Frank Ferruggia, a partner in McCarter and English’s Tax Appeal Group, was referred to by a real estate industry source as “the go-to tax guy in the state” in NJBIZ as part of their Power 50 feature. The source goes on to say, “If you’re going to do an appeal, Frank is your guy. I don’t Continue Reading
Robert Mintz quoted in “NJ Privilege Exception Boosts Prosecutors’ Negotiating Power,” which appeared in Law360
Fanning, Chair of McCarter’s Products Liability Group, Honored as a 2015 Professional Lawyer of the Year
The New Jersey Commission on Professionalism in the Law and the New Jersey Defense Association have recognized Edward J. Fanning, Jr. of McCarter & English as a 2015 Professional Lawyer of the Year. The NJDA – the state’s leading organization of civil defense trial attorneys – and the Continue Reading
ClearCorrect Ruling Keeps ITC From Policing Web Piracy
The Federal Circuit's decision Tuesday that the U.S. International Trade Commission cannot block importation of infringing digital files stymies plans by the movie and music industries to use the trade body to fight piracy, but the case is a strong candidate for en banc review, attorneys say. On Continue Reading
Independent Women: Mid-life Female Entrepreneurs Finding Their Second Wind
Cheryl Newton, 46, vividly recalls the time, just before 9/11, when designing high-end shoreline Connecticut houses had her on the partner track at the architectural firm where she worked. Married, she had a young, growing family. But something, Newton says, still wasn't quite right. "I have a Continue Reading
Edward Fanning, Jr. and David Kott write amicus curiae brief to New Jersey Appellate Division on behalf of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey
Edward Fanning, Jr. and David Kott have submitted an amicus curiae brief to the New Jersey Appellate Division on behalf of the HealthCare Institute of New Jersey in In re: Accutane Litigation. The brief addresses the New Jersey Product Liability Act’s presumption of adequacy that applies Continue Reading
NJ Justices Weigh Edge For Builders In Defect Coverage Suits
New Jersey's highest court has agreed to decide whether damages resulting from a subcontractor's defective work on a condominium complex triggered an insurer's duty to defend the general contractor, and attorneys say a ruling favoring the condo association could eliminate an easy out for carriers in Continue Reading
Robert Mintz interviewed in “What Law Enforcement Can Search on Mobile Phones,” which appeared on Bloomberg Law Radio
Successful Companies Often Emerge from Non-Traditional Business Ideas
COMMERCE ASKED SOME OF New Jersey’s top professional services firms about their most unusual clients and we learned of an indoor, vertical vegetable farm in urban Newark; a luxury spa and resort for dogs; and stables that produced American Pharoah, the horse that won the Belmont Stakes and became Continue Reading
Tracking Employee With GPS Didn’t Violate Law, NLRB Says
A New Jersey alcoholic beverage distributor that fired a unionized employee for stealing time didn't violate labor laws by installing a GPS tracking device on the employee’s company truck to assist a private investigator following him, the National Labor Relations Board said in an advisory letter Continue Reading