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Attorney McClain practices in the areas of education, municipal, labor, and employment law. In all areas of practice, he exclusively represents the interests of management, including a broad array of both public and private sector clients, from corporations and individual business owners, to Connecticut boards of education, schools, and municipalities. Attorney McClain provides counsel on a full range of workplace and employment law issues such as hiring, termination, discipline, investigations, employee relations, benefits, wage and hour matters, compliance with state and federal laws, and internal policies and procedures. His labor practice involves negotiating collective bargaining agreements, contract administration, and labor relations, including defending management in grievance arbitration and unfair labor practice matters. In the public sector, he often provides advice unique to municipalities, boards of education, and other public agencies including information requests and meeting procedures under the Connecticut Freedom of Information Act and federal and state constitutional concerns.. A significant portion of Attorney McClain’s practice is dedicated to education law, advising boards of education and schools and their superintendents and other administrators on both traditional labor and employment law issues within the school context, as well education-specific topics like student conduct and discipline including expulsion hearings, school accommodations matters such as residency determinations, student records, teacher discipline, tenure, and termination, compliance with state and federal education laws, special education matters under the IDEA and Section 504, and board, district, and school policy and governance.

Attorney Christie is licensed to practice in Connecticut and is a member of the American Bar Association, and Connecticut Bar Association.  She has Bachelor’s Degree from Wesleyan University and a Juris Doctor Degree from Quinnipiac University School of Law.  Attorney Christie graduated from law school with honors.  She also has a Certificate in Theology.  Attorney Christie has been an active member of a church for over 20 years.  In her youth, she served as Sunday School teacher and Pastoral Committee Secretary.  Recently, Attorney Christie served as the Chairperson of the Evangelism Board of Phillips Metropolitan CME Church and continues to work on that Board.  She also has served as a trustee at Phillips as well.   Attorney Christie was employed as a social worker and social work supervisor at the Department of Children and Families for eleven years.  As an employee at DCF, she was a staunch supporter of the rights of both parents and children, especially those children with special needs.  Attorney Christie was recently a prosecutor in the Tolland Judicial District for the past twelve years.  During her tenure as a prosecutor, she managed the Youthful Offender Docket, conducted over twenty trials, and successfully negotiated over 1000 cases towards a disposition without a trial.  As a prosecutor, she also managed many of the grave or complicated domestic violence cases, which often involved divorce and child custody issues.  Attorney Christie opened The Christie Law Firm because she wanted to take all of her knowledge and experience a step further in helping to build stronger faith-based organizations, and families, which aids in building stronger communities.

Attorney Bruce Newman has been practicing law for over 25 years and concentrates his practice in the areas of personal injury, wrongful death, employment litigation, medical malpractice, product liability, and class actions where he has served as plaintiff's class counsel and liaison counsel. He is a Lifetime Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, which is composed of a select group of lawyers who have achieved million dollar verdicts and settlements in personal injury and wrongful death cases. In addition to Connecticut, he has successfully tried cases in New York and California. Based on his accomplishments, Bruce Newman was selected by the National Trial Lawyers as a Top 100 Lawyer for 2013, 2014, and 2015. He was recently ranked as being in the Top 1% of all attorneys by the National Association of Distinguished Counsel.. Attorney Newman presently serves as plaintiff's class counsel in an action where a tentative $6.5 million settlement was reached in Adkins, et al. v. Nestle Purina Petcare Company, et al., pending in US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. He has served as trial counsel for a number of successful verdicts including a case where the Second Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed and upheld a judgment of over $2.2 million for a client in a whistle-blower and freedom of speech case against Pfizer, Inc. He was also a signatory to a mediation agreement that resulted in a $24 million settlement in the Pet Food Product Liability Litigation.. Every case is different as to facts and circumstances and results will vary from one case to another. The announcement of the results of any one particular case should not be taken as to imply, or guarantee, certain results in any other case.. In addition to being a skilled advocate, Attorney Newman is a compassionate litigator and strives to give his clients personalized attention through the prosecution and handling of injury, accident and wrongful death claims. This is of course vital when the lives of individuals and loved ones have been dramatically changed through no fault of their own. Furthermore, through his experience in representing over 1,000 victims of accidents, he is familiar with the unique nature of all types of traumatic injuries and their long-term repercussions.. Mr. Newman has been a guest lecturer at the UConn School of Law. He has served as a volunteer in the past in support of a number of organizations, including those supporting Veteran's causes and Boy Scouts of America. Attorney Newman also recently appeared on a segment of NBC's Troubleshooters.

