The 18th Annual American Bar Association Class Actions Institute will take place on October 23 and 24 at theWit Hotel in Chicago. The full brochure for the Institute can be found here. The faculty includes not only luminaries from the plaintiffs’ and ...
Walters v. YMCA, 437 N.J. Super. 111 (App. Div. 2014). This decision by Judge Fuentes, issued today, reverses a grant of summary judgment in favor of the YMCA in what Judge Fuentes called a “garden variety slip and fall case.” ...
In September 2013, the Morris County Bar Association presented a seminar titled “Building the Trial Record and Arguing it on Appeal.” The panelists were Justice Patterson, Judges Sabatino, Stern, and Axelrad, and me. The MCBA got such a favorable response ...
A session with this title was conducted today at the Third Circuit Judicial Conference. Judge Greenaway headlined the panel. But the real driver was a Senior Consultant from Aon Risk Solutions, who posed a series of hypothetical scenarios, prowled the ...
Sessner v. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp., 435 N.J. Super. 347 (App. Div. 2014). “Dilatoriness in … promptly notifying the court that [settlement] has occurred reflects not only a lack of consideration but a lack of concern for the wasted ...
At today’s seminar sponsored by the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey, a panel headlined by Judges Chagares and Shwartz discussed tips for practicing before the Third Circuit. Much of what was said paralleled the advice given at ...
At the upcoming 38th Annual United States District Court Judicial Conference sponsored by the Association of the Federal Bar of New Jersey on March 20, 2014, one of the programs is titled “Third Circuit Practice: A Practitioner’s Guide.” Among the ...
On March 25, the New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education will present this seminar. Details and registration information can be found here. I am a panelist, in the extremely distinguished company of Justice Patterson, Judge Stern (ret.), and Judge ...
Justice Patterson was among the panelists at a seminar on mass torts tonight. In the course of her remarks about preserving issues on appeal, writing effective appellate briefs, and presenting compelling oral arguments, she made a suggestion that I had ...
Ray Haluch Gravel Co. v. Central Pension Fund, ___ U.S. ___ (2014). In New Jersey state court, if attorneys’ fee issues remain to be adjudicated, any judgment entered is considered interlocutory, not final, until the fee issue is resolved. See, ...