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October 05, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Design Patents: The Tortoise Or The Hare?

The famous fable by Aesop, "The Tortoise and the Hare," is often thought of as describing a race between unequal partners. Design patents are also often thought of as being the unequal, lesser partner of utility patents. While design patents provide protection of a more narrow scope than their utility patent brethren, much like Aesop's tortoise, the steady rights provided by design patents can be very formidable when used properly.
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December 08, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

$2.3 Million For Wrongful Death In Underage DUI

The parents of college freshman Justin Scott Brown, of Greenwich, have been awarded a $2.3 million court-approved settlement for his death three years ago as passenger of Evan Kimia, now 20.
3 minute read
February 01, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Businesses, Towns Oppose Workers' Comp Expansion To Include Emotional Trauma

Once upon a time in Connecticut, if someone suffered an emotional trauma at work that affected their ability to earn a living, he or she could file a claim for workers' compensation benefits.
9 minute read
February 22, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Insurer Gambles and Wins With Auto Personal Injury Rookie

Most insurance litigation managers wouldn`t send a high stakes personal injury auto case to a lawyer who had never done one before.
3 minute read
March 02, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Nothing Funny About Drinking And Driving

Usually, this column is devoted to the lighter side of the legal profession. Maybe, as a music reviewer once noted about my vocal performance, the column is "occasionally somewhat pleasant" to read. What I wish to say here may not really be pleasant, to write or to read, and certainly is not intended to be funny.
4 minute read
March 26, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Auto Industry Warming to Emissions Limits

Driving along Pennsylvania Avenue in a brand-new, shiny Chrysler, spreading the gospel of booming manufacturing plants and workers with full health care and pension plans, used to be the auto industry's calling card in Washington.
5 minute read
November 02, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Droning On About Privacy?

Unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones, have already revolutionized modern warfare and, in the near future, will be deployed domestically on a large scale.
6 minute read
August 02, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Broomstick Jab No Hostile Workplace

A federal judge has thrown out the workplace sex harassment claims of a hospital environmental worker who claims a supervisory nurse made a practice of grabbing his crotch and buttocks, and that she once slammed a broom into his rectum.
4 minute read
April 23, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Age Change A Done Deal?

Connecticut has moved one step closer to removing its name from the list of only three states that still prosecute 16- and 17-year-olds as adults.
5 minute read
July 13, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

CFOs Bring Dollars, Business Sense To Firms

Last week, the Law Tribune released its Trib 25 listings of the highest grossing firms in Connecticut. In performing the months of research for the project, one thing became clear: non-lawyer managers of law firms have evolved from a novelty to a near necessity.
7 minute read

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