Compute the real costs of lawyer telecommuting
Telecommuting from a home office has become a highly touted strategy for reducing costs at a law firm. The basics have become well-defined: minimal expenditures on physical office space; contact with...
View ArticleIN RE: J. RONALD FISHBEIN
SJC No. BD-2011-087 IN RE: J. RONALD FISHBEIN Address: 5 Waterman Avenue E. Providence, RI 02914-1314 Order of term suspension entered by Lenk, J., on Dec. 28, 2011 MEMORANDUM OF DECISION Bar counsel...
View ArticleFeb. 28 – March 5
Feb. 28 Continental Casualty Company v Atlantic Dismantling & Site Contractors Corporation, et al. Docket No. 1:2012cv10368 Insurance suit Courville v. Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp. Docket No....
View ArticleGardner attorney commits campaign website gaffe
Call it an exercise in irony. Gardner attorney Scott Graves, who’s running for state rep, touts his legal experience on his campaign website. And yet, as of Feb. 29, Graves’ site listed campaign...
View ArticleFall River lawyers battle over right to represent estate of woman who drowned
If the grieving family of a woman who drowned in a Fall River pool is going to be compensated, a judge has ruled that it will be done under the direction of David A. Sullivan, and not Brian R. Cunha....
View ArticleProsecutorial errors in murder case demand careful scrutiny
The recent revelation that a Bristol County assistant district attorney introduced an illegally recorded phone call between a defense attorney and his client into evidence before a grand jury raises...
View ArticleMove probation hiring to civil service
To the editor: Regarding the Feb. 27 op-ed by L. Scott Harshbarger and Randy S. Chapman about reforming the Probation Department (“An action plan for transforming the culture”), I am concerned that the...
View ArticleThe last lecture
In the spring of 1978, Robert M. Bonin, then-chief justice of the Superior Court, walked into the Arlington Street Church in Boston to attend a lecture headlined by controversial and world-renowned...
View ArticleAttorney gives critic a ‘lecture’ over book review
To the editor: I write regarding Thomas Barnico’s review of James Aloisi’s “The Vidal Lecture” (“Truth may never be known in Bonin saga,” Feb. 20). I think the headline on the book review and the...
View ArticlePitfalls of the new Massachusetts alimony law: Recomputation and alimony...
March 1, 2012 was the effective date of the Act Reforming Alimony in the Commonwealth. The provisions are contained in Sections 48 through 55 of Chapter 208 of the General Laws of Massachusetts. Four...
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