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Appellate Division Reverses Trial Court’s Minimal Award of Attorneys Fees to Plaintiff’s Counsel for Work Performed for a Collection Matter
Plaintiff, Law Offices of Rajeh A. Saadeh, LLC, filed a lawsuit against its clients, defendants Barbara Hutton and James Hutton, for the legal work it performed for them for a collection matter, for which they failed to pay its fees. While the trial court entered a default judgment against defendants for the amount of the […]
NJ Supreme Court Rules that Former Trustee Cannot Recover Attorneys’ Fees and Costs Against Condominium Board Under an Ambiguous By-Law Indemnification Clause
By: Uyen Nguyen, Law ClerkEdited by: Betsy G. Ramos, Esq. The plaintiff, Patrick Boyle, a condominium owner and former trustee of the condominium association board, claimed that he was entitled to recover attorneys’ fees and costs against the defendant condominium association, reimbursing him for fees expended to successfully challenge his removal from the board. The […]
Offer of Judgment Sanctions Found Inapplicable in Multidefendant Case
Plaintiff Josh Willner suffered an injury while climbing a rock climbing wall that was owned by his employer (Ivy League Day Camp). He sued the camp, the manufacturer of wall and parts in the wall (Vertical Reality, Inc. and ASCO Numatics) under product liability theories. Before trial, he made a single offer of judgment as […]
Winning Attorneys’ Fees for the Filing of Frivolous Lawsuits
While the Courts of the State of New Jersey have been hesitant to impose sanctions upon parties and counsel for frivolous lawsuits, in any but the most extreme of circumstances, in the appropriate circumstance, sanctions can be obtained, so long as strict compliance with the Rules of Court can be established. N.J.S.A. 2A:15-59.1 governs sanctions […]
Why You Should Take an Offer of Judgment Seriously
Typically, defendants ignore an offer of judgment filed by a plaintiff. The published Appellate Division decision in Feliciano v. Faldetta, 2014 N.J. Super. LEXIS (App. Div. 2014) should give defendants a reason to take these offers seriously. In Feliciano, a $15,000 offer of judgment, which was rejected, turned into a $109,185 judgment after attorneys fees, […]
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