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October 10, 2006 |

New Technology: Nothing to Fear, Everything to Gain

Technology has become a big part of the practice of law. Typically, the biggest concern about tech is over how much time and money to invest in it. Attorney N. Kane Bennet, of the Connecticut Bar Association's tech committee, offers advice: Start small, start slow, but start now.
4 minute read
January 11, 2007 |

Firms' Revenue Per Lawyer Not the Measure of Success

If one assumes that the job of most associates is to toil under the supervision of a partner and not to originate lots of business, consultant Peter Giuliani says it should be a foregone conclusion that it is the job of equity partners to originate sufficient business to keep themselves and one or more associates (or possibly nonequity partners) busy. If that is happening and if the firm is collecting nearly full rates, the phenomenon of leverage takes over and drives higher profits to the equity partners.
5 minute read
September 17, 2007 |

Are Wealthy Conn. Divorce Litigants Avoiding Full Financial Disclosure?

Connecticut's standard financial affidavit form used in divorce cases has blanks to fill in eight categories of assets, including real estate, vehicles, "other personal property" and "all other assets," with a sworn certification that the statement is "true and accurate to the best of my knowledge and belief." But there are questions about wealthy divorce litigants who avoid filling out the form completely, or who fill out their own version of the form, which is crafted for them by their lawyers.
5 minute read
April 26, 2000 |

Salmon Family Civil Rights Suit May Find Sympathy

Attorneys say it's tough to win civil rights cases such as the one brought in the fatal shooting of 14-year-old Aquan Salmon by a Hartford, Conn., police officer. It's particularly tough, they say, when no criminal charges have been filed against the officer. But Salmon's age, and the fact he was unarmed, may help offset the benefit of the doubt traditionally accorded police.
6 minute read
March 30, 2006 |

Presenting Depositions a Better Way: Electronic Transcripts

Most lawyers know the standard deposition transcripts -- full-sized, condensed or an ASCII copy. But now there's the e-transcript. With increasing availability and little to no additional cost, e-transcripts are revolutionizing depositions. They offer easy print, search, copy and paste functions, in addition to working seamlessly with software such as TrialDirector or Summation. Attorney N. Kane Bennett can't imagine going back to the old ways of doing things and thinks you should get on board, too.
4 minute read
November 04, 2002 |

2nd Circuit: Tallying Municipal Liability Is Judge's Prerogative

Corporations that paid $80 million to clean up two Superfund landfills in Naugatuck, Conn., have a right to get towns to pay their fair share of the cleanup, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled. In reaching that conclusion, the court found that calculating municipalities' fair share of the cleanup costs is within the broad discretion of a federal judge.
5 minute read
November 18, 2003 |

Jury Awards $100,000 for Job Defamation

Even though the state constitution guarantees Connecticut citizens a right to sue for damage to their reputation alone, few do, and even fewer win without showing economic loss. But a jury in New Haven has awarded 64-year-old Hamden city account clerk Dorinda McKiernan $65,000, plus more than $40,000 in punitives, for the injury to her professional reputation when a deputy police chief sent her two stinging letters of reprimand in June 2000.
3 minute read
August 09, 2001 |

Judge Trims Termination Suit Against Connecticut Plaintiffs' Firm

A Hartford Superior Court judge has ruled that two staff members fired from the Hartford, Conn., firm Rubenstein & Sendy can't sue their former employer for intentional infliction of emotional distress. Plaintiffs Regina Canty and Lisa Wilson brought suit against the firm and its two name partners in June 1998, claiming they were terminated after Canty took a stand against the firm's allegedly illegal and unethical practices.
2 minute read
December 02, 2005 |

2nd Circuit: Officers' Safety Trumps Miranda

Heroin discovered in a defendant's jacket pocket after he told police that a gun was in the jacket was properly admitted into evidence under the public safety exception to Miranda warning requirements, a federal appeals court has ruled.
4 minute read
April 03, 2003 |

The Case of the Vanishing Legal Opinions

While the Connecticut General Assembly and the state Judicial Department spar over the cloaking of ongoing cases, little attention is paid to finished cases that effectively never see the light of day. Written decisions that conclude the disputes are never distributed, with the result that the public, and other judges and lawyers, are prevented from seeing the judicial reasoning for perhaps hundreds of court opinions per year.
5 minute read

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