has been with the firm since 1977 when he left the position of General Counsel to the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, having previously served as one of the neighborhood lawyers in the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. He received his BA from Swarthmore in 1966, his LL.B. from Yale in 1969. Born in Oak Park, Illinois he resides in the City of New Haven for which he serves on the Civilian Review Board and the Peace Commission.
He concentrates his practice in the areas of administrative law, civil litigation, affordable housing, environmental land use and zoning law, and has substantial experience representing zoning commissions and citizens groups, as well as taking on frontier issues from either side, including large scale developments, shopping malls, a football stadium, and coastal management act disputes. Admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1970 and to the federal courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States, he brings to the firm great breadth of experience, tenacious and courageous advocacy and a lifetime of exploratory study of the relation of law to human problems.