Effective September 1, 2021, the Supreme Court of New Jersey appointed McAndrew Vuotto member Jonathan P. Vuotto to the District Ethics Committee for the District X-A Vicinage (East Morris and Sussex Counties). Jon’s appointment term on the Distric…
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In Trinh v. Fineman, No. 20-1727 (3d Cir. Aug. 16, 2021), the Third Circuit has joined seven other Circuit Courts in extending immunity to court-appointed receivers. The plaintiff in the case was an owner of a business in dissolution in state court i…
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In March 2021, in Ford Motor Co. v. Montana Eighth Jud. Dist. Ct., 141 S.Ct. 1017, 1022 (2021), the U.S. Supreme Court further developed the evolving standard for personal jurisdiction in the federal district courts (and by virtue of New Jersey’s
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McAndrew Vuotto congratulates Jonathan P. Vuotto for his selection to the 2021 New Jersey “Super Lawyers” list for business litigation. Super Lawyers is a peer-review of lawyers in which individuals are nominated by their peers and reviewed by a…
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In re-affirming the timeliness analysis under the New Jersey Tort Claims Act, the Appellate Division deferred a complex legal malpractice successor liability issue. In McNellis-Wallace v. Hoffman, Docket No. A-1488-19T1 (App. Div. July 31, 2020), a d…
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The New Jersey Appellate Division released a decision on March 3, 2020 that could be interpreted to interject a complexity in the current state of contribution and indemnification claims in legal malpractice cases. In Lane Construction Co., Inc. v. M…
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A recent decision from the District of Columbia further supports the continuing trend towards imposing attorney liability for failing to protect client information. In Wengui v. Clark Hill, PLC, et al., No. 19-cv-3195 (D.D.C. Feb. 20, 2020), the plai…
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Thomson Reuters has included Jonathan Vuotto on New Jersey’s Business Litigation “Super Lawyers” list for 2020. Jon is a commercial litigator with over 15 years’ of experience, primarily practicing in the substantive areas of creditors’ rig…
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Elizabeth Andes volunteered with the New Jersey State Bar Association’s Wills for Heroes program on September 11, 2019 in East Brunswick. Wills for Heroes is a free program brought to the community by the Young Lawyers Division of the New Jersey St…
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The New Jersey Appellate Division has ruled in a published opinion that home inspectors are not exempt from liability under the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act (“CFA”) because there is “no direct and unavoidable conflict” between the CFA and ot…
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