Connecticut Bar Journal: a Retrospective

• Jurisdiction: Connecticut,United States
• Publication year: 2021
• Citation: Vol. 79 Pg. 241
• Pages: 241

Connecticut Bar Journal Volume 79.

79 CBJ 241. CONNECTICUT BAR JOURNAL: A RETROSPECTIVE

CONNECTICUT BAR JOURNAL
Vol. 79, No. 4
December 2005

CONNECTICUT BAR JOURNAL: A RETROSPECTIVE

BY EMANUEL MARGOLIS*

My own Journal journey began in 1958! I was a 31-year old lawyer who had been admitted to practice in Connecticut the previous year. Prior to my graduation from Yale Law School, I had published articles in the Yale Law Review and the Virginia Law Review, and so I decided to test the waters of the Journal.

I lived in Ansonia while I was attending law school. My first job as a young associate after graduation was at a small law firm in Ansonia where I worked closely with the senior partner, Herman Silberberg, who encouraged my writing ambitions.

I worked with Herman in the briefing and oral argument of a case before the Connecticut Supreme Court within a year of my admission to the Connecticut Bar. It was a medical malpractice case against St. Mary's Hospital in Waterbury,1 where liability on the part of the hospital was clear and convincing. Its primary defense, which was successful at trial, was the principle of "charitable immunity," a surviving dinosaur of Connecticut's common law. I briefed and argued the case for its abandonment, but only Justice P. B. O'Sullivan, in dissent, agreed with me.2

I converted my brief into an article which the Journal's then Editor-in-Chief (Benedict Holden, a wise...