Law and Justice in Everyday Life: Featuring the Cool Justice Columns of Law Tribune Newspapers

About the Author
Andy Thibault is a columnist for Law Tribune Newspapers and co-author of
several business books. Thibault also has wide-ranging experience in public
service and has worked as an investigator for law firms in Connecticut, New
York, California and Washington, D.C.
He has lectured on media relations for business and political groups in
the United States and internationally. He teaches courses in journalism at
the University of Hartford and communications at IMPAC University in Punta
Gorda, Fla.
Thibault’s work as an investigative reporter and feature writer has
drawn critical acclaim and earned numerous state and national awards. A
judge from the Society of Professional Journalists writing competition said
this about Thibault’s probe of the cover-up of a hit-and-run death in a
Connecticut city: “The writer explores whether New London’s former mayor
benefited from a widespread cover-up for the 1973 hit-and-run death of a
college student. Witty, compelling — the writer has a knack for speaking
in conversational tone, all the while quietly weaving in crucial facts to
support his arguments that more people should be outraged by the shoddy
circumstances surrounding the 1973 investigation.”
Thibault also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of Education in
Litchfield, Ct., as a Fellow of the Yankee Institute for Public Policy
Studies, and as a member of the Advisory Board for Western Connecticut
State University at Waterbury. He is a former commissioner and hearing
officer for the Connecticut Freedom of Information Commission, an agency
charged with opening access to government records.
He manages a non-profit foundation that awards $19,000 annually to young
writers in Connecticut. The Trust, funded by IMPAC and the Connecticut
State University System, is now in its fifth year of operation. He is
Editor of APS Publications, the publishing arm of the Association for
Productivity Specialists, and President-elect of the Litchfield-Morris
Rotary Club.
With corporate trainer Charles Johnson, Thibault has developed a series
of books, including The 12-Minute MBA For Doctors, Michelle Publishing,
2001; The 12-Minute MBA For Lawyers, American Lawyer Media, 2002; and the
forthcoming Pangea Process. The books offer business models that have
resulted in prosperity and employee satisfaction for thousands of readers
and clients.
“Thibault has the unique ability to get inside the heads of those most
affected by and those who have the greatest effect on the operation of the
law in the real world,” said Hartford, Ct., Attorney and Government Affairs
Consultant Jay B. Levin. “Whether it’s the litigant, the investigator, the
lawyer or the judge, he can elicit the impact on them (as well as on the
ultimate result) better than anyone I’ve ever known.”
Thibault has been an editor for newspapers including The Commercial
Record, The Hartford Courant, the Stamford Advocate and The Times Leader of
Wilkes- Barre, Pa. His profiles of subjects including poets and
prosecutors, as well as essays on the arts, have appeared in magazines
including Connecticut Magazine and Northeast Magazine. His work has also
appeared on Page Six of the New York Post. He is a former board member of
the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. A licensed professional boxing
judge, Thibault is also former Chairman of the Connecticut Boxing Promotion
Commission. He attended Boston University, majoring in Political Science.
He co-authored and edited a series on the court system’s handling of a
juvenile sexual assault case in 1982 and 1983 that led to changes in
Connecticut law regarding the status of juveniles in adult court. The
series won first place prizes from the National Newspaper Association for
investigative reporting, the New England Press Association for Community
Service and the Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists for news
writing.
Thibault has reported on police brutality in Hartford, the Russian Mob
in Brooklyn and the pipe bombing at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta. He
also covered the Independent Counsel investigation into the finances of the
late U.S. Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown, and the Young & Rubicam “Come Back
To Jamaica” kickback scandal.
He is a member of the National Conference of Editorial Writers, the
Society of Professional Journalists and the Society of American Business
Editors and Writers.
Thibault and his wife, Lora, an insurance company executive, are the
parents of four children.