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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.Opinion: Lawyers Should Not Be Granted Immunity From Fraud
Editor's Note: The writer, a Greenwich financier and former professional football player, is a party in the divorce case of Simms v. Simms. A related case, Simms v. Seaman, recently upheld lawyers' litigation immunity from civil fraud. He claims fraud was committed when his ex-wife and her lawyers failed to divulge that she was receiving a sizable inheritance at the time they requested an increase in the ex-wife's alimony payments.
Television enters high courts in other countries
The U.S. Supreme Court lags behind, but its stance could shift with the arrival of new justices.
Patent reform: One giant step backwards?
Philosopher George Santayana's sage words: "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it," ring as true today as they must have when he wrote them in 1905. The words aptly apply to the ineptly titled "America Invents Act," S. 23 and H.R. 1249, currently meandering through Congress.
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