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My daughter, who shall be granted anonymity here, sent an email moments ago from New Zealand relaying that all is well. I am contacting Interpol to see if I can have her grounded and placed on house arrest!
We are among the lucky ones this time.
Thanks to all for the...

My daughter, who shall be granted anonymity here, sent an email moments ago from New Zealand relaying that all is well. I am contacting Interpol to see if I can have her grounded and placed on house arrest!
We are among the lucky ones this time.
Thanks to all for the...

It seems like a long, long time ago that I first received word of this week's earthquake centered in Christchurch, New Zealand, but a woman I love, my daughter, was in the vicinity. I cannot help but wonder the way fathers do about her safety and welfare. But thus far not a word.
The folks...

In recent weeks, I've noticed an accelerating trend: Increasing numbers of folks looking for a lawyer are boldly asking me if I will accept their case on a pro bono basis. I view it as a sign that despite claims to the contrrary, the economy is still a long way from healthy. The mass of those...

The next time members of the Connecticut General Assembly are asked to consider whether the prosecutors of this state should have routine access to investigative grand juries, they ought to take a trip to the Walker Reception and Special Management Unit. That's a euphemism for prison. It's located...

Just how badly do federal prosecutors want to prosecute Waterbury State's Attorney John Connelly? Pretty badly; the vision of Connelly in handcuffs haunts the heartless corridors of the New Haven office of the Justice Department. It's the sort of vision that makes FBI agents do crazy and...

Ron Nussle was beaten in prison one day by guards who retaliated against him when he threatened to alert a friend of his, then Gov. John Rowland, about abuse in the prisons. So he sued in federal court to recover money damages. He did so just after the Prison Litigation Reform Act (PLRA) was...

I always thought the white collar guys were a more gentlemanly cast of lawyers. They certainly look the part: Expensive suits, fancy shoes, and brief cases that all but announce: "Power, power, power." Most of my legal career has been spent in the tweedy trenches defending more obvious crimes, such...

The backward glance is almost always fatal to the living spirit. If the best has already been thought, said and done, what's the point of struggling forward? If all is but mere faint repetition of never-to-be-repeated excellence, why struggle face-first against the chaos of our days. Nostalgia, I...

"We have created an institutional situation where 26-year-olds are being given humongous legal authority in the actual wording of decisions, the actual compositional choices," a law professor told The New York Times recently. He was commenting on the role of fresh-faced graduates of the nation's...