state court on Monday to toss claims brought by a couple injured in a vehicle crash alleging they were unlawfully steered to cover medical expenses with high-interest loans from the law firm's litigation funder client, saying its involvement was limited to a "tangential, representative role."

  • July 07, 2025

    Annoyed Fed. Circ. Judge Unsure Where To Land In Drug Row

    An irascible Federal Circuit judge chewed out both sides of the aisle Monday morning during arguments over a generic endocrine disorder drug, and although she accused one attorney of "beating a straw man to death," the judge said she still wasn't sure how she would decide the appeal.

  • July 07, 2025

    Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Says NLRB Can't Dictate Business

    The publisher of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette told the Third Circuit Monday that the National Labor Relations Board was impermissibly dictating business decisions for the struggling newspaper when it ruled the paper's contract proposals were unacceptable and made in bad faith.

  • July 07, 2025

    Progressive Gets Car Value Class Cert. Overturned At 3rd Circ.

    The Third Circuit on Monday reversed a lower court's decision to certify classes of Pennsylvania drivers who accuse Progressive Insurance units of breaching their contracts by systematically underestimating the actual cash value of their totaled cars, finding that the lower court misapplied the standard to determine whether common issues predominate.

  • July 07, 2025

    Former HR Exec Brings Disability Bias Suit Against Health Co.

    A former human resources executive at a New Jersey-based neurological services company alleged in Garden State federal court that she was discriminated against and ultimately fired in retaliation for disclosing her mental health disabilities and pursuing accommodation requests.

  • July 07, 2025

    Newark Property Buyer Wins Appeal Over Axed $32.8M Sale

    A New Jersey appellate panel on Monday upheld a trial court's ruling that a real estate investment firm properly terminated its $32.8 million purchase agreement for a mixed-use building in Newark after receiving a noncompliant estoppel certificate from one of the tenants, rejecting the seller's argument that the certificate's deficiencies were immaterial.

  • July 07, 2025

    PHH Mortgage Loan Officers Urge NJ Court To Halt Calif. Deal

    A California state court's decision to preliminarily approve a settlement in a case against PHH Mortgage would prevent California mortgage loan officers from pursuing their claims in their New Jersey federal court proceedings, two California workers told the New Jersey court.

  • July 07, 2025

    NJ Prosecutor's Office, State Judiciary Face Racial Bias Suit

    A former Middlesex County assistant probation head is suing the Middlesex County Prosecutor's Office and the state judiciary for racial discrimination, alleging that a prosecutor undermined him at work and used racist language about him in court.

  • July 07, 2025

    Biggest Enviro Cases To Watch In 2025: Midyear Report

    Law360 previews the lawsuits environmental attorneys will be watching closely during the second half of 2025, including the Trump administration's challenge to states' efforts to slow climate change, a lawsuit seeking to continue federal funding for climate change projects and product liability cases over forever chemicals in consumer goods.

  • July 07, 2025

    Ex-Prosecutor, Cyber Ace Named To NJ Judicial Ethics Panel

    The New Jersey Supreme Court has named a former federal prosecutor and cybersecurity and privacy expert to the committee that handles ethics complaints against state judges, the court said in a notice published Monday.

Expert Analysis

  • Learning From COVID-19 Enforcement Against Nursing Homes

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    Five years after the COVID-19 outbreak caused a high number of deaths in nursing homes, an examination of enforcement actions against nursing homes in New York and elsewhere in the country highlights obstacles that may arise when bringing cases of this type, and ways to overcome them, says Kenneth Levine at Stone & Magnanini.

  • An Unrestrained, Bright-Eyed View Of Legal AI's Future

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    Todd Itami at Covington offers a bright-eyed, laughing-all-the-way, skydive look at what the legal industry could look like after an artificial intelligence revolution, which he believes may happen much sooner and more dramatically than we expect.

