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The New Jersey State Bar Association is seeking candidates for leadership positions with a one-year term within the Product Liability and Mass Tort Section, as follows: Vice-Chair , who assists the chair. Secretary , who keeps the Sections records, including its finances; and Legislative Coordinator , who monitors and recommends Section comments on pending legislation of interest to the Section’s members. Individuals nominated and elected for leadership will be expected to energize and activate the section membership, including planning programs for section members, providing information for the Section’s mini-website, and spearheading ...

by John B. Kearney and William Reiley #SocialMediaEvidence has become a trending topic as lawyers dig for digital dirt among various social media sites during pretrial discovery. Often, there is more smoke than fire, but now and then the digital evidence that is uncovered on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and a host of other sites can be quite powerful and worth all the digging. What defense lawyer hasn't longed to discover photographs of the plaintiff with alleged back problems doing all sorts of physical activities a week after an accident? However, sometimes lawyers are so caught up in the chase for social media evidence that they don’t reflect on what ...

I, like thousands of young attorneys before and after me, went into the law because I believe that our system of justice is the best in the world. I clawed and fought my way through law school, final exams, internships, clerkships and, finally, the bar exam. A newly minted lawyer, I eagerly awaited the day I would get to walk into a courtroom and advocate for my client. I had delusions of grandeur; of that crystalized moment where I would stand before a jury and convince them to exonerate the innocent, to punish the guilty, and to free us all from the shackles of injustice. My actual experience was a little different. Shortly after starting my practice ...