PARTNER

Beatrice focuses her practice on public entity defense, including the representation of public officials, law enforcement, boards of education, planning and zoning commissions, emergency response personnel and other municipal employees in a broad spectrum of general liability, professional liability and civil rights claims.

She has over twenty years of experience defending claims involving civil rights violations, unreasonable use of force, false arrest, malicious prosecution, wrongful conviction, as well as claims of negligence, nuisance and highway defect. In addition, she has served as appellate counsel for numerous public entities and municipal employees before the Connecticut Appellate Court, Connecticut Supreme Court, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Practice Areas

  • Public Entity Defense
  • Civil Rights Defense
  • Law Enforcement Liability
  • Appellate Practice
  • Education Law and Litigation
  • First Amendment Litigation
  • Fair Housing Litigation
  • Land Use Litigation

Education

  • J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, 1999
  • B.S., St. John's University, 1996, summa cum laude

Admissions

  • Connecticut
  • U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
  • U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
  • U.S. Supreme Court

Email: [email protected]

Representative Matters

Recent Case Results

  • Dobie v. City of New Haven, 346 Conn. 487 (2023) Connecticut Supreme Court decision affirming the Appellate Court's ruling in Dobie v. City of New Haven, 204 Conn. App. 583 (2021) directing the entry of judgment in favor of the City, finding that the alleged negligent act of City's snowplow oper... Read On

  • McKinney v. City of Middletown, 49 F.4th 730 (2d Cir. 2022) U.S. Court of Appeals decision affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendants, finding that the defendant officers were entitled to qualified immunity on the basis that their incremental and combined use of a baton, a canine, and... Read On

  • Doe v. City of New Haven, 214 Conn. App. 553 (2022) Connecticut Appellate Court decision affirming summary judgment in favor of the defendants pursuant to their defense of governmental immunity as to the plaintiff's negligence claims related to his sexual abuse by his former theatre teacher. Do... Read On