Practice Areas
The firm is organized into six practice groups. Each group is led by an equity partner and staffed by attorneys who have chosen that discipline as the center of their careers. We were built in Hartford and have kept our practice anchored here for more than fifty years, which means our corporate, real estate, and trusts & estates lawyers are not generalists rotating through the department — they know the Connecticut courts, regulators, and counterparties they deal with on a first-name basis.
Most client engagements draw on more than one group. A family-owned manufacturer selling to private equity will pull in Corporate, Tax, Labor & Employment, and often Real Estate in the same week. We staff matters accordingly.
Corporate & M&A
Middle-market mergers and acquisitions, private equity transactions, and technology licensing for closely-held Connecticut businesses and Hartford-based insurance and energy companies. Practice led by Managing Partner Steven Stone.
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Litigation
Commercial, securities, appellate, and white-collar matters in Connecticut state and federal court and before the Second Circuit. When a case is bet-the-company, clients call Lance Harrington, who chairs the group.
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Real Estate
Commercial development, mixed-use projects, and waterfront and coastal land use across Connecticut and southern New England. Wallace Blackwood heads the practice, with a team that closes more than a hundred transactions a year.
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Trusts & Estates
Multi-generational wealth transfer, charitable structuring, and fiduciary litigation for Connecticut families, business founders, and private foundations. Led by Winona Thorpe, a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel.
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Labor & Employment
Discrimination defense, workplace investigations, union matters, and wage-and-hour compliance under CFEPA, the CHRO's jurisdiction, and federal law. Norman Cavanaugh heads the group and previously served as a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage & Hour Division.
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Tax
Partnership taxation, IRS controversy, and Connecticut state and local tax matters, including the pass-through entity tax and DRS audits. Practice chaired by Flannery O'Neill, who holds an LL.M. in Taxation from NYU.
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