Karen Ali

January 31, 2014 | Law.com

A Stratford attorney who has been convicted of disorderly conduct for threatening to shoot at two water company employees will decide in the near future if he wants to appeal the ruling.

By KAREN ALI

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January 24, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Steven Frederick grew up playing all sorts of musical instruments, but he stopped playing when he got a job as a Wall Street lawyer. After all, he lived in a New York City apartment, and the neighbors would have squawked had he played saxophone or clarinet at all hours.

By KAREN ALI

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January 17, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Jean Hamer always wanted a pony. "Of course, every little girl wants a pony," she said. "That's how this started." Hamer rode horses in high school and in college, and in 1994 she earned a bachelor's degree in animal science from the University of Connecticut. But the hobby soon was put on the back burner when she attended Villanova University School of Law and embarked on her legal career.

By KAREN ALI

4 minute read

January 15, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Daniel Esty is leaving to his post as the Commissioner of the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and returning to Yale University, where he is a professor of environmental law.

By KAREN ALI

3 minute read

January 10, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

It was called "Operation Running Man." Bridgeport attorney Joseph P. Haddad was one of the prime targets of the 14-month-long FBI investigation. Although the apparent mastermind, he wasn't the one literally doing the running.

By KAREN ALI

4 minute read

January 08, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Divorce isn't for the faint of heart. Just ask Renee Bauer. "Divorce makes the strongest people weak in the knees," said Bauer, a principal in Hamden's Bauer Law Group who has watched many a client struggle through a break-up.

By KAREN ALI

5 minute read

January 07, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Three Branford-based dietary supplement companies and their owner that will provide millions of dollars in restitution to consumers harmed by the companies' alleged deceptive Internet marketing and sales practices, state officials said.

By KAREN ALI

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January 06, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Stamford Superior Court, which was essentially closed Monday after a pipe burst, opened for business today. Rhonda Stearley-Hebert, Program Manager of Communications for the Connecticut Judicial Branch, said that a pipe feeding a radiator on the 5th floor of the courthouse froze and then burst when the water thawed.

By Karen Ali

2 minute read

January 06, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

National law firm Wilson, Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker has opened an office in Hartford, its second location in the state. Officials said a state government lobbying practice will be one of the focal points of the new office.

By KAREN ALI

2 minute read

January 03, 2014 | Connecticut Law Tribune

William Gallagher had many admirers in the legal profession. Other lawyers, to be sure. But judges as well. Now-retired Superior Court Judge Jonathan Silbert said that Gallagher, who passed away in late December at age 76 following an illness, was simply "the best."

By KAREN ALI

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