Nina Pirrotti received her BA from Wesleyan in 1985 where she majored in Theater and studied at the University of Florence in Italy her junior year. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 1991 where she was a member of the Journal of Law and Feminism and the Barrister’s Union.
Nina began her legal career as an associate in commercial litigation law firms in Manhattan and devoted significant time to pro bono matters, including employment discrimination and First Amendment/whistleblower cases.
Nina’s interest in championing the rights of victims, combined with her love of trial advocacy, led her serve in the public sector as a prosecutor for a number of years. As an Assistant Corporation Counsel at the Law Department for the City of New York, Nina conducted approximately 50 bench trials, ranging from assault to homicide, and received the Association of the Bar of the City of New York’s Municipal Affairs Award for outstanding achievement as an Assistant Corporation Counsel.
Nina then became an Assistant District Attorney with Queens County District Attorney’s office. Thereafter, she was promoted to the Career Criminal Major Crimes Bureau where she was responsible for prosecuting some of the most violent crimes committed in the county, including homicides, bank robberies, kidnappings and pattern crimes. As an Assistant District Attorney, Nina served as lead trial counsel in approximately 25 felony jury trials.
During her tenure as a prosecutor, Nina was a Trial Advocacy Instructor at the New York Prosecutor’s Training Institute, the Queens County District Attorney’s Office and the New York City Law Department’s Corporation Counsel.
When she decided to return to the private sector, Nina continued to pursue her passion for empowering victims by choosing employment law. She joined Casper and deToledo where she focused primarily on representing employees and became a member of the firm.
Thereafter, Nina joined joined Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Chimes, Richardson & Fitzgerald and has since become a partner in the firm. She devotes her practice almost exclusively to representing employees in all types of employment related matters including, but not limited to, discrimination (on the basis of race, sex, age, disability, sexual orientation, religious creed, marital status, pregnancy or national origin), sexual harassment, wrongful termination, retaliation, contract disputes, FMLA and related leave of absence issues, unpaid wages, severance agreements and whistleblower claims.
Nina is the President of the Connecticut Employment Lawyer’s Association (“CELA”), a nonprofit organization comprised of employment law attorneys throughout the state who share in a common mission—providing quality representation to employees and vindicating employees' rights. To learn more about this organization, please refer to its website: www.ctnela.org.
Nina is the Co-Chair of the National Employment Lawyers’ (“NELA”) Affiliate Relations Committee as well as its Second Circuit representative. She lectures nationally on employment related topics. In 2010 she was named by the Connecticut Law Tribune as one of its Women in the Law – High Achievers. She is an adjunct professor at Quinnipiac Law School where she teaches a trial advocacy course.
