Murphy, Marijo M.

Neal L. Moskow, a founding member of the firm, focuses his practice in the areas of construction law and litigation, commercial, banking, and civil litigation, employment law and litigation, personal injury litigation, and mass tort (drug, medical device, and toxic tort) litigation. Recognized by judges, juries, and his peers as an outstanding litigator, Mr. Moskow is an AV Rated attorney with 22 years of experience as a litigator and has successfully brought and defended hundreds of cases at both the trial and appellate levels of the Connecticut and federal courts. Mr. Moskow is also a certified member of the Million Dollar Advocates Forum, an association generally recognized as including the top trial lawyers in America. Membership in the Million Dollar Advocates Forum is reserved for lawyers who have recovered million and multi-million dollar verdicts. Mr. Moskow was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1989 and is admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as well as the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Court.

Mr. Moskow earned his Juris Doctorate from Boston University Law School in 1989 and his B.A. from the University of New York at Albany in 1986, magna cum laude.

Mr. Moskow is on the faculty of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Institute (a National Institute of Trial Advocacy/Connecticut Bar Association organization) and teaches at the Institute's annual "trial lawyer boot camp," an intensive 4-day training session for both novice and experienced litigators. In addition to teaching trial practice, Mr. Moskow lectures extensively on diverse topics and for a wide range of audiences, including programs sponsored by the Connecticut Bar Association, Lorman Education Services, National Business Institute, industry trade groups, and private companies. Representative topics on which he frequently speaks include: Connecticut's construction laws (mechanic's lien law, surety law, Home Improvement/New Home Contractor's Act, and the Fairness in Construction Financing Act), employment law, court motion practice in Connecticut, automobile accidents and insurance law, and Connecticut foreclosure law.

Mr. Moskow serves on the Plaintiffs' Steering Committee for the In Re: Trasylol, Federal Multi-District Litigation #1928, situated in West Palm Beach, Florida before the Honorable Donald Middlebrooks, United States District Court.  In his role as Federal State Liaison Counsel, Neal is involved in all aspects of managing the litigation as well as communicating with the seven state courts around the country where cases have also been filed.  Mr. Moskow is also the Co-Chair of the American Association for Justice's Trasylol Litigation Group.  Attorney Moskow remains actively involved in the hormone replacement therapy litigation, the Vioxx litigation, the heart device litigation, and other litigations involving medical products and devices.

In 2004, the Connecticut Bar Foundation named Mr. Moskow a James W. Cooper Fellow. Selection as a Cooper Fellow requires demonstrated superior legal ability and devotion to the welfare of the community, state, and nation and the advancement of the legal profession. In 2007, Mr. Moskow was appointed to the Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee's Fairfield County hearing panel. Mr. Moskow has also been named as a Connecticut Super Lawyer in general civil litigation in 2006 by Law & Politics and the publishers of Connecticut Magazine.

Mr. Moskow has had numerous reported cases and important results. Representative cases include:  Stamford Wrecking Co. v. United Stone America, Inc., 99 Conn. App. 1, 912 A.2d 1044 (2007);  Original Grasso Const. Co., Inc. v. Sheperd, 70 Conn. App. 404, 799 A.2d 1083, cert. denied, 261 Conn. 932, 806 A.2d 1065 (2002); Distasio v. Perkin Elmer Corp., 157 F. 3d 55 (2nd Cir. 1998).  Mr. Moskow is also a court-appointed fact finder/arbitrator and special master for the Connecticut Superior Court and frequently mediates and arbitrates matters for private parties at the request of other lawyers.

Mr. Moskow is an active member of numerous professional and civic organizations including: the Connecticut Bar Association (Litigation, Employment, and Commercial Law Sections), American Bar Association (Torts and Insurance Practice Group and the Construction and Surety Group), Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association, the American Association for Justice (Section on Toxic, Environmental and Pharmaceutical Torts, Daubert Litigation Group, Ephedra Group, PPA Group, Hormone Replacement Therapy Group, and the Vioxx Group), and the Connecticut Employment Law Association. Mr. Moskow has previously served as Associate Editor for Sidebar, the Connecticut Bar Association's Litigation Section's newsletter, and as an Executive Board Member for the Connecticut Bar Association's Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section. Mr. Moskow is currently Director of Education and a board member at Temple Beth Tikvah in Madison, Connecticut. Mr. Moskow also serves as a board member with various community organizations. In his non-working hours, Mr. Moskow devotes his time and energy to his wife and four children.