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December 10, 2007 | Connecticut Law Tribune

NFL Quarterback Sentenced To 23 Months On Dogfighting Charges

Michael Vick was sentenced to 23 months in prison Monday for his role in a dogfighting conspiracy that involved gambling and killing pit bulls.
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October 12, 2012 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Working For Tips

Lately, some columnists, commentators and bloggers have been writing about the need for lawyers to embrace "alternative billing" as an antidote to the tyranny of the billable hour. From what I read, it has gained some traction in the field of corporate work, wherein large legal departments have entered into creative arrangements with their outside counsel designed to control spending in exchange for guaranteed payments.
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March 18, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Yale, Others Go To Court To Seek Loan Repayments

A Yale University case helps to illustrate a budding trend where now some big-name universities are going to court themselves to sue over loan repayments.
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May 25, 2009 | Connecticut Law Tribune

An Unusual Vacation That's Easy To Book

By the time you read this, I should be in heaven. This is not to say that I expect to be dead. Were that the case, the destination is far from certain. In my case, I suspect sweet death to be followed by a locale with enormous and eternal heating bills. No, I expect to be in Wales, attending one of my all-time favorite events: The Hay-on-Wye Festival. The festival has been around for several decades. Hay-on-Wye has been around forever. Indeed, the castle at the town's center is crumbling and in disrepair. But this does not stop the structure from being used. Richard Booth sells used books out of the usable portions of the castle. You can find some real bargains there if you are willing to overlook the cobwebs.
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April 25, 2011 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Top Lawyer Cop Shouldn't Be A Zealot

Mark DuBois retired the other day. He did so without fanfare, simply walking away from state service and back into private practice. I am sorry to see him go. Although he was the state's top cop for policing lawyers, and therefore at least a potential foe on any given day, he brought a measure of good sense and realism to the job of chief disciplinary counsel.
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August 02, 2002 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Small Hope Remains For UPL Change

Bar officials and the local business community continue to hold out hope that the state judiciary will relieve in-house counsel not admitted in Connecticut from the potential threat of unauthorized practice of law violations.
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June 12, 2006 | Connecticut Law Tribune

A Criminal Justice 'Nightmare'

It was a Friday afternoon last winter when assistant public defenders Brian Carlow and Karen Goodrow finally discovered what they had long been searching for: a brown box stored in a back room at a local legal aid office.
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December 06, 2010 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Tweeting Reporters Sent Message To Jury

We missed a tremendous opportunity to conduct an experiment of great significance in our courts. That's because we didn't have a crystal ball. Who really would have thought that courtroom spectators would unwittingly try to transform the tranquil of a courtroom into the electronic version of a Roman coliseum, favoring we the mob with tidbits of the trial in short bursts of data sent almost compulsively from the proceedings?
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January 25, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Slight GOP Opposition Can't Stop Confirmation

The General Assembly last week confirmed Andrew J. McDonald, a former Democratic state senator and longtime confidant of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, as the first openly gay justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court.
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October 03, 2013 | Connecticut Law Tribune

Environmental Law: Financing Tool Offers Help With Energy Upgrades

In 2012, Connecticut passed legislation which gives property owners access to 100 percent upfront, low-cost, long-term financing for building energy upgrades. Commercial & Industrial Property Assessed Clean Energy (C-PACE) is an innovative financing program to increase access to cleaner, cheaper, and more reliable energy.
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