As an experienced business and financial services attorney with over 17 years of experience, I have built a practice around representing business clients in both litigation and transactional matters, including consumer and commercial collections. I have also built a nationwide practice focusing on representing individual investors and financial advisors nationwide in FINRA arbitration and securities litigation matters.. I hold a bachelor’s degree in business administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison with a concentration in business management and a law degree from the Pepperdine University School of Law where the focus of my legal studies was on securities and corporate law. I am a member of the State Bars of Connecticut, California, Illinois, and Wisconsin.

Andrew J. Even focuses his practice on representing large and small employers, insurance companies, and third-party administrators in workers’ compensation claims before the Connecticut Workers’ Compensation Commission. He advises clients throughout the claims process, including informal, pre-formal, and formal hearings, and is fluent in all stages of litigation, including conducting depositions.. Andrew gained valuable experience as a summer associate in the law and regulatory affairs department of a large international health insurer, where he conducted extensive research and analysis of health care reform issues, counseled clients on behavioral health insurance issues, and handled contracts. Andrew also served as a law clerk with the Massachusetts Port Authority Labor Relations Department, where he drafted management responses to disciplinary and contractual grievances and aided with arbitration hearings and collective bargaining resolutions.. Before entering law school, Andrew earned a bachelor’s from Saint Anselm College. He went on to graduate with his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, where he participated in the Health Law Clinical Program and served as chief case law comment editor for the Journal of Health and Biomedical Law.

Alan J. Sobol is a member of Pullman & Comley’s Litigation Department and White Collar, Criminal Defense and Corporate Investigations practice.  He also serves in the firm's Health Care and Construction practices.Alan has represented both corporate and individual clients in federal and state health care, Medicare and Medicaid fraud and enforcement, physician and pharmacist licensing, federal fraud and false claims, federal insider trading and securities, financial fraud, structuring, tax, anti-trust, federal and state racketeering and public corruption cases.Alan’s criminal defense practice includes representation in conspiracy and drug trafficking, money laundering, bank robbery, identity theft, computer crimes, larceny, assault, forfeiture, immigration, and domestic cases. In his civil litigation practice, he represents commercial clients in contracts and business disputes including the defense of class action lawsuits.  He has national experience in construction and surety litigation representing owners, contractors, design professionals, insurance companies, and sureties on public and private construction projects, with experience in government contract, surety performance, and payment bond cases in federal and state court. Earlier in his career, Alan was a trial attorney, Criminal Division, a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney, and a prosecutor, for the General Litigation Section, U.S. Department of Justice, in Washington, D.C.  In this role, he represented the government's interest on-site for the Mariel, Cuba refugee boat lift, to Key West, Florida, directing federal criminal law enforcement when the U.S. government sought to interdict and terminate the operation for violation of U.S. laws. In addition he indicted and prosecuted in a jury trial a federal criminal defendant involved in the Jonestown, Guyana murder/assault of U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan, diplomats, press members and others on a trip bringing back defectors from the Rev. Jim Jones' Jonestown encampment. He has been a member of the Criminal Justice Section's Executive Committee, Federal Practice, and Construction Law sections of the Connecticut Bar Association. He also has been a member of the Criminal Law Section, Litigation Section, and the Forum on the Construction Industry of the American Bar Association. Alan has been listed in Who’s Who in American Law. He is a Diplomat in the National Institute of Trial Advocacy and a U.S. Attorney General's Honor Law Graduate Program Attorney.. Alan  is the author of “Staying on Top of the Issues: New Developments for White Collar Lawyers and Their Clients,” a chapter in Managing White Collar Issues:  Leading Lawyers on Understanding Recent Notable Cases, Establishing Key Defense Strategies, and Developing Client Relationships (Thomson Reuters/Aspatore Books 2011) released in December, 2010.  He is a frequent speaker on health care fraud and abuse and related enforcement topics.