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January 23, 2012 Letter To The Editor
Three Ways To Make Legal Practice More Efficient FREE
Having read Chief Justice Chase Rogers’ Jan. 2, 2012 piece entitled “Taking Steps to Re-Engineer Court System,” I would like to make three suggestions. However, before I do, I feel compelled to state the obvious: as a budgetary constraints increase, waste of time and/or money must decrease
January 9, 2012 Letter To The Editor
Legal Aid Faces Fiscal Challenges In New Year FREE
As the New Year begins, legal aid programs dedicated to the assistance of low-income state residents are faced with multiple challenges. First, the clients we serve are particularly challenged in this terrible economy. Jobs are scarce, especially for those with limited skills or education. As a result, the number of people relying on food stamps in Connecticut has almost doubled since 2007. People with disabilities, who cannot find work in a booming economy, need help even more when times are rough. And people facing discrimination or physical abuse have fewer options.
Letter To The Editor
Law Firm’s Actions Didn’t Hurt DOMA Case FREE
I have no reason to doubt columnist Karen Lee Torre’s description of former U.S. Solicitor General Paul Clement as “[b]rainy and brilliant.” (“Profiles In Courage And Cowardice,” Connecticut Law Tribune, Dec. 26, 2011.) I also am quite willing to have taxpayer dollars pay for first-rate legal talent to defend the constitutionality of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA). And I concede that mega-law firm King & Spalding provided, at best, muddled explanations for its decision last April to drop its defense of DOMA, the event which triggered Clement’s departure from the firm and taking the case with him.
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