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By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY
David B. Fein’s nomination to serve as Connecticut’s U.S. Attorney caps a long career of significant accomplishments in criminal law. When he came to New Haven’s Wiggin and Dana in 1997, Fein was the firm’s first white-collar defense partner, fresh from a two-year stint in the Clinton White House, where he was an associate counsel.

LeClairRyan Strikes Again

By DOUGLAS S. MALAN
Before last week, William J. McGrath Jr., managing partner of Halloran & Sage in Hartford, did not have LeClairRyan on his radar screen. After all, Virginia-based LeClairRyan has had a Connecticut presence for less than two years. But now McGrath knows what others are quickly learning – LeClairRyan is in a rapid growth mode that includes recruiting top lawyers from established firms.

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February 8, 2010

Spilled Chili And Other Liberal Nonsense FREE

By KAREN LEE TORRE
As if the New York City Fire Department has nothing better to do, U.S. District Judge Nicholas G. Garaufis has ensured that it will be embroiled in court proceedings for years, at enormous public expense, and for unsound reasons. By judicial fiat, Garaufis invalidated FDNY hiring exams as discriminatory against African Americans.

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By NORM PATTIS
I was standing on line in a courthouse the other day, waiting for my turn through the metal detector. These waits never really bother me. Courthouses can be violent places. I appreciate the job done by judicial marshals to protect my back. But then someone waltzed by. The marshals said hello. The metal detector bleeped and belched. But no one stopped the walker. It turns out that he worked at the courthouse, in the public defender’s office.

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February 8, 2010

Hospital Settles For $1.5M After Heart Attack Death

By THOMAS B. SCHEFFEY
Estate of Arkady Mikhelzon v. The State of Connecticut: The estate of a Russian immigrant collected about $1.5 million from the University of Connecticut’s hospital after claiming that doctors failed to implant a device that might have prevented a fatal heart attack. At age 9, Arkady Mikhelzon moved from Russia to the U.S. with his parents, and they moved to Connecticut when he was 15. Growing up, he was active and healthy, but he had a heart condition that can strike young people unexpectedly.

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January 25, 2010

Round Two Begins In Legal Advertising DebateFREE
After more than eight months of speculation, hundreds of attorneys who paid to put their names on a web site designed to help generate business leads likely won’t face sanctions from ethics officials in Connecticut or any of 46 other states. A three-person panel of Connecticut’s Statewide Grievance Committee has dismissed the cases of five Connecticut-licensed bankruptcy attorneys whose names were on a web site run by Chicago-based Total Attorneys.

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