On March 3, 2023, the District XII Ethics Committee, an arm of the New Jersey Supreme Court, filed a formal ethics complaint against a Union County Municipal Court Judge for allegedly signing his client’s name to a document that was ultimately filed with the court and for failing to provide his client with a copy […]
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Admonition Recommended for Municipal Attorney for Two Towns for Lack of Communication with Private Client
In an undated report issued in June 2023, an attorney ethics hearing panel recommended that a lawyer who is presently serving as a municipal attorney for two municipalities in Ocean and Monmouth counties be “admonished,” the least severe level of discipline, for an ethics violation arising out of legal work done for a private client. […]
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Burlington County Municipal Public Defender Faces Three Ethics Charges Related to her Private Clients.
A public defender for a Burlington County borough who was censured a little more than a year ago is facing two (now three) new ethics charges arising out legal work done outside the scope of her municipal duties. The lawyer facing the charges is Mary E. Lenti of Mount Holly who serves as public defender […]
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Clifton Settles Sexual Harassment and Retaliation Lawsuit: Pays $80,000 to Policewoman and $12,976.95 to Accused Police Lieutenant.
On May 15, 2023, the City of Clifton (Passaic County, NJ) agreed to pay $80,000 to settle a female police officer’s sexual harassment and retaliation lawsuit. Three days later, the City agreed to pay $12,976.95 to a police lieutenant who was the alleged harasser provided that the lieutenant withdrew his appeal of disciplinary charges. In […]
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List of NJ Administrative Law cases now on-line. Seventeen of them have been pending for over ten years.
Five and a half years ago, I published an online spreadsheet of cases pending before the New Jersey Office of Administrative Law (OAL). Today, I am releasing an updated spreadsheet that includes both open cases and cases that were closed on or after January 1, 2019. By downloading and sorting these files, you will find […]