Thomas Scheffey

July 03, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

In 1999 and 2000, leading edge firms that did initial public offering work for hot tech companies and participated in the dot-com phenomenon seemed like they`d invented the essence of success.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY Law Tribune Staff Writer

4 minute read

May 12, 2000 | Law.com

In the latest application form for the Connecticut bar exam, a newly-phrased question requires candidates to divulge whether, in the past five years, they have been diagnosed or treated for "clinical depression or any other psychotic disorder/condition." One law professor says the question is bad medicine -- and bad law.

By Thomas Scheffey

4 minute read

November 15, 2000 | Law.com

The jury in Connecticut's biggest Microsoft case, which found no antitrust violations and awarded a paltry $1 in damages to Danbury's Bristol Technology, may have gotten it wrong. At least that's what U.S. District Court Judge Janet C. Hall may be saying. Hall has added more than $4.7 million to Bristol's award, and has cleared the way for Bristol to seek a new trial on the antitrust portion of its case.

By Thomas Scheffey

4 minute read

March 14, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When a man holds a door for a woman, it`s usually a pleasant, optional gesture.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY Law Tribune Staff Writer

4 minute read

August 16, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal boldly sought a ruling from the state Supreme Court to establish once and for all that his office has broad common law power to prosecute civil claims on behalf of the state.

By Thomas Scheffey

4 minute read

May 22, 2000 | Law.com

Two weeks after Axiom Laboratories hired Thomas Lee away from a $36,000 water treatment job, company president William Mackey concluded he'd made a terrible mistake, and fired him. But that action has led to a court ruling which now may affect personal liability issues for business owners across Connecticut.

By Thomas Scheffey

6 minute read

January 25, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Hartford Courant took a potentially groundbreaking electronic data case to the Connecticut Supreme Court Jan. 18, but it may make slow progress due to a lack of prior spadework.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY

4 minute read

August 06, 1999 | Law.com

In the first round of a nascent class action against Allstate Insurance Co., tort lawyers survived the powerful insurer's three-prong move to knock the case out of federal court. The insurer has engendered the wrath of plaintiffs' lawyers nationwide. Since the mid-90s it has mailed fliers to unrepresented accident victims with claims against Allstate-insured drivers, urging them to settle without hiring lawyers.

By Thomas Scheffey

8 minute read

January 15, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Jeffrey M. Reilly Jr., a sometime home inspector, and Marshall Rosier, a Yale-trained psychologist, thought they hit on a way fix up an 1800`s federal-style house on Cheshire`s Main Street.

By THOMAS SCHEFFEY Law Tribune Staff Writer

4 minute read

September 21, 2001 | Law.com

Seeking recovery on a discriminatory and retaliatory termination award, Albert P. Lenge filed suit against Hartford, Conn., lawyer Arnold L. Beizer, alleging violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. Beizer moved to strike the CUTPA count, relying on the general rule that the entrepreneurial aspects of the practice of law are covered by CUTPA and the noncommercial aspects of lawyering are not.

By Thomas Scheffey

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