Connecticut

Embarassing Depo Wins Conn. Sect’y of State the Right to Run for AG Job

The embarrassing deposition was apparently worthwhile: A Duke University law graduate now serving as Connecticut’s secretary of state has won a court ruling that she has sufficient legal experience to run for election as the state’s attorney general. Hartford Superior Court Judge Michael Sheldon ruled today that Susan Bysiewicz’s work…

May 5, 2010 7:56 PM CDT

Shipman & Goodwin Opens in D.C. with 6-Lawer Hogan Lovells Group & New Client

A six-attorney group has departed Hogan & Hartson on the eve of the Hogan Lovells merger to open a new Washington, D.C. , office for a smaller, Connecticut-based law firm. Led by partner James Ruggeri, it will continue to provide legal services to The Hartford Financial Services Group at the…

May 3, 2010 4:59 PM CDT

Woman Claims She Was Fired Over Increased Breast-Cancer Risk

A woman whose genetic makeup may put her at increased risk of breast cancer has reportedly filed first-of-its-kind administrative complaints in Connecticut alleging that she was illegally fired from her job at MXenergy last month because she tested positive for the BRCA2 gene. Pamela Fink says in complaints filed with…

Apr 28, 2010 6:18 PM CDT

Prior Law Practice Experience Is a Big Plus for Pioneering Pastor

Sara Smith had been in practice only three years after earning her law degree from the University of Houston in 1988 before she decided to pursue a different career—the ministry. But her experience as a trial lawyer for the U.S. Department of Labor and, while earning a master’s degree in…

Apr 19, 2010 8:25 PM CDT

Watch the Video: Would-Be AG Says She’s Qualified Despite Zero Trial Experience

A deposition that has made headlines in Connecticut–especially after counsel for the deponent, secretary of state and would-be Democratic attorney general candidate Susan Bysiewicz, briefly sought a protective order to prevent disclosure of the transcript and video of the three-day session–has now been made public. As her testimony on March…

Apr 8, 2010 8:40 PM CDT

Does Connecticut Hate the Net?

State is a battleground for online legal services

Apr 1, 2010 6:30 AM CDT

Missing Lawyer Turns Up in Rehab as Ethics Officials Investigate

A Connecticut lawyer who disappeared after proclaiming in an e-mail that he was “out of here” has turned up at a Florida rehab center. Deron Drumm sent the e-mail to an associate at his two-lawyer firm in Avon on March 12, two days after a real estate closing that brought…

Mar 30, 2010 2:15 PM CDT

Ex-White House Lawyer Takes 5th in Wife’s $15M Damages Suit Over Alleged Murder Attempt

She had endured “years of emotional and verbal abuse” from her husband, former White House attorney John Michael Farren, testified his wife, attorney Mary Farren, in a Connecticut court hearing yesterday. But when she refused to withdraw her divorce filing, he snapped, Mary Farren, 44, told a Stamford Superior Court…

Mar 23, 2010 9:00 PM CDT

Yale Law Library Adds Supreme Court Bobbleheads to Collection

Yale Law School is renowned for its rare book collection. But it also hopes to make a name for itself as the official repository of the U.S. Supreme Court bobbleheads. “The bobbleheads are, not to overstate it, a little bit more than toys,” admits Ross Davies to the New York…

Mar 18, 2010 5:48 PM CDT

Partner Proclaims Victory Despite Dismissal of Law Firm’s Google Adwords Suit

A Connecticut judge has dismissed an advertising complaint brought against Google by a New Haven personal injury firm, agreeing with the Internet search engine giant that the lawsuit should have been pursued in federal court rather than state court. But partner Michael Stratton of Stratton Faxon is proclaiming victory even…

Mar 17, 2010 8:31 PM CDT

2 Partners of Well-Known Firm Downsize, Now Answer Own Phones at Own Shop

Two seasoned partners have left a well-known Connecticut-based law firm to form their own small practice, where they now answer their own phones, clean the coffeepot and, noting that the mahogany table in the conference room had seen better days, sanded it down and refinished it. Their new firm is…

Feb 17, 2010 7:02 PM CST

As Paralegal Gets 46 Months in $1.7M Theft, 2 Law Firm Workers are Indicted in Unrelated Cases

Updated: As a paralegal was sentenced to a 46-month federal prison term this week for stealing $1.7 million from the Connecticut law firm for which she formerly worked, new indictments were also announced in unrelated cases against at least two employees of different law firms in other states. Patricia Baddeley…

Feb 12, 2010 4:52 PM CST

Panel OKs Total Attorneys Web Ads With ‘Very Little Margin for Error’

Updated: An Internet advertising scheme in which lawyers pay $65 per referral for names of potential clients passes ethical muster with “very little margin for error,” an attorney discipline panel says in an opinion today. Explaining its ruling (PDF) last month that the Total Attorneys Inc. advertising does not violate…

Feb 8, 2010 8:45 PM CST

8 Halloran & Sage Lawyers Leap to LeClairRyan

LeClairRyan has added an eight-lawyer group from the products liability practice group of Halloran & Sage. They joined the Virginia-based firm’s Hartford office last week, reports the Connecticut Law Tribune (sub. req.). LeClairRyan has had offices in Connecticut for less than two years. The self-described “entrepreneurial” firm has about 300…

Feb 8, 2010 7:38 PM CST

New Frontier in Child Porn Battle: Damages for Possession of Images

The global patent director of Pfizer Inc. made news when he was arrested and charged with child pornography some two years ago. Now he’s back in the news for an unusual restitution order that is part of a new campaign to make sex offenders pay monetary damages for porn possession.…

Feb 3, 2010 3:13 PM CST