Stamford, CT

Nicholas E. Wocl

Nicholas E. Wocl is a founding member of Wocl Leydon Personal Injury Attorneys. He received his B.A. from Providence College in 1981 and his J.D., with honors, from the University of Bridgeport School of Law in 1984. He is admitted to practice in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, the Federal Court for the District of Connecticut, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. He focuses on personal injury, medical malpractice, and attorney grievance hearings, with many cases exceeding $1 million. He is highly respected by his peers, serving on the Executive Committee and Medical Malpractice Committee for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, and has been recognized as a Connecticut and New England Super Lawyer since 2006. He is a Life Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows Program, a member of the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum and America’s Top 100 Attorneys (Lifetime Achievement), and holds AV and 10.0 ratings from Martindale Hubbell and AVVO respectively. He is also selected by Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice.

Paul Slager

Paul Slager represents plaintiffs in complex cases involving life-changing personal or financial injuries, with a focus on Connecticut courts. He has a national reputation as an elite advocate, repeatedly listed as one of the Top 10 Attorneys in Connecticut Super Lawyers. He served as President of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and is an elected member of the International Academy of Trial Lawyers.

Holly Ostrov Ronai

Holly Ostrov Ronai, Esq. received her Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, from Yeshiva University, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum® and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, The Top Trial Lawyers in America®, and has been selected for New York Metro Super Lawyers. She co-founded Ronai & Ronai, LLP, in 1996.

Holly Ostrov Ronai

Holly Ostrov Ronai, Esq. received her Juris Doctor Degree, Cum Laude, from Yeshiva University, Benjamin Cardozo School of Law in New York City. She is a lifetime member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum® and the Multi-Million Dollar Advocates Forum®, The Top Trial Lawyers in America®, and has been selected for New York Metro Super Lawyers. She co-founded Ronai & Ronai, LLP, in 1996.

Brenden P. Leydon

Brenden P. Leydon leads the firm's Product Liability practice and handles complex personal injury and civil litigation. He has successfully resolved numerous cases against major manufacturers and trucking companies, and obtained many successful verdicts. He graduated from Tufts University and Rutgers-Newark Law School in 1995. Prior to law school, he served in the United States Army National Guard. Brenden has argued numerous appeals in the Connecticut Supreme Court, Connecticut Appellate Court, and United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. He has received honors such as the Connecticut Law Tribune Impact Award in 2002, the Rutger’s Law School Constitutional Litigation Clinic Alumni Award in 2001, and has been recognized by Super Lawyers every year since 2009. In 2015, he was inducted into the Personal Injury Hall of Fame for Product Liability by the Connecticut Law Tribune. In 2019, he obtained a $15,000,000.00 verdict in Amparo v. Ayala. He is on the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association (CTLA) and chairs the CTLA Product Liability Committee. He is also on the Board of Directors of the Attorneys Information Exchange Group (AIEG) and has served as Co-Chair of the Appellate Practice Committee for Stamford/Norwalk Regional Bar Association and as a Commissioner for the Connecticut Law Revision Commission.

Lewis H. Chimes

Lewis Chimes has dedicated his professional life to representing individuals who have suffered injury as a result of discrimination, negligence, or misconduct. His practice focuses primarily on individuals with employment issues. A zealous advocate, Attorney Chimes has tried over fifty cases to verdict. In employment litigation, he obtained the largest individual verdict in Connecticut for race discrimination cases (Bakhit v. Safety Marking) ($3.4 million) and individual ERISA claims (Roberton v. Citizens Utilities)($1.3 million). In 2009, Attorney Chimes was lead counsel in Hardy v. Greenwich, a groundbreaking race discrimination case in which a jury determined that the Greenwich Police Department had engaged in a pattern and practice of race discrimination. Attorney Chimes has been at the forefront of Connecticut employment law over the past twenty-five years. From his first employment case, shortly after the enactment of the Americans with Disabilities Act, in which he filed an injunction on behalf of a teacher with severe cerebral palsy who had been wrongfully denied a position in her former school system, he has fought hard against difficult odds for his clients. In one of the first Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) claims litigated in Connecticut, he successfully represented an industrial plant manager who had an emotional breakdown and was refused medical leave by his employer. He was one of the drafts persons for Connecticut's Equal Pay Act, which provides significantly greater protections against pay discrimination than federal law and most other states. In the wake of the #MeToo movement, he played a significant role in drafting and securing passage for enhanced protections against sexual harassment in the Connecticut legislature. As a former prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney's Office who handled both child abuse and sex crimes, Attorney Chimes has the experience and sensitivity to deal with difficult issues involved in sexual harassment and sex abuse claims. Attorney Chimes is equally experienced in negotiation and alternative dispute resolution. He seeks creative solutions to difficult and complex disputes for his clients. Attorney Chimes has also represented senior executives and highly compensated individuals in severance negotiations, breach of employment contract claims, and in disputes over various aspects of compensation, such as bonuses, commissions, stock options, pensions, and deferred compensation. He has negotiated, mediated and arbitrated hundreds of cases, including numerous multi-million dollar settlements. Attorney Chimes has been recognized as one of the leading employment lawyers in the state of Connecticut and nationally. In 2017, one of his clients was nationally recognized as a “Courageous Plaintiff” by the National Employment Lawyers Association as a result of their race discrimination verdict in Bakhit v. Safety Marking. In 2017, the Connecticut Law Tribune recognized him as one of Connecticut’s “Distinguished Attorneys.” In 2018, he was named Employment Lawyer of the Year in Stamford. He has been recognized for over fifteen years by Best Lawyers in America, a peer-reviewed listing of leading lawyers by specialties, in four categories: labor and employment, employment litigation: plaintiffs, ERISA litigation, and personal injury litigation: plaintiffs. In addition, he has been listed in Connecticut, New England, and New York Metro Super Lawyers for employment law since 2006. The Law Office of Lewis Chimes LLC also has been recognized as one of the best law firms in the United States in the field of employment law by U.S. News and World Report. Attorney Chimes has been selected as one of Lawdragon’s 500 leading employment lawyers in the United States, and was cited in Lawyers of Distinction in Employment Law. Attorney Chimes also handles personal injury, criminal and civil rights cases.

Charles Martin Arnold

Charles Martin Arnold has been a practicing personal injury attorney in New York City for over 29 years. He has built his practice on a “word of mouth” model and does not advertise for personal injury cases. He has successfully handled thousands of cases involving all types of injury issues. Persistent and respected, he has served numerous clients who each sustained life-altering injuries and losses. He uses his litigation experience to guide them through the challenging process of obtaining the just compensation they are entitled to. Through his caring and compassionate approach, Charles (known as “Marty” among friends and some colleagues) instills in his clients a feeling of satisfaction and well-being. He ensures every client is cared for, heard, understood, respected, and effectively represented. His drive and compassion for injury victims come from first-hand experience of severe injury trauma and recovery after suffering serious injuries in an automobile accident as a teenager. Charles’ advocacy and success speak quite loudly. He has achieved multiple multi-million dollar settlements and verdicts on behalf of his clients throughout his career. In addition, Charles was actively involved in successfully resolving two separate multi-million dollar claims stemming from the 51st Street crane collapse catastrophe in 2008, the worst construction accident in New York City’s recent history. The aggressive and tenacious pursuit of justice is in his blood, yet Charles does find time to unwind spending time with his wife and 7 year old son Jason. He also unwinds boxing in the gym, playing golf with friends and colleagues and taking walks with his Australian Shepard dog named Murray.