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Robinson & Cole LLP

 

Welcome to Robinson+Cole, an Am Law 200 firm serving regional, national, and international clients from nine offices throughout the Northeast, Florida, and California. Our 200-plus lawyers and other professionals share a simple, common goal: We’ll work hard to know you, your industry, and your business so that we can provide the service and representation that best fits your needs.

We cultivate deep relationships within our communities, the legal profession, and the industries we serve to envision "the whole picture" and to understand the factors that drive today's constantly changing world.

We share a rich history and culture of community involvement, pro bono service, celebration of diversity, and dedication to client service.  Since our founding in 1845, our past has molded us but it does not define us.  The connections we have today and will make tomorrow keep us looking to the future, refining our methods, and inventing new ways to serve you better.

Our clients range from Fortune 500 to start-up companies, as well as nonprofit and governmental organizations. To meet their changing needs, our legal services and locations have expanded over time. The strategies we propose are tailored to align with our clients' overall business needs, their risk tolerance, and their budget.

Partner
Wystan Ackerman focuses his practice on three main areas: class actions, appeals, and insurance coverage litigation.
Class Actions
Wystan chairs the firm's Class Action Team and writes the…
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Counsel
Lisa Andrzejewski represents clients throughout the construction industry, including owners, contractors, subcontractors, design professionals, sureties, and high net-worth homeowners. As a…
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Partner
Nathaniel Arden is a member of Robinson+Cole’s Health Law Group. He advises hospitals, health systems, physician groups, community providers, and other health care entities on a variety of…
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Partner
Stephen Aronson defends employers in federal and state court and before administrative agencies in class actions, multiplaintiff, and single plaintiff employment law claims.
Employment…
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Associate
Jessica Bardi concentrates her practice on land use and environmental law and related litigation. She is a member of the firm's Real Estate + Development Group. 
Land Use and Environmental…
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Partner
Megan Baroni has extensive experience counseling clients on a wide variety of environmental, health, and safety issues. She frequently represents manufacturers and distributors and is a…
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Partner
Joseph Barra is a member of the firm’s Construction Group. With skills gained in his first career as a civil engineer, he has represented clients in the construction industry for over 25…
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Partner
Bruce Barth, chair of the firm's Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group, as well as the firm’s Employee Benefits + Compensation Team, focuses his practice on the representation of…
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Partner
Pat Begos is a member of the firm's Managed Care + Employee Benefits Litigation Group. He has almost 30 years of litigation, arbitration, mediation, and negotiation experience, representing…
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Associate
Greg Bennici is a member of the firm's Managed Care + Employee Benefit Litigation Group. He frequently handles cases involving employee and group benefits disputes, property damage…
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Partner
Kendra Berardi focuses her practice on real estate litigation and complex commercial litigation. Kendra is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group and its Real Estate and Title…
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Partner
Patrick Birney co-chairs the firm's Bankruptcy + Reorganizations Group and is a member of the Business Litigation Group.
Bankruptcy and Creditors’ Rights
Since 1998, Patrick has focused his…
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Partner
Lisa Boyle chairs the firm's Health Law Group. She has spent more than 25 years representing a wide range of health care providers, including health systems, hospitals, physicians,…
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Associate
Trevor Bradley is a commercial litigator who focuses his practice on resolving a wide-range of complex business disputes for his clients. Trevor has significant experience litigating cases…
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Partner
David Carney has significant, varied experience in government enforcement, internal investigations, complex civil litigation and corporate compliance programs. David’s broad experience has…
