Legal Advice

Administrator | August 25, 2009

Social Law dictates that if a lawyer is in a social setting and someone happens to mention that he or she is a lawyer, at least one person in the crowd will inevitably pull that lawyer aside and ask for legal advice. Sometimes the legal problem they describe rivals the most complicated fact pattern [...]

Probate Court Redistricting Commission Holds Hearing On Its Preliminary Plan

Administrator | August 20, 2009

As Connecticut moves closer to consolidating its existing 117 probate courts into 44 to 50 regional courts, the debate rages on as to the best way to effect this major change in the system. Plans for the regionalizing of the courts must be completed and presented to the General Assembly by September 15th. [...]

Divorce and The Five Stages of Grief

Administrator | August 11, 2009

I’ve been pondering the divorce process for some time and have concluded that when it comes to divorce, there is no winner. By that, I mean that no matter what happens in court – no matter what the divorce agreement states, no matter what the judge ultimately rules – nobody wins. [...]

Cudos to the Connecticut Innocence Project

Administrator | August 5, 2009

The Connecticut Innocence Project has done it again. Today, it was announced that Mark Ireland, who was sentenced to 50 years in prison for a 1986 rape and murder that DNA evidence now shows he could not have committed, was freed. Although Judge Richard Damiani granted him a new trial, Prosecutors are expected [...]