WHO IS ATTORNEY KIMBERLY KNOX?

INFORMATION ON ATTORNEY KIMBERLY KNOX WHO WROTE THE ARTICLE DEFENDING JUDGE OLEAR IN THE CT LAW TRIBUNE IS BELOW:

JUST SO YOU KNOW, I CUT AND PASTED THIS  MATERIAL STRAIGHT FROM ATTORNEY KNOX'S WEBSITE.  I ONLY TOOK THE FIRST HALF OF WHAT WAS WRITTEN THERE.  ADDITIONAL MATERIAL REGARDING HER WORK IN APPELLATE COURT I WASN'T SO INTERESTED IN, PLUS THERE ARE OTHER DETAILS ABOUT HER MEMBERSHIPS, ETC.  BUT YOU WOULD HAVE TO GO TO HER WEBSITE YOURSELF TO GET THOSE.

 

OF INTEREST I FIND THE WHOLE SUPER LAWYERS SCHTICK!  AS WE WELL KNOW, SOME OF THE MOST CORRUPT ATTORNEYS OUT THERE ARE SUPER LAWYERS.  SO FOR YOU GUYS WHO ARE IMPRESSED BY THAT, LET ME JUST TELL YOU I AM A SUPER DUPER BLOGGER AND I THINK THAT'S TEN TIMES MORE IMPORTANT.

 

OTHER THAN THAT, ATTORNEY KNOX'S INVOLVEMENT IN STATEWIDE GRIEVANCE CASES IS STRIKING.  SO WHAT ATTORNEY KNOX DOES TO EARN A LIVING, IN FACT A MAJOR PART OF HER PRACTICE, INVOLVES REPRESENTING THE MOST TRULY CORRUPT OF HER PROFESSION.  SO IT MAKES SENSE SHE WOULD BE REPRESENTING JUDGE OLEAR.  I GET IT NOW!

KIMBERLY A. KNOX
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Phone: (860) 522-8338
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EDUCATION
B.A. Connecticut College, 1982
J.D. University of Connecticut School of Law, 1986
ADMISSIONS
State of Connecticut, 1986
United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1987
United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1991
United States Supreme Court, 2006
DISTINCTIONSAV Peer Review Rated, Martindale Hubbell
Selected as one of Top 25: 2013 Women Connecticut Super Lawyers
Listed in Super Lawyers, 2006-2007, 2009-2013
Listed in Best Lawyers since 2010 for Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law
Appointed to the Committee on Admissions and Grievances for the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit by the Honorable Dennis Jacobs, Chief Judge. (2010-present)
Practice
Professional Disciplinary Matters, Ethics Consultations and Bar Admissions; Connecticut and Second Circuit Appellate Litigation; Appellate Consultation in Trial Proceedings, State and Federal Trial Consultation and Litigation.

Professionalism Practice
Attorney Knox represents attorneys before grievance panels, at public hearings before the Statewide Grievance Committee, and in presentments and appeals. She also represents clients as to the unauthorized practice of law matters. Attorney Knox represents attorneys seeking reinstatement or readmission to the Connecticut Bar and represents candidates for bar admission before the Bar Examining Committee. She consults with attorneys on random audits of client's funds accounts by the Statewide Grievance Committee. Attorney Knox consults with firms on a myriad of issues involving the Rules of Professional Conduct. Attorney Knox also handles matters involving the State of Connecticut Code of Ethics, including investigation and evaluation of complaints before the OSE. She represents clients before the Citizen's Ethics Advisory Board.

Attorney Knox has served as an expert witness on professionalism and the rules of professional conduct in grievance and in legal malpractice matters.

For those of you who want to read Attorney Knox's apologia on behalf of Judge Leslie Olear who was barely reappointed at the recent legislative session, please click on the link below, and that will lead you to the CT Tribune article:

http://divorceinconnecticut.blogspot.com/2014/03/ct-law-tribune-lashes-out-against.html

CT LAW TRIBUNE LASHES OUT AGAINST FAMILY COURT ACTIVISTS!

In an article in the CT Law Tribune, Attorney Kimberly Knox strikes a blow against Judge Leslie Olear's Family Court Reform critics by stating the following,

"The Honorable Leslie Olear came before the General Assembly for reappointment on Feb. 26, having served the previous eight years with a stellar record. By all accounts, she is the type of judge that Connecticut deserves and needs: smart, hard-working and committed to doing what is fair and just.

 

But Olear had the misfortune of being a sitting family law judge when the reappointment vote was cast, and thus became a pawn in a highly charged, politically sensitive debate over structural issues in the family courts – a debate in which a small number of family court critics appear to be using the reappointment process as a means to give voice to their dissatisfaction about the functioning of that all-important docket within the Judicial Branch."

They wish we were a small group!

For more information on this topic, please click on the link below:
  http://www.ctlawtribune.com/id=1202645512578/Opinion%3A-Judge-Became-Pawn-In-Debate-Over-Family-Court-Issues#ixzz2v7s3YIvj

CT LAW TRIBUNE ARTICLE ON CONNECTICUT DCF CONFERENCE ON CHILD TRAFFICKING!

