About David Slossberg

David A. Slossberg represents clients in a broad array of complex business litigation, including unfair trade practices (CUTPA), trademark, commercial contract disputes, real property litigation and reinsurance matters in the state and federal courts.  He represents clients seeking to recover losses arising from fraud and embezzlement.  He has tried jury cases to verdict in class action, fraud, negligence, and legal and medical malpractice actions. Mr. Slossberg has appeared on behalf of municipal and private clients before administrative agencies in Connecticut, including the Department of Public Health and the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP).  

He appears before the courts and the Commission on Human Rights & Opportunities on behalf of the firm’s employment clients, litigating sexual harassment, racial, gender, age, disability and military (USERRA) discrimination claims. He advises business clients on employee policy and compliance issues in the workplace. He represents business executives and employers in litigation involving wrongful termination, non-compete, trade secrets, whistleblower, and severance issues.  Mr. Slossberg has represented international businesses and individuals from around the world, including from Israel, Greece, Denmark, Norway, Switzerland, Germany, Japan, and Canada.

Based on his 30-plus years of litigation experience, Mr. Slossberg is sought after to serve as a mediator, arbitrator and special master in complex business disputes.  His active Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice focuses on business matters involving such topics as real property and business valuations, employment, trademark, intracompany conflicts, professional practice breakups, Unfair Trade and Insurance Practices (CUTPA/CUIPA), and the full panoply of financial matters impacting businesses, their executives, and owners.

Mr. Slossberg is a 1985 graduate of Columbia University and received his law degree in 1988 from the New York University School of Law. Mr. Slossberg is admitted to the bars of the States of Connecticut (1994), New York (1989) and Massachusetts (1989) and the bars of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut (1993), the Southern District of New York (1989), the Eastern District of New York (2007), the Northern District of New York (2006), the District of Massachusetts (2021), the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (1996) and the United States Supreme Court (2007).

Mr. Slossberg served as Chairman of the Connecticut Committee of the Federal Bar Council (2007-2013), as Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Federal Bar Foundation (2011-2013), serves as a Trustee of the Federal Bar Council (2016-present) and serves as a member of the Federal Court’s Public Outreach Committee.  Mr. Slossberg served on the Connecticut Class Action Rules Committee, and co-authored “Class Actions In Connecticut Are Alive And Well,” published in the Fall 2007 CTLA Forum (Vol. 25/No. 2). He has been appointed as a special master by the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut. Mr. Slossberg was appointed (2012-2019) to the Connecticut Statewide Grievance Committee by the Executive Committee of Judges of the Superior Court to hear and decide attorney ethics matters.  He is a co-editor of the definitive treatise on Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices, Business Torts and Antitrust and has lectured on issues under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practice Act (CUTPA).

Mr. Slossberg serves as the Chairman of the Regional Board of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), and as a National Commissioner for ADL.  Mr. Slossberg is a member of the Board of Directors of The United Way of Milford (2015-present) and a member of the Board of The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven (2015-present).  Mr. Slossberg served as Chairman of Milford Progress, Inc. (2012), and is a Chairman Emeritus of the Milford Chamber of Commerce, twice named its Director of the Year.  Mr. Slossberg is a past President of the Devon Rotary Club, serves on the Board of the Devon Rotary Foundation and is a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary.