Thomas B Scheffey

June 08, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

New Haven Housing Court Judge Steven Ecker talks about how people in his courtroom often try to hand him their cellphones. Not to shoot a selfie or anything like that, but in an attempt to get a text message or other digital data introduced as evidence in their cases.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

8 minute read

May 18, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Now that the legislature has signed off on a $100 million settlement of the 12-year legal battle between state unions and former Gov. John G. Rowland, who really won?

By Thomas B. Scheffey

8 minute read

May 18, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Now that the legislature has signed off on a $100 million settlement of the 12-year legal battle between state unions and former Gov. John G. Rowland, who really won?

By Thomas B. Scheffey

8 minute read

May 07, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Bethel couple and their severely disabled son have failed in an emergency bid to obtain a security lien against two of Connecticut's most prominent law firms.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

6 minute read

May 07, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Bethel couple and their severely disabled son have failed in an emergency bid to obtain a security lien against two of Connecticut's most prominent law firms.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

6 minute read

May 01, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Samuel V. Schoonmaker III will probably be best remembered in Connecticut legal circles as a pioneering advocate of no-fault divorce. But those who knew him well say he was much more.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read

May 01, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Samuel V. Schoonmaker III will probably be best remembered in Connecticut legal circles as a pioneering advocate of no-fault divorce. But those who knew him well say he was much more.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read

April 27, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When Superior Court Judge Stephen Frazzini decided last November to bar publication of a Law Tribune article about a child custody case, he wrote that the privacy rights of children in juvenile court were "a governmental interest of the highest order."

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read

April 27, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When Superior Court Judge Stephen Frazzini decided last November to bar publication of a Law Tribune article about a child custody case, he wrote that the privacy rights of children in juvenile court were "a governmental interest of the highest order."

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read

April 23, 2015 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Timothy Fisher, the dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law, owes his reputation as a private practice attorney in about equal measure to his work for the rich and powerful and the poor and forgotten.

By Thomas B. Scheffey

7 minute read