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William D. Catalina is a civil litigation attorney with a focus on professional liability and medical malpractice defense, as well as general liability matters. He handles cases at all stages of litigation, including case intake and assessment, managing discovery, preparing and arguing dispositive motions, and attendance at a variety of court hearings and court conferences. Attorney Catalina has also represented clients at trial.

When I represent a client in a business dispute, I find I am acting as an historian.  Like an historian, I interview eyewitnesses informally but also formally, such as through depositions and examination in court.  I also comb through documents, which now are not only paper but more commonly in electronic form.  Similar to an historian with a political bent or thesis to prove, I use advocacy skills to portray the facts in a light most favorable to my client.  I enjoy telling my client's story to a judge, arbitrator, mediator, or jury as a very creative process.. On a personal level, I have been married to the same wonderful wife for over 32 years and have two grown sons, whom I coached in Little League and Babe Ruth Baseball.  I play racquetball almost every day and am trying to get better in the frustrating game of golf.

Samantha K. Levasseur focuses her practice on workers’ compensation and employment law defense. She has represented a diverse range of employers and insurers before the State of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission, including self-insured employers, employers with large retentions and deductibles, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators. Her work has included defending complex cases related to occupational exposure, permanent total disability, widow/dependent benefits, death and claims of employment discrimination brought before the Workers’ Compensation Commission pursuant to C.G.S. 31-290a. Samantha has also argued on appeal from a formal hearing decision before the Connecticut Compensation Review Board.. As part of her employment law practice, in addition to the work she has done with the Workers’ Compensation Commission under C.G.S. 31-290a, Samantha has appeared before the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities and Connecticut Superior Court to defend employers, both private and municipal, against allegations of discrimination and wrongful termination. She has also appeared in Connecticut Superior Court to represent clients in various personal injury matters.. While a student at University of Connecticut School of Law, Samantha was a member of the mock trial society and served for two years as co-president of the VIS International Commercial Arbitration Moot Court Team. She also served as a notes and comments editor for the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal where her note, "Regional Shortcomings and Global Solutions: Kidnap and Ransom Insurance in Latin America," was published in the Journal’s Spring 2008 edition. Samantha spent a semester abroad at the University of Exeter School of Law, where she studied comparative law while simultaneously completing a research project on international defense trade between the United States and the United Kingdom.

Robert Chomiak is a seasoned litigator whose clients — manufacturers, major insurance companies, contractors, corporations, and municipalities, among others — rely on him for practical advice and solutions to a wide range of liability issues. With a focus on product liability, trucking law, premises liability, and other complex torts, Rob’s extensive experience translates into proven results, whether he is part of the rapid response team on day one of a crash investigation or he is trying a personal injury action arising from a multi-party premises liability case.. Rob’s product liability experience spans pharmaceuticals, automotive parts, furniture, consumer products, industrial machinery, and more. Rob works closely with his clients and expert witnesses to mitigate liability and successfully defend against complex and high-exposure claims. This proactive and strategic approach has resulted in many cases either resolving for pennies on the dollar or being dismissed via dispositive motions.. In addition, Rob has many years of experience serving the trucking industry. He has defended major trucking and transportation companies, from long-haul commercial trucking companies to prominent school bus operators, in complex and high exposure liability cases. Rob understands that early investigation is often the key to a successful defense and has participated in rapid response investigations at numerous accident sites.. Active in state and local bar associations, Rob is also a long-standing member of the Defense Research Institute, and currently serves as Connecticut’s State Representative.

