Glastonbury, CT

Ryan McKeen

Ryan McKeen is a nationally recognized attorney based in Connecticut, specializing in personal injury law. He has a proven track record, including a historic $100 million jury verdict, and has been honored by the Connecticut Personal Injury Hall of Fame for securing high settlements. He is an adjunct professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law, a Super Lawyer, and a New Leader in The Law. McKeen is also an author and maintains a Top 100 blog, making legal knowledge accessible. He is committed to his clients, community, and ethical practice, offering personalized attention to a limited number of cases.

Michael H. Clinton

Attorney Michael H. Clinton is the sole practitioner at Law Offices of Michael H. Clinton, LLC, bringing 37 years of experience to a range of legal areas including landlord representation, real estate, litigation, business law, estate planning, probate, and personal injury. He was formerly a partner at Brady, Willard & Alexander and a senior tax consultant at Ernst & Young. A lifelong resident of Glastonbury, he is actively involved in community organizations.

Andrew S. Groher

For more than 30 years, Andy has been representing people in Connecticut who have suffered life-changing events through no fault of their own. He has represented clients injured as a result of aviation accidents, catastrophic automobile and truck collisions, medical malpractice, defective products, including prescription and over the counter medications, premises liability, and police misconduct. Over those years, Andy has tried numerous cases in State and Federal Court, obtaining multi-million dollar verdicts and similar settlements on behalf of many. In order to consistently achieve the best results for his clients, Andy brings his ethic of hard work and sense of fairness to his representation. He strongly believes in the firm’s credo that “the best interests of the client always comes first.” It is this belief and sense of doing what is right that has led him to offer services to clients that go far beyond his office practice, including pro bono representation of victims of the 911 terrorist attacks, service on the Board of the Connecticut Traumatic Brain Injury Association and countless hours spent advocating for injured citizens before the state General Assembly.

William R. Davis

RisCassi & Davis, P.C. began when Bill Davis joined Leon RisCassi in the practice of law in Hartford in 1955. Throughout his long career, Bill Davis has consistently sought to pass on to younger attorneys not only his courtroom skills, professionalism, and collegiality, but also the importance, responsibility, and meaning of being a trial lawyer representing injured victims seeking justice. He has accomplished this through seminars and lectures at professional associations and by generously sharing his wisdom, experience, and knowledge as a mentor for other lawyers in the firm and throughout the state. From 1970 through 1987. Mr. Davis taught Trial Practice courses at the University of Connecticut School of Law, which now has a trial practice courtroom bearing his name.

Mr. Ryan is a senior partner at Sloane and Walsh where he has concentrated his practice in the trial and appeal of civil cases since joining the firm in 1980. He is an honors graduate of Boston College and a graduate of Suffolk University Law School where he was the recipient of the Frederick McDermott Memorial Scholarship. Mr. Ryan has tried numerous high exposure jury trials in both state and federal court. His trials have encompassed a wide spectrum of civil disputes including medical malpractice, product liability, general liability, wrongful death, employment discrimination, workplace harassment, legal malpractice, defamation, declaratory judgment, insurance fraud, and bad faith insurance claims practices including alleged violations of G.L. c. 93A and G.L. c. 176D. He has argued appellate cases in the Massachusetts Appeals Court, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court and the First Circuit Court of Appeals. A number of Mr. Ryan’s appellate cases have involved questions of first impression in Massachusetts. In addition to his trial and appellate practice, Mr. Ryan is frequently asked to serve as a mediator or arbitrator in civil disputes, and he has served as such in approximately 1000 cases including such diverse areas as medical malpractice, nursing home liability, product liability, construction accidents, commercial disputes, legal malpractice, property damage claims, construction defect, environmental claims, contribution and indemnification claims, errors and omissions claims, and insurance coverage disputes including claims of bad faith and violations of G.L. c. 93A and G.L. c. 176D. Mr. Ryan is a member of the National Academy of Distinguished Neutrals and the American College of Civil Trial Mediators. Mr. Ryan is a frequent lecturer for continuing legal education programs concerning civil trial practice and he has been a faculty member for Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, the Massachusetts Academy of Trial Attorneys, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association, and the Suffolk University Law School Advanced Legal Studies program. He is also frequently asked to present at legal seminars for clients and their insurer representatives. Mr. Ryan is an elected Member of the Board of Trustees for the Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education, Inc., the leading provider of continuing legal education for attorneys in Massachusetts. Mr. Ryan also serves as a member of MCLE’s Curriculum, Content Delivery and Operations Committee. Mr. Ryan was elected a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 1992, and he has been listed in the Best Lawyers in America for more than ten years. In addition, Mr. Ryan has been designated a Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers in America in 2011, 2013 and 2014. Mr. Ryan holds an AV® Preeminent™ rating from Martindale-Hubbell®. In recent surveys conducted by Boston Magazine, Mr. Ryan has been voted by his peers among the 100 best lawyers in New England and Massachusetts on multiple occasions. In 2005, Mr. Ryan was honored by the Massachusetts Defense Lawyers Association which selected him for the Defense Lawyer of the Year award. In 2013, Mr. Ryan was awarded the American Board of Trial Advocacy (ABOTA) James N. Esdaile Memorial Award for Civility in the Practice of Litigation, ABOTA’s Massachusetts Chapter’s highest award.

Anthony J. Natale

Tony is a BV rated attorney by Martindale-Hubbell and has been selected a Super Lawyer for Connecticut from 2006 through 2020. Tony is also a past President of the Hartford County Bar Association, having been elected to serve as President for the 2006 through 2007 term. He has an active practice representing general contractors and construction managers in personal injury claims arising out of construction accidents, including catastrophic and fatal injuries. He has successfully defended and prosecuted construction defect claims and has significant experience bringing claims against design professionals, architects, and engineers. He also defends personal injury claims for major retailers and manufacturers and has a robust commercial litigation practice. He successfully argued an appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Bruce E. Newman

Bruce Newman has over 30 years of experience in personal injury, wrongful death, employment litigation, medical malpractice, product liability, and class actions. He is a Lifetime Member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and has achieved numerous multi-million dollar settlements and successful verdicts.