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Member at the firm Stratton Faxon
Areas of Practice
Brain and Spinal Cord Injury; Medical Malpractice; Motor Vehicle and Commercial Transportation Accidents; Wrongful Death; Products Liability; Aviation Law; Commercial Litigation; Birth Trauma; Pharmaceutical Litigation; Business Torts; Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect; Legal Malpractice
Admitted
1990, Connecticut; U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; U.S. Court of Appeals, First, Second and Fourth Circuits; U.S. Supreme Court
Law School
Boston University, J.D., 1990
College
Colgate University, B.A., 1987
Membership
Connecticut Bar Association (Member, House of Delegates, 1997-2006); American Board of Trial Advocates (Associate Member); Brain Injury Association of Connecticut (Past President, 1998-2001); Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (Member: Board of Governors, 1998; Executive Committee, 2006; Statewide Fundraising Chairman 2000-2005); Connecticut Academy of Certified Trial Lawyers (President-Elect 2001); Association of Trial Lawyers of America (Member: Founders' Circle; Leadership Forum, 2003; President's Club); Trial Lawyers for Public Justice; Friends of Legal Services (Board Member, 2005); New Haven County Bar Foundation (Board Member, 2005).
Biography
Recipient, Wysocki Award for Dedication to Trial Law, 2005. Listed in, Best Lawyers in America, 2002-2006. Presenter: "The Trial Notebook," CTLA, 2006; "Subrogation and ERISA," ATLA, 2005. Lecturer, "Mediation Strategies," CTLA November 2005; "Handling ERISA Liens in Personal Injury Cases," ATLA Convention, July 2005. Author: "Personal Injury Law in Connecticut," Connecticut Bar Associations Deskbook for Connecticut Lawyers, 1999; "Hit Hard Not Low: Ethics as Both A Sword and Shield", Trial, ATLA Publication, September 2003. Moderator and Lecturer: "Collateral Sources and Payback," ATLA, 2005; "Providing the Best Customer Service to Your Personal Injury Client," CTLA, 2005; "A Practical Method to Handle ERISA Liens," CTLA, 2004; "Catastrophic Loss and Wrongful Death in Connecticut," Lorimar, 2004; "Handling Catastrophic Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Cases," Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA), 2003; "Wrongful Death Law in Connecticut," Lorman Institute, 2003; "The Ugliest Seminar of the Year: The Wild, Wild, Great West v. Knudsen", CTLA, 2002; "Cross Examination Secrets," ATLA Roscoe Pound Forum, 2002; "Trial Demonstration of a Personal Injury Case" CTLA, 2001; "Handling Personal Injury Cases from Beginning to End," CTLA, 2000; "Inadequate Security Cases: Representing the Crime Victim," CTLA, 1998; "Creating the Trial Notebook," CTLA 1998; "Low Impact Connective Tissue Cases," CTLA, 1998. Contributor, "The Law of Trucking," ABA, 2006. Member, Board of Editors, Connecticut Law Tribune. Certified by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Civil Trial Advocacy Specialist.
Reported Cases
In re Matthews, 395 F.3d477 (4th Cir. 2005).
Born
New Haven, Connecticut, July 29, 1965
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