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Robert Carter, a partner in the firm, has been an active
attorney in Connecticut since 1978. From the beginning,
his practice focused on workplace injuries and
occupational diseases. Bob is widely recognized as one
of the leading workers' compensation lawyers in
Connecticut. For each of the last twelve years he has
been selected by other Connecticut attorneys for
membership in The Best Lawyers in America for workers'
compensation claims.
Bob was born in Nashville, Tennessee and attended public
schools there. He graduated from Harvard University (A.B.,
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) in 1967. He received
his master's and law degrees from Yale University, where
he served as Note and Comment Editor on the Yale Law
Journal. After graduating from law school, he served as
law clerk to the Hon. M. Joseph Blumenfeld, U.S.
District Court, District of Connecticut. Before entering
full-time legal practice, between 1972 and 1978 Bob
served as an Assistant Professor of Law at the
University of Connecticut Law School and attended
medical school at the University of Connecticut.
Bob has written and lectured widely on issues related to
workplace injuries and occupational diseases. Among
other articles, he is the co-author of A Legal and
Scientific Probability of Causation of Cancer and other
Environmental Diseases in Individuals 10 Journal of
Health, Politics, Policy and Law, No. 1, 33 (1985) (with
T. Brennan). He served as visiting lecturer at Yale Law
School between 1980 and 1983, teaching courses on
occupational disease. He acted as Chairman of the
Workers' Compensation Section of the Connecticut Bar
Association between 1993 and 1996, and he has written
the regular column on workers' compensation for the
Connecticut Trial Lawyers Forum since 1997.
In Bob's law practice, he has represented hundreds of
injured people, both in court trials and in workers'
compensation cases. In civil court, Bob successfully
represented the first plaintiff to be awarded damages by
a jury for lung cancer causes by asbestos in a Connecticut court.
He has broad experience in the most complex and
technically challenging injury cases, including brain
injuries, cancers, lung diseases, chemical exposures,
asthma, pharyngeal, liver, kidney and heart cases, as
well as all sorts of traumatic injuries. He serves with
a lifetime appointment to the Raytech Corporation
Asbestos Personal Injury Settlement Trust as its
representative for future claimants, for distributing
proceeds to people seriously injured by asbestos.
Bob also is an experienced appellate lawyer. He has
often been tapped by the Connecticut Trial Lawyers
Association and the Connecticut Bar Association to write
their friend of the court briefs in important cases on
appeal to the Supreme Court of Connecticut, and he has
argued a number of landmark workplace injury cases
before the Connecticut Supreme Court. See
Reported Cases for
more information.
Bob has three grown children, is married to Donna
Civitello, and lives in Southbury, Connecticut.
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