Jeannie O'Sullivan

A New Jersey federal judge has freed UBS from a former executive’s retaliation lawsuit, ruling that he failed to link his whistleblowing activity with his termination and did not overcome the company’s showing it had a legitimate reason for firing him.

Epstein Becker Green and a former partner were too hasty in appealing a sanctions order incurred from taking contradictory positions on arbitration while representing a client, because the penalty amount wasn't set yet, the Third Circuit ruled Friday.

A New Jersey federal judge ruled Tuesday that multidistrict litigation against drug manufacturers, pharmacies and wholesalers over carcinogens in blood pressure drugs can expand to include out-of-state litigants and warranty claims under laws in nearly two dozen jurisdictions.

M&T Bank Corp. was hit with a hostile work environment lawsuit by a fired manager who claims the financial institution engages in a pattern of setting older employees up to fail and then ousting them.

The liquidating trustee of Modell’s Sporting Goods Inc. launched a New Jersey bankruptcy court lawsuit accusing the great-grandson of the company’s founder of using his executive role and company resources to enrich his family-owned interests as the failing retailer descended into insolvency.

A Chubb Ltd. unit told the Third Circuit on Wednesday that Sidley Austin LLP’s former concurrent representation of the Boy Scouts of America and the organization’s liability insurers marked a conflict of interest because the firm’s reorganization strategy for BSA would take money from “its own clien…

New Jersey attorney Adrian J. Johnson was hit with a legal malpractice complaint by an ex-client who claims the attorney’s missteps cost her the opportunity to stake a domestic violence claim in her ex-husband’s bankruptcy.

The New Jersey Supreme Court has extended the time limit for parties to respond to legal documents served by mail due to longer U.S. Postal Service delivery times as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Two nonprofits have been added to a sweeping antitrust lawsuit accusing Celgene Corp. and parent Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. of stifling generic competition for two blockbuster cancer drugs and driving up prices for secondary payers of health care claims.

The New Jersey state appeals court on Monday revived a lawsuit over Franklin Mutual Insurance Co.’s denial of coverage for theft and vandalism claims in connection with a commercial condominium unit, ruling that a lower court ended the dispute while unresolved questions remained.

New Jersey attorney Albert H. Wunsch III asked a state court to impose frivolous litigation sanctions on Englewood Cliffs over the Bergen County town’s now-dismissed malpractice lawsuit over a purportedly unfavorable affordable housing settlement, arguing that the municipality’s officials ignored le…