Bach-Van Horn, Elisabeth S.

Jeffrey Babbin is a partner in the firm's Appellate and Complex Legal Issues Practice Group within the firm's Litigation Department. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Appellate Lawyers, and he co-chairs the Connecticut Bar Association's Appellate Advocacy Committee. Mr. Babbin has handled over a hundred appeals of trial court and agency decisions before federal and state courts nationally, with particular experience in the Connecticut Supreme Court and the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. His appeals have involved constitutional rights, insurance, securities, medical and other professional malpractice, breach of contract, fraud, other business and personal torts, labor relations, and Native American land claims. He also has an active administrative appeals practice, representing regulated companies in the judicial review of federal and state agency action for client companies in the electric, water, telecommunications, health care, and alcoholic beverage industries. He has authored both party and amicus briefs in the United States Supreme Court and has assisted in preparing advocates for oral argument before that Court. Mr. Babbin pursues and defends appeals in cases tried by other law firms in addition to conducting the appeals of matters originally handled at trial by his firm. He also routinely assists trial counsel in his and other law firms on complex legal motions both before and after trial and on tasks for preserving issues for appeal.

Mr. Babbin frequently lectures at seminars on appellate law and procedure. Since 2006, he has been selected for annual inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America for his work as an appellate lawyer.

Before joining Wiggin and Dana in 1992, Mr. Babbin practiced law for seven years in Washington, D.C., working on complex civil litigation in courts and administrative agencies and an international arbitration before the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal in The Hague.

Mr. Babbin received his Bachelor of Science in Economics magna cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and his law degree from Stanford University.