About me

testy accounty is a veteran litigator with broad experience in complex, multidisciplinary cases across a wide spectrum of legal areas and client industries. His practice spans bet-the-company commercial litigation receiving extensive press coverage, high-profile employment disputes, and reputationally sensitive internal investigations, across the United States and overseas. He particularly relishes novel disputes requiring new legal thinking, and he has prevailed for clients in many issues of first impression, compiling a winning record in multiple federal appellate circuits. In the commercial arena, testy litigates fraud and asset recovery, securities, director-and-officer misconduct, shareholder oppression, antitrust and complex contract cases, business divorces, and all types of consumer class actions. In the employment arena, he handles emerging noncompete issues, whistleblower claims, and mass and class actions. He has undertaken complex, highly publicized internal investigations of matters from systematic clerical abuse to allegations of director fraud on shareholders. In addition to his firm practice, testy was previously the lead litigator in the law department of a Fortune 500 insurer with global operations, and he draws on that in-house perspective to provide practical, outcome-focused advice to business clients. He volunteers in numerous bar association, community, and court capacities. Before entering the practice of law, he served on the professional staff of a United States senator and was an adjunct instructor in politics at several universities. District of Connecticut, Federal Grievance Committee Connecticut Bar Association, Standing Committee on Professional Ethics, Member; Federal Practice Section, Past Co-Chair; Connecticut Bar Journal Board of Editors, Member Association of Corporate Counsel, Westchester-Southern Connecticut Chapter, Director Federal Bar Council, Member Raymond E. Baldwin Inn of Court, Member ABA Section of International Law, Steering Group for International Employment Committee, Former Member; Immigration Committee, Former Vice-Chair Connecticut Office of Public Hearing, Volunteer Mediator for Employment Cases Harvard Club of Fairfield County, President Connecticut Bar Association Annual Advanced Labor and Employment Law Symposium, Speaker, "Restrictive Covenants: Recent Developments and Litigating Disputes," March 27, 2024 The Knowledge Group, Speaker, "Litigation Funding: Maximizing Potentials While Mitigating Risks," August 10, 2020 Connecticut Conference of Independent Colleges, Speaker, "Internal Investigations During the Covid-19 Pandemic," June 25, 2020 Association of Corporate Counsel, Westchester/Southern Connecticut Chapter, Speaker, "Litigation Funding for Corporations: Understanding the Newest Financial Tool for Corporate Law Departments," September 25, 2019 Association of Corporate Counsel, Westchester/Southern Connecticut Chapter, Speaker, "Ethical Quandaries for In-House Counsel," January 19, 2018 Connecticut Bar Journal, Co-Author, "Connecticut Jurisprudence on E-Commerce Contracts of Adhesion: Page Not Found?," Vol. 87, 248-69, 2013 testy is a veteran litigator with broad experience in complex, multidisciplinary cases across a wide spectrum of legal areas and client industries. His practice spans bet-the-company commercial litigation receiving extensive press coverage, high-profile employment disputes, and reputationally sensitive internal investigations, across the United States and overseas. He particularly relishes novel disputes requiring new legal thinking, and he has prevailed for clients in many issues of first impression, compiling a winning record in multiple federal appellate circuits. In the commercial arena, testy litigates fraud and asset recovery, securities, director-and-officer misconduct, shareholder oppression, antitrust and complex contract cases, business divorces, and all types of consumer class actions. In addition to his firm practice, testy was previously the lead litigator in the law department of a Fortune 500 insurer with global operations, and he draws on that in-house perspective to provide practical, outcome-focused advice to business clients. He volunteers in numerous bar association, community, and court capacities. Before entering the practice of law, he served on the professional staff of a United States senator and was an adjunct instructor in politics at several universities.