Mark Dubois
Mark Dubois, the former chief disciplinary counsel for Connecticut, is now an attorney at the New London firm of Geraghty & Bonnano.
Ethics Matters
The Challenges Of Technological Competence
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Friday, December 14, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
I heard a wonderful speaker the other day, a fellow named John T. Broderick, Jr., who is the retired chief justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court and is now a law school dean. Justice Broderick posited that if a lawyer from the 19th century were to be magically dropped into a modern courtroom, he could quickly master the new environment and start trying a case.
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Place Your Bets
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Friday, November 30, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
Now that the presidential election is over, it is fun to read the blogs and see who was hot and who was not when it came to calling the race.
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Providing Clients With A Moral Compass
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
I like to use what I call the lawyers' moral compass as an instructional tool. At the north pole, I put the client. At its simplest, client service is what it is all about. But no compass has just one pole, and no course is steered without reference to all of the other compass points.
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Disruptive Technology Leads To Death By Small Cuts
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Friday, November 16, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
I had an interesting talk with New Milford solo Greg Cava the other day. Greg is past chair of the Connecticut Bar Associaton Real Property Section and has been one of the most vocal proponents of lawyers taking a more aggressive posture with regard to defending the practice of law from out-of-state law firms, Internet enterprises and others who have been chipping away at the bread and butter of the small and mid-sized law firms for many years.
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The Paladin Of Uri Kresh
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Friday, November 9, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
One who knows me only from this column might think I am a dry sort, spending my spare time bloviating about ethics and not much fun otherwise. However, I do have my moments. One thing I did recently was to attend a LARP event in the woods of eastern Connecticut.
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The Narcissism of Small Differences
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Friday, November 2, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
Freud wrote in On Human Sexuality of the tendency of humans in search of an identity to focus on minute differences between themselves and their neighbors. He and others have commented that some of the deepest and most intransigent disputes are between people who, to an outsider, appear identical.
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Why Is Debt Better Than Equity?
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Friday, October 26, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
In case you missed it, two weeks ago there was argument at the Second Circuit on the dismissal in New York of the Jacoby & Meyers suit. Jacoby & Meyers is a New York firm (with offices in Connecticut and New Jersey) that sued a variety of state officials in all three states where they operate over the prohibition in their lawyers' ethics rules on non-lawyer stock ownership. From what I read, its lawsuit may see new life.
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Private Judges, Private Justice
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Friday, October 19, 2012 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune
As Law Tribune columnist Dan Krisch and others have noted, we seem to be in the midst of an interesting shift where many of the "go to" judges of the Superior Court, judges that many lawyers sought out and trusted to resolve their clients' most serious disputes, are retiring and setting up shop at large law firms. While this is great for them, I am not sure it bodes well for our court system and the perception of equal access to justice.
