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Stratford Disability and Age Discrimination Lawyer
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Gary Phelan is a shareholder at Mitchell & Sheahan, P.C. He represents employees and employers in a wide range of matters, including disability and age discrimination, family responsibilities discrimination, wrongful termination and severance negotiations. He is the co-author ofDisability Discrimination in the Workplace(West Group) andFamily Responsibilities Discrimination(BNA/Bloomberg)...
Gary Phelan is a shareholder at Mitchell & Sheahan, P.C. He represents employees and employers in a wide range of matters, including disability and age discrimination, family responsibilities discrimination, wrongful termination and severance negotiations. He is the co-author ofDisability Discrimination in the Workplace(West Group) andFamily Responsibilities Discrimination(BNA/Bloomberg)...
Gary Phelan is a shareholder at Mitchell & Sheahan, P.C. He represents employees and employers in a wide range of matters, including disability and age discrimination, family responsibilities discrimination, wrongful termination and severance negotiations. He is the co-author ofDisability Discrimination in the Workplace(West Group) andFamily Responsibilities Discrimination(BNA/Bloomberg). Gary was selected by peer review inBest Lawyers in America(1995-2020) and was designated as a “Lawyer of the Year” byBest Lawyersfor the Stamford, CT Region in 2012. Gary was selected for the Connecticut Super Lawyers (2006-2020), and was designated as a “Local Litigation Star” inBenchmark Litigation(2013-2020). In 2016 and 2017, Gary was named by Moffly Media as one of “the 200 Outstanding Lawyers in Fairfield County.”
He has written and lectured on a wide range of employment-related topics. Gary teaches disability law, employment discrimination law and alternative dispute resolution as an adjunct professor at the Quinnipiac University School of Law.
He often serves as a commentator on employment law topics and has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CNN, NBC Nightly News, CBS This Morning, CBS Evening News, Fox News, Court TV and MSNBC. He previously served on the Executive Board of the National Employment Lawyers Association (“NELA”), was President of the Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association and was the co-chair of NELA’s Disability Rights Committee. He was the Chair of the Connecticut Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section in 2014-15.
Gary has served on the Board of Directors of A Better Balance and Smart Kids with Learning Disabilities and on the Board of Advisors for the New York Office of Disability Rights Advocate.
Gary graduated from Siena College,Magna Cum Laude, and Albany Law School, where he served as a Note and Comment Editor forAlbany Law Review. He is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York State Bars and before the U.S. District Court in Connecticut and the Southern District of New York, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
About Gary Phelan
Practice Areas
- Disability and Age Discrimination
- Wrongful Termination and Severance Negotiations
Current Employment Position(s)
- Shareholder
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Connecticut, 1988
- New York, 1989
- U.S. District Court District of Connecticut
- U.S. District Court Northern District of New York
- U.S. District Court Southern District of New York
- U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit
- U.S. Supreme Court
Other Affiliations
- Connecticut Employment Lawyers Association` (President)
- National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) (Co-Chair, Disability Rights Committee )
- National Employment Lawyers Association (NELA) (Executive Board)
- The Center for Work Life Law (Advisory Board)
Education
- Albany Law School Union University, Albany, New York
- Siena College, 1982
B.A.
Past Positions
- Klebanoff & Phelan, P.C., Hartford, Connecticut, Partner
- Garrison, Phelan, Levin-Epstein, Chimes & Richardson, New Haven, Connecticut, Partner
- Outten and Golden, LLP, Partner
Classes and Seminars
- Adjunct Professor, Quinnipiac University School of Law
- Whistleblower Claims: A Plaintiff’s Lawyer’s Perspective, Fairfield County Bar Association, Stamford, CT, January 26, 2006
- Municipal Employees and the ADA, Toward Civic Accessibility, University of Connecticut Law School, October 27, 2005
- Leaves of Absence, American Bar Association Labor and Employment Law Section Teleconference, May 4, 2005
- Keeping Pace with the Americans with Disabilities Act: A 2005 Update on the Latest Developments, Pennsylvania Bar Institute, Philadelphia, PA, April 26, 2005
- Motherhood Discrimination, New York Employment Lawyers Association, New York City, March 23, 2005
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Gary Phelan
Included on the 2022 Connecticut list
Past Lists
- 2021 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2009 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2008 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2007 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
- 2006 Connecticut Super Lawyers list
Honors
- The Best Lawyers in America, Labor and Employment Law, 1995 - 2010
- Connecticut Super Lawyer, Labor and Employment Law by Super Lawyers Magazine, 2006 - 2010
Office Information
Address
999 Oronoque Lane Suite 203 Stratford, CT 06614
Phone
Fax
- (203) 873-0235
Publication
Articles
- Disability Discrimination in the Workplace, (Co-Author), West Group
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