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March 23, 2011 |

Challenges to Off-Site Condition Requirements

In his Zoning and Land Use Planning column, Anthony S. Guardino, a partner with Farrell Fritz, writes that local governments will continue to attempt to impose off-site conditions on developers before approving their land use proposals, and these improper conditions often will go unchallenged, but, when they are, courts have shown themselves willing to strike them down.
9 minute read
August 30, 2007 |

What Every Lawyer Should Know About the Economics of a Law Practice

Because law school education often doesn't address the business aspects of practicing law, many lawyers join firms with little understanding of how they operate and without a clue as to what it takes to make a practice successful and profitable. Consultant Melchior Morrione explains the issues of law firm economics facing large- and small-firm attorneys as well as how they can learn to work at their highest-ability level in order to deliver better value to clients and increased profitability to the firm.
9 minute read
April 21, 2008 |

How Parties Lost Power

Connecticut long had a reputation for strong political parties led by strong political leaders. There was a time when the chairman of each party was a powerful boss who chose his party's candidates for statewide and congressional offices and pressured the delegates at party conventions to nominate them; a time when the party organizations got out the vote and helped their candidates win elections; a time when the chairman ruled over the General Assembly and determined which bills passed and which did not.
3 minute read
May 31, 2007 |

Feds: Ernst & Young Partners Helped Wealthy With Tax Fraud Plot

Four Ernst & Young partners, one of whom is a former top IRS lawyer, reduced taxes for Americans making $10 million or more with a fraud that used the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks to disguise their lies, according to an indictment charging the men. The four current and former partners of the giant accounting firm were arrested Wednesday and charged with fraud and other crimes relating to tax shelters that were devised beginning in early 1998, the indictment unsealed in Manhattan federal court said.
4 minute read
March 04, 2013 |

Hollywood Offers Revisionist History In 'Lincoln' Film

Connecticut U.S. Representative Joe Courtney, a Democrat, slams "Lincoln" writer and the film's director, Steven Spielberg, and demands a public retraction and notice of correction to future film-watchers. In Courtney's mind, the mere suggestion that Connecticut was an anti-Lincoln, slavery-tolerant territory of indifferent Yankees is an outrage. Courtney's opportunistic grandstanding aside, he is right to complain.
4 minute read
July 09, 2007 |

Susman Godfrey Expands Office, Explores Global Warming Litigation

After opening its first small Manhattan office in a midtown tower last fall, Susman Godfrey is moving to bigger digs up Madison Avenue. And the firm is looking for work in New York pursuing claims for bankrupt companies against their accountants and creditors.
3 minute read
September 12, 2006 |

United States, appellee v. Noel Davila, defendant-appellant

Weapons of Mass Destruction Threat Conviction, For Prisoner�s Hoax Anthrax Mailing, Affirmed
27 minute read
August 23, 2010 |

The first case, 40 years on

Jack Baker, the name party in the only gay marriage case decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, stopped pressing the issue in 1980 when "it took on a life of its own," he said. Three decades later, the same-sex marriage issue is "fundamentally over and now is just a matter of putting it into operation," believes the former head of the Minnesota Civil Liberties Union who worked with Baker and his life partner from the trial court to the nation's top court.
7 minute read
May 26, 2005 |

Jian Yun Zheng v. United States Department of Justice

BIA Did Not Abuse Discretion in Rejecting Alien�s Ineffective Counsel Claim for �Lozada� Noncompliance
14 minute read

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