March 29, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Proposed Environmental Rights Amendment Has Good Intentions, but Likely Unknown ConsequencesBroad, open-ended constitutional language is a grant of authority to the courts that have the final decision about what it includes, what it prohibits, and what it requires. In our system, that includes the power to override the will of the two elected branches of the state government.
By The Law Journal Editorial Board
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March 28, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Amending the Dram Shop Act Would Reduce Wrong Way CrashesThe Connecticut Dram Shop Act provides a remedy to some who are injured as a result of overservice, albeit at the cost of precluding a common law action for negligence which the statute bars. But there are weaknesses with the statute, the editorial board writes.
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
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March 28, 2024 | The Legal Intelligencer
Mentorship Must-Haves: The Secrets to Mentor-Mentee Relationships That LastWhat we need, but are often too hesitant to ask for, are strong mentors. We know we bear ultimate responsibility for our career trajectories. But good mentors may be the difference between staying to fight another day or leaving the profession entirely.
By The Young Lawyer Editorial Board
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March 27, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Connecticut Should Require Notice to Defendants That Uncharged Misconduct Will Be Used in Sexual Assault CasesBy enacting the proposed discovery rule, Connecticut would fall in line with several other states that have adopted such a provision, the editorial board writes.
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
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March 22, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Enshrining 'Fetal Personhood' Into Law Causes Complications. Here's WhyPoliticians who supported fetal personhood legislation are now nervously proclaiming their support for IVF. But it turns out that Alabama is not out of the political woods.
By The Law Journal Editorial Board
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March 22, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
'County Line' Constitutionality Question Highlights Independence of NJ's Attorney GeneralOur attorney general is not the governor's lawyer.
By The Law Journal Editorial Board
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March 21, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Bring Back the State's Program Review and Investigations CommitteeThe disbanding of PR&I in 2017 was a misguided attempt to save a meager amount of money.
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
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March 20, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
IOLTA Rule Changes Needed in ConnecticutUnclaimed money should not be kept in a lawyer's IOLTA account when It could be put to better uses, including legal aid
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
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March 18, 2024 | Connecticut Law Tribune
Fairness and Clarity Needed in Assessing Tenants' Prior Felony ConvictionsPending before the General Assembly is a bill, Raised H.B. No. 5242, An Act Concerning The Collateral Consequences of Criminal Records on Housing Opportunities,…
By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board
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March 15, 2024 | New Jersey Law Journal
Attorneys Should Be Mortified by Many of The Proposed OPRA ChangesOf direct concern to lawyers, the bills would prohibit parties from making requests that would be "unreasonable, oppressive or duplicative of already pending discovery requests in a legal proceeding."
By The Law Journal Editorial Board
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