Brooke Townsend

Brooke Townsend

Associate



Brooke Townsend’s practice focuses primarily on civil litigation. During law school, she worked as a research assistant for diverse labor arbitration cases. Additionally, she worked as a certified legal intern in the Veteran’s Unit for Community Legal Aid. She also worked as a law clerk for a family law firm and for a plaintiff’s personal injury firm.





Education

  • Western New England University School of Law, J.D., 2023
  • Western New England University, B.S., 2020, Summa Cum Laude


Bar and Court Admissions

  • State of Connecticut

Honors

  • CALI Excellence for the Future Award Recipient in Healthcare Law

Professional Affiliations

  • Connecticut Bar Association
Patrick Conway

Patrick Conway

Associate



Patrick Conway's practice focuses primarily on civil litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Patrick Conway worked as a Legal Research Clerk for the judges of the Connecticut Superior Court. During his time in law school, he interned for the Honorable S. Dave Vatti of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. He also served as President of the Softball Club and Executive Editor of the Connecticut Insurance Law Journal.

Education:
University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D.
• Boston College, B.A.


Bar and Court Admissions
• Connecticut
• United States District Court, District of Connecticut

Honors
University of Connecticut School of Law, CALI Award for Excellence in Trial Advocacy

Professional Affiliations
• Connecticut Bar Association

Adam Teich

Adam Teich

Associate



Adam Teich’s practice focuses primarily on civil litigation. Prior to joining the firm, Attorney Teich worked as a law clerk for the Connecticut Appellate Court. During law school, he interned for the Law Department of the United States Postal Service, where he assisted staff attorneys with the analysis and defense of employment law cases before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He also received a CALI Excellence for the Future Award for excellent achievement in the study of Administrative Law, was a member of the Western New England Law Review, and graduated Cum Laude.
Our firm is not only experienced in participating in mediations and arbitrations on behalf of our clients, but also as the mediator or neutral. Matt Conway heads up our Alternative Dispute Resolution practice. He has served as a hearing officer for the State of Connecticut and various housing agencies for over 10 years. In the past few years, he has utilized his experience from his extensive trial practice, and from his many years of being a hockey referee, to offer mediation and arbitration services. Most of the cases we mediate are personal injury cases. However, given the breadth of Attorney Conway’s trial practice, he has also mediated cases involving many of the disciplines in which we practice. The ADR practice covers cases pre-suit and in litigation in state and federal court. We mediate in person or remotely at the convenience of the litigants, utilizing the firm’s replica courtroom for arbitrations and hearings.

Jeffrey Schwartz

Principal



Jeff Schwartz began his legal career at a workers’ compensation defense firm, defending claims in all of Connecticut’s Districts. In the late 1990’s he moved into civil defense litigation at Travelers Insurance Company’s staff counsel office in Hartford, defending Travelers and its policy holders for over 20 years. At Travelers, Jeff became a “major case” litigator, handling large exposure cases of legal and medical complexity. He has successfully tried over 40 jury cases to conclusion, in both state and federal courts. His experience includes matters involving workers’ compensation, general liability, personal lines liability, UM/UIM, trucking, construction, municipal liability, subrogation, professional malpractice and defamation. Jeff is also experienced with insurance coverage issues.

Jeff has conducted seminars in Civil Rights Litigation and in Cross Examination of Expert Witnesses.

Jeff has also argued cases successfully before the Connecticut Court of Appeals and also the Second Circuit Court of Appeals. Representative appellate cases include Santos v. Murdock, 243 F. 3d 681 (2001), DiPietro v. Farmington Sports Arena, LLC, 306 Conn. 107 (2012), Faulkner v. Daddona, 142 Conn. App. 113 (2013), Kusy v. City of Norwich, et al., 190 Conn. App. 171 (2019)

Education

  • J.D. Emory University School of Law
  • B.A. University of Pennsylvania

Bar and Court Admissions

  • Connecticut
  • United States District Court, District of Connecticut