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DANBURY -- Each year, the Danbury Bar Association honors three people at its Law Day ceremony. This year, all three were women.
Among them are the notions that law firms only want "sexy" matters and that the amount of pro bono work is dropping precipitously at large firms.
By: The National Law Journal
December 5, 2011: Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part series on Judicial Branch programs in which volunteer attorneys aid unrepresented parties.
December 12, 2011: Growing up the child of Irish immigrants in Queens, N.Y., Kevin Smith saw first-hand how hard his parents worked to make it in their adopted country.
September 12, 2011: Stamford attorney Ernest F. Teitell remembers sitting in Bonnie McEneaney’s home in New Canaan shortly after her husband Eamon was killed in the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11.
May 30, 2011: Jill Plancher, like most lawyers, often puts in more than 40 hours a week.
May 23, 2011: General Counsel Alan Kreczko couldn’t be more proud. “We’re really elated … to have been chosen for the pro bono-community service award,” he says, crediting his team of attorneys and staff for their commitment to helping others.
May 2, 2011: Long before the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1963 that poor, accused felons had a right to legal representation, Connecticut was providing public defenders to the indigent under a 1917 state law.