Emily Cousins

August 26, 2022 | Law.com

"A case that settles for $2 million doesn't take 10 times the work as a case that settles for $200,000, so lawyers shouldn't make 10 times the fee," said Joshua Schwadron, founder and CEO of legal technology provider Mighty.

By Emily Cousins

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August 25, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"This is unusual for an attorney in a disciplinary case to plead the Fifth," Judge Barbara Bellis said.

By Emily Cousins

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August 22, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Four Connecticut attorneys face presentments and other court discipline as of July.

By Emily Cousins

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August 22, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"The grievance complaints evidence a pattern of misconduct in her failure to answer grievance complaints, her failure to implement appropriate law office management practices, and her disrespect and lack of cooperation with the court system," the decision said. "The Respondent's ethical violations do not show good judgment and appear to be chronic; they should be reviewed by a judge."

By Emily Cousins

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August 17, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Attorney Pattis sent me a text saying, 'I or my office may have violated the order of protection,'" lawyer Christopher Mattei said.

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August 16, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"There is no way they should've ever be dropped in this document dump that happened in the Texas case," law professor Julia Simon-Kerr said. "It's a totally separate case, different lawyers. Very inappropriate."

By Emily Cousins

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August 16, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Our priority, our duty should be to Connecticut families and residents and small businesses, to protect them to make sure they don't have to pay more for health insurance and health care than they have to," Attorney General William Tong said. "And to ask, and to even require, the health insurance companies here today to do all they can to really serve their customers and not just extract as much as they can."

By Emily Cousins

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August 12, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"Number one: We don't want rates that are based on incorrect information," Tong said. "Number two: We don't want rates that are based on revised information when we're not really sure that they had time and really put their full effort into an appropriate revision of those rates."

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August 11, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

"The other defendants, who were mostly caught in the middle, ended up administrating a trust that they thought was legitimate," plaintiff counsel said. "They didn't have any reason to think it was fraudulent, but they still had to be involved in the case."

By Emily Cousins

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August 09, 2022 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The law does not allow for sexual orientation or gender identity to be taught in kindergarten through third grade. It also requires the state education agency to write new classroom instructions for grades four through 12.

By Emily Cousins

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