CSG Law Attorney Francis J. Giantomasi Featured on Steve Adubato's Lessons in Leadership with Co-Host Mary Gamba on News 12+
Francis J. Giantomasi of Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi PC (“CSG Law”) was featured on Steve Adubato’s Lessons in Leadership with Co-Host Mary Gamba on News 12+ on March 19 where he shared his perspective on the law, family and leadership as well as the firm’s move to its state-of-the-art, 120,000 square foot headquarters at 105 Eisenhower Parkway in Roseland, New Jersey. ...READ MORE
New Jersey Law Journal: David Dugan: Mentorship Is About Recognizing Talent and Investing in It
Is the role of mentor one that you set out to take, or one you happened into? ...READ MORE
New Jersey Law Journal: Be Ready for Plaintiffs Counsel to File Higher-Caliber Cases, Marie Mathews Warns
Marie Mathews, a lawyer at Chiesa Shahinian & Giantomasi who represents a range of clients, including pharmaceutical and technology companies, as well as law firms, has something surprising to say about her adversaries: They’re getting better at what they do. ...READ MORE
NJBIZ: Five Questions with 2021 NJBIZ Leader in Law, Michelle A. Schaap
CSG’s Michelle A. Schaap has been recognized in NJBIZ’s inaugural Leaders in Law program, which was created to honor legal professionals in various sectors and disciplines who bring an outstanding dedication to their occupation and their communities. ...READ MORE
NJBIZ: Five Questions with 2021 NJBIZ Leader in Law, Peter E. Nussbaum
CSG’s Peter E. Nussbaum, Co-Chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property Group has been recognized in NJBIZ’s inaugural Leaders in Law program, which was created to honor legal professionals in various sectors and disciplines who bring an outstanding dedication to their occupation and their communities. ...READ MORE
NJBIZ: Five Questions with 2021 NJBIZ Leader in Law, Dennis M. Toft
CSG’s Dennis M. Toft, Chair of the Environmental Group has been recognized in NJBIZ’s inaugural Leaders in Law program, which was created to honor legal professionals in various sectors and disciplines who bring an outstanding dedication to their occupation and their communities. ...READ MORE
New Jersey Law Journal: Magistrate Judge Dickson Leaves Bench After a Decade. Here's What's Next for Him
After more than a decade as a U.S. magistrate judge in Newark, Joseph Dickson has returned to private practice at Chiesa, Shahinian& Giantomasi, where he joins the firm’s alternative dispute resolution practice. ...READ MORE
New Jersey Law Journal: Exceeding Authorized Access Under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
The Circuit Split – “Exceeding Authorized Access” ...READ MORE
New Jersey Cannabis Insider: Clearing the Haze for NJ Employers as Recreational Cannabis Goes to Ballot and Medical Use Laws Evolve
With the express workplace protections afforded to medical cannabis patients under New Jersey’s Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act (“CUMCA”), which was enacted on July 2, 2019, and recreational cannabis on the November 2020 ballot, employers will inevitably face cannabis in the workplace and need to be prepared. ...READ MORE
New Jersey Law Journal: NJ Supreme Court's Entire Controversy Doctrine Ruling - What Attorneys Need to Know
Litigation is full of surprises. Sometimes you win cases you thought you would lose. Sometimes you lose cases you thought you would win. And sometimes you encounter things you never learned or had reason to deal with in law school or in practice. One of those rules (to many of us) is Fed. R. Civ. P. 39(c) – the advisory jury rule – which provides that “[i]n an action not triable of right by a jury, the court, on motion or on its own, may try an issue with an advisory jury.” Don't worry. You now have a short primer on advisory juries in federal court and won’t be blindsided if the issue comes up on short notice (and, actually, it may).1 ...READ MORE
COMMERCE Magazine: Managing Risk and Avoiding Liability During COVID-19
Christopher R. Paldino was featured in a COMMERCE Magazine editorial roundtable posing the question to legal leaders across the State, "How are you advising clients to avoid legal risks during the pandemic? Strategies? Best practices?" ...READ MORE
NJ Spotlight: Will Trump's Clean-Water Rollback Imperil NJ's Small Streams, Wetlands?
Dennis M. Toft was featured in a NJ Spotlight article discussing the effect of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's repeal of the 2015 Clean Water Rule, which aimed to clarify which waterbodies are federally regulated under the Clean Water Act, on New Jersey. ...READ MORE
New Jersey Law Journal: Asking a Federal Court to Retain Jurisdiction to Enforce a Settlement Agreement
Litigants have different reasons for wanting to try their cases in federal court. But a wise band of non-lawyers (although litigants) once sang, “You can’t always get what you want.” (Written by Mick Jagger & Keith Richards in The Rolling Stones’ 1969 album, Let It Bleed.) A party does not have a right to litigate in federal court simply because it files its case there, even if the other parties agree, because federal courts are courts of limited jurisdiction. Federal subject matter jurisdiction cannot be conferred by consent nor its requirement waived. A U.S. district court must have either federal question jurisdiction or diversity jurisdiction. This much is taught in basic civil procedure classes in law school and generally understood by practitioners. ...READ MORE