Myles H. Alderman Jr. is a founding member of Alderman & Alderman and leads the firm's Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Practice Group.  His primary areas of practice include, commercial litigation, Chapter 11 reorgainzations and workouts, complex litigation, franchise law, and business transactions.. He has extensive experience representing businesses in financial distress, secured and unsecured lenders, trade creditors, committees and parties interested in acquiring assets, in Chapter 11 business reorganizations, liquidations and workouts. Industries with which he has experience include, construction, design, fashion, manufacturing, distribution, materials handling, retail, aviation and ground transportation.. Myles has been guiding business leaders, accountants and lawyers through Chapter 11 Business Reorganizations since 1986. His clients range from large financial institutions and global companies to closely held businesses and individuals.. Myles Alderman has published works on the subject including the Bankruptcy Law Chapter of theConnecticut Lawyers Deskbook (CBA, 2008) and the best selling business bankruptcy law bookChapter 11 Business Reorganizations: For Business Leaders, Accountants And Lawyers (Outskirtspress, 2006). His explanations of the bankruptcy process have appeared in a wide range of publications including the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. He has crafted strategies to help clients address issues of first impression in cases that have been "mission critical" to clients.. He also has extensive experience with complex litigation, arbitration and mediation. Myles regularly represents franchisees and has substantial experience resolving disputes on behalf of Subway franchisees.. Mr. Alderman is admitted to practice before the District Court and the Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York and will meet in the New York Office for the convenience of clients appearing in those courts.   Based upon reviews from others lawyers and judges he has an AV rating from Martindale-Hubbell.

My practice includes patent prosecution, intellectual property licensing, U.S. government contracting, copyright and trademark enforecment as well as litigation. I formerly held executive and senior management positions with Northeast Utilities, ABB, and Combustion Engineering with responsibility for energy-related technology and research and development. I have more than 25 years experience in energy generation including nuclear power, fuel cells and fossil power; environment issues and energy conservation; electro-mechanical devices; manufacturing, welding and metal fabrication; research and development; and due diligence and portfolio management. I also hold patents for diagnostic and data acquisition systems. I successfully represented an entrepreneur through the patent prosecution process and through subsequent licensing negotiations with in-house counsel in the United States and Germany.  Participates in merger and acquisition work, entertainment law, business entity formation (e.g., tee-shirt companies) and medical device technologies.. Appointments:Adjunct Professor, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)Adjunct Professor, University of Hartford (College of Engineering, Technology and Architecture)Lecturer, Defense Research Institute (Nationally broadcast web seminar on trademark practice.). Specialties: LicensureU.S. Patent and Trademark OfficeU.S. District Court for the District of ConnecticutBar of the State of ConnecticutConnecticut Department of Consumer Protection – Licensed Professional Engineer. AssociationsSouth Asian Bar Association of Connecticut, Inc., memberLawyers Collaborative for Diversity MentorMember Connecticut Bar Association, LGBT Section, Animal Rights Section

My practice focuses on insurance defense, insurance coverage and civil litigation. My experience includes litigating cases involving complex legal and factual issues, including in the fields of product liability, employment discrimination and construction defect law. My practice also includes litigating at the appellate level and before administrative agencies. I have successfully defended and resolved matters on behalf of corporate and individual clients. I pride myself on providing my clients representation based upon a thoughtful and diligent analysis of the pertinent issues, tailored to the individual needs of my clients.

Michael Schweitzer has dedicated his career to the defense of workers’ compensation claims. He leads Goldberg Segalla’s Connecticut workers’ compensation practice and brings to each matter extensive experience defending respondents before Connecticut’s Workers’ Compensation Commission; deposing claimants, witnesses, medical professionals, and other experts; and advising on all aspects of Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Law. He represents self-insured employers, employers with large retentions and deductibles, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators.. He is part of the Goldberg Segalla team that has developed its own comprehensive way of handling workers’ compensation claims designed to maximize quality of service and results. The team’s practice model includes keeping each file with the same attorney through the entire litigation process; providing pre-hearing and post-hearing reports that apprise the claim professional of future risk/exposure, the defense strategy, and any recent developments in the claim; and aggressively exploring settlement possibilities through stipulation agreements. Michael is the author of Goldberg Segalla’s Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Manual for Employers and Carriers, and he is pleased to provide a copy upon request.. Michael is also a proven trial lawyer who has obtained more than 10 first-chair jury and bench trial verdicts, successfully resolved high-exposure cases through alternative dispute resolution, and argued cases on appeal before the Connecticut Appellate Court. Michael has defended companies in multimillion-dollar actions stemming from motor vehicle accidents, premises liability, product liability, and other torts. This work has involved utilizing experts in accident reconstruction, vocational rehabilitation, economics, neuropsychology, and other fields to successfully defend complex and potentially high-value claims involving severe and catastrophic personal injuries.

