NEXT

Latest Stories

April 12, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Priest's Methamphetamine Conviction Has Court System On Alert

Known as "Monsignor Meth," the Roman Catholic priest who sold $300,000 in methamphetamines out of his apartment reminded Connecticut court officials that the latest drug scourge is here.
5 minute read
April 07, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Worrying About The Future Of News

From the window of my hotel room during a stay in Oakland last month, I had a view of the Tribune Tower, a stern, commanding pillar stabbing the city skyline, framed against the hills in the distance. Until 2007 - save a few years of renovation - the tower housed the staff of The Oakland Tribune, and it remains an intricate part of the city skyline, and a symbol of its history. At night, on the side of the tower below the large clock on the fa�ade, a single word set my room awash in triumphant red fluorescence: "TRIBUNE." Meanwhile, a few hundred miles to the north, on one of those very nights, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer staff was busy putting together that newspaper's last print issue. Ever. A stark juxtaposition indeed, it occurred to me: an impressive monument to the newspaper industry's rise outside my window, and a disconcerting harbinger of change just up the road.
4 minute read
January 01, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ferro Elected President of National Matrimonial Academy

Gaetano "Guy" Ferro is blissfully married to divorce.
5 minute read
September 18, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Opposition Mounts To Sealed Affidavits

When Connecticut's infamous secret files system was abolished in 2003, Supreme Court Justice Peter T. Zarella backed a new rule that would seal financial affidavits in divorce cases, only unsealing them if financial issues became contested.
6 minute read
November 01, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Construction Law: Next Attorney General Will Encounter Key Issues

As voters go to the polls this week to select a new attorney general, they also will choose a new direction for how the state handles claims involving public construction projects. This is a unique opportunity for those who do business with the state, most notably construction contractors and their attorneys.
7 minute read
August 29, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Opinion: Striking A Blow Against Fear-Based Policing

Stop-and-frisk may have made the Big Apple a safer place, at least for some of its residents, but it did so at an unacceptably high cost.
4 minute read
September 27, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Business Litigation: Obtaining Financial Information Gets Harder And Harder

After forming a limited liability company and working together for several years, one member alleges his partner has been diverting business and funds from the company for his own benefit. The partner has been solely responsible for most of the financial aspects of the entity, and has sole access to their accounting system and records. As the member asks questions of his partner, discussions that have never occurred until recently but should have been occurring all along, the partner becomes more and more defensive. Ultimately, their relationship breaks down, disrupting the normal course of their business.
6 minute read
March 10, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Small Claims, Big Headaches

One lawyer's case for $350 took 366 days from filing to a day in court. Another collection matter worth $150 took more than three months to obtain an answer date and a hearing has yet to be scheduled, eight months after the case was filed. Other lawyers said their claims have simply disappeared in the system. This was not the intent when filings for small claims cases were centralized in an office in Hartford in May 2006, but it is the reality that has left lawyers, clients and Judicial Branch employees exasperated.
7 minute read
May 10, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

AG Calls For Ban On Oil Deals

Arguing that the Federal Trade Commission has permitted anticompetitive oil mergers, Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal asked Congress on May 2 to impose at least a one-year moratorium on deals in the oil patch.
3 minute read
January 19, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Man Of Exuberance, Passion And Generosity

For the last two weeks I have been waiting to read something about Ray Cantin here in the Law Tribune, knowing that he was just too formidable a presence in the Hartford bar not to have an article dedicated to his memory. Apparently, this is it.
4 minute read

More from ALM

More from ALM

Legal Speak is a weekly podcast that makes sense of what’s happening in the legal industry.

Resources