Qualified Attorney in East Texas

Attorney Secola has been in private practice since 1984. He has years of experience in a wide variety of legal disciplines. Read his profile below to get to know him better.

• Argued before Connecticut Supreme Court on March 19, 1996, in a winning administrative law case involving the Due Process of Law, entitled Dolgner v. Alander, 676 A.2d 865, 237 Conn. 272 (Conn. 1996).

• Won 2007 jury verdict in a car crash case - Groccia v. Lederer - Verdict of $580,000 ($80,000 economic and $500,000 non-economic) for middle-aged mother - New Haven Jury verdict featured on May 21, 2007, Connecticut Law Tribune, in Verