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Business Lawyer Anand Natarajan Chosen As 2012 Leadership New Jersey (LNJ) Fellow

By Natarajan LLP

Commercial litigation lawyer Anand Natarajan was recently selected as a Fellow for the 2012 Leadership New Jersey program. As a fellow, Mr. Natarajan, who represents New Jersey business owners in a range of business law issues, will meet with a variety of New Jersey citizens, lobbyists, legislators and law enforcement officials to discuss and help find solutions to various social, economic and political issues that confront the state. “As a New Jersey lawyer, lifelong New Jersey resident and local business owner, I am thrilled to get the opportunity to participate in LNJ and meet with people that are equally concerned about this state’s future.” Mr. Natarajan said. “It is a great honor to participate in a program that has graduated innovative and influential leaders and I look forward to working with the other fellows in 2012.”

The 2012 LNJ program will kick off leadership retreat on January 19th 2012.

New Jersey High Court Protects Employees’ Right to Personal Emails

By Natarajan LLP

New Jersey employers: employees have a limited right to access and send personal emails to their attorney on company computers, and you have no authority to read them. This watershed rule was announced in Stengart v. Loving Care Agency, Inc.,1 where the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that an employee had a reasonable expectation of privacy in emails between the employee and her attorney which were sent and received through a web-based email account accessed on laptop provided by her employer.

Condominiums vs. Cooperatives: A Basic Primer

By Anand Natarajan

A real estate purchaser in an urban area needs to understand the difference between cooperative buildings and condominium buildings before they begin their property search.

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A New Target for Defamation Suits: The Grassroots Blogger

By Anand Natarajan

First it was wronged consumers posting negative reviews about vendors on online forums. Now bloggers posting entries about everything from allegedly crooked politicians to evil landlords are increasingly becoming the defendants of choice in defamation lawsuits, sometimes over entries that are no longer than a few words. While at one time many forum surfers did not have the assets or the recognition to be worthwhile targets for the likes of big business and wealthy individuals, websites such as Wordpress and Twitter have given an online voice to millions of people, many of which have everything to lose in costly and protracted litigation.
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