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2020 Year in Review: Offbeat, Whimsical
and Odd Law Stories From Connecticut

By Robert Storace

As 2020 comes to a close, there were several
offbeat, different and—in some cases—down-
right odd stories in the Connecticut Law
Tribune over the last 12 months.
Whether it was a story about an attorney tweet-
ing about the ups and downs of working from home
remotely with his young children in the background
or one exploring the lives of Connecticut employ-
ment attorneys Daniel A. Schwartz and Daniel L.
Schwartz, there was no shortage of offbeat stories.
Here’s a list of the top five most offbeat stories of
2020 in order of the most offbeat.
Daniel A. Schwartz, left, of Shipman & Goodwin, and

Daniel L. Schwartz, right, of Day Pitney.

The Daniel Schwartz Dilemma Courtesy photos

Among the most interesting was a story that ap- Bowman, a partner at Billings, Barrett & Bow-
peared Dec. 2 on Daniel A. Schwartz of Shipman man, where he specializes in personal injury law and
& Goodwin and Daniel L. Schwartz of Day Pitney. criminal work, posted video analysis of the show via
The two Schwartzes, who are both employment Facebook and LinkedIn. He got more than 10,000
attorneys for Big Law in the Nutmeg State, have had people who saw him on Facebook and more than
interesting and often comical incidents since they 1,000 on LinkedIn.
both started working in the state, at one time work- Bowman tackled a series of legal issues on the
ing together at Day Pitney. show, which is about a zookeeper arrested for mur-
Both are friends and are not related and some- der for hire. The Netflix show was something of a
times that caused confusion on the part of others. pop-culture sensation, attracting nearly 34 million
There was that time when both worked at Day Pit- unique viewers within the first 10 days of its release,
ney in the mid-1990s and Daniel L. Schwartz began according to CNN.
reading a letter that turned out to be from the then- Bowman told the Connecticut Law Tribune back
girlfriend of Daniel A. Schwartz. It was a little risque in April he was using his videos as a way to keep his
to say the least, but the letter was given to the right- firm’s name and brand in front of future clients.
ful Daniel Schwartz, who later married the woman.
Daniel A. Schwartz mused that Day Pitney’s Daddy Duty With Attorney Sean Marotta
payroll department, unfortunately for him, never The Connecticut Law Tribune took a look in
confused their paychecks. April at how some attorneys were dealing with the
global health pandemic and found Sean Marotta, a
Lawyer Gives Analysis on Netflix’s ‘Tiger King’ partner with Hogan Lovells in Washington, D.C.
Second on the list of most offbeat stories was Con- Marotta, the father of 3-year-old and 18-month-
necticut attorney Peter Bowman’s fascination with old boys, works in the firm’s appellate practice. He
the true-life crime drama “Tiger King: Murder, thought it best to expand his Twitter commentary
Mayhem and Madness.”
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