Widow of Slain Attorney Fights to Prevent Lawyers from Accessing Her Late Husband's Employment Records

The widow of murdered Hoboken attorney and Toms River native Dustin Friedland – who was fatally shot during a December 2013 carjacking at The Mall at Short Hills – is fighting a security company’s efforts to access her late husband’s employment records.

Following her husband’s murder, Jamie Schare Friedland filed a lawsuit against the mall’s owners, Michigan-based Taubman Centers, the mall’s security company, California-based Universal Protection Service, and the Millburn-Short Hills Volunteer First Aid Squad.

In the lawsuit, Friedland claimed that the mall’s owners knew about elevated carjacking risks during the time of the incident – which took place during the Christmas shopping season - but failed to adequately protect shoppers.

Attorneys for Universal Protection Service are now requesting that the law firm where Dustin Friedland worked hand over documents related to his employment.

According to a NJ.com report:

“Bruce Nagel, one of the attorneys representing Friedland, said on Wednesday the security company is ‘looking under needless rocks’ in pursuing the records, instead of accepting responsibility for providing inadequate security at the mall.”

The report stated that attorneys for Universal Protection Service declined to comment on why they were seeking the records.