The goal of Connecticut-Appeals.com is to alert attorneys to new Connecticut Supreme Court and Appellate Court decisions before their “Official Release” date.
As lawyers, we all should do a last-minute check for recent Connecticut appeals decisions relevant to the trial we’re about to start or the brief we’re about to file. The advance release opinions appear on the courts’ website about a week before the official release date. I’ve always had a nagging concern that there’s a lag between the advance release of the opinion and its appearance on legal research websites. The only way I could be sure that I wasn’t missing something was to visit the advance release and archive pages on the courts’ website and scan the opinions. That was tedious and disruptive because I had to review, however briefly, decisions that turned out to be irrelevant, which is most of them. But every once in a while I found something significant that I could use in my attack or should be prepared to address in response. It’s good when you have the latest information, especially when your adversary doesn’t.
I thought there should be a service where I could get quick idea as to whether there were any new appellate level opinions relevant to the issues before me. I couldn’t find anything like that for Connecticut appellate decisions so I decided to start one.
Why You Should Subscribe to Connecticut-Appeals.com
The premise of the site is that lawyers need to be alerted to potentially relevant advance release opinions as soon as possible. If you subscribe to Connecticut-Appeals.com, using the form in the right sidebar, you’ll receive my Decision Alerts by email by the morning after any new post. That way you won’t have to check the site every day. It’s not that I don’t want you to check the site every day — it’s that I want to get you information you can use in a way that’s easiest and best for you. You can always unsubscribe if you don’t like it.