John Wallace

April 30, 2008 - 11:30pm

A wink and a nod for Virginia Long

Click on this image to enlargeClick on this image to enlargeOnly in New Jersey can a lawyer tout his marriage to a Supreme Court Justice on his law firm's website as way of drumming up legal work. Jonathan Weiner, a partner at Fox Rothschild, a large and politically active law firm with a government affairs and gaming law practice, notes in his official biography that his wife, Virginia Long, is an Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court with lifetime tenure. Weiner is also the general counsel of the Health Care Association of New Jersey, and rather amazingly, notes that “he was recently re-appointed by the Supreme Court of New Jersey to a second two-year term on its Civil Practice Committee.”

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January 3, 2006 - 5:42pm

Zulima Farber may be frontrunner for A.G.

Several Democratic sources are saying that Jon Corzine has settled on Zulima Farber for Attorney General. The 61-year-old Farber would become the first Latina to serve as the state's top law enforcement official. Farber served as an Assistant Bergen County Prosecutor and Assistant Counsel to Governor Brendan Byrne, and in Governor Jim Florio's cabinet as Public Advocate. She was considered a leading candidate for Associate Justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court in 2003, but Governor James E. McGreevey made a last minute switch and nominated John Wallace to the post. (01/03/06)

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