Due to a Supreme Court brief, a major Appellate Division brief, some personal matters, and issues as to the hosting of this blog, there were no postings here for the last part of July. So this post is in the nature of a retroactive declaration of a hiatus. Hopefully, things will be (closer to) normal going forward. All that is not to say that the courts were inactive. One case in particular, in which Judge Currier wrote one of the longest and most detailed opinions of the current Term, deserves special mention. In ADP, LLC v. Kusins, ___ N.J. Super. ___ (App. Div. 2019), the Appellate...

On May 30, 2001, the Supreme Court decided Packard-Bamberger & Co. v. Collier, 167 N.J. 427 (2001). Writing for a unanimous Court, Justice Verniero held that a corporate director who had also acted as counsel to the corporation could be liable for an award of attorneys’ fees in an attorney misconduct action against him by that corporation and a shareholder. The attorney was found to have engaged in intentional misconduct by failing to disclose a third party’s offer to purchase corporate property, and by assisting another director in purchasing stock that the corporation also...

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