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Richard D. O'Connor, Shareholder
150 Trumbull Street
Phone: (860) 727-8900
Secondary Location: New London E-Mail:
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AV ®Peer Review Rated
Richard O’Connor is a Shareholder in the Firm and one of its founding partners in 1967. For several years prior to his present areas of practice, Mr. O’Connor was a litigator specializing in civil trial work with a prominent Hartford firm. He is now principally engaged in labor and employment law on behalf of management, educational law, and hospital law; and litigation involving employment, education, commercial, and construction law. In that context he represents a variety of public and private employers, educational institutions, school districts, and hospitals in their general business operations, and in particular, litigation. In those areas, Mr. O’Connor has considerable experience in Union organizational efforts, unfair labor practices, collective bargaining, and arbitration. He is familiar with general business operations, employee/employer relations, and the particular circumstances involving municipal employers, school districts, medical institutions and institutions of higher learning.
Dick practices regularly before federal and state administrative and regulatory agencies, and the State and Federal Courts. He has frequently acted as a fact-finder, mediator, and arbitrator in the public and private sectors, and has been appointed to the Governor’s panel for the resolution of educational disputes. He was the Regional Coordinator for the National Manufacturers Association Committee on Labor Reform, a member of the Magistrate’s Reappointment Review Committee for the United States District Court, and an arbitrator with the American Arbitration Association in commercial and labor matters. Mr. O’Connor is a frequent speaker, author, and contributor to professional journals on the subject matters described above.
Following service as a naval officer and his graduation from law school, Mr. O'Connor served as a law clerk to the Honorable T. Emmet Clarie, Chief Judge in the United States District Court in Hartford.
Peer Review
Best Lawyers in Connecticut 2004 –
Super Lawyers in New England 2006 –
The New York Area’s Best Lawyers (New York, New Jersey and Connecticut) 2006 -
Admitted to Practice
Connecticut, 1964
District of Columbia, 1971
Massachusetts, 1985
U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, 1964
U.S. District Court, District of Massachusetts, 1985
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York, 1997
U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 1997
U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, 1969
U.S. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit, 1974
U.S. Supreme Court, 1973
Education
College of the Holy Cross, B.S., 1959
Georgetown University School of Law, LL.B., 1964
Professional Activities
American Association of Hospital Attorneys
American Bar Association, Labor Law and International Labor Law Sections
Association of Trial Lawyers of America
National Association of Boards of Education
Attorneys' Council, National Association of Boards of Education
Connecticut Association of Boards of Education
Attorneys’ Council, Connecticut Association of Boards of Education
Connecticut Bar Association, Labor and Employment Law Section and Former Chairman
Connecticut School Attorneys' Council
District of Columbia Bar Association
Federal Bar Council
Hartford County Bar Association
Industrial Relations Research Association
International Network of Boutique Law Firms
International Society for Labor Law and Social Security
Maritime Bar Association
Massachusetts Bar Association
The College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
Fellow in the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers
Author and Lecturer
Co-Author: “An Analysis of the ‘No Strike Clause’ In Contemporary Collective Bargaining Agreements,” 7 Western New England Law Review 147, 1984.
Regular speaker on current corporate, commercial, and labor issues before a broad range of audiences.
Community Activities
Holy Cross Alumni Association
Georgetown Alumni Association
Mystic Seaport
Navy Mutual Aid Association
The Navy League
Yale Moot Court
