Top Rated Appellate Attorney in Hartford, CT

Honors/Awards:

• Recipient of University of Connecticut Law Review Award, 1997
• Recipient of University of Connecticut Alumni Association Medal of Excellence, 1989
• Recipient of Hartford County Bar Association President’s Award for Excellence, 2003
• Recipient of Connecticut Law Tribune Award for Service to the Bar, 2001
• Selected as a Top 100 New England Super Lawyers, 2013, 2015
• Recipient of  Connecticut Bar Association Service to the Bar Award, 2006
• Listed in Best Lawyers, since 1995
• Selected as a Top 50 Connecticut Super Lawyers, 2006-2009, 2011-2017
• AV Peer Review Rated, Martindale Hubbell
• Listed in Super Lawyers, since 2006

Bar/Professional Activity:

• President, Connecticut Supreme Court Historical Society since 2005
• Connecticut Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee, Member since 1976
• Fellow, American Academy of Appellate Lawyers since 1991
• Chair, Connecticut Bar Association’s Professional Ethics Committee, 1997 - 2007 
• American Counsel Association, Member since 1991
• President, American Counsel Association, 2008-2009
• United States Supreme Court, 1975
• United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, 1971
• United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, 1970
• State of Connecticut, 1970

Scholarly Lectures/Writings:

• "Kelo is Not Dred Scott," 48 Conn.L.Review 1405 (2016)
• Appellate Advocacy at the University of Connecticut School of Law most years since 1980
• “Connecticut Constitutional History 1776-1988,” 64 Conn. Bar Journal 355 (1990)
• "The Size of Supreme Court Panels," 4 Connecticut Supreme Court History 113 (2009)
• “The Wheeler Court,” 24 Quinnipiac L.Rev. 301 (2006)
• “The Butler-Park Court,” 37 Conn.L.Review 351 (2004)
• “The Pre-Civil War Connecticut Supreme Court,” 34 Conn.L.Review 1209 (2002)
• “Seven Angry Men,” 32 Conn.L.Review 1577 (2000)
• “Politically Incorrect Constitutional Rights,” 14 Quinnipiac Law Review 235 (1994)
• “Law and Society in Far-Away Connecticut,” 8 Conn. Journal of International Law 547 (1993)
• “Memoirs of a Connecticut School Finance Lawyer,” 24 Conn.L.Review 703 (1992)
• “Code to Rules: From Black and White to Grey,” 61 Conn. Bar Journal 146 (1987)
• Author, The Connecticut State Constitution
• “Lawyer Advertising,” 73 Conn. Bar Journal 23 (1999)
• Author, 1818 Constitutional Convention, “Annotated Debates of the 1818 Constitutional Convention,” 65 Conn. Bar Journal SI-1 (1991)
• Celebrations and Symbols: Wesley Horton and the Connecticut Constitution, a review of the book, by Martin B. Margulies was published in the Quinnipiac Law Review, Volume 32, 2015, Issue 4
• Co-authored, Connecticut Appellate Rules Annotated annually since 1977
• Author, The History of the Connecticut Supreme Court, published in 2008 by West Publishing Co.
• Co-author, “Connecticut Appellate Review”, an annual review of Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Court cases since 1980
• Co-author, Connecticut Superior Court Civil Rules Annotated

Verdicts/Settlements:

• State v. Wilson, 242 Conn. 605 (1997)
• Sachs v. Sachs, 60 Conn. App. 337 (2000)
• Higgins v. Karp, 243 Conn. 495 (1998)
• Ramos v. Town of Vernon, 254 Conn. 799 (2000)
• Craine v. Trinity College, 259 Conn. 625 (2002)
• Wagner v. Clark Equipment Co., Inc., 259 Conn. 114 (2002)
• LePage v. Horne, 262 Conn. 116 (2002)
• Archambault v. Soneco/Northeastern, Inc., 287 Conn. 20 (2008)
• Zahringer v. Zahringer, 262 Conn. 360 (2003)
• Murdock v. Croughwell, 268 Conn. 559 (2004)
• Lindholm v. Brant, 283 Conn. 65 (2007)
• Town of Branford v. Santa Barbara, 294 Conn. 785 (2010)
• Town of Branford v. Santa Barbara, 294 Conn. 803 (2010)
• Ackerman v. Sobol Family Partnership, LLP, 298 Conn. 495 (2010)
• Foley v. State Elections Enforcement Com’n, 297 Conn. 764 (2010)
• Bysiewicz v. Dinardo, 298 Conn. 748 (2010)
• Zahringer v. Zahringer, 124 Conn. App. 672 (2010)
• Doe v. Hartford Roman Catholic Diocesan Corp., 317 Conn. 357 (2015)
• Sosin v. Sosin, 300 Conn. 205 (2011)
• Yeager v. Alvarez, 302 Conn. 772 (2011)
• Salce v. Wolczek, 314 Conn. 675 (2014)
• Caraballo v. Electric Boat Corp., 315 Conn. 704 (2015)
• First American Title Ins. Co. v. 273 Water Street, LLC, 157 Conn. App. 23 (2015)
• Deane v. Kahn, 317 Conn. 157 (2015)
• Trusz v. UBS Realty Investors, LLC, 319 Conn. 175 (2015)
• R.S. Silver Enterprises, Inc. v. Pascarella, 163 Conn. App. 1, cert. denied, 320 Conn. 929 (2016)
• Deane v. Kahn, 179 Conn. App. 58 (2018)
• Ridgaway v. Mount Vernon Fire Ins. Co., 165 Conn. App. 737, cert. granted, 322 Conn. 908 (2016)
• Doe v. Boy Scouts of America Corp., 323 Conn. 303 (2016)
• Munn v. The Hotchkiss School, 326 Conn. 540 (2017)
• Ridgaway v. Mount Vernon Fire Insurance Company, 328 Conn. 60 (2018)
• Glazer v. Dress Barn, 274 Conn. 33 (2005)
• Friezo v. Friezo, 281 Conn. 166 (2007)
• Horton v. Meskill, 172 Conn. 615 (1977)
• Sheff v. O’Neill, 238 Conn. 1 (1996)
• Kelo v. New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005)

Educational Background:

• Harvard College, B.A., 1964