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Partner
John Casey concentrates his practice on land use and environmental matters, with particular emphasis on coastal management, development, permitting, and littoral and riparian water rights.…
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Partner
Dennis Cavanaugh is a current member and past chair of the firm’s Construction Group, and he focuses his practice on construction and surety law, including transactional work and litigation…
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Associate
Julie Charpentier focuses her practice on business and real estate litigation. She is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group and its Real Estate and Title Insurance Team.  …
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Associate
Tiange (Tim) Chen is a member of the firm’s Business Transactions Group and its Capital Markets + Securities team, where he advises issuers, underwriters and investors on a variety of…
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Partner
Ian Clarke-Fisher focuses his practice on complex commercial and employment litigation. He is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group and Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration…
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Associate
Joshua Coker is a member of the firm’s Litigation Section. Prior to joining Robinson+Cole, Josh served as a legal extern with the Office of the New York State Attorney General while…
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Since its founding in 1845, Robinson+Cole has been recognized for its trial practice. Today, nearly a third of the our lawyers engage in trial work across a far-ranging variety of areas,…
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Partner
Britt-Marie Cole-Johnson is a member of the firm's Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group. She focuses her practice on counseling private sector employers, ranging from NYSE and…
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Partner
John Cordani is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group and focuses his practice on Intellectual Property litigation. He has litigated patent, trade secret, trademark, and…
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Associate
William Maxwell Daley focuses his practice on insurance coverage litigation and business litigation. 
Insurance Litigation
Max is a member of the firm's Insurance + Reinsurance Group. He…
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Partner
Kevin P. Daly focuses his practice on complex commercial litigation and trade compliance issues. He is a member of Robinson+Cole's Business Litigation Group and Manufacturing Industry Team…
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Partner
Benjamin Daniels is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group, with a focus on complex litigation and education law. He assists Fortune 100 companies, sovereign nations, and…
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Our lawyers are knowledgeable about data collection technology, including the use of cookies. We also understand the value of collecting and using data for marketing and other strategic…
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Associate
Milanna Datlow is a member of the Managed Care + Employee Benefit Litigation Group. She has experience defending group welfare benefits and pension benefits plans subject to the Employee…
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Associate
Emily Deans is a member of the firm's Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, representing clients in the areas of environmental, telecommunications, and utilities law. She…
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Partner
Natale DiNatale is a member of the firm’s Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group and is the chair of the firm’s Labor Relations Group, which is both nationally and regionally…
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Partner
Kathleen Dion, a member the firm's Litigation Section, focuses her practice on all aspects of civil and criminal litigation. She frequently handles cases related to education, government…
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Counsel
Thomas Donlon’s practice focuses on appellate and complex trial matters. He is a member of the firm's Appellate Team within the Business Litigation Group.
Appellate
Tom has successfully…
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Counsel
Jennifer Driscoll focuses her practice on investigations, litigation, arbitration, mergers, and counseling. Jen has extensive experience in the medical devices, pharmaceutical, electronic…
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Associate
Christopher Eddy is an associate in the firm’s Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, and focuses his practice in the areas of environmental law, environmental litigation, retail…
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Partner

William Egan has over twenty-five years of commercial litigation and business law experience. He handles trials at the state and federal level, along with arbitrations and mediations,…
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Partner
Ze’-ev Eiger represents foreign and domestic investment banks, private equity groups, and public and private companies in connection with a wide variety of transactions, including debt and…
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Associate
Kristen Elia concentrates her practice on commercial real estate finance, land use, and transactional matters. She is a member of the firm's Real Estate + Development Group.
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Robinson+Cole's Employee Benefits and Compensation Group provides comprehensive employee benefits services to a wide range of clients, including publicly held and privately held companies,…
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Partner
Linn Freedman practices in data privacy and security law, cybersecurity, and complex litigation. She provides guidance on data privacy and cybersecurity compliance to a full range of public…
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Senior Associate
Brian Freeman focuses his practice on environmental compliance counseling, permitting, site remediation, and related litigation regarding federal and state regulatory programs. Areas of…
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Associate
Sabrina Galli is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group. She represents corporate clients in general commercial litigation involving the assertion of and defense against claims…
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Partner
Michael Giaimo practices land use, real estate and environmental law. He represents developers, businesses, institutions, government agencies, and other property owners in permitting,…
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Associate

Yelena Greenberg advises hospitals, academic medical centers, nursing homes, physician groups, and university health centers and clinical programs on a broad range of health law issues.…
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Associate
Larry Grijalva’s commercial and legal construction experience provides a unique perspective in his representation of construction industry companies, developers, and project owners. His…
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The Robinson+Cole Health Law Group serves health care and life sciences clients regionally, nationally and globally. We are experienced lawyers trained to help clients meet their business…
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Partner
Kathleen 'Kate' Healy advises diverse health care entities on transactional and complex health care regulatory matters. She represents a wide range of clients, including health systems,…
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Partner
Edward Heath is the chair of the firm's Business Litigation Group and leads its Government Enforcement and Corporate Compliance Teams.  In 2019, Benchmark named Ed as a Local Litigation…
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Associate
Ryan Hoyler’s legal experience includes representing developers before municipal boards and commissions across Connecticut on a broad range of approvals and permits, including § 8-30g…
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Associate
Biography
Kiernan Ignacio works with clients on a broad range of corporate matters. She is skilled at managing complex transactions, addressing and resolving her clients’ legal issues…
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Associate
Sapna Jain is a member of the firm's Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group. She advises clients on general employment matters, including anti-discrimination and anti-harassment…
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Partner
Benjamin Jensen represents clients in litigation and regulatory compliance matters involving technology, data privacy and cybersecurity. He is a member of the firm’s Intellectual Property…
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Partner
Michael Kearney is a member of the firm’s Tax Group,  representing clients in connection with a wide range of tax matters. He is an experienced tax lawyer with a broad-based transactional…
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Partner
Erica Kerstein focuses her practice on complex insurance matters, with particular emphasis in the areas of financial lines, bad faith, commercial general liability and first-party property…
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Associate
Choity Khan represents construction industry clients including owners, contractors, subcontractors and design professionals. She is a member of the firm’s Construction Law Group, providing…
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Associate
Janet Kljyan is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group.  Over the last several years, she has developed extensive experience with helping businesses and other institutional…
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Partner
Peter Knight is a member of the firm's Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, where he focuses on litigation, defense of agency enforcement actions, and regulatory matters. He…
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Partner
Eric Kogan is co-chair of the firm's Business Transactions Group and a member of its Managing Committee. He represents clients in a broad range of corporate, strategic, financial, and…
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Partner
Rachel Kushel counsels clients on all employment law and workplace human resource issues. She defends management in state and federal court litigation matters and administrative agency…
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Practice Group
Robinson+Cole is one of a select number of firms in the Northeast to have dedicated attorneys who offer a full array of employment law services to employers: counseling and training,…
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Partner
Mitchell Lampert is chair of the firm's Capital Markets and Securities Practice, and he is a member of the firm's Business Transactions Group. He assists clients with transactional matters…
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Practice Group
Our Land Use practice is a cross-disciplinary group of lawyers, professional planners, and environmental analysts that focuses its combined resources on the interrelated fields of planning…
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Patent Agent
Daniel Lass is a Patent Agent with a concentration on the preparation and prosecution of patent applications in electro-mechanical and mechanical-related areas and other disciplines. With a…
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Infrastructure & Security Manager
Sean is Robinson+Cole’s Infrastructure & Security Manager, a member of the firm’s Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team, and a non-attorney contributor to the Data Privacy + Cybersecurity…
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Partner
Matthew Lawlor focuses his practice on real estate disposition for public agencies, affordable housing finance, development, permitting, land use, and urban planning matters. He regularly…
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Counsel
David W. Leibovitch focuses his practice on the prosecution of utility and design patent applications, freedom-to-operate and invalidity opinions, post-grant proceedings at the U.S. Patent…
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Partner
Ryan Leichsenring, a member of the firm's Tax Group, represents clients in connection with a broad range of domestic and international tax matters.
Tax
Ryan's practice has a particular…
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Partner

