[brief] ......................................................................................................31  TABLE OF AUTHORITIES  CASES  Abbamont v. Piscataway Tp. Bd. Of Educ., 269 N.J. Super. 11 (App. Div. 1993) .................................................................28  Banco Popular N. Am. v. Gandi, 184 N.J. 161, 183 (2005) .........................9, 12 Casamasino v. City of Jersey City, 158 N.J. 333, 353 (1999) .......................29  Coyle v. Bd. of Chosen Freeholders, 170 N.J. 260 (2002)  ..........................21  Cummings v. Bahr, 295 N.J. Super. 374 (App. Div. 1996)  ............................10  D’Annunzio v. Prudential Ins. Co. of America, 192 N.J. 110, 122 (2007) passim D’Atria v. D’Atria, 242 N.J. Super. 392, 401-02 (Ch. Div. 1990)  .....................9  Dzwonar v. McDevitt, 177 N.J. 451, 462 (2003)  ........................................26  Estate of Kotsovska v. Liebman, 221 N.J. 568, 592-94 (2015)  ......................20  Flagg v. Essex Cnty. Prosecutor, 171 N.J. 561, 571 (2002)  ..........................10  Green v. Jersey City Bd. of Educ., 177 N.J. 434, 448 (2003)  ......................26  In re Presentment of Bergen County Grand Jury, 193 N.J. Super. 2, 9 (App.  Div. 1984)  .................................................................10  Kaman v. Montague Tp. Committee, 306 N.J. Super. 291, 300 (App. Div. 1997), aff’d, 158 N.J. 371 (1999)  ......................................................29  Keelan v. Bell Communications Research, 289 N.J. Super. 531, 539 (App. Div. 1996)  .................................................................26  Matter of T.I.C.-C., 470 N.J. Super 596, 606 (App. Div. 2022)  ....................10  Parker v. M & T Chemicals, Inc., 236 N.J. Super. 451, 458, 463 (1989)  ...........20  Perlowski v. Elson T. Killam Assocs., 384 N.J. Super. 467, 473 (Law Div. 2005)  .................................................................................................................. 14, 16  Pfenninger v. Hunterdon Cent. Reg’l High Sch., 167 N.J. 230, 252 (2007).....14  Printing Mart-Morristown v. Sharp Electronics Corp., 116 N.J. 739, 776 (1989) .................................................................................................................................8, 9  Pukowsky v. Caruso, 312 N.J. Super. 171, 182-183 (App. Div. 1998).... passim Stop and Shop Supermarket Co., LLC v. Cty. of Bergen, 450 N.J. Super. 286, 290 (App. Div. 2017) ..............................................................................................................9  Yurick v. State, 184 N.J. 70 (2005) ................................................................. 29, 30  STATUTES N.J.S.A. 34:19-1 et seq .........................................................................................1 N.J.S.A. 34:19-2(b) ...............................................................................................14 N.J.S.A. 34:19-2(e)...............................................................................................26 N.J.S.A. 34:19-5 .................................................................................................14  N.J.S.A. 40A:9-43 ............................................................................................... passim N.J.S.A. 40A:11-4.5 .............................................................................................5 P.L. 2020, c. 67 .....................................................................................................6  RULES RPC 1.16(a)(1) .....................................................................................................20  PRELIMINARY STATEMENT