Michael Lettiero, a partner and leader of the GIS Connecticut Team, is an experienced insurance coverage and general liability defense litigator who has represented clients in state and federal courts across the country. He handles cases involving complex issues of insurance coverage and allegations of bad faith, and is regularly called upon to prepare coverage opinions, reservation of rights letters, and denial letters.. Mike’s practice also includes representing private employers in a wide-range of employment disputes, including wage and discrimination claims in courts and various state and local agencies. In addition, Mike has defended clients in actions involving personal injury, product liability, subrogation, and trucking accidents.. While at the University of Connecticut Law School, Mike was the Book Review Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law, a member of the Moot Court Board, and a quarterfinalist in the William Davis Mock Trial Competition. He interned as a judicial clerk for the Hon. Peter Dorsey of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut.

Meghan practices divorce and family law at Freed Marcroft.  She is committed to alternative dispute resolution, and has supplemented her formal legal education with advanced training in collaborative law and mediation as well as through Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation.. In 2013, Meghan was named a Hartford Business Journal 40 Under Forty winner, and a Connecticut Law Tribune New Leader of the Law. She was included on the New England Super Lawyers® Rising Star list in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 for family law.  In 2014 the Connecticut Women’s Education and Legal Fund (CWEALF) named her one of 40 Women for the Next 40 Years.  Her law firm was voted “Best Law Firm” by the readers of Hartford Magazine in 2015, 2016, and 2017, and in 2016 received a Family Business Award from the Hartford Business Journal.. Meghan is also particularly proud of her practice within the LGBT community.  Her name appears in the Connecticut Supreme Court’s groundbreaking decision on marriage equality, Kerrigan v. Commissioner of Public Health, for which she co-authored an amicus curiae brief on behalf of the Human Rights Campaign.  Meghan has appeared on WNPR’s Colin McEnroe Show speaking about the state of divorce – same sex or otherwise – and WNPR’s Where We Live, discussing the impact of the United States Supreme Court’s decisions in the same sex marriage cases, United States v. Windsor and Hollingsworth v. Perry.  She frequently speaks on the legal issues facing same sex couples, including for the Connecticut Bar Association’s annual Connecticut Legal Conference, the New York Times, and to the employees of various Fortune 500 companies.  She is a founding executive board member of the Connecticut Bar Association’s LGBT Section and currently serves as its Chair.  In 2015 the National LGBT Bar Association named her one of the nation’s Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40.. Meghan attended Mount Holyoke College, and received her law degree cum laude from the Western New England College School of Law, where she served as the Managing Editor of the Western New England Law Review, and received the highest distinction conferred by the Law School, the Norman Prance Award.  Earlier in her career, Meghan was associated with the firms of Shipman & Goodwin and Bingham McCutchen, and later served as Counsel to the Hartford Steam Boiler.. Meghan is a proud supporter of the arts in Hartford, and devotes the majority of her pro bono legal work to LGBT and arts organizations.  She serves as a Director of the Hartford Country Bar Association, is Chair of the Board of Corporators of the iQuilt Project, and is a member of the Board of Ambassadors for the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

McCoy & McCoy has been helping accident vitcims since 1970.  Frank J. McCoy Jr. is a Nationally Board Certified Civil Trial Attorney with years of experience representing clients throughout Connecticut for their personal injury matters. If you have been injured in a car accident, truck accident, or any other personal injury law related matter, contact personal injury attorney, Frank J. McCoy Jr. at .

Kristi M. Gardner practices primarily in the firm’s professional liability practice area. She also handles a variety of other types of claims involving general liability and commercial liability. She routinely defends oral surgeons, dentists, physicians and other licensed professionals in civil actions and disciplinary proceedings.. Attorney Gardner has been responsible for handling cases at all stages in litigation, including case intake and assessment, managing written discovery, drafting and arguing pretrial motions, preparing witnesses for deposition, conducting depositions and attendance at a variety of court hearings and pretrial conferences. Her trial experience includes being second chair defending a real estate broker and its associated realtor in five-week jury trial assigned to the court’s complex litigation docket in Hartford that resulted in a defendants’ verdict. That was a multi -party case involving numerous claims against our clients including professional malpractice and violation of the Connecticut Unfair Trade practices Act.. She also has significant experience in mediation both privately and through the Judicial Alternative Dispute Resolution program.

James A. Alissi has 24 years of civil litigation experience. He is AV peer review rated by Martindale-Hubbell, the highest available rating.. Attorney Alissi has significant trial experience in both jury and non-jury matters. He represents insurance agents and brokers, attorneys, architects, real estate agents, and design professionals. He handles cases involving the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act (CUTPA), the Connecticut Unfair Insurance Practices Act (CUIPA), The Connecticut Home Improvement Act and the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Act. He litigates matters involving liquor liability (Dram Shop), motor vehicle/ motorcycle accidents involving wrongful death claims, construction defect, product liability, negligent security, municipal liability and transportation. Attorney Alissi has represented all three of Connecticut’s Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporations, individual parishes, parochial schools, Bishops, cemeteries and parish officials involving premises liability, defamation, subrogation, sexual abuse and employment matters. He is regularly involved in various means of alternative dispute resolution including mediation and arbitration.. Attorney Alissi is a 1989 graduate of Connecticut College where he was a four-year member of the Varsity Ice Hockey Team. He earned his law degree, cum laude, from the District of Columbia School of Law where he was a member of the Law Review. After graduation from law school he performed a one-year judicial clerkship as a research clerk for the Connecticut Superior Court. In that position he was responsible for drafting numerous opinions and memoranda for various judges statewide. He has also served as lead trial counsel, admitted pro hac vice, in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts as well as in state court in Massachusetts and New York. He has appeared and argued before the Connecticut Appellate Court.. Attorney Alissi joined Neubert Pepe & Monteith in 2019 after operating Fontaine Alissi P.C., a firm that he co-founded in 2001, for 18 years. He is admitted to the Connecticut Bar and the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Attorney Alissi is also a member of the American Bar Association, Connecticut Bar Association and Hartford County Bar Association.. Community involvement includes coaching both youth hockey and high school hockey in West Hartford, CT for more than 15 years. Additionally, Attorney Alissi served on the West Hartford Youth Hockey Association, Board of Directors from 2003 to 2016. For the last three years he has volunteered as a coach for the Colby-Sawyer College Men’s Ice Hockey Team.

I've represented sureties and fidelity carriers in Connecticut and Massachusetts for approximately 30 years. I regularly assists sureties with performance and payment bond disputes and claims arising under probate and other commercial bonds, as well as in salvage and recovery matters. I litigate in state and federal courts, appellate courts, and arbitration forums, as well as represent sureties in mediations and informal negotiations.

I practice in the areas of insurance defense and insurance coverage and have thirty-five years of legal experience. My clients are insurance companies seeking legal services to address complex matters and high stakes litigation. Matters include construction defect, toxic tort, employment, and defense of institutional clients in sexual molestation cases.. In a multi-million-dollar construction defect case, I implemented a strategy of conducting limited discovery on behalf of my contractor client to set the stage for prevailing on a summary judgment motion. I successfully defended institutional clients including schools and municipalities in lawsuit alleging claims of sexual molestation. In my employment defense practice, I defend non-profit and other organizations in both administrative proceedings and in State and Federal Court.. I develop and implement creative and cost-effective strategies for my clients, defending companies and individuals in high stakes litigation. I direct a knowledgeable and confident team of attorneys and legal staff, all working toward the client’s end goal. I know that my clients want the best result performed cost-effectively and concluded as quickly as possible. I work diligently to obtain early, favorable resolution of her clients’ cases. However, when such an early resolution is not possible, I have a proven track record of successful verdicts.

