Michael Marciano

August 26, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

After about 20 years in lawyering, I took some time and wound up teaching at UConn Law School for a few years. Well, guess where I'm headed again this fall?

By Mark Dubois

5 minute read

August 26, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A trial court held the owner of a Glastonbury home business needed to prove her business was "customary." The appellate court disagreed and reversed the decision.

By Dwight Merriam

8 minute read

August 23, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Earned by only a handful of attorneys over the past decade, Cramer & Anderson partner Dan Casagrande's Marvin J. Glink Private Local Government Attorney Award recognizes remarkable legal service to public clients.

By Michael Marciano

4 minute read

August 22, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Limiting property tax dependence requires more state funding to local governments, which means raising more state revenue from other taxes, but this is necessary to make Connecticut the prosperous, just, and integrated state that it can and must be.

By Connecticut Law Tribune Editorial Board

3 minute read

August 21, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

I listened to an interesting podcast on Slate’s “Amicus” site the other day. The title was “Lawyers, Who Needs Them?” Dahlia Lithwick was…

By Mark Dubois

5 minute read

August 21, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Verrill Dana upgrades its brand and website; West Hartford attorney C. Scott Schwefel joins the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

By Michael Marciano

3 minute read

August 19, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The legal profession is particularly prone to being affected by the shunning and shaming effects of stigma.

By Traci Cipriano

7 minute read

August 16, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The rule, announced by Trump officials in July, makes most migrants who pass through a third country before arriving at the U.S.-Mexico border ineligible for asylum, by requiring them to seek asylum first in another country.

By Michael Marciano

4 minute read

August 16, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

McCarter & English recently received the American Bar Association’s 2019 Pro Bono Publico Award, and Day Pitney's Namita Tripathi Shaw has been elected a fellow at the American College of Bond Counsel.

By Michael Marciano

3 minute read

August 16, 2019 | Connecticut Law Tribune

“The principal difference between a tattoo and, for example, a pen-and-ink drawing, is that a tattoo is engrafted onto a person's skin rather than drawn on paper. This distinction has no significance in terms of the constitutional protection afforded the tattoo."—Ninth Circuit

By Dwight Merriam

6 minute read