In advance of Super Bowl XLVIII in the New Jersey Meadowlands, flight attendants were told to be on the lookout for underage girls traveling to the Northeast. The concern was that the teens were being imported by human sex traffickers to be peddled as prostitutes for those attending football's biggest game.

The problem of child prostitution exists wherever large groups of men congregate, including near military bases and "man camps" of oil drilling operations, as well as at major sporting events, William Rivera, of the Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), told a large conference on sex trafficking in Hartford on Jan. 29.

Read more: http://www.ctlawtribune.com/id=1202641053481/Prosecutors%2C-Judges-Called-On-To-Help-Combat-Child-Sex-Trafficking#ixzz2sIgpEGvX

 

CT LAW TRIBUNE ARTICLE ON THE TASK FORCE!

A state task force is recommending reforms to child custody cases in state courts, including a review of whether courts should limit child guardian fees that many parents say are wiping out their finances.

The Task Force to Study Legal Disputes Involving the Care and Custody of Minor Children, which was created by the legislature last year, finalized its recommendations on Jan. 30 and sent them to state lawmakers. The panel looked at a variety of issues, including how high legal costs are hurting families, and voted on more than 90 proposals.

Read more: http://www.ctlawtribune.com/id=1202641075386/Child-Custody-Task-Force-Makes-Recommendations-To-Lawmakers#ixzz2sIexN6FB

LAWSUIT ATTACKS ALIMONY LAWS!

This is from the CT Law Tribune: 

"Four plaintiffs have filed a complaint challenging the constitutionality of Connecticut's alimony laws on the grounds that they affect a "fundamental liberty interest in ending a marriage and in remarrying."

The plaintiffs, who filed their complaint anonymously and who were ordered to pay alimony as a result of their respective divorces in Middlesex, Hartford, Fairfield and Middletown counties, argue there are no standards to guide judges when granting alimony. The lawsuit claims alimony is an anachronism dating from when women's legal identities merged into their husbands' identities upon marriage."

For more information, click on the link below:

http://www.ctlawtribune.com/PubArticleCT.jsp?id=1202627142771&kw=Lawsuit%20Challenges%20Connecticut%20Alimony%20Laws&et=editorial&bu=Connecticut%20Law%20Tribune&cn=20131111&src=EMC-Email&pt=Connecticut%20Law%20Tribune%20Daily%20Briefing#ixzz2kMbie8hc

For what it is worth, here is one woman's response to this lawsuit.  See below:

I was a wife ordered to pay attorney fees. My former husband, who earned 85 percent of the household income, did not pay any of my fees.

Also, marriage is a legal contract. Those whining men aren't thinking about the ability their former wives gave them to facilitate their earning potentials while they provided emotional support, cared for the home and children, hosted events, gone to events to convey their husbands' appearance of model citizenship and that he conforms to cultural and societal expectations. Perhaps during that time, these wives put off their own professional and educational goals to facilitate the husbands' careers? Is this devalued as soon as the spousal relationship is over. I know a man who is a stay at home dad and does the above mentioned roles. No way could his wife have ever attained her status without his emotional, financial and later raising if the children and maintaining a home. As my crooked family law attorney no less crooked than all in it said to me when all the assets I had before marriage disappeared during it to support my former husbands educational and professional roles as well as kept him out if jail for back alimony and child support from the marriage prior to mine, "You can't redo your financial decisions you made in marriage." Whiners: this is what a pre-nup is for!

A VICTORY FOR PARENTAL RIGHTS!

The Connecticut Law Tribune recently reported on a case which will have a significant impact on termination of parental rights proceedings.  It begins as follows:

"Elvin G. is a father of two children whose parental rights were terminated while he was serving a lengthy prison sentence for federal firearm charges.

The father challenged the state's decision all the way to the state Supreme Court. He claimed that he should have been given specific steps which, if completed, would have proved he was rehabilitated and prevented the loss of his parental rights. Last week, the state's highest court agreed with his premise, a decision that will change the process the state Department of Children and Families uses when terminating parental rights"

For more information, click on the link below:

http://www.ctlawtribune.com/PubArticleCT.jsp?id=1202627156880&kw=Court%20Issues%20Guidelines%20For%20Parental%20Rights%20Cases&et=editorial&bu=Connecticut%20Law%20Tribune&cn=20131111&src=EMC-Email&pt=Connecticut%20Law%20Tribune%20Daily%20Briefing&slreturn=20131011132346

JAY STAPLETON, NEW MANAGING EDITOR OF "CT LAW TRIBUNE" AS OF APRIL 2012

For those of you who are interested, the "new"--ok, fairly new, Managing Editor of the "CT Law Tribune"* as of April 2012 is a home grown boy.  He graduated from Western Connecticut State University with a B.A. in English Literature and Sociology.  He doesn't say when, but he is not the first person to be shy about his age!  He then continued on to obtain a Certificate in Court Reporting at the National Judicial College in 2007, and he obtained a fellowship in Legal Affairs Journalism in 2009 at John Jay College of Criminal Justice (CUNY)

 

Jay Stapleton is an expert in digital strategy, corporate storytelling, and editing.  Bouncing back and forth between sunny Florida and stately, but frequently cold New York State, Mr. Stapleton has covered the news from finding a child's lost dog, to revealing systemic problems with 911 operators, to exposing how "a group of low-income first time homebuyers were taken advantage of by an unscrupulous developer and left with high mortgage payments and substandard homes."  In the course of his work, he was presented with "a coveted New York State Associated Press writing award in the breaking news category."

