Editorial Board

March 14, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The practical effects of the current law are to delay compensation for the majority of exonerees. To the extent language in the statute was intended to reduce the liability of municipalities or local police officers, in practice it is having the opposite effect.

By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

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March 08, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

An explanation of the court's reasoning—whether in an expanded order or in an opinion—would have been helpful and is sorely missed.

By The Law Journal Editorial Board

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March 08, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The law will create a significant, unprecedented set of new legal relationships, rights and burdens. At the same time it will create a significant new set of legal and enforceable duties on those who have hired domestic workers in the past with little in the way of legal rules.

By The Law Journal Editorial Board

4 minute read

March 07, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Simply put, there is no good argument for a contract clause that entitles a prevailing plaintiff to their fees but not a prevailing defendant to theirs.

By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

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March 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

The enactment of S-3011 presented a direct challenge to the Supreme Court's rule-making authority.

By The Law Journal Editorial Board

3 minute read

March 01, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

In Sadeeshkumar v. Sadeeshkumar, the trial judge had denied the defendant's motion to assert a counterclaim for divorce for irreconcilable differences and denied defendant's motion for reconsideration as untimely.

By Law Journal Editorial Board

5 minute read

February 28, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Our test should make sense to both liberals and conservatives no matter who is running the executive branch, even if they are unhappy about the result in a specific case.

By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

4 minute read

February 23, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal

Days before the shooting, Mrs. Crumbley took Ethan to a gun range and, as a video showed, mother and son alternated shooting targets. On social media, the mother wrote, "Mom & son day testing out his new Xmas present."

By The Law Journal Editorial Board

5 minute read

February 22, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer

As young lawyers embark on this long road of trying to figure out how to balance work responsibilities with family obligations and other commitments, many wonder whether it is actually possible to "do it all," like more senior attorneys seem to be able to do.

By The Young Lawyer Editorial Board

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February 21, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Expanding Medicaid coverage to older brothers and sisters is not only the right thing to do, but it would be an economically sound decision.

By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

5 minute read