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October 23, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Bonus Brought Lawyer's Hourly Rate To $1,500

Greenwich divorce lawyer Gary I. Cohen is among the state's priciest attorneys. But requiring his client pay him an additional $300,000 "bonus," for a highly contentious five-day divorce mediation in Chicago, effectively ratcheted up his already considerable rate to an out-of-this-world $1,511 an hour, Connecticut disciplinary authorities contend.
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April 29, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Full Attorneys Fees Allowed In 'Intertwined' Case

Normally, under the "American Rule," each party in a civil case pays its attorneys fees and costs, win or lose. However, there are two exceptions: certain statutes specifically allow attorneys fees, and parties can include liability for such fees in a contract's terms.
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March 03, 2008 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Chasing The Shadows

At the age of 12, Mark W. Heaphy lost his eyesight as the result of a lengthy battle with Stevens-Johnson Syndrome, a potentially fatal skin disease that attacks mucous membranes. But Heaphy did not let a sudden life-altering disability keep him down. Heaphy, now 38, just made partner at Wiggin and Dana in New Haven and chairs their information technology and sourcing group.
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May 06, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Opinion: Tomorrow's Lawyers

I just read a fascinating book by Richard Susskind called Tomorrow's Lawyers. It is so good that I bought copies for everyone in the Connecticut Bar Association leadership.
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February 22, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

`Lone Ranger` Lands In East Timor

At many jobs, there is someone who gets the work done in a manner unlike any other.
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May 17, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Corporate Bribery Case Part Of National Trend

When a sales executive for a French power company appeared in a New Haven federal courtroom this month, he joined a growing number of businesses and their employees charged recently with making bribes overseas.
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September 07, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Penn-State Shakedown: The NCAA Piles On

In the aftermath of revelations of Jerry Sandusky's predatory child molestations, the NCAA swiftly entered into a stunning agreement in which it extracted a $60 million fine from Penn State, imposed a ban on its football program from bowl games and post-season play for four years, a reduction in scholarships from 25 to 15 per year for four years, vacated all of the team's wins from 1998 to 2011, and put it on a five-year probationary period. News reports are unclear about the exact destination of the $60 million fine, but suggest that an endowment will be established to serve victims of child abuse.
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February 28, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Immigration Judges Yearning To Breathe Free

To immigration judges, the difference between perception and reality doesn`t matter all that much. — — — — — — — — — — — — — -Whether fair to immigrants or not, their courts have long been criticized as suffering from an inherent conflict. The judges` boss, and the boss of the Immigration and Naturalization Service prosecutors that come before them, is the same person-the attorney general of the United States.
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March 22, 2013 | Law.com

DCF Slams Judge E. Curtissa R. Cofield For Delays

Superior Court Judge E. Curtissa R. Cofield is in trouble again. Last time, in 2008, it was for moving recklessly in her car. Now she's in trouble for moving too slowly.
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August 09, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Magnanimous Midnight Mediator

The future of RMS Titanic Inc. was at stake. After years of bitter wrangling that included an aborted hostile takeover and a class action filed by a Connecticut shareholder of the company with salvage rights to the world`s most famous shipwreck, U.S. Magistrate William I. Garfinkel convened the parties together in Bridgeport for settlement talks.
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