Noel R. Newman
nnewman@fnlslaw.com

Noel R. Newman, a founder of the firm, focuses on civil litigation with particular emphasis on personal injury, malpractice and breach of contract claims.

Mr. Newman graduated from Yale University in 1953 and received his law degree, cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1956.

He is admitted to practice before all Connecticut courts, the United States District Court for Connecticut, and the United States Supreme Court.

Mr. Newman has been appointed as a member of the Civil Jury Instruction Committee and serves as a Special Master in both the United States District Court and the Superior Courts and is an Attorney Trial Referee in the Superior Court. Mr. Newman is a member of the panel of arbitrators of the American Arbitration Association as well as a member of the Civil Task Force.

He additionally holds membership in the Connecticut Bar Association where he sits on the Executive Board of the Litigation Committee and in the Greater Bridgeport Bar Association where he has served as chairman of the Civil Trials and Procedures, the Bench-Bar and the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committees. He is also is a member of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association and has been a faculty member of the Trial Advocacy Institute, which is sponsored jointly by the Connecticut Bar Association and the National Institute of Trial Advocacy.

Active in his community, he has served as Town Attorney for the Town of Fairfield for 13 years; has been a member of the Fairfield’s Representative Town Meeting, the Board of Finance, and Fairfield’s Ethics Commission. He is currently counsel to the Fairfield Board of Education. He has also served as president of the Osborn Hill School PTA and sat on both the Fairfield PTA Council and The Mill Hill School Building Committee. Mr. Newman has been President of Congregation Beth El of Fairfield where he was named “Man of the Year”.