Editorials

Editorial: Intellectual Dishonesty Undermines America's Integrity

  •      
    • Subscription Required
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.

Editorial: Lawyers Should Mentor New Lawyers For Free, Not For Fee

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Friday, March 15, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Charging new law school graduates a fee to shadow a more experienced attorney is a bad idea. Being available to mentor is what we owe to the future of the profession. At no cost.

Editorial: The Recess Appointments Case

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Monday, March 11, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit recently decided Noel Canning v. N.L.R.B., No. 12-1115, which is certain to be closely studied by government lawyers, law students and professors, and political scientists.

Editorial: Benefits For All Veterans With PTSD

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Friday, March 8, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

It's time for Congress to provide a legislative remedy by authorizing treatment for PTSD for all who served in Vietnam, regardless of their discharge status. Those veterans have suffered the haunting memories of combat and the resulting disabilities for 40 years or more.

Editorial: Commitment To Pro Bono Needs To Start At Top

Monday, March 4, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Law firms and corporate legal departments need to care about the problem of clients who cannot afford to pay for services. Many do already, but many do not. Leadership from the very top is what is needed.

A Learned Profession? We Think Not

Monday, March 4, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Forty-six states have adopted Mandatory (or Minimum) Continuing Legal Education Rules (MCLE) for their respective bars. Connecticut is in that exceedingly small minority that somehow continues to believe that its abstinence is the right way to go.

Privacy And Economic Class

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Friday, February 22, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The rights of privacy afforded by the U.S. Constitution should have nothing to do with personal wealth. They protect the dignity and privacy of people, not money. But the way Fourth Amendment privacy rights have been applied in recent decades has biased these rights in favor of the rich.

Lawyer Assistance Program At 10

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Friday, February 22, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Meaningful gestures are not always measured by their size. A simple note of gratitude from a recipient of services to those who toil in anonymity on their behalf can outweigh its seeming ordinariness.

The Downside Of Outstanding Judicial Appointments

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Friday, February 22, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

It is generally acknowledged that Governor Dannel Malloy's recent nominees for the Superior Court bench included some truly outstanding lawyers. Unfortunately, those nominations, coming as they do on the eve of the legislature's consideration of long overdue pay raises for the judiciary, can have some unintended and unwanted consequences.

Mark Kravitz — The 'Aporetic Judge'

  •      
    • Subscription Required
Friday, February 15, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

We have honored the late Judge Mark Kravitz for many of his contributions to the law, but one characteristic of his that deserves special note has not yet been discussed in these pages. That was his willingness to recognize and honor the valid points in both sides of an argument, even when he found those points unavailing.