Trudie R. Hamilton

Partner

Waterbury
thamilton@carmodylaw.com

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Education

University of Dundee, Scotland, LL.B., 1975 Faculty of Law,
University of Dundee, Scotland, J.D., 1975 M.A., History, First Class Honors, Class Rank, First Place
University of Connecticut School of Law, 1980, cum laude

Admissions

Bar Admissions

Connecticut

Court Admissions

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

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Trudie practices in the defense of major personal injury, medical malpractice and product liability cases. Over the last 25 years, Trudie has successfully defended cases on behalf of national and international product manufacturers, a national medical testing company, a New England University, as well as Connecticut hospitals and doctors, Connecticut police officers and a Connecticut public utility.

“Trudie is a fine lawyer.”

Chambers USA, 2021

Affiliations

American College of Trial Lawyers
American Board of Trial Advocates
Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court: Barrister
Waterbury Bar Association
Connecticut Bar Association

Distinctions

Chambers USA Guide - Litigation: General Commercial, 2021
Best Lawyers® - Litigation, 1995-2023
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
First woman in Connecticut to be inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
First woman elected to membership in the Connecticut Chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates
First woman in Connecticut listed in Best Lawyers®
Certified Civil Trial Specialist, National Board of Trial Advocacy
Appointed to the Board of Regents, American College of Trial Lawyers as Regent to Downstate New York, Vermont and Connecticut, 2010
Top 25 Women Lawyers in Connecticut, Connecticut Magazine, 2009, 2016, 2018
Connecticut State Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers, 2008
First Class Honors, Class Rank, First Place, University of Dundee, Scotland
Awarded Class Medal in each of the four years, University of Dundee, Scotland
Scholarships for Academic Excellence, University of Dundee, Scotland
Member, American Bar Association Special Committee on Medical Professional Liability
Chair, American College of Trial Lawyers Award for Courageous Advocacy Committee, 2003–2006
Member, Sandra Day O’Connor Jurist Award Committee, 2007
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.
With her partner, Anthony Fitzgerald, she 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.

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