Attorney Fitzgerald represents individuals in employment, criminal litigation and personal injury in the state and federal courts. He joined the firm in 2001 after ten years of experience as an Assistant District Attorney at the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. While there, he served as a Trial Attorney in the Trial Division and the Homicide Investigation Unit and as a Supervising Attorney in the Narcotics Investigation Bureau. Following his service in the District Attorney’s Office he spent two years as a commercial litigator at a law firm in New York City. Mr. Fitzgerald has considerable experience in jury trials in both federal and state courts. Since joining the firm he has successfully tried cases involving matters of criminal defense and employment law.
Mr. Fitzgerald is admitted to practice in the state courts of Connecticut and New York as well as in the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut, the Southern District of New York and the Eastern District of New York.
Mr. Fitzgerald has successfully represented numerous individuals with breach of contract claims against their former employers. During his career with the firm, he has successfully represented four senior managers of a national bank following the bank’s refusal to pay contractually-owed severance. Mr. Fitzgerald successfully represented a senior executive of a national transportation services company including the initiation of litigation to challenge the executive’s non-compete agreement. He has obtained numerous favorable results for individuals who had been denied bonuses owed pursuant to oral contracts. He has also represented a number of individuals subjected to illegal retaliation following their exercise of their First Amendment right to free speech. The wide variety of clients represented by Mr. Fitzgerald include investment portfolio managers, chief executive officers, secretaries, physicians, human resource managers, janitors, sales personnel and police officers.
Mr. Fitzgerald’s criminal practice includes the representation of individuals who are the subject of prosecution in state court as well as those charged in federal court.
He has taught Trial Practice at both Fordham Law School and the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. He has been published in The Connecticut Law Tribune. He is a graduate of Boston College and Fordham University School of Law.
Mr. Fitzgerald is a member of the National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA), the New Haven County Bar Association and the New Haven Inn of Court.
Representative Matters:
Rosenfield, et al. v. Yale University
Dr. Rosenfield had been disciplined and demoted because of his patient care advocacy. After a seven-week trial, a jury awarded both compensatory and punitive damages, which eventually totaled approximately $6.3 million.
United States v. Matthew Bowden
Acquittal in a jury trial of an individual charged with participating in a twenty-person conspiracy.
