Dear Friends,
We write on a glorious October afternoon. The leaves are falling and the sky is a beautiful blue. We hope you are enjoying the weather and the season.
This office is working on some fascinating cases, some in family law, some in employment law, and others involving insurance bad faith and real estate litigation. We are blessed with great clients and we love to get excellent results for them.
We are still on the lookout for "a few good cases", which really means "a few great clients". If you know of people needing legal advice, counsel, or assistance in our practice areas (mostly employment law for plaintiffs, divorce and family law for anyone, and general civil and criminal law assignments), then please contact us or have them do so. We look forward to serving.
Below are two of our most popular recent blog posts. The first involves a unique area of divorce law, namely "grey divorce", or what happens when senior citizens need to separate and divorce? This is a little-recognized area of practice, and requires great skill, compassion, and ingenuity. The blog post is based on a case I handled some years ago that challenged me in many ways. Due to good fortune and good lawyering, we were able to intervene successfully on behalf of our client, but not without some pitfalls, as described.
The second article discusses a "hot topic" in New Jersey law, which involves a new bill that would, if enacted, further protect state and local employees from whistleblower retaliation by the government. This is an important development that grew out of "bridgegate", the Christie administration's scandal involving deliberate traffic tie-ups on the George Washington Bridge. Many state employees have expressed that they would have come forward, but for fear of retaliation. As the article relates, our senior legal counsel, Hanan Isaacs, testified in favor of an earlier version of this bill, which was reported out of Committee favorably 2 years ago, but then died. This new bill has a much better chance of passage, due to political developments in the past year. However, even if passed by both houses of the Legislature, it is subject to Governor Christie's veto. Please read the article for further details.
If you have any questions about the above information or the attachments below, please do not hesitate to so advise us. We will be happy to help you.
With highest regards,
Hanan M. Isaacs, P.C.
