New Jersey Law Journal: Top Stories October 13, 2008
By David Badertscher, PLL
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<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRRCWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVTU" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Deaths, Conviction Botch Search for Securities Class Representatives</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>" Lawyers who sued FleetBoston Financial Corp. for securities fraud in 2002 have had unusually bad luck in finding class representatives and could end up with a decertification of the class as a result."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p>
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRRCWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVTW" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Disbarred Attorney's Huge Debts Laid Bare in Contest Over His Estate</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>"An appeals court rules in a guardian?s fee fight in the saga of a disbarred, divorced lawyer who worked as a limo driver to pay restitution to wronged clients, was left in a coma for six months from a car accident and then died."</font></font><!-- TOP STORIES continue --><!-- entering multi --></p>
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRRCWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVTY" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Record Settlement in Dram-Shop Case May Be Unsealed</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>" A state appeals court appears to be in sync with arguments that secrecy should be lifted on how much money a Giants Stadium vending company paid to a New Jersey girl paralyzed by a crash with a drunken football fan."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p>
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRRCWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVTA" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Court Asked, Must Consumer Complain To Merchant Before Suing for Fraud? </b></font></a><br/><font size="2">"A case before the state Supreme Court may determine the viability of a decade-old judicial doctrine requiring Consumer Fraud Act complainants to try to settle their disputes with merchants before going to court."</font></font><font size="2"> </font></p>
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRRCWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVTB" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Judge Turns Down Request for Data on Disciplinary Review Board Dispositions</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>" A state judge on Wednesday tossed out a citizen's suit seeking to discover whether the attorney ethics system is tilted in favor of lawyers." </font></font></p>
<p><font><a href="http://alm.rsys1.net/servlet/cc6?HtuYQSRRCWQSVKIHKLjlkxJhmjlkQklHlLQgPQmkVaVTC" target="_blank"><font color="#4b5d1a" size="2"><b>Attorney Registration Fee Hike Urged Based on 'Pay as You Go' Budgeting</b></font></a><font size="2"><br/>"New Jersey's disciplinary system overseers have requested an increase in annual attorney registration fees to $200 from $186 for 2009, to meet rising administrative expenses in the face of reduced revenues."</font></font></p>
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