Editorials

Editorial: Coping With Pro Se Litigants

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Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Chief Justice Chase Rogers has put the issue squarely and succinctly: pro se litigants "clog up the court system. Cases are delayed and lengthened, creating frustration for everybody... Litigants with lawyers are better represented in court, which makes this a significant access issue. Access to justice and to our courts simply should not be a privilege offered to some, but a basic right available to all."

Editorial: The Acceptance Of Security Cameras

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Friday, June 7, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

For those privacy advocates who have been questioning the expanded use of security cameras throughout our country, it is time to face the new reality. There is an acceptance of the ubiquity of cameras in today's world.

Editorial: Closing Guantanamo

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Friday, May 31, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

After years of fading public interest in Guantanamo Bay and its prisoners, recent events have refocused our attention on the situation the United States has created there. More than 100 Guantanamo detainees are engaging in life-threatening hunger strikes, widely acknowledged to be the result of despair over their uncertain fates.

Editorial: Is Time Right For Non-Lawyer Legal Techs?

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Friday, May 31, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

In a thoughtful article published in 2004 in the Connecticut Law Review, entitled "Connecticut Unauthorized Practice Laws and Some Options for Their Reform," Yale law Professor Quintin Johnstone proposed several options for expanding non-attorney exemptions to unauthorized practice of law rules.

Editorial: Commodification Of The Legal Profession

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Friday, May 24, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Seven years ago, law Professor Tamar Frankel, in her book about the loss of trust and confidence in American business culture, wrote about the commodification of legal and medical services as one example of decline in trust in society generally.

Editorial: Planning For Disaster Relief

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Friday, May 24, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

With the tragic results of Hurricane Sandy, the Newtown shootings, and the Boston Marathon bombings, there should be guidelines as to how organizations and individuals, wishing to render help, should proceed.

Editorial: Let's Give Discovery Special Masters A Try

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Friday, May 17, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Judges and litigators agree that discovery disputes stop the adjudication of cases in their tracks. The disputes arise from many sources ? overbroad and unspecific production requests, unnecessary depositions, voluminous document dumping, mixing up the order of documents, outright failure or refusal to produce relevant documents ? just to name a few.

Editorial: Welcome To The Bar (Soon)

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Friday, May 17, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

The Connecticut Bar Examining Committee recently released the names of the applicants who passed the February 2013 Bar Examination. This year, there also will be graduates from the state's three law schools ? University of Connecticut, Quinnipiac and Yale ? seeking to join the ranks of the legal profession in Connecticut.

Editorial: Complicit By Silence

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Friday, May 10, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Much has been written lately about the failure of a certain trial judge to act in accordance with Connecticut General Statutes Section 53-183 by failing to issue her decisions within the time allotted in four termination of parental rights actions filed by the Department of Children and Families.

Editorial: Why Diversity Matters

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Friday, May 10, 2013 |  The Connecticut Law Tribune

Kudos to Justice Sonia Sotomayor for refusing to allow a prosecutor's racist conduct to hide behind an order denying certiorari.