I am a member of the firm’s commercial litigation group, practicing in a variety of areas. My focus is on commercial and residential foreclosures, with a significant emphasis on litigating contested foreclosures and resolving complicated title issues. I also have experience in matters concerning collections, insurance defense, and property rights. Additionally, I have background in handling mediations, and have been successful in bench trials.. I am admitted to practice in Connecticut and the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut.

During a career of more than thirty years, Beverly Knapp Anderson’s practice has been devoted exclusively to civil litigation at both the trial and appellate court levels. Attorney Anderson currently focuses primarily on the defense of professional liability and employment law claims. She represents employers in various professional liability claims, including discrimination, whistleblower and other types of retaliation claims, sexual harassment, hostile work environment, and wrongful termination, before federal and state administrative agencies and in court. Attorney Knapp Anderson also represents health care providers in the defense of medical malpractice claims, in disciplinary and licensing proceedings, and in audit claims.. Attorney Knapp Anderson has had significant experience defending dentists and oral and maxillofacial surgeons in dental malpractice actions and in disciplinary proceedings before the State of Connecticut Department of Public Health. She also defends attorneys and real estate agents and brokers in professional liability claims and in licensing proceeding and represent insurance companies in insurance coverage disputes.. Attorney Knapp Anderson has a significant appellate practice, having briefed and argued before the Connecticut Appellate Court, Connecticut Supreme Court, and/or the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. At the trial court level, she regularly argues dispositive motions, including in medical and dental malpractice cases, and have been the first or second chair attorney in more than a dozen trials.

Dedicated to providing clients with comprehensive legal representation in criminal defense. He offers personalized and specialized attention for each and every case. With years of experience as a practicing attorney and substantial experience helping those charged with federal and state criminal offenses, you can trust his knowledge and effectiveness. When your freedom is at jeopardy, you don’t only need an experienced trial lawyer, you need a warrior and Attorney Jones provides both.

Daniel L. Gottfried is a tax partner at Hinckley, Allen & Snyder LLP.. Dan's practice encompasses structuring, negotiating, and documenting business deals and investment transactions throughout the United States and around the world, including federal, state, and international tax planning, including corporate mergers, acquisitions and dispositions, joint ventures, partnerships and S corporations. Dan has particular experience with international tax planning and compliance, including extensive experience as counsel to taxpayers with respect to the recent IRS offshore initiative. Dan also has experience assisting clients with tax issues relating to intellectual property assets. Dan also assists clients in tax audits and appeals.. In addition to tax work, Dan represents a variety of business entities, particularly entrepreneurial businesses private investment funds, and family office investors, in general corporate matters, investment and financing transactions, private securities offerings, and mergers and acquisitions. Dan helped to establish VentureGeeks – Israel's first privately funded start-up accelerator.. Dan is an adjunct professor at The University of Connecticut School of Law. He serves in leadership on international tax, M&A, and joint venture committees for the American Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Association. He has written many articles and spoken before many professional organizations.  Among others, Dan has been featured on National Public Radio, Standard Federal Tax Reports, Hartford Business Journal, and Tax Notes International.

