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January 02, 2006 |

Dreier's Dreams

Based in New York City, Dreier is a 75-lawyer legal shop that bills itself as an "innovative alternative" to the inflexible bureaucracy of large-firm lawyering. But if it achieves its lofty growth goals — both in and outside of Connecticut — it will challenge that very precept.
3 minute read
December 06, 2012 |

Michael P. Shea Confirmed For Federal Bench

Hartford lawyer Michael P. Shea has been selected to be Connecticut's newest federal trial court judge.
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May 03, 2000 |

Job Seekers Cast Wider 'Net

Hiring partners don't need to be computer geeks. Though the Internet is revolutionizing the hiring process to some degree, hiring partners concede that the tried-and-true method of identifying recruits through face-to-face, on-campus interviews isn't likely to be forsaken any time soon. And even recruiters who welcome risumis by e-mail admit that going high-tech has its pitfalls-sometimes with amusing results.
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May 13, 2004 |

Jury Awards $19M in Patent Fight

Entrepreneurs Michael and John Finney founded MJ Research 17 years ago in an attic. Today the firm commands a 30 percent share of the worldwide market for machines that separate DNA molecules with precision heating and cooling for sequencing and medical research. But in a patent infringement suit waged in the federal court in Connecticut, plaintiffs secured a $19.8 million verdict against the Finneys and MJ Research. Or was it $17.8 million?
4 minute read
December 14, 2012 |

Cybersecurity Expertise Could Make Sen. Lieberman Attractive To Law Firms

If retiring U.S. Sen. Joseph Lieberman wants to find work with a private law firm, as he recently suggested he might, there are many that will welcome him with open arms.
6 minute read
July 17, 2000 |

Father-Friendly Firms Flourish

Murtha Cullina associate Robert Kaelin was at home bonding with his newborn daughter the week after his wife gave birth late last year, and he wouldn't have had it any other way. It helped, Kaelin said, that the Hartford, Conn.-based firm grants its fathers a week's paid paternity leave.
4 minute read
May 15, 2006 |

Keeping Tabs On Productivity

A partner's away on vacation, so his secretary is kicking back a bit: arriving late and taking extended lunch breaks. But is working at a leisurely pace bad? Or is there a better way to manage workflow so that, when that partner is around, the secretary doesn't have to churn out work like a maniac and then pray for a breather when he's away?
4 minute read
September 19, 2001 |

Connecticut First-Year Salaries Staying Put

For the first time since the mid-1990s, Connecticut's top-paying law firms are holding the line on first-year associate salaries as they head into the fall recruiting season. Foreseeing a period of economic decline, the decision not to raise starting pay looks like a hedge against having to cut associates later. In the meantime, the slowdown among market leaders has given other firms a chance to play salary catch-up.
4 minute read
March 06, 2007 |

Conn. Big-Law Associates in Line for More Money

In the wake of first-year salary hikes, two more national firms recently announced pay raises in their Hartford, Conn., offices. Dechert increased its Hartford starting salaries to $145,000, and Thelen Reid bumped its entry-level salaries to $105,000. "We've always been above or at the high end of the Hartford market," says Norman H. Roos, managing partner of Thelen Reid's Hartford office. "Our business model ... would not work as well if we emulated firms with a one-size-fits-all approach" to compensation.
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