Leslie Levinson is co-chair of the firm's Transactional Health Law Group and a member of both the Health Law and Business Transaction Groups. He has represented private and public…
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Associate
Michael Lisitano is a member of the firm’s Health Law Group. He advises hospitals, health systems, physician groups, and other health care entities on general corporate matters and a…
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Associate
Samuel Maduabueke works with clients on a variety of corporate and transactional matters. He is a law clerk in the firm’s Business Transactions Group.
Mergers and Acquisitions
Sam assists…
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Partner
Michael Maglio's practice is concentrated in the areas of commercial and corporate finance, asset-based lending, and other secured and unsecured lending. He is a member of the firm’s…
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Our manufacturing lawyers represent manufacturers and distributors both nationally and internationally. Our clients range from Fortune 50 companies to privately held and/or family-owned…
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Partner
Michele Maresca handles the full range of commercial real estate transactions, including representation of borrowers and lenders in financings, dispositions, acquisitions, and development…
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Partner
Virginia McGarrity is a member of the firm's Employee Benefits + Compensation Group, counseling employers, insurance carriers, and service providers on a wide range of complex employee…
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Partner
Bob Melvin has over 20 years of experience counseling clients on environmental, health, and safety compliance, sustainability, emergency response efforts, site remediation, and development…
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Partner
Brian Moran is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation and Intellectual Property + Technology Groups. His practice focuses on three primary areas: intellectual property disputes;…
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Partner
Megan Naughton, the co-chair of the firm’s Immigration Group, has more than two decades of experience successfully handling U.S. business immigration matters. She represents a wide range of…
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Associate
Diana Neeves, a member of the firm’s Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, focuses her practice on environmental, energy, telecommunications, and utilities law.
Litigation
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Partner
Seth B. Orkand focuses his practice on white-collar criminal defense, government and corporate internal investigations, research misconduct investigations, college and university…
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Partner
Keisha Palmer focuses her practice on all aspects of financing activities for entities or projects that can benefit from tax-advantaged obligations. As a member of the firm's Business…
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Partner
David Panico, a member of the firm's Business Transactions Group and a certified public accountant, has nearly three decades of experience providing clients with guidance on the issuance of…
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Of Counsel
Endicott Peabody IV (Kit) is a member of the firm’s Business Transactions Group. Kit has more than 16 years’ experience advising clients on transactional and general corporate matters. This…
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Associate
Nina Pelc-Faszcza is a member of the firm’s Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group. Her practice is concentrated in the area of U.S. immigration law, with a primary focus on…
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Associate
Madison C. Picard has experience working on cases involving immigration, employment, and labor matters. A practiced researcher, Madison has assisted clients in need of legal advocacy for a…
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Associate
Jessica Pinto assists in the representation of employers in employment law and workplace human resource matters.
Jess served as a summer associate for Robinson+Cole, where she conducted…
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Partner
Kathleen Porter is an intellectual property and technology lawyer in the firm's Business Transactions Group and former chair of the firm’s Intellectual Property + Technology Group. Her…
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Partner
Kathryn Rattigan is a member of the firm's Business Litigation Group and Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Team. She advises clients on data privacy and security, cybersecurity, and compliance…
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Partner
Jim Ray has more than 25 years of experience as an environmental and product liability litigator and counselor, and he has served as court-appointed common counsel or liaison counsel in…
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Law Clerk
Blair Robinson has experience in data privacy and security, cybersecurity, information security governance, information technology (IT), and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…
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Robinson+Cole’s Construction Group comprises a team of capable, accomplished lawyers dedicated to the construction industry in the Northeast. We have devoted our legal careers to serving…
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Partner
Norman Roos, a member of the firm's Business Transactions Group, concentrates his practice on transactional, regulatory, and technology matters relating to the financial services and real…
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Associate
Amy R. Roth brings a broad range of experience and training to her legal practice, including work as a foreign-based sports attorney and professional journalist. She is a member of the firm…
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Partner
