Mark Dubois

Mark Dubois, the former chief disciplinary counsel for Connecticut, is now an attorney at the New London firm of Geraghty & Bonnano.

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Opinion: Legal Bandaid

Friday, May 17, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Gideon v. Wainright, the landmark case which established the indigent's right to counsel in criminal cases. Though many have spoken of the need for a "civil Gideon," it has never become a reality. Maybe technology will give us one answer.

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Opinion: CLE And Me

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Friday, May 10, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

I have to admit that I like learning. For me, learning means both teaching and being taught.

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Opinion: Tomorrow's Lawyers

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Monday, May 6, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

I just read a fascinating book by Richard Susskind called Tomorrow's Lawyers. It is so good that I bought copies for everyone in the Connecticut Bar Association leadership.

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Opinion: One Client Or Two?

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Friday, April 26, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

A friend who works in-house at a large property/casualty carrier called me about an interesting question?his employers wanted him to take a position in a matter which he thought might be adverse to his client, the employer's insured.

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Opinion: Listen To The Bells

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Thursday, April 18, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

Maybe what we need to do is institute the liturgy of the hours in our courthouses. If we stopped every few hours and took a brief moment to think about things greater than our present troubles, we might all be better for it.

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Opinion: The Quants Are Coming

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Friday, April 5, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

I freely admit that I, along with many other lawyers, went into law because I was a math-phobe. But the students of quantitative analysis have turned their sights to our profession and found that the laws of math have relevance to legal processes and may be ignored at our peril.

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Opinion: Coming To Grips With Plagiarism

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Friday, March 29, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

The bottom line is that in this area, as with so much of what we do, technology is reshaping and refashioning what it means to be a lawyer and how we define the delivery of legal services.

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Opinion: Time To Bury MCLE

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Friday, March 22, 2013 | by Mark Dubois | The Connecticut Law Tribune

Friends, I come to bury MCLE, not to praise it. The evil that failed proposals do lives on long after the good is interred with their bones. So let it be with MCLE.