 

Now, of course, he intends to make his mark as the somewhat new Managing Editor of the CT Law tribune.  Welcome to Corrupticut, Mr. Stapleton!

 

Mr. Jay Stapleton can be reached at:

JStapleton@alm.com
860-757-6642

*much of this information has been obtained from statements made on "linked in"

FROM THE CT LAW TRIBUNE: JUDICIAL BRANCH PRODUCES EDUCATIONAL VIDEOS!

Judicial Branch Launches Series Of Educational Videos JAY STAPLETON
2013-10-17 15:46:15.0

A basic understanding of legal terms and courtroom procedures can be daunting for anyone who tries to get a divorce without the help of a lawyer.

 

To help smooth the process of self-represented divorce cases, the Connecticut Judicial Branch has gone into the movie business.

 

No, family court judges are not trying to win an Academy Award with a remake of the classic family drama Kramer vs Kramer. Instead, court administrators are producing instructional videos to teach the masses how to resolve a divorce case. The hope is that the videos will help real-life litigants to more effectively navigate the system.

 

The production costs are being covered in part by a $20,000 grant from State Justice Institute, a Washington, D.C., nonprofit corporation that awards grants with the intent of improving the quality of justice in state courts.

 

Technical support, including help writing scripts for the videos, is being provided through a partnership between the Judicial Branch and the New Haven Legal Assistance Association.

 

"Some people are visual learners, and some people have limited literacy skills, so we found the videos are a great way to demystify the court system and help people feel more comfortable using the courts," said Susan Nofi-Bendici, the executive director of the New Haven-based legal aid organization, who worked on the videos in an advisory capacity.

 

"Look, a video is never going to be as good as lawyer," she said, "but if we can't meet the legal demand for providing legal services for everyone, at least we can give a lot of support to people by providing them with information on how to represent themselves."

Since the Judicial Branch video program started in June, two of the instructional videos have been completed and put on its website, as well as on YouTube. The first to be uploaded in the news section of the Judicial Branch website is called "Your Uncontested Divorce."

More recently, a seven-minute video, titled "How to File For Divorce," was added. With court clerk, secretaries and even a judge "acting" out the roles of court personnel and divorcing couples in front of the camera, both videos walk viewers through the steps to file for a divorce in Connecticut Superior Court.

 

The videos show viewers the various forms that are filed in divorce cases. Key phrases that are used in court are clearly defined.

 

In the first video, for example, the narrator, Jim Lawlor from the Waterbury Court Service Center, instructs viewers by using simple, everyday language. "Broken down irretrievably," Lawlor says. "This is the most common reason people give for wanting a divorce. It means there is no hope of the spouses getting back together."

 

Late-Night Viewing

 

Krista Hess, who is the court service center programs manager for the Judicial Branch, said the idea for creating instructional videos has been tossed around for a few years.

 

The idea for the videos was born out of the strategic plan created by the Self-represented Parties Committee. The committee was formed in 2008 to study the changing legal landscape and to look for ways to implement tools and resources to adapt to the growing number of self-represented parties in the courts.

 

The idea was to increase the availability of information, to better help pro se litigants navigate the court system in an efficient and timely manner.

 

Hess was on the committee. She said members agreed videos would be a good educational resource, to be used in addition to help center locations and law libraries that provide instructional materials at 13 of the state's 15 judicial districts.

 

"Primarily, the idea is that since courts are only open from 9 to 5, and people have to go into the courts to get that information, that could be problematic for a lot of people," Hess said. "If we provide electronic access to the instructional materials, people can watch them when they get home from work, even if it's 11 o'clock at night."

 

Many court employees appeared in the videos, including clerk's office staff, foreclosure mediators, court service center workers and marshals. "We're really trying to give people a very basic understanding of what they might expect in court," she said. "For example, when they go to the courthouse, they will have to go through a metal detector, and when they go to court, they will have to stand and raise their right hand and be sworn in'."

 

A third video was recently created on filing restraining orders, but it hasn't yet been posted online. All of the videos are available in English, Spanish and Polish. Hess said each of the videos took about six months to complete. Other possible court areas that could benefit from similar videos include small claims, housing and foreclosure, "where we have the largest concentration of self-represented parties," Hess said. •

http://www.ctlawtribune.com/PubArticleCT.jsp?id=1202624069861