Amaris Elliott Engel

May 18, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Five years ago, Connecticut's Pepe & Hazard merged with New Jersey-based McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter to create a firm with 300 lawyers and offices in six states. At the time, lawyers on both sides of the deal weren't simply looking at how partners would get compensated, how possible conflicts of interest would be resolved, and how business volume might grow from marrying their firms.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 18, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The cost of litigation may drive more marginal cases into dead ends. But when cases involve significant sums, weighty legal issues and complicated facts, they still go to trial. Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey is the type of firm that gets hired for that sort of significant litigation.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 18, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The number of civil jury trials has dropped precipitously in the United States, but don't tell that to the 59 litigators at Hartford-based Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider. Every single lawyer at the firm is a litigator, and all of the firm's revenues derive from litigation—or at least the possibility of it.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 17, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The cost of litigation may drive more marginal cases into dead ends. But when cases involve significant sums, weighty legal issues and complicated facts, they still go to trial. Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey is the type of firm that gets hired for that sort of significant litigation.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 17, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Five years ago, Connecticut's Pepe & Hazard merged with New Jersey-based McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter to create a firm with 300 lawyers and offices in six states. At the time, lawyers on both sides of the deal weren't simply looking at how partners would get compensated, how possible conflicts of interest would be resolved, and how business volume might grow from marrying their firms.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 17, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The number of civil jury trials has dropped precipitously in the United States, but don't tell that to the 59 litigators at Hartford-based Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider. Every single lawyer at the firm is a litigator, and all of the firm's revenues derive from litigation—or at least the possibility of it.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 05, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Torrington dentist has had his license suspended because he delegated the sedation of patients to dental assistants. Rashmi Patel also is facing criminal charges that his negligence in not monitoring the sedation of a high-risk patient resulted in her death last year.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

May 05, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Torrington dentist has had his license suspended because he delegated the sedation of patients to dental assistants. Rashmi Patel also is facing criminal charges that his negligence in not monitoring the sedation of a high-risk patient resulted in her death last year.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

5 minute read

April 24, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When Steven J. Moore and some other partners in the Stamford office of Kelley Drye & Warren wanted to make a move, Moore called a former classmate from the University of Connecticut School of Law. The classmate, Louis R. Piscatelli, happens to be a Connecticut-based regional senior partner at Withers Bergman, a London-headquartered firm known for its trust and estate planning, tax work and other legal services for high net-worth individuals.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

3 minute read

April 24, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When Steven J. Moore and some other partners in the Stamford office of Kelley Drye & Warren wanted to make a move, Moore called a former classmate from the University of Connecticut School of Law. The classmate, Louis R. Piscatelli, happens to be a Connecticut-based regional senior partner at Withers Bergman, a London-headquartered firm known for its trust and estate planning, tax work and other legal services for high net-worth individuals.

By Amaris Elliott-Engel

3 minute read