Columns

Opinion: Heroes And Football

Monday, April 1, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The recent sexual assault case in Steubenville, Ohio, brings forth the often overlooked issue of bystander liability and culpability.

Opinion: Is Arbitrator Partiality Appearance Or Reality?

Monday, April 1, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

A recent case from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit - addresses an issue sometimes raised in challenges to arbitration awards: was there "evident partiality" by the arbitrator under federal and state arbitration statutes?

Ethics Matters

Opinion: Coming To Grips With Plagiarism

Friday, March 29, 2013  |  by Mark Dubois  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The bottom line is that in this area, as with so much of what we do, technology is reshaping and refashioning what it means to be a lawyer and how we define the delivery of legal services.

One Hand Clapping

Danbury Search Warrant Secrecy Is Offensive

Friday, March 29, 2013  |  by Norm Pattis  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Just whose life is now in danger in the wake of the mass shootings at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown? There is no reason to believe that there was a second shooter at the scene.

One Hand Clapping

Opinion: UConn Needs To Escape Yale's Shadow

Friday, March 22, 2013  |  by Norm Pattis  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The University of Connecticut School of Law turned a new page in its epic identity crisis this month. It snared a tip-top, white-shoe lawyer to serve as its next dean

Legally Conservative

Opinion: Women's Commission Shows Its Politics

Friday, March 22, 2013  |  by Karen Lee Torre  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The recent controversy over the conduct and remarks of state Representative Ernest Hewett, D-New London, reveals more than Hewett's unfitness for office, and Democratic leaders' condemnable attempts to secrete it.

Ethics Matters

Opinion: Time To Bury MCLE

Friday, March 22, 2013  |  by Mark Dubois  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Friends, I come to bury MCLE, not to praise it. The evil that failed proposals do lives on long after the good is interred with their bones. So let it be with MCLE.

Guest Commentary

Nanny State Chips Away At Our Personal Freedoms

Friday, March 15, 2013  |  by Dan Krisch  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Much in the world is dangerous, but it is not the government's job to protect us from ourselves because the price of that protection is more than a free society can afford.

Guest Commentary

State's Abortion Law Facilitates Child Rape

Friday, March 15, 2013  |  by Chris Powell  |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Connecticut law authorizes abortions for minors with no questions asked, yet it forbids the mere tattooing of minors without parental consent. This irony is an argument that abortion should be at most a means to a properly scrutinized end, not an end in itself even when it facilitates child rape.

Editorial: Intellectual Dishonesty Undermines America's Integrity

Friday, March 15, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The legal profession should be concerned about academic cheating. Today's "college honor code bender" could become tomorrow's trust and estates attorney or state prosecutor.