Member at the firm Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt, Dow & Katz P.C.
Areas of Practice
Business Litigation; Antitrust; Business Torts Litigation; Employment Litigation; Appellate Practice
Admitted
1970, Connecticut and U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; 1971, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1974, U.S. Supreme Court; 1975, U.S. District Court, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York; 1981, U.S. District Court, District of Rhode Island
Law School
Yale University, LL.B., 1970
College
Yale University, B.A., magna cum laude, 1965
Membership
New Haven County, Connecticut (Member, 1976, and Chairperson, 1980-1982, Executive Committee, Antitrust Section; Member, Federal Practice Section, 1985) and American (Member, Sections on: Litigation; Antitrust Law) Bar Associations; Federal Bar Council; Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association; American Association for Justice; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Connecticut Bar Foundation (Life Fellow).
Biography
Phi Beta Kappa; Omicron Delta Epsilon. Listed in The Best Lawyers in America, Commercial Litigation, Antitrust Law; Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business as a Band 1 Leading Lawyer in General Commercial Litigation; Benchmark: Litigation as a Local Litigation Star. Co-Author: Unfair Trade Practices (Thomson-West, 2003); The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act, (1994, Supp. 1996); "Promising Use of an 'Extraordinary Tool:' Some State Statutes Seem to Pave Path for Temporary Injunctions," Conn. L. Trib., Vol. 35, No. 13 (2009). Contributing Author, ABA Section of Antitrust Law, Consumer Protection Law Developments (2009). Author: "Unresolved Issues Under the Unfair Trade Practices Act," Vol. 82, No. 4, Connecticut Bar Journal, December 2008; "The Standard for Determining 'Unfair Acts of Practices' Under State Unfair Trade Practices Acts," Vol. 80, No. 3, Connecticut Bar Journal, September, 2006; "The Connecticut Anti-Trust Act: A Guide to Interpretation," Vol. 54, No. 5, Connecticut Bar Journal, October, 1980; "Private Actions Under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act," Vol. 64, Special Issue, Connecticut Bar Journal, May, 1990; "Unfair Trade Practices," in Connecticut Lawyers' Deskbook (CBA, 1998, 2d ed. 2000). Lecturer: "Recognizing and Analyzing the Antitrust Problem in Distribution," November, 1985; "Creative Uses of CUTPA by Business Plaintiffs" and "Defending CUTPA Actions," CBA, December, 1988; "Federal Appellate Overview," CBA, March, 1989; "Private Actions Under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act," CBA, May, 1990; "The Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act: Developments - 1993," CBA, June, 1993; "Procedural Attacks on a CUTPA Complaint," "Discovery in a CUTPA Action," "Limiting Remedies in a CUTPA Action," and "Jury Trial of CUTPA Claims," CBA, June, 1994; "Private Actions and Remedies Under CUTPA," CBA, May, 1995; "Common Law Fraud and Misrepresentation in Connecticut," CBA, June, 1997; "How to Try the CUTPA Case," CBA, May 2000; "Elements of a CUTPA Violation and Private Remedies Under CUTPA," CBA, October, 2002. Adjunct Faculty: Antitrust and Trade Regulation, University of Connecticut School of Law, 2002. Adjunct Professor: Antitrust, Quinnipiac University School of Law, 2004. Counsel to the Federal Grievance Committee for the District of Connecticut, 20032005. Member, Superior Court Civil Division Task Force, 2004.
Military
Capt., Military Intelligence, USAR, 1965-1974
Reported Cases
SCM Corp. v. Xerox Corp., 463 F.Supp. 983 (D. Conn. 1978), remanded, 599 F.2d 32 (2d Cir., 1979), on remand, 474 F.Supp. 589 (D. Conn., 1979), aff'd, 645 F.2d 1195 (2d Cir., 1981), cert. denied, 455 U.S. 1016 (1982) (antitrust); Pfeiffer v. Silver, 712 F.2d 699 (2d Cir. 1983) (personal injury); Madrigal Audio Laboratories, Inc. v. Cello, Ltd., 799 F.2d 814 (2d Cir. 1986) (trademark); Heller v. Champion International Corporation, 891 F.2d 432 (2d Cir. 1989) (employment); Automated Salvage Transport, Inc. v. Wheelabrator Environmental Systems, Inc., 155 F.3d 59 (2d Cir. 1998) (antitrust, environmental); A&R Body Specialty v. Progressive Casualty Ins. Co., 2008 WL 2229888 (D. Conn. May, 28, 2008) (unfair trade practices); SLC Turberry, Ltd., v. The American Golfer, Inc., 240 F.R.D. 50 (D.Conn. 2007) (vacating judgement); Allstate Ins. Co. v. Seigel, 312 F.Supp.2d 260 (D.Conn.2004) (Civil RICO; unfair trade practices); North American Energy Systems, LLC v. New England Energy Management, Inc., 269 F. Supp. 2d 12 (D.Conn. 2002) (antitrust; unfair trade practices; tortious interference); Wilson v. Midway Games Inc., 198 F.Supp. 2d 167, 106 A.L.R. 5th 759 (D. Conn. 2002) (product liability, unfair trade practices, first amendment); Connecticut Pipe Trades Health Fund v. Philip Morris, Inc, 153 F.Supp.2d 101 (D. Conn. 2001) (unfair trade practices); Venterina v. Cummings & Lockwood, 117 F.Supp.2d 114 (D.Conn. 1999) (employment); Federal Paper Board Company, v. Amata 693 F. Supp. 1376 (D. Conn., 1988) (antitrust, civil RICO); Plastic & Metal Fabricators, Inc. v. Roy, 163 Conn. 257, 303 A.2d 725, 58 A.L.R.3d 1305 (1972)(trade secrets); Beckenstein Enterprises-Prestige Park, LLC in Lichtenstein, 2004 WL 1966863 (Conn. Super. Ct. Aug. 11, 2004) (attorney disqualification); Feen v. Benefit Plan Administrators, Inc., 1999 WL 33972 (Conn. Super Ct. Jan. 13, 1999), 2000 WL 1398898 (Conn. Super. Ct. Sept. 7, 2000 (contract, unfair trade practices); Alexander & Alexander of Connecticut, Inc. v. Cronin, 1996 WL 409227 (Conn. Super. Ct. June 27, 1996) (noncompete).
Born
Wheeling, West Virginia, January 13, 1944
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