"As we have said, we are going to follow the facts in a search for the truth," Ronald Chen, chair of the task force and dean of Rutgers Law School, said in a Friday statement.

A Long Branch woman is seeking damages to compensate for what court documents say is the humiliation and discrimination she experienced based on her gender and sexual orientation.

Currently, legal cannabis businesses can be denied access to the banking system because banks can be prosecuted under federal law. Cannabis remains a federally scheduled substance, even in states where it is medically or recreationally legal.

This is Hill Wallack LLP's fifth office, and second outside of New Jersey.

C. Judson Hamlin has joined the New Brunswick firm as counsel to it's alternative dispute resolution practice.

Trust and estates lawyer Susan Dromsky-Reed joined the Roseland law firm as an associate in 1997.

Nearly a year after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Janus v. AFCME – which freed public employees from the obligation to pay union dues, even if they enjoy the benefits of union-negotiated contacts – the effect of the decision is still being debated in New Jersey.

Employers have options in the face of a union organization drive, but must tread carefully.

Tyler Kandel joins Sills Cummis & Gross following more than 20 years spent at Emmet, Marvin & Martin LLP in Morristown.

Frank Huttle, who served for nine years as the mayor of Englewood, has joined the law firm's corporate group.