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The Supreme Court announced that it has granted certification in three cases.  Two of them are criminal matters.  The third involves a claim against the Fox Rothschild law firm on claims pertaining to monies deposited in the law firm’s trust account. The last of those cases is Meisels v. Fox Rothschild LLP.  The question presented there, as phrased by the Supreme Court Clerk’s office, is “Can plaintiff maintain a cause of action for conversion and breach of fiduciary duty pertaining to $2.4 million deposited in the defendant law firm’s attorney trust account, under the...

Due to travel over most of the past two weeks (and getting “back in the game” once having returned), there have been no posts here.  But the courts have been active during that time.  Here, in brief, are some of the key published decisions of the Supreme Court, the Appellate Division, and the Third Circuit: Paff v. Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office, ___ N.J. ___ (2018).  This was a 4-3 decision that reversed a ruling of the Appellate Division, reported at 446 N.J. Super. 163 (App. Div. 2016).  That court, by a 2-1 vote, had held that recordings made by mobile video recorders...