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September 18, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Jurors Not Persuaded By Brain Injury Claim

Lisa Alloggio v. Federal Insurance Company: A woman who claims she suffered a brain injury following a rear-end collision in Pennsylvania sought $3.2 million from a Middletown jury but was awarded only $58,000 after the defense successfully argued that her physical pain actually was caused by longstanding emotional issues.
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September 05, 2005 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State Aim Should Be No Child Left Ignored

Ten years ago, I wrote an article urging that attorneys for children act like, well, attorneys, by maintaining a normal attorney-client relationship with their clients, as opposed to acting like social workers or as self-appointed special masters. Since then, most commentators and courts, including the Connecticut Supreme Court in Schult v. Schult in 1997, have generally agreed.
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December 19, 2011 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Woman Nets Nearly $200K After Fall In Icy Complex

Nancy Diaz v. Hartford Housing Authority: A Hartford woman who hurt her ankle after falling on ice and snow in her apartment complex was recently awarded more than $200,000 following a bench trial. In 2007, Nancy Diaz, 51, lived at Nelton Court in Hartford, an apartment complex with 122 units spread over 14 buildings and controlled by the Hartford Housing Authority. The complex has since been torn down and is being rebuilt.
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March 10, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

$27 Foreclosure Raises Legal Fee Questions

On one level, it looks incredibly cold-hearted. A lending institution forecloses on a couple's home because they came up $27 short on a mortgage payment. But there's another side. Lenders say that if they can't foreclose upon people who consistently fail to pay up, and if they can't collect full legal fees in such cases, there is little incentive for them to ease mortgage terms and work out deals with other troubled home owners.
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June 13, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Legal Clinic Gives 'Voice' To Homeless Teens

Stacey Violante Cote helps the homeless. Not by running a shelter or dishing up meals in a soup kitchen, but by serving up a healthy portion of legal advice and representation.
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June 15, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Little Rock Would Jazz Up Courtrooms

Having made my living in the music business before I turned to law, songs are often on my mind. In fact, my internal radio is almost always playing. In moments of inactivity, while waiting for the exhortation to rise for the short calendar call, or in the dentist's office, to avoid dreading the drill's expensive whine, I think about music. In particular, I think that trials should have a soundtrack. First I imagined how we would accomplish this. PowerPoint is now a standard feature of courtroom presentations, along with light boxes for viewing CT scans, video playback of expert witnesses contradicting themselves and each other live and on-screen, and myriad technological devices making the spectacle more interesting to the observers than days of dry, technical testimony punctuated only by the occasional vociferous or blas� objection.
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March 26, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Mezzanine Financing May Be Best Option

The four Yale Business School alumni lamented their financing problems. - Lisa started a small software company. Due to a stable, mature product with solid cash flow and plenty of room for growth, her business is thriving. I`m trying to launch a new product line and need more capital to do it. But I don`t want to give up control to a new equity investor.
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September 21, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

CBA Gets New Leader

After a six-month nationwide search, the Connecticut Bar Association has selected a longtime state and municipal bar association executive to become its next executive director. D. Larkin Chenault currently heads the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and has previously led the Michigan state and the Cincinnati bar associations. He began his bar management career as assistant director of the Kentucky Bar Association in his native Frankfort, Kentucky's capital.
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September 09, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

No End In Sight For Decade-Long Conn. Divorce Case

It's a divorce and child visitation case that already has produced nearly 600 motions and rulings and evidence of insider trading that brought down a multibillion-dollar hedge fund.
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April 02, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Brunstad Changes National Bankruptcy Law At U.S.S.C.

Bingham McCutchen's G. Eric Brunstad, Jr., was at the top of his game in arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court Jan. 16, and in a 9-0 decision, it rewarded him in a March 20 ruling.
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