C. Scott Schwefel

Background

About C. Scott Schwefel

I practice in the area of litigation and represent clients in a wide range of matters including real estate, business, and employment-related disputes. I represent litigants in state and federal courts in Connecticut and Massachusetts as well as in mediation and arbitration. I serve as a member of the American Arbitration Association’s national panel of lawyer neutrals. I represent clients in a broad range of real estate disputes, including litigation involving contract disputes concerning real estate transactions, boundary disputes, claims of adverse possession, landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosures, and property valuation litigation including government eminent domain and regulatory takings, and property tax appeals. I have an extensive practice in property tax litigation, encompassing work in all counties in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and I undertake tax appeals and abatements for various types of retail, office and industrial properties. I litigate Superior Court tax appeals on behalf of major retailers and financial institutions, including numerous Fortune 500 companies, and I am a frequent lecturer with the American Bar Association and the Appraisal Institute on property valuation. In the area of employment law, I counsel employers on developing and applying employment policies; negotiating and drafting employment, noncompetition and nondisclosure agreements; and advise employers on hiring, disciplining and terminating employees. I have significant experience in litigating and defending claims of harassment; retaliation and discrimination on the basis of age, race, sex and disability; wrongful discharge and breach of contract. I also advise employers regarding compliance with the American with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act and other federal and state statutes governing employment. I am admitted to practice in the State of Connecticut (admitted in 1997), the Commonwealth of Massachusetts the United States District Court in the districts of Connecticut (1998) and Massachusetts the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (2012), and the Supreme Court of the United States (2014). I hold numerous leadership positions in state and national bar associations and currently serve on the House of Delegates for the Connecticut Bar Association and the House of Delegates for the American Bar Association as a bar delegate.