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March 26, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Norwalk Community College Serious About Computer Security

Remember Goldfinger, the evil villain from the James Bond movie intent on breaking into Fort Knox? If you ran the gold fortress and had to secure the building, you`d put the best security system in place, right? You would also invest in personnel to secure the gold. Of course you would want to have the highly trained and skillful Bond on the case, but you would also need the guards and all other employees working together to defend against an attack by Goldfinger`s sinister agents.
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January 21, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Part-Timers Take Pride In Work

It seems almost everyone in Hartford is in favor of having a full-time state Board of Pardons and Parole mdash; Republicans and Democrats, the governor and lawmakers. That is, almost everyone except for Carl D. Eisenmann.
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July 19, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Bills Would Allow For Increase In Number Of Foreign Workers

The business community is anxiously observing current activity in Congress, curious to find out whether new legislation might overhaul the H-1B visa program as part of a potential grand bargain on comprehensive immigration reform.
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August 24, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ex-bankruptcy Lawyer Opens Superhero-themed Karaoke Bar

Opening a bar "is every lawyer's escapist fantasy," said Andrew Lebwohl, who spent nearly three years practicing corporate bankruptcy and insurance regulatory law at Dewey & LeBeouf in New York after graduating from Columbia Law School.
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June 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Trib 20: New Practices Help National Firms Make Mark In State

Connecticut offices of national or regional law firms are continuing to see growth in both gross revenue and national visibility. Some expanded into new practice areas by adding lateral partners. Others have strengthened client relationships to handle legal work on a national and international basis.
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April 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

State Moves Closer To Allowing Partial Representation

The state appears close to launching a pilot program that would allow Connecticut lawyers to represent clients in portions of family law cases without being obligated to see the cases through to their conclusion.
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August 27, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Another Drug, Another Exercise In Madness

Oxycodone is the new "gateway drug," or so federal prosecutors are reporting in their sentencing memoranda. Take some oxy, and you're on the slippery slope to serious drug addiction. And let's not forget the violence associated with drug dealing of all sorts. So let's slam oxy dealers, and toss them into prison. We're waging war for the soul of America, by golly.
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September 19, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Supreme Court Employment Law: Decisions Limit Employee Free Speech Rights

This term, the Court decided two companion cases related to First Amendment free speech rights, Schumann v. Dianon and Perez-Dickson v. City of Bridgeport. Both cases involve reversing substantial plaintiff's awards and limiting the application of Connecticut General Statutes § 31-51q, a statute protecting employees from discipline or discharge for exercising their First Amendment rights under the state and federal constitutions.
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January 03, 2011 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Editorial: Punishing The Innocent

Every year, U.S. high schools graduate some 65,000 undocumented immigrant students, who were brought to this country as young children and have grown up in and become acculturated into American society. They have the same hopes and aspirations as their friends with legal status. However, unlike those friends, these young people are denied the opportunities that make a college education possible-primarily the right to in-state tuition, but also state and federal grants and loans, and the legal right to work their way through college.
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February 18, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Downturn Or Upswing?

The question required enough serious thought that New Milford attorney Gregory Cava pulled his vehicle off the side of the road. How does the current economic outlook affect lawyers? It all depends on your practice area and your business sense, he said. With sharks in the water, lawyers' business planning during better economic times will determine if they're leaving a trail of blood. While some who are heavily reliant upon residential real estate struggle to stay afloat, others have set themselves up to flourish from a spike of activity in areas such as financial restructurings, bankruptcies and many types of litigation.
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