Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Year Joined Organization: 1986

Lawyer Overview

Thomas J. Riley has received the highest ranking conferred by legal colleagues through the peer rating system maintained by the National Legal Directory, Martindale Hubbell. He also was named one of the top lawyers in Connecticut specializing in Employment Law, in the 2000-2001 edition of Woodward-White Incorporated’s The Best Lawyers in America, based on a survey of other lawyers. The listing of the top lawyers in Connecticut from that survey appeared in the July 2001 issue of Connecticut Magazine. Before joining the firm, Mr. Riley served as a trial attorney in the Land and Natural Resources Division of the United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut.

Mr. Riley has handled numerous employment matters before the State and Federal Departments of Labor, the Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities, the United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, other State and Federal agencies, the Supreme and Superior Courts of the State of Connecticut, and the Federal courts. Mr. Riley also has represented clients in a wide variety of other complex litigation matters, including appeals, before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the U.S. District Court, and the Connecticut Supreme, Appellate and Superior Courts.

Areas of Practice

• Employment
• General Litigation
• Appellate Advocacy
• Hospital Recovery
• Personal Injury & Wrongful Death
• Waterfront Development

West Practice Categories

Admiralty & Maritime Law, Employment Law -- Employee, Employment Law -- Employer, Environmental Law, Government Agencies & Programs, Hospital Law, Litigation & Appeals, Federal Appellate Practice, State Appellate Practice, Personal Injury -- Defense, Wrongful Death -- Defense, Personal Injury -- Plaintiff, Real Estate Law

Bar Admissions

• Connecticut, 1977
• U.S. Supreme Court
• District of Columbia
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
• U.S. Court of Appeals Federal Circuit
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
• U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia

Professional Associations and Memberships

• American Bar Association (Member)
• Connecticut Bar Association (Member)
• American Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (Member)
• National Employment Lawyers Association (Member)
• Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association (Member)

Honors and Awards

• The Best Lawyers in America

Classes and Seminars

• Employment Matters, American Bar Association
• Employment Matters, National Employment Lawyers Association
• Employment Matters, Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association
• Employment Matters, Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association

Past Employment Positions

• United States Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., Trial Attorney
• District of Connecticut, Assistant United States Attorney

Education

• University of Connecticut School of Law, Hartford, Connecticut, 1977
  Honors: High Honors
  Honors: Cornelius J. Wickersham Award for Constitutional Law
  Honors: American Jurisprudence Book Awards in Contracts and Constitutional Law
• College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts, 1974
  Bachelor of Arts
  Honors: cum laude
  Major: English

Address

43 Broad Street
P.O. Box 58
New London, CT 06320-0058

Phones

(860) 447-0335

Faxes

(860) 447-9143

Emails

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