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Nothing should last forever, especially lawsuits and stale claims. But a stale claim is exactly what New Jersey permits in products liability litigation. New Jersey law requires all personal injury and products liability actions to be brought within two years of the date of accrual of the cause Continue Reading

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a video of a defendant skiing a black diamond mountain with his girlfriend on his shoulders is worth a million. Video surveillance can be the most effective evidence proffered by defense counsel at the time of trial. There are certain critical pitfalls Continue Reading

Interrogatories represent a fundamental discovery tool and provide litigants with an important mechanism for extracting and obtaining information. Written interrogatories may be useful to particularize and elaborate pleadings and to define and narrow the eventual issues to be litigated at trial. Continue Reading

The phrase “do it yourself” evokes images of a weekend trip to the Home Depot, a bruised thumb, and the feeling of satisfaction that comes from a freshly painted room, a repaired deck, or a newly constructed patio planter. But even the experts at do-it-yourself publications such as This Old House Continue Reading

Whether you are writing a brief, a research memorandum or a client report, what you write, and how you write it, communicates your ideas to your audience. Are your sentences wordy and rambling, or crisp and to the point? Judges have full dockets to manage and countless briefs to read. Your clients Continue Reading

Imagine this scenario: A company operates a coal ash landfill. Local citizens protest and organize ad advocacy group against it and create a Facebook page. The company responds by suing the individual members of the group for defamation. The American Civil Liberties Union (“ACLU”) comes in to defend Continue Reading

This three-part article explores the possibility of raising due process and equal protection challenges to TCCWNA class actions, arguing that class actions brought under the statute violate the requirements of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Due Process Clause as interpreted by the Supreme Court, because Continue Reading

The obligation to protect electronically stored data is one thing that doesn’t change after a coal plant is shut down. In order to understand the legal rules that apply it’s helpful to divide the sources of electronically stored information available in plants into three categories: the operational Continue Reading

In this environment, every employer may find themselves subject to union organizing efforts. Employer's Guide to Union Organizing Campaigns helps you guide your company through every stage of union organizing campaigns, so that you can react quickly, effectively, and legally even before organizing Continue Reading