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July 26, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Marketing At The Next Level-Not The Same Old Thing

How can marketing help drive your company to the next level? That was the focus of the marketing panel at the Next Level event in June. The panel included participants from the manufacturing, services, and consumer products categories.
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October 19, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Retired Justice Offers Insight Into Supreme Court Dynamics

Retired Supreme Court Justice C. Ian McLachlan is mild-mannered and personable, but beneath his polished manner he has the backbone to state his firmest beliefs out loud. After 27 years of private legal practice, seven years as a trial judge, and six years on the state Appellate Court, McLachlan spent the past 3 1/2 years on the state Supreme Court.
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October 05, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

COMMENTARY: Secretive Forensics Lab Committee On Wrong Track

A chemist in a state forensics lab in Massachusetts was found to be mishandling evidence seized in drug cases, possibly jeopardizing hundreds of convictions. The reaction was swift and sure, and people were held accountable.
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November 27, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Attorney Trades Courtroom For Broadcast Booth

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February 01, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Pastor In Sex Case Challenges Email Search

Summary: A former youth minister from Monroe who was convicted of sending lewd photos and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl he was counseling is appealing his conviction.
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August 17, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Bar Members Benefit From Multimedia Productions

The Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association hasn't exactly been known for their high-tech trailblazing. Yet, Case Flash, a multimedia continuing legal education offering developed by Samuel V. Schoonmaker IV, of Schoonmaker Legal Group in Stamford, with the assistance of retired Superior Court Judge Elaine Gordon, of Gordon ADR in Westbrook, and Allen Gary Palmer, of Halloran & Sage in Westport, is quite possibly the most significant technology contribution the state bar has seen in many years. Case Flash marries continuing legal education and technology in order to bring Family Law Section members the latest state Supreme Court decisions to their email boxes.
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July 18, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Lawyers Named In $10 Million Mortgage Fraud

A pair of Connecticut lawyers have pleaded guilty to bilking banks and lending companies out of more than $10 million by participating in a mortgage scheme that involved fraudulent purchases of at least 40 multi-family homes in New Haven.
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April 02, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Advocates Find Medication Proposal Hard To Swallow

One of Hartford Probate Judge Robert K. Killian Jr.'s frequent "customers" is an elderly woman whose mental illness gives her delusions that there are dangerous people living in her cellar. When she's not taking her medication, she calls police, who come and reassure her. Every few times, they take her to be examined, and she ends up getting committed to a hospital. Killian worries she'll end up losing her home.
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July 26, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Law Grants Extra Probe Time

Connecticut`s state laws that grant an automatic 90-day extension to the statute of limitations in personal injury or wrongful death cases is an invaluable tool for plaintiffs` lawyers and their clients. However, because there is little guidance from Connecticut`s appellate courts on this issue, it may be aggressively challenged by defendants.
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July 24, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Opinion: Adult Adoptees Want Change In Birth Certificate Law

I was born in the State of Connecticut in 1959. I have both of my birth certificates to prove it. Both, you say?
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