/pulse/new-jersey-pulse?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section Latest articles for: New Jersey Pulse Copyright 2025 sa¹ú¼Ê´«Ã½. en-US Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:46:22 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357447?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357447 The Third Circuit on Wednesday upheld a $3.2 million fee award for Berger Montague and Fine Kaplan & Black in the settlement for consumers affected by a 2019 Wawa data breach, ruling Wednesday that the district court judge correctly found no improper "side deals" or collusion at class members' expense. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:42:58 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357265?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357265 The legal ethics watchdog Campaign for Accountability on Wednesday accused interim U.S. Attorney for New Jersey Alina Habba of an "abuse of power" over her office's recent investigations and arrests of New Jersey officials and called for an ethics investigation. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:39:33 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357008?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357008 Emil Bove, nominee for the Third Circuit, who previously served as President Donald Trump's criminal attorney and was a top acting official at the U.S. Department of Justice earlier this year, where he took various controversial actions, made his case on Wednesday for judicial confirmation. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 16:07:21 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357347?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357347 ConnectOne Bancorp Inc., the parent company of ConnectOne Bank and fintech subsidiary BoeFly Inc., has hired a longtime outside counsel to the newly created role of general counsel. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 14:55:59 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356843?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356843 A co-lead of the appellate and family/matrimonial practices at Einhorn Barbarito Frost Botwinick Nunn & Musmanno PC is now co-managing partner, the New Jersey-based firm announced Tuesday. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:35:20 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357104?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357104 An attorney drew upon his past as a federal prosecutor in New Jersey and as a healthcare compliance counsel to get all charges dropped against a doctor accused of accepting close to $150,000 in bribes through Insys Therapeutics for "sham" speaker program engagements. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:29 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356820?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356820 A generative artificial intelligence hackathon originally designed to empower the next generation of lawyers to think creatively about solving complex problems expanded to include senior staff members, resulting in over a dozen ready-to-go AI use cases for the firm. Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:28 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2354331?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2354331 In his section of a new book, Hoffmann & Baron LLP managing partner Daniel A. Scola Jr. challenges lawyers looking to grow their practice to rely on more than just technical skills and says that with the right amount of patience and boldness, lawyers can deliver work to "make it rain." Wed, 25 Jun 2025 10:59:03 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357358?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2357358 As a new generation of lawyers enters the profession and artificial intelligence reshapes the practice of law, firms are increasingly turning to professional coaches to help junior attorneys adapt. One unexpected area of focus? Teaching them how to manage and respond to email. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:56:11 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356790?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356790 A top career official at the U.S. Department of Justice who was fired has come forward with a whistleblower complaint alleging Third Circuit judicial nominee Emil Bove, who was acting deputy attorney general at the beginning of the year, sought to defy court orders. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 16:26:29 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356749?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356749 The American Bar Association announced Tuesday it is launching a national research project on attorney mental health, which will provide an updated benchmark of the issue nearly a decade after its 2016 study. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 15:26:54 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356766?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356766 Johnson & Johnson Services Inc. told a New Jersey federal court this week that a former in-house data privacy attorney suing the pharmaceuticals giant for discrimination failed to plead any facts supporting her allegation that the company passed her over for a job in favor of a less qualified candidate. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 13:48:08 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2350128?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2350128 Legal tech companies have been snagging record amounts of funding in recent years, but founders and executives in the industry said startups should think carefully about how much money they raise from investors. Tue, 24 Jun 2025 09:35:30 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2355315?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2355315 Nicholas Valvanis, the new head of Reed Smith LLP's office in Princeton, New Jersey, joined Law360 Pulse for a conversation about his ideas for attracting talent, his plans for raising the office's profile, and how his transactional practice translates into office leadership. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:34:53 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356342?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356342 Ahead of Emil Bove's hearing on Wednesday for his judicial nomination, Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are pressing for information on complaints alleging his misconduct while at the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York and Main Justice earlier this year. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:30:42 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2327036?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2327036 Business development is all about awareness — and by taking existing skills and adapting them to build media relationships and thereby address today's audiences, lawyers can expand their outreach and use thought leadership to build a more complete, compelling personal brand, says Michael Goodwin at Stanton PR. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 16:09:06 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356324?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2356324 An attorney convicted of federal crimes after serving as a "consigliere" to a drug trafficking ring has been denied reinstatement to the Pennsylvania bar, with the state's Supreme Court siding with a disciplinary board report that flagged "his efforts to downplay his misconduct." Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:46:07 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2355490?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2355490 Seton Hall University's former president's whistleblower suit against the school will be heard in a New Jersey state court in Hudson County after an Essex County judge confirmed her decision to move the case due to a potential conflict of interest involving the daughter of one of the defendants. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:18:32 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2354831?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2354831 State and local courts' growing reliance on Tyler Technologies' court management software is helping judiciaries manage caseloads while increasing citizens' access to justice, but the software has also led to data breaches, lawsuits and concerns around accountability, experts say. Mon, 23 Jun 2025 07:01:27 +0000 /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2355432?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=section /pulse/new-jersey-pulse/articles/2355432 Reed Smith LLP announced Monday that it has elected global managing partner Casey Ryan to a new four-year term.