Mark J. Sommaruga

Mark J. Sommaruga is a member of the firm. He has extensive experience in representing the interests of Connecticut municipalities and school boards, other public sector clients, and private sector clients in labor (including collective bargaining), employment, education, civil rights, special education, municipal law, construction law, tort matters, and other assorted litigation in the state and federal courts on both the trial and appellate court levels, as well as before various state and federal agencies.

Attorney Sommaruga is admitted to the Connecticut Bar, the U. S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and the U. S. Supreme Court. Attorney Sommaruga is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and its Education Law Committee and Labor and Employment Section (Chairman of Legislative Subcommittee, member of the Executive Committee), the National School Boards Association Council of School Attorneys, and has also served as President of the Connecticut Council of School Attorneys.

Attorney Sommaruga has been a participant in and presenter at workshops, seminars and conferences on education, labor and employment law issues, including those sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Association, and has been a presenter at the CABE/CAPSS convention. Attorney Sommaruga also was a member of the Board of Directors of The Bridge Academy and served as its Corporate Secretary. Attorney Sommaruga is the author of The Connecticut Freedom of Information Act and Access to Public Meetings and Records: A Primer for Municipal Agencies.

Attorney Sommaruga received his legal education at the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with High Honors) and his undergraduate degree from Trinity College (B.A. with Honors in Political Science and Russian/Soviet Studies; Phi Beta Kappa).

He practices in the Hartford, Connecticut office.

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