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March 21, 2011 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Death Is PassÉ: The Banality of Goodness

I was in New Haven just as day broke. Much to my surprise, there were few media wagons in front of the courthouse on Church Street. Only one ghastly looking antenna reached into the gray morning sky. All at once it struck me: death is now pass�.
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July 26, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Divorce Courts Can Order College Costs

Starting Oct. 1, Connecticut courts can compel divorcing parents to pay up to four years of higher education for their adult children through the age of 23.
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July 18, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Predictive Coding, E-Discovery And Me

Any casual reader of legal blogs and other news sources is aware of the many discussions, decisions, warnings and products that are addressing the brave new world of electronic document review. I used to ignore it all because I thought it was only relevant to big firms, mega cases, and document-heavy litigation such as class actions, patent and trademark litigation and other matters where kernels of evidence are to be found (or hidden) in great masses of irrelevant data.
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September 21, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Cyber Attacks On Commercial Banks

A recent First Circuit decision is the second recent federal court decision appearing to impose a heavier burden on banks to protect their customers from cyber thieves.
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October 03, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Video Helps Officers Win Excessive Force Suit

Hartford attorney Alan Dembiczak said video from a police cruiser dashboard camera showed a suspect 'desperate' to escape and no evidence of excessive force by officers.
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January 29, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

East Coast Law Firms Opening L.A. Offices

Los Angeles has morphed into a hotbed of recruiting in the past eight months as several midsized firms from the East Coast aggressively open offices.
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November 15, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Judicial Furloughs And Judicial Independence

In her letter to Gov. M. Jodi Rell, state Supreme Court Justice Joette Katz stated that her reason for initially declining to take furlough days was that far more money could be saved by not appointing first nine and then four more new judges because they are not needed. The fact is we do have enough judicial manpower because the growing number of judge trial referees (judges who reach the age of 70) perform many judicial duties in our courts.
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March 14, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

When It Looks And Quacks Like A Duck

You know the drill. If it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck, and has a few feathers, it`s probably a duck. Such reasoning pales before the question of whether apparent agency exists. The bird`s identity escapes definition when apparent agency is pled in medical malpractice.
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August 02, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Opinion: Beloved Colleague Morphs Into An Ironman

I've always admired the ethic of professional soldiers — under no circumstances do you leave a colleague on the field of battle.
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December 11, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Law Firms Approaching A Profitability Plateau?

As 2006 comes to a close, it is clear that most law firms are performing very well financially.
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