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When a Lawyer Does Not Do What a Lawyer is Supposed To Do
Lawsuits for legal malpractice are all about what the lawyer was supposed to do. For a client to successfully sue his or her former attorney for legal malpractice, the client must first...
Does the Lawyer Represent You?
Usually attorneys know their clients and their clients know their attorneys. But not always. In a recent New Jersey appellate court decision (Greening v. Levine), the appellate court grappled with...
How To Start a Lawsuit
In ancient cultures, disputes over money were often resolved by the sword. In modern societies, disputes over money that the parties cannot resolve among themselves are resolved in courts that...
The Discovery Stage – Gathering the Evidence
The Discovery stage of lawsuit begins after each party has filed court papers making allegations, imposing denials and asserting defenses. In the Discovery stage, each contestant is entitled...
Legal Malpractice – Suing Your Ex-Lawyer
Even though your case did not turn out the way you hoped, most of the time, it is not your lawyer’s fault. But sometimes it is. In New Jersey, an attorney will be liable to a former client if...
Mediation – Resolution Without Trial
In the New Jersey state court system, the court will require the parties to participate in Mediation at some point after the lawsuit is filed and answered, but before the end of the Discovery stage....
Expert Witnesses
Prior articles discuss the way a lawsuit is started and the discovery stage of a lawsuit that takes place between the initial filing of court papers and the trial. The purpose of a trial is to allow...
Arbitration in the Superior Court of New Jersey
Arbitration is a process for resolving disputes outside of court. Certain types of cases filed in the New Jersey Court system are handled through arbitration. If any parties involved in...
The Trial
The lawsuit was filed, the parties gathered evidence through the discovery process, each side retained expert witnesses. The parties participated in mediation but did not settle the...
Tech Companies May Run Afoul of Employment Anti-Discrimination Laws – Is Your Company Compliant?
In 2007 billionaire Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg then 22 years old, made a series of comments that, depending on your age, prompted either a vicious rebuttal or knowing agreement. Zuckerberg...