NJBIZ announced Thursday New Jersey's most dynamic general counsels and chief legal officers with its list of finalists for the NJBIZ General Counsel of the Year awards for 2017.

Speaking Wednesday at a summit organized by his administration to address increasing employment opportunities for ex-offenders, Gov. Chris Christie said that politics "shouldn't matter on this issue," adding that, when an ex-offender goes in search of a job, "they don't ask you if you're a Republican or a Democrat."

David Samson, the former Port Authority of New York and New Jersey chairman and longtime founding partner of a powerful West Orange-based law firm who pleaded guilty last summer to a federal charge of bribery, was sentenced Monday to a year of home confinement, according to the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey.

A legislative bout that began eight years ago to shorten New Jersey's statute of limitations for malpractice claims filed against professionals is starting another round.

“You won't believe the emails I just uncovered.” Her inbox blinked at 3:30 a.m., so she fired off a reply: “What are you still doing up?” Jennifer Borg and a colleague, a reporter at The Record, would go on to obtain the records needed to verify a major story — the one that exposed the Bridgegate scandal.

What sounds like a quibble in the legal world actually makes a huge difference for businesses.

UnitedHealth Group executive Gregory Acquaviva was named chief counsel to Gov. Chris Christie on Thursday, replacing Thomas Scrivo, who is returning to private practice.

Thomas Scrivo, Gov. Chris Christie’s chief counsel, will be the new chairman of the New Jersey Economic Development Authority, Christie announced Thursday. Scrivo is also stepping down as the governor’s chief counsel to return to private practice.

Littler, an employment and labor law firm, announced Peter B. Ajalat and Russell J. McEwan have been appointed co-office managing shareholders of its Newark office.

Whether you love what's going on in Washington, D.C., or despise it, there is some serious political unrest.