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July 11, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ensuring Insurance: Traditional And Consolidated Approaches

Among the many concerns and considerations project owners/developers and general contractors must face when beginning a particular construction project is ensuring they are adequately insulated from liability when a project goes awry.
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July 06, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Taking Aim At 'Harsh Interrogation'

President Barack wishes to "turn the page" on America's past torture policies. We must "look to the future," he declares, not the past. That may well serve the politics of the present. But it ill serves the needs of the numerous victims of these policies, many detained without charge and without access to legal advice or assistance. These torture victims cannot simply block out their past humiliations, pain and degradation.
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December 29, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Possibilities And Perils Of Web 2.0

When Whole Foods Market had to deal with reports that its CEO had anonymously posted criticisms of a competitor in an online stock market forum, the legal and corporate worlds woke up to the legal land mines unique to Web 2.0 -- the new generation of web sites that encourage users to create, contribute to and interact with web sites and with each other.
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April 19, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut Firms Look To Boston For Lessons Coping With Crisis

Law firms in large Connecticut cities responded to the deadly bombings in Boston last week by taking a closer look at their crisis response plans.
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May 10, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Preteen Pregnancy Prompts Questions

State law is clear on what a doctor should do if he suspects an 11-year-old girl has been sexually assaulted: Report it to authorities.
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January 18, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

IRS Overplays Tax Shelter Issue

The Internal Revenue Service has suffered a string of setbacks recently in federal appeals courts on its aggressive campaign to crack down on corporate tax shelters.
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May 08, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Trumbull Attorney Gets One-Two Punch

Life as a sole practitioner can be lonely and unsettling, even without being sued for malpractice, and it gets worse when the malpractice insurer refuses to defend.
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March 19, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Bias Against Jobless People?

The federal Labor Department reports that 14 million Americans are unemployed and roughly half of that amount has been jobless for 27 weeks or longer. In Connecticut ,there are more than 150,000 people out of work. As part of a package of jobs bills, Democrat state legislators in Connecticut are proposing a law that would prevent employers from discriminating against job applicants who are unemployed, much the same way existing laws curb hiring discrimination on the basis of race, religion, age, gender and disability.
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April 05, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Freon Smugglers Plead Guilty

Prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney`s Connecticut district office busted the second-largest environmental case in the nation involving the illegal importation and sale of Freon.
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February 15, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Phone With A Mind Of Its Own

I am not a member of the "me" generation. My friend Joe the Plumber, eulogized in this column, used to say, "I'm not much, but I'm all I think about." I can certainly identify with that. Nevertheless, I belong in a pack with my fellow graying baby boomers. I have, however, of late, become a part of the "i" generation.
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