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February 15, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Fire Survivor Receives $825,000 After Family Perishes

Rinh Thach, et al. v. City of Bridgeport, et al.: A Vietnamese immigrant who lost his wife and three children in a 2005 apartment fire has settled a lawsuit with the city of Bridgeport for $825,000.
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November 29, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

The Death Of The Law Partnership

It now seems so anachronistic - if not incredible - but when I started practice in Hartford in 1970, an unwritten, but most effective, hiring policy was uniformly followed by law firms in that city and in other parts of the state. More particularly, if a lawyer - associate or partner - left his firm, he could not and would not be hired by another Hartford firm. He would have to seek employment in New London County or perhaps down in Stamford, where distance might diminish his disloyalty. It was as simple as all that.
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January 04, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Students May Take Cases To CHRO

In a case of first impression, a Connecticut superior court judge ruled the state Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities has the authority to hear discrimination complaints from students in public schools.
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August 30, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Supreme Court Overturns Ruling In Acordia Case

The state Supreme Court has reversed a trial court's ruling that one of the country's largest insurance brokerage firms violated state statute by taking kickbacks.
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September 03, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Student Blogger Fights School Sanctions

p Can school officials who catch wind of the derogatory online comments try to discipline the student for making them? This free speech debate is the basis for a lawsuit filed this summer in U.S. District Court in New Haven. /p
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September 21, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Ruling Protects Jobs Of Domestic Violence Victims

Following several months of high-profile domestic violence cases in the state, a Superior Court judge has handed a victory to battered spouses and partners.
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October 09, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Saturday Evening Post Snoozes, Loses

The Curtis Publishing Co., which owns <em>The Saturday Evening Post</em>, hadn't contested Wilton resident Kenneth Stuart Sr.'s ownership of Norman Rockwell's "Saying Grace" for over 30 years &mdash; well beyond the legal time limit to do so, a federal court judge has ruled.
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December 17, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Down, Not Out

After 23 years of hard work to establish himself as one of the more prominent criminal defense attorneys in Connecticut, Philip Russell will have to work even harder to remove the stigma, as Russell's own attorney put it, of being "that lawyer who destroyed the computer with child pornography."
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May 14, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Plaintiffs Lawyers Eye Data Breach Niche

For trial lawyers, future litigation might not focus so heavily on auto accident, slip-and-fall and medical malpractice cases. Plaintiffs attorneys are finding new business by taking on lawsuits in which clients claim to have been hurt - financially or otherwise - through data breaches.
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July 13, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Nothing Sugar-Coated About Trip To Nicaragua

Alicia DeSouza-Rocha can speak three languages fluently and spent a year abroad working in Barcelona, Spain. Her classmate, Danielle Robinson-Briand, volunteered at an emergency shelter on the United States and Mexico border. So when these like-minded first-year classmates at Quinnipiac School of Law got to know each other in 2007, a light bulb went off in their respective heads. "There was no existing group at Quinnipiac [law school] that dealt with international issues," said DeSouza-Rocha.
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