Success can seem elusive even once you've been promoted to partner. How do you bring in great clients? And how can you best serve your firm and the associates you work with? We reached out to partners, and asked them to share their secrets. Jeffrey Testa, McCarter & English LLP "My Continue Reading
BU Wins $13 Million in Patent Infringement Suit
A US District Court jury has awarded Boston University more than $13 million after finding that three companies infringed on a BU patent for blue LEDs (light emitting diodes), used in countless cell phones, tablets, laptops, and lighting products. The University was represented by Michael Shore, Continue Reading
Wage Suits Hit Record High Amid Focus On Worker Rights
The number of new wage-and-hour suits in federal courts hit an all-time high last year, up about 8 percent over the previous year, a rise attorneys say stems from overtime and minimum wage policy debates around the country increasing worker awareness and the difficulty of applying New Deal-era 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
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
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
The 5 Biggest Mistakes You Can Make As A Lateral
Joining a new firm can seem like the perfect marriage, but attorneys can sully that relationship or blow it up altogether by failing to do their due diligence before jumping aboard and making other key missteps. Not making sure to understand a firm's culture before sealing the deal is just one Continue Reading
ALI’s Proposed Penalty For Spurning Defense Irks Insurers
The American Law Institute is set to consider proposals on guidelines for liability insurance law during a pair of meetings this week, including a controversial provision that attorneys say could impose tough penalties on insurers for breaching the duty to defend. The ALI council has already Continue Reading
Veronica Montagna quoted and McCarter & English mentioned in “McCarter & English Lawyer Donates Services to Habitat for Humanity”
Habitat for Humanity's local merger is bringing together local communities and consolidating resources to create a greater impact on Central Jersey. McCarter & English attorney, Veronica Montagna, was paired with Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plainfield & Middlesex County by Pro Bono Continue Reading
Small NJ Banks Under Pressure to Merge
Bank analysts are speculating that the Federal Reserve's long-awaited approval last month of M&T Bank Corp.'s plan to buy Paramus-based Hudson City Bancorp for more than $5 billion may signal that the door is open for other bank deals. Some of the same pressures that drove Hudson City into Continue Reading