The Appellate Division issued a Notice to the Bar today regarding oral argument in that court. That Notice, titled “Oral Argument in the Appellate Division,” is available here. The Notice began by summarizing the right to oral argument and the ...
I have posted elsewhere about the “four C’s” for New Jersey Bar applicants before the Supreme Court Committee on Character. At last night’s meeting of the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Appellate Practice Committee, Charles Centinaro, the Director of the ...
This morning, the Appellate Division published a notice to the bar that was dated August 26, 2016. That notice is available here. The intent of the notice is to highlight certain rule changes that will become effective on September 1, ...
Today, the Supreme Court published an order dated August 1, 2016, which announced amendments to various court rules, all of which will take effect on September 1, 2016. That announcement can be found here. Three appellate rules are affected. All ...
The August issue of New Jersey Lawyer magazine arrived in my mail today. It is a special issue devoted to appellate practice, with a total of thirteen articles on different aspects of that practice area. [Disclosure: One of those articles ...
The Third Circuit has posted a “save the date” notice, available here, for a bench-bar conference next year. The dates are April 19-21, 2017, and the venue will be Lancaster, PA, in the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch country. This will be the ...
McRae v. New Jersey Transit Bus Operations, Inc., 2016 N.J. Super. Unpub. LEXIS 1598 (App. Div. July 8, 2016). Appellate advocates like to write in ways that make an impact. But sometimes they can go too far. In today’s non-precedential, ...
In re Estate of Byung-Tae Oh, 445 N.J. Super. 402 (App. Div. 2016). In 2001, the decedent in this estate matter, Byung-Tae Oh, at all times a citizen of South Korea, wired $900,000 of his money into the business account ...
Sackman v. New Jersey Manufacturers Ins. Co., 445 N.J. Super. 278 (App. Div. 2016). [Disclosure: I represent New Jersey Manufacturers in certain litigation, but not in this case]. This opinion, issued today, involved an underinsured motorist claim against an insurance ...
The Supreme Court has published for comments the report of its Civil Practice Committee. The report is available here. The Committee has proposed revisions to three appellate rules. There are two proposed changes to Rule 2:6-2. Revised Rule 2:6-2(a)(1) would ...