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March 04, 2013 |

Lawyers Using FOI Act, Which Is Faster Than Discovery, To Help Win Cases

Lawyers are using FOIA in criminal and employment law matters. Requesting public records directly from an arresting agency or opponent in a civil case is catching on as a way to prevail, lawyers say
5 minute read
July 06, 2007 |

Attracting Employers Through Blogging

For many law students, keeping up a professional blog has become another way to make employment connections.
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January 01, 2007 |

Shadowy Selection Commission Thrust Into Limelight

In its 21-year history, Connecticut's Judicial Selection Commission has operated in quiet anonymity, interviewing and vetting judicial candidates and attracting little public interest.
5 minute read
June 02, 2005 |

Pillsbury Pulls Out of Connecticut

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman plans to close down its Stamford, Conn., branch by the end of the week, saying it can't support the size of the 26-year-old office. Managing partner Susan J. Kohlman said the action is not related to the merger between Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman. And with a 150-lawyer office in nearby Manhattan, Pillsbury says it's not abandoning the Connecticut market.
3 minute read
August 20, 2007 |

ABA: Scrap Mandatory Retirement

The American Bar Association is calling on law firms to abandon their mandatory retirement policies. But while some veteran attorneys agree with the sentiment, many still believe the ultimate decision about senior lawyers is the firms' to make.
4 minute read
June 18, 2010 |

Employers May Benefit From Lawyers' Feud Over Bonus

After 10 years of litigation, the fight over a $50,000 bonus is over between Connecticut law firm founder Robert I. Reardon Jr. and former associate Angelo Ziotas. Ziotas got his bonus, but the state Supreme Court has ruled that his bonus did not constitute "wages" covered by the Connecticut Wage Act, meaning Ziotas could not collect double damages and attorney fees. Employment lawyers say the ruling could help employers who'd like to avoid paying what employees consider to be promised bonuses.
7 minute read
November 17, 2011 |

Representing Corporate New Jersey

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September 21, 2009 |

CBA Gets New Leader

After a six-month nationwide search, the Connecticut Bar Association has selected a longtime state and municipal bar association executive to become its next executive director. D. Larkin Chenault currently heads the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association, and has previously led the Michigan state and the Cincinnati bar associations. He began his bar management career as assistant director of the Kentucky Bar Association in his native Frankfort, Kentucky's capital.
6 minute read
June 29, 2009 |

Help For Legal Aid, Higher Bills For Others

The price of using the state's court system has gone up, with a variety of higher filing fees kicking in July 1. The added money - in general, $50 to $75 per case - will go to what most everyone agrees is a good cause: helping out legal services agencies that had suffered massive reductions in aid from their main funding source, Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts. But although the Connecticut Bar Association endorsed the measure, not everyone is 100 percent happy with the bill signed last week by Gov. M. Jodi Rell. That's because the higher fees will have to be passed through to clients in the form of higher legal bills.
4 minute read
November 20, 2009 |

Law School Ferry Commute Leads to Class Action Bid

Little did Robert J. Peragine know that his commute to law school would lead to a case that could soon become a $8.7 million class action. During his ferry rides to Connecticut, other passengers saw him studying his law books and alerted him to a gripe they had over surcharges that didn't seem to benefit passengers. After a district court ruled that the surcharges were unconstitutional, and awarded damages to an individual passenger, Peragine knew there was a potential class involving all the other passengers.
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