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April 01, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Litigator's Book 'How To Succeed As A Trial Lawyer' Offers Fresh Advice

Trial lawyer Stewart Edelstein, of Bridgeport's Cohen and Wolf, has written a book published by the American Bar Association titled How to Succeed as a Trial Lawyer.
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August 04, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Helping Men 'Pick Up The Pieces'

James L. Walker Jr. knows that just a few steps separate a path to success and a path to destructive behavior. He witnessed it growing up in the projects of Bridgeport. Young men made wrong decisions and ended up behind bars with a dim future.
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February 11, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Commission Says Detainee Can See His 'Secret' Files

It sounds like the plot of a mind-bending thriller. A foreign born medical worker, with no state or federal criminal record, is suddenly whisked from his lab and tossed into a local jail for undisclosed reasons. He is held for nearly two months, enduring a strip search and harsh conditions. Once released, he attempts to unravel the reasons for his arrest, but his efforts are stymied by government stonewalling. Did this take place some tropical dictatorship, some shadowy police state? No. The target of such treatment was working in Farmington, at the University of Connecticut Health Center on Oct. 29, 2004, when aftershocks of 9/11 turned his world upside down.
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July 21, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Sending Law Books To Liberia

In 2000, matrimonial lawyer Christina Storm was watching television with her husband, James Byrne. "She stood up and said, 'I'm tired of watching families tear themselves apart ? I want to do some good in this world,'" Byrne recounted. So she started down a path that has become Lawyers Without Borders, the Hartford-based organization in which lawyers use their training to bring peace and justice, bit by bit, to distant lands.
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November 08, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

$1M Settlement For Pedestrian Killed On Main Street

Joyce Brown, executrix v. Shawn Maia et al.: On a drizzling and foggy night in November 2008, a semi-retired scientist, Robert T. Brown, 67, picked up a large pizza from an eatery on Manchester's Main Street. The unusually wide street runs north and uphill through the center of the downtown business district. Brown parked on the west side of the street, according to court documents, and headed to Mulberry Street Pizza, on the east side of the street. His receipt showed the pizza was picked up at 7:04 p.m.
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October 11, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When Attorneys Step Out Of Bounds

The general consensus among lawyers is that it happens far more often in movies and on television than in a real life courtroom. Every once in a while though, a real-life lawyer does something provocative enough to prompt a judge to bring a criminal contempt charge and order a formal court hearing. Maybe the lawyer failed to turn over evidence or refused to follow a judge's order in the courtroom. Perhaps the attorney was repeatedly late to court or failed to show up altogether.
6 minute read
March 01, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Rules Committee Kicks Around 'Boot Camp' MCLE Proposal

A plan to require new lawyers to participate in a day of career training met with some push back last week by members of the Rules Committee for the Superior Court, who questioned whether the responsibility of career training should fall on the state Judicial Branch.
4 minute read
April 03, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Bar Exam Failures Face Job Flameout

Hiring partners don't mention it, would-be associates won't touch the subject, and law schools would rather avoid the issue altogether. But the possibility of failing the bar exam becomes a reality for tens of thousands of law school graduates each year.
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August 25, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Transgender Workers Struggle With Bias Claims

Employment attorneys and lawyers for advocacy groups are keeping a close eye on a federal lawsuit in Washington, D.C. that could provide additional protections for transgender people in the work force.
5 minute read
March 15, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Judicial Nominee Should Face Tough Questions

I should be delighted by President Barack Obama's nomination of Robert Chatigny to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The judge appears virulently opposed to the death penalty. He appears to think that sex offender registration laws are too harsh and punitive. He previously represented people accused of crimes. One would think I would be dancing in the streets with glee.
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