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Attorney McCarthy grew up in Waterford, Connecticut where she attended Waterford High School.  She worked in her family's heating and oil business, McCarthy Heating Oil located in Quaker Hill, CT holding various jobs from clerical, data entry, service coordinator and assistant to the office manager.  It was there that she had her first taste of the legal world in handling collections that were filed in small claims court. 

From 1990-1994 Attorney McCarthy attended Providence College in Rhode Island and majored in History.  She participating in the junior year abroad program in attending the University of Dublin in Ireland.  She graduated with honors and obtained a BA from Providence in 1994. 

Thereafter she worked as a paralegal for a solo practitioner located in East Lyme, Connecticut.  From 1995 -1998,  Attorney McCarthy attended Western New England School of Law in Springfield, Massachusetts.  While attending her classes, she was awarded the Cali Award for Excellence in Taxation of Property. 

In 1997, she joined the law firm of Kenny, Brimmer, Melley & Mahoney, LLC a predecessor of Kenny, Brimmer & Mahoney, LLC then located in Hartford, Connecticut.  She first the held position of law clerk.  After obtaining her JD from Western New England in 1998 she was promoted to Associate.  She is currently a Senior Associate at Kenny, Brimmer & Mahoney, LLC which relocated to Wethersfield, Connecticut in 2006.  
Attorney McCarthy's practice is primarily trial work, real estate matters, probate, worker's compensation, and collections for existing clients.  She is counsel to AT&T f/k/a SBC f/k/a SNET (The Southern New England Telephone Company) for its property damage recovery unit.  She has extensive knowledge of Call Before You Dig Regulations (CBYD) and the statutory requirements for the placement and mark out of telecommunication facilities in Connecticut.

Attorney McCarthy joined in brief in the case of Stanley v. Lincoln, 75 Conn.App. 781, 818 A.2d 783 (Conn.App. Apr 01, 2003) (NO. 22485) a pivotal case re: a tree cutting incident.  The Connecticut Appellate Court held that the proper measure of damages was either diminution of value of the property after the alleged cutting or the value of the cut trees as timber or lumber.  Replacement value was not the proper measure of damages.

Attorney McCarthy is a member of the Hartford County Bar Association and Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association..  She is admitted to practice in Connecticut, New York and the Federal Bar for the District of Connecticut.  She is also a member of the Hartford, Wethersfield, and East Windsor Chambers of Commerce.

E-mail address: smccarthy@kennybrimmer.com