  • Tracking The Evolution In Litigation Finance

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    Despite continued innovation, litigation finance remains an immature market with borrowers recieving significantly different terms as lenders learn to value cases, which firms need a strong handle on to ensure lending terms do not overwhelm collateral value, says Robert Wilkins at Lightfoot Franklin.

  • Addressing Antitrust Scrutiny Over AI-Powered Pricing Tools

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    Amid multiple recent civil complaints alleging antitrust violations by providers and users of algorithmic pricing tools, such as RealPage and Yardi, digital-era measures should feature prominently in corporate compliance programs, including documentation of pro-competitive benefits and when to use disclosures, say attorneys at Morgan Lewis.

  • How Plan Sponsors Can Mitigate Risk In PBM Contracts

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    A recent lawsuit in New York federal court alleges that JPMorgan caused exorbitant prescription costs by mishandling the pharmacy benefit manager arrangement, adding to a growing body of Employee Retirement Income Security Act fiduciary breach litigation and affirming that fiduciaries must proactively manage their healthcare plan vendors, say attorneys at Hall Benefits Law.

  • Series

    Volunteer Firefighting Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    While practicing corporate law and firefighting may appear incongruous, the latter benefits my legal career by reminding me of the importance of humility, perspective and education, says Nicholas Passaro at Ford.

  • E-Discovery Quarterly: The Perils Of Digital Data Protocols

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    Though stipulated protocols governing the treatment of electronically stored information in litigation are meant to streamline discovery, recent disputes demonstrate that certain missteps in the process can lead to significant inefficiencies, say attorneys at Sidley.

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    Law School's Missed Lessons: Preparing For Corporate Work

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    Law school often doesn't cover the business strategy, financial fluency and negotiation skills needed for a successful corporate or transactional law practice, but there are practical ways to gain relevant experience and achieve the mindset shifts critical to a thriving career in this space, says Dakota Forsyth at Olshan Frome.

  • A Cold War-Era History Lesson On Due Process

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    The landmark Harry Bridges case from the mid-20th century Red Scare offers important insights on why lawyers must be free of government reprisal, no matter who their client is, says Peter Afrasiabi at One LLP.

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    Improv Makes Me A Better Lawyer

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    Improv keeps me grounded and connected to what matters most, including in my legal career where it has helped me to maintain a balance between being analytical, precise and professional, and creative, authentic and open-minded, says Justine Gottshall at InfoLawGroup.

  • TikTok Bias Suit Ruling Reflects New Landscape Under EFAA

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    In Puris v. Tiktok, a New York federal court found an arbitration agreement unenforceable in a former executive's bias suit, underscoring an evolving trend of broad, but inconsistent, interpretation of the Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act, say attorneys at Williams & Connolly.

  • How BigLaw Executive Orders May Affect Smaller Firms

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    Because of the types of cases they take on, solo practitioners, small law firms and public interest attorneys may find themselves more dramatically affected by the collective impact of recent government action involving the legal industry than even the BigLaw firms named in the executive orders, says Reuben Guttman at Guttman Buschner.

  • Opinion

    Lawsuits Shouldn't Be Shadow Assets For Foreign Capital

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    Third-party litigation financing amplifies inefficiencies from litigation and facilitates national exposure to foreign influence in the U.S. justice system, so full disclosure of financing arrangements should be required as a matter of institutional integrity, says Roland Eisenhuth at the American Property Casualty Insurance Association.

  • How To Accelerate Your Post-Attorney Career Transition

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    Professionals seeking to transition to nonattorney careers may encounter skepticism as nontraditional candidates, but there are opportunities for thought leadership and to leverage speaking and writing to accelerate a post-attorney career transition, say Janet Falk at Falk Communications and Evgeny Efremkin at Toronto Metropolitan University.

  • A Higher Bar For Expert Witnesses In Drug Patent Litigation

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    With recent decisions emphasizing courts' growing insistence on robust methodologies in pharmaceutical patent disputes, litigators must be strategic in how they utilize expert testimony and adapt to venue-specific expectations, says Jeremy Scholem at WIT Legal.

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