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Connecticut Law Tribune

New Connecticut MCLE Rule May Have Unintended Consequences

By | January 11, 2017
Now that we all have to take 12 hours of CLE anyway, my understanding is that disciplinary counsel are no longer interested in imposing any CLE as part of a plea bargain. For all practical purposes, that means the choices are to dismiss the case or impose a reprimand.
9 minute read

Daily Business Review

Lawyers Continue to Duke It Out in Dershowitz Litigation

The post-settlement litigation continues in the defamation case involving retired Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz.
9 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Conn. Attorney Suspended for Blowing Off Clients

Attorney Anthony V. Zeolla was suspended for five years and ordered to pay restitution for failing to represent three people in foreclosure proceedings.
6 minute read

Supreme Court Brief

The Gaps That Led Chief Justice Roberts to Miss a Stock Conflict

Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. realized he needed to step aside from ruling on Life Technologies v. Promega nearly a month after oral argument. Here's why conflict checks at the nation's highest court are an imperfect process.
11 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Former Attorney Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud Scheme

David Quatrella, formerly of Quatrella & Rizio, faces five years in prison and has agreed to forfeit $272,000.
5 minute read

New York Law Journal

Panel Disbars Attorney for Role in Ponzi Scheme

Another attorney was disbarred for practicing law after his license was suspended.
4 minute read

Daily Business Review

Attorney at Center of Contract Breach Case Faces Rare Sanction

A Miami attorney destroyed evidence then spent two years derailing a former client's efforts to recover those documents, according to a ruling by Miami-Dade Circuit Court Judge Bronwyn Miller.
8 minute read

The Recorder

Anti-SLAPP Motions Can Shut Out Suits on Jurisdictional Grounds, Court Rules

The California Supreme Court sided with the state bar in a unanimous decision that resolves a lingering dispute over the state's anti-SLAPP statute.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Lawyers Must Come Prepared at Federal Reinstatement Hearings

I am representing an attorney who is suspended. He has been reinstated in the Pennsylvania courts and is now seeking reinstatement in federal courts. Is there any issues I should be aware of on a federal reinstatement hearing?
23 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Liars Never Prosper

By | January 05, 2017
I'd like to work with those who disagree with me on things to find common ground and seek solutions to hard problems we all agree need attention. But making up stuff is not the way to do it.
8 minute read

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