Trudie R. Hamilton

Partner

Waterbury
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Education

University of Connecticut School of Law, 1980, cum laude
University of Dundee, Scotland, LL.B., 1975 Faculty of Law
University of Dundee, Scotland, Undergraduate 1973 M.A., History, First Class Honors, Class Rank, First Place; Awarded Class Medal in each of four years Masters Program; Scholarships for Academic Excellence

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Trudie is a senior partner in Carmody’s Litigation group and practices in the defense of major personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability cases. Over the last 40 years, Trudie has successfully defended cases on behalf of national and international product manufacturers, a national medical testing company, and a New England University, as well as Connecticut hospitals and doctors, Connecticut police officers and a Connecticut public utility. She has tried over 50 major jury cases to verdict. She has received numerous awards and distinctions as an outstanding litigator.

“Trudie is a fine lawyer.”

Chambers USA, 2021

Affiliations

American College of Trial Lawyers (Former Regent)
American Board of Trial Advocates (Former President Connecticut Chapter)
Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court: Barrister
Connecticut Bar Association
Waterbury Bar Association

Distinctions

First woman in Connecticut to be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
First women elected to the Connecticut Chapter, the American Board of Trial Advocates
President, Connecticut Chapter, The American Board of Trial Advocates - 2012-2018
Best Lawyers® - Litigation, 1995-2026; First woman in Connecticut listed in The Best Lawyers in America® in Litigation, 1995-2022
Chambers USA Guide - Litigation: General Commercial, 2012-2021
Connecticut Super Lawyers® - Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, 2006-2021
New England Super Lawyers® - Personal Injury Defense: Medical Malpractice, 2007, 2008, 2016
Top 50 Women, New England Super Lawyers, 2007-2008
Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
Appointed to the Board of Regents, American College of Trial Lawyers as Regent for Downstate New York, including Manhattan, Vermont and Connecticut, 2010-2014
Top 25 Women Lawyers in Connecticut, Connecticut Magazine, 2006-2008, 2016-2019
Connecticut State Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers, 2006-2010
Member, American Bar Association Special Committee on Medical Professional Liability
Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers Award for Courageous Advocacy Committee, 2001–2005
Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers, Sandra Day O’Connor Jurist Award Committee, 2007-2011
Chair, Connecticut Bar Association Grievance Committee, Litchfield County, 1988–1994
Chair, State of Connecticut Medical Legal Committee, 1983-1987

Experience

Successfully tried to verdict cases involving brain damage, quadriplegia, death and patient suicide.
Successfully defended multiple claims against a national medical testing laboratory arising from claims of employee tampering with pregnancy genetic tests.
Successfully defended claims of physician misdiagnosis resulting in severe injury and death and claims of negligent surgery resulting in quadriplegia and death.
Successfully defended claims of mismanagement of labor and delivery resulting in severe infant brain damage.
Successfully defended claims of sexual abuse in the course of the psychiatrist/patient relationship.
Successfully defended psychiatric malpractice claims relating to suicide and homicide.
Successfully defended multiple personal injury claims relating to mold exposure.
Successfully defended multiple cancer claims relating to alleged Benzene exposure.
Represented a major international manufacturer in personal injury and death cases involving claims of defective design of motorcycles, All Terrain Vehicles and personal watercraft.
Represented a New England University in trial of claim involving a cheerleader accident resulting in quadriplegia.
Successfully defended a Connecticut public utility claim that a young woman’s brain cancer was caused by exposure to electric and magnetic fields from residential power lines. This case had been identified by the national plaintiffs’ bar as a key case in nationwide litigation claiming that electric and magnetic field exposure caused childhood brain cancer and leukemia.
Part of the Connecticut team in the Attorneys General case against "Big Tobacco." Trudie was responsible for developing medical causation evidence, including retention of, and defending the deposition of the key causation expert, a world-renowned epidemiologist.

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August 21, 2025

Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey LLP has received more than 110 accolades across over 30 areas of law and across all its offices in Connecticut, in the 32nd edition of The Best Lawyers in America® 2026. Forty-nine Carmody lawyers are named to the ‘Best Lawyers’ list for Stamford and New
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Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey has received more than 90 accolades across over 30 areas of law and across all its offices in Connecticut, in the 30th edition of The Best Lawyers in America® 2024. Forty-two Carmody lawyers are named to the ‘Best Lawyers’ list and ten lawyers are listed
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History of Connecticut Women in the Legal Profession – Connecticut Bar Foundation

June 19, 2023

Carmody partner Trudie Hamilton talks about her career in the CBF's History of CT Women in Legal Profession.

Carmody Lawyers Named to The Best Lawyers in America 2023 List

April 05, 2023

Carmody is pleased to announce that 39 attorneys have been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2023. In addition, Giovanna Tiberii Weller and William J. Hennessey Jr. have been named ‘Lawyer of the Year’ in New Haven, CT and Stamford, CT for Employment Law and Land Use & Zoning
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31 Carmody Attorneys Selected to the 2021 Super Lawyers^®, Rising Stars in Connecticut Lists

October 12, 2021

Carmody is proud to announce the selection of 31 of its attorneys to the Connecticut Super Lawyers® or Rising Stars lists for 2021. Selected attorneys are noted below. Each year, no more than 5% of the lawyers in the state are selected as Super Lawyers® and no more than 2.5%
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