Glenn Santoro, a lawyer and certified public accountant, focuses his practice in the areas of public finance, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters. He combines his…
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Partner
Jonathan Schaefer, a member of the firm’s Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, focuses his practice on environmental compliance counseling, permitting, site remediation,…
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Partner
Jacqueline Scheib chairs the firm’s Intellectual Property +Technology Group. She works with clients across a range of industries in connection with intellectual property, technology, and…
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Partner
Emilee Mooney Scott is a member of the firm's Environmental, Energy + Telecommunications Group, with experience in facility compliance and transactional matters. Her experience includes a…
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Associate
Jenna Scoville is a member of the firm’s Business Litigation Group. She focuses her practice on all aspects of general business litigation and dispute resolution, as well as government…
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Partner
Evan Seeman concentrates his practice in land use and zoning, real property litigation, and municipal law. He is a member of the firm’s Real Estate + Development Group, and he represents…
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Partner
Jennifer Shanley focuses her practice on U.S. immigration law, with an emphasis on business immigration matters. She is a member of the firm’s Immigration Group.
Immigration
Jennifer helps…
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Partner
Taylor Shea represents privately and publicly held companies in all aspects of corporate and transactional law, including commercial finance transactions, private equity and venture capital…
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Partner
Rickie Sonpal has a broad-based corporate and transactional practice that encompasses mergers and acquisitions, partnerships and joint ventures, debt and equity financing, and general…
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Counsel
Peter Struzzi has represented and advised hospitals, health systems and other health care entities on a variety of health law and business issues over his more than 30-year career. His…
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Partner
Danielle H. Tangorre represents and advises a broad range of health care providers, including clinical laboratories, long-term care facilities, behavioral health providers, substance abuse…
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Associate
Mallori Thompson focuses her practice on all aspects of general business litigation and dispute resolution, including tort and contract matters. Her experience includes most recently…
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Partner
Lisa Thompson advises companies, senior management, and their boards of directors, with a focus on the health care, life sciences and technology industries. She is a member of the firm’s…
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Associate
Erin Turkis is a member of the firm’s Health Law Group, where she counsels hospitals, physician groups, community providers, post-acute care facilities, and other health care and non-profit…
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Partner
Timothy Twardowski focuses his practice on land use policy, development permitting, and real estate. He is a member of the firm's Land Use and Real Estate + Development Groups.
Development…
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Partner
Anna Jinhua Wang, a member of the firm’s Business Transactions Group, assists clients with capital markets and securities law, mergers and acquisitions, and general corporate matters. She…
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Partner
Abby Warren is a member of the firm's Labor, Employment, Benefits + Immigration Group, where she represents employers in labor and employment matters. She focuses her practice on counseling…
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Law Clerk
Kayla West focuses her practice on representing private sector employers in labor and employment matters as well as defending employers in federal and state court and before administrative…
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Partner
Jeff White provides counseling and dispute resolution advice for manufacturers and distributors. He is chair of the firm's Manufacturing Industry Team and regularly represents clients…
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Counsel
William Wilson is a commercial lawyer at Robinson & Cole's Hartford office  with more than 20 years of experience representing and counseling municipalities, public and private owners,…
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Associate
Barrett Wilson-Murphy advises clients on legal matters relating to middle market domestic and international financings and restructuring transactions. He represents financial institutions,…
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Partner
Michael Wirvin is a member of the firm's Business Transactions Group and a member of its Managing Committee. His practice includes the representation of domestic and international clients…
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Associate
Yang Xu focuses her practice in the areas of securities law, corporate finance and corporate governance. In that capacity, she assists multi-national entities such as public and private…
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Associate
Eden Yerby has experience with real estate and business transactions.
Eden previously served as a summer associate for Robinson+Cole, where she worked with attorneys on various projects,…
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Partner
Arila Zhou represents special purpose acquisition corporations, emerging growth companies, funds and investment banks, with an emphasis on private and public transactions in relation to a…
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