Casey O'Connell practices in the areas of business and commercial law, finance, and real estate, representing clients in a wide range of transactional matters.. Casey devotes most of his practice to documenting and closing business transactions, and has experience formulating contractual mechanisms to facilitate the organization, financing, operation and sale of corporations, partnerships and limited liability companies. He also has experience counseling quasi-public entities on contractual and other matters. Additionally, he advises lenders and borrowers in the documentation and execution of secured and unsecured loans and credit arrangements and advises employers in the creation of employment agreements and non-compete agreements.. Prior to joining Halloran & Sage, Casey served as the managing editor of the Western New England Law Review and completed internships with the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut and the United States Attorney's Office for the District of Massachusetts.. Before entering law school, Casey was the director of media relations for the New England Patriots, handling the organization's written media communications materials and helping to create and implement public relations strategies.

Campbell D. Barrett chairs the Family Law practice and focuses primarily on matrimonial and appellate matters. He has participated in scores of bench and jury trials on a wide variety of complicated family, civil, administrative and criminal matters in Connecticut's state and federal courts. In addition, he has been lead counsel on more than 40 appeals to the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts.. Campbell is a fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.  He has served as an adjunct instructor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, has lectured and written frequently on appellate practice and family law, and has been a guest family law expert on National Public Radio.  He is the co-author of the book, Same Sex Marriage: the Legal and Psychological Evolution in America, which in 2006 was awarded the American Psychological Association's "Most Distinguished Book in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Psychology."  He has also authored chapters in family law treatises on the definition of property and prenuptial agreements.. Representative Experience. Campbell has successfully argued numerous matrimonial law cases of first impression in the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts, including those establishing:. Professional Affiliations. Community Involvement. Honors & Awards

Brandy Thomas is an attorney with Freed Marcroft, LLC. She focuses her practice on family law including divorce and child custody, adoption and mediation.. After working in New York City law firms throughout her undergraduate years at Fordham, Brandy headed to law school and focused about 75% of her studies on divorce, family law, and representing children.. It is no surprise that Brandy has spent the better part of a decade focusing the majority of her law practice on divorce and family law, advocating for clients in Trial Courts throughout Connecticut all the way up to the Appellate Court. Brandy is also an accomplished divorce mediator.. Brandy finds deep meaning in guiding our clients through what is often one of the most challenging times in their lives and helping them find happiness on the other side. One of her greatest honors is empowering clients to realize that they are strong enough to handle the divorce process, and that they and their children can and will thrive in the future.

Before starting his own office, A. Paul Spinella practiced law with one of Connecticut's most prominent law firms where he was a partner in charge of litigation. During that time he represented many of the state's largest insurance companies before developing his present plaintiffs-based practice.. A particular area of Attorney Spinella's practice is the area of criminal trial and appellate practice. He is the author ofConnecticut Criminal Procedure, a 1,000-page textbook that examines the history, development, and existing state of the law of criminal procedure. First published in 1985, this text was the result of four years of labor—it has recently been supplemented two times and is presently undergoing additional revisions.. In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Attorney Spinella is a litigator who has had enormous experience in the trenches-in the area of criminal defense he has a long history representing individuals accused of white collar and violent offenses during the pre-trial and trial stages of prosecution, as well as appeals of criminal convictions and post-conviction attacks by way of habeas corpus claims.. As a result of his zealous defense of the citizen accused, Attorney Spinella has developed a substantial practice prosecuting claims on behalf of citizens who have had their rights violated by law enforcement, municipalities, government agencies and officials, and powerful corporate interests. His practice also includes complex civil damage lawsuits involving claims of negligence such as professional malpractice and defective product claims, as well as personal injury lawsuits of all types, particularly wrongful death claims.. Attorney Spinella has lectured widely in the areas of plaintiffs' rights, police misconduct and civil rights, and criminal defense issues. In addition, he has participated in numerous professional organizations devoted to these and related areas. For example, he is a longtime member of the Connecticut Bar Association, where he served as a member of the House of Delegates. He is presently a member of the Executive Committee of the Civil Rights Section and has previously served as Chairman; during his tenure as Chairman he organized and chaired a highly regarded seminar that greatly influenced the development of state Constitutional jurisprudence. He has also served previously and presently on a number of other State Bar Committees such as the Executive Committee of the Criminal Justice Section and the Executive Committee of the Professional Responsibility Section. He is also a member of the Hartford Bar Association (where he presently serves on the Scholarship Fund) as well as a number of other state and national organizations devoted to civil and criminal trial practice such as the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (former chair of Lawyer's Assistance Task Force) and the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Lifetime member). He is also active in the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association.. Throughout his career, Attorney Spinella has experience in a wide range of plaintiffs' cases, particularly in the areas of individual rights as well as in cases involving the criminally accused. He feels strongly that there are two types of courtroom advocates —litigators and trial lawyers. A trial lawyer cares about results and will go to the mat to vindicate his client's rights because he believes in what he does and sees himself as a member of a profession with a great history; for a civil rights lawyer, the "business of law" always follows the need to advance the goals of a noble profession. Attorney Spinella is a trial lawyer.. He is a graduate of Trinity College and the University of Connecticut Law School where he served as an associate editor of the Law Review and as a member of the National Moot Court Team. Following law school he served an appointment as a law clerk to a Federal District Court judge.

Attorney Virginia Gillette is a member in good standing of the Connecticut State Bar and admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Her practice includes matters related to criminal investigations, arrests, plea negotiations, trials, and post-conviction appeals for a variety of cases ranging from misdemeanor offenses, DWI, larcenies, and domestic violence to serious felony matters, assault, sexual assault, and homicide. Virginia joined Brown Paindiris & Scott in September 2024. Prior to BPS, she worked at two private firms, focusing on criminal defense and post-conviction proceedings.

Attorney Trent LaLima a partner at Brown Paindiris & Scott's Hartford office. He has significant experience handling high-profile cases throughout the state of Connecticut. In 2013, Attorney LaLima began his career at the then-named The Law Offices of Hubert J. Santos. He worked directly with Attorney Santos on cases that ranged from DUI/DWI and domestic violence to murder and other serious violent or sexual assault felonies. He worked on appeals, and handled both state and federal cases. Other than criminal defense, Attorney LaLima also handled personal injury, civil cases, business disputes, juvenile matters, and administrative hearings including school disciplinary proceedings. Attorney LaLima has represented clients in Hartford, New Haven, and to all four corners of Connecticut. He has experience in trials, negotiating plea deals, achieving dismissals and erased records for defendants, helping clients who have not been charged to avoid arrest, and arguing in front of Connecticut's Appellate Court and Supreme Court.. Attorney Santos served as an invaluable mentor for Attorney LaLima for eight years. After six years, Attorney LaLima became a partner at the firm, and it was renamed Santos & LaLima, P.C. After Attorney Santos passed away in 2021, he left the firm to Attorney LaLima to become the sole owner. Attorney LaLima joined Brown Paindiris & Scott in 2024 as a partner in their criminal defense department and appeals department. Attorney LaLima looks forward to continuing the demonstrate the values he has developed as an attorney, including being creative and bold in defending their clients' legal rights, treating clients with respect, using plainspoken straight talk, and ensuring every case receives the attention and personal touch it deserves.. Attorney LaLima has served in numerous leadership positions in legal organizations through Connecticut. He has been the Chair of multiple capacities in the Connecticut Bar Association, including the Criminal Justice Section, is the co-Chair of the Hartford County Bar Association's Criminal Committee, and is the Chair of Annual Criminal Litigation Seminar organized by the Connecticut Trial Lawyer's Association. He has been the Continuing Legal Education Director for the Connecticut Bar Association, and has been a panelist at multiple legal education seminars. He has been featured as a legal analyst on NBC Connecticut. His peers have rated him AV Preeminent at Martindale-Hubbell, the highest rating for professional excellence, skill, integrity, and ethical standards. A lifelong Connecticut resident and UConn graduate, he lives in West Hartford. In his spare time, he serves on the board and coaches for West Hartford youth basketball, and supports the UConn Huskies.