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May 30, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Forced Arbitration Injustice Repeal Act of 2019 would make mandatory arbitration agreements unenforceable in civil rights, employment, consumer and antitrust cases.

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May 28, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Carlton Fields has announced the hires of two new attorneys, including one in Hartford. They are Nancy Conicella, in Orlando, and Abigail L. Preissler, in Hartford.

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May 26, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

This somewhat jaded view of the appointment process requires a brief answer from this board, which has several former members of the judiciary and practitioners intimately aware of the appointment process. Our system is working here.

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May 26, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

The lesson is clear; if parties drafting contracts want to be able to compel arbitration involving any New Jersey party, the drafter should take the time to review its existing forms and make them as clear as possible.

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May 24, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Despite record gains in the 2018 elections, women are still a small fraction of elected officials, comprising 23.7  percent of the U.S. Congress and…

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May 19, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

Technology is making universal surveillance of public spaces possible, and the right to be lost in the crowd will not depend on chalk. The real issue is not search but scrutiny.

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May 19, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

The Supreme Court reminds us that we all should be aware of the doctrine and its potential application in the context of legal malpractice.

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May 16, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

How very sad it is that parents of some students have found it necessary to cheat to get their children into college.

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May 12, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

Even where a party believes that a claim embodied in a particular count of the complaint was adequately met by the defense offered as to a different count, it nonetheless is necessary to respond to the former as well.

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May 12, 2019 | New Jersey Law Journal

The troublesome issue of scienter, as a necessary ingredient of various securities acts violations, remains in flux.

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