Babbin, Jeffrey R.
Wiggin and Dana LLP
One Century Tower
265 Church Street
Post Office Box 1832
New Haven, CT 06508-1832
Phone: (203) 498-4366
Fax: (203) 782-2889
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Websites associated with this firm:http://www.wiggin.comSummary
Current Employment Position(s)
Partner
Lawyer Overview
Jeffrey Babbin is a partner in the firm's Appellate and Complex Legal Issues Practice Group within the firm's Litigation Department. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and he co-chairs the Connecticut Bar Association's Appellate Advocacy Committee. Mr. Babbin has handled over a hundred appeals of trial court and agency decisions before federal and state courts nationally, with particular experience in the Connecticut Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His appeals have involved constitutional rights, insurance, securities, medical and other professional malpractice, breach of contract, fraud, other business and personal torts, labor relations, and Native American land claims. He also has an active administrative appeals practice, representing regulated companies in the judicial review of federal and state agency action for client companies in the electric, water, telecommunications, health care, and alcoholic beverage industries. He has authored both party and amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and has assisted in preparing advocates for oral argument before that Court. Mr. Babbin pursues and defends appeals in cases tried by other law firms in addition to conducting the appeals of matters originally handled at trial by his firm. He also routinely assists trial counsel in his and other law firms on complex legal motions both before and after trial and on tasks for preserving issues for appeal.
Mr. Babbin frequently lectures at seminars on appellate law and procedure. Since 2006, he has been selected for annual inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for his work as an appellate lawyer.
Before joining Wiggin and Dana in 1992, Mr. Babbin practiced law for seven years in Washington, D.C., working on complex civil litigation in courts and administrative agencies and an international arbitration before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague.
Mr. Babbin received his Bachelor of Science in Economics magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and his law degree from Stanford University.
Areas of Practice
- Appellate
- Litigation
- Energy and Utilities
- Insurance
West Practice Categories
Energy Law, Public Utilities, Insurance Law, Litigation & Appeals
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- District of Columbia, 1984
- Connecticut, 1993
- U.S. Supreme Court
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 8th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit
- U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit
- U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia
Professional Associations and Memberships
- American Bar Association
- Connecticut Bar Association
- District of Columbia Bar
Education
- Stanford Law School, Stanford, California,
1984
J.D. - Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
1981
Bachelor of Science
Honors: magna cum laude
Major: Economics
Office Information
Address
One Century Tower
265 Church Street
Post Office Box 1832
New Haven, CT 06508-1832
Phones
(203) 498-4366
Faxes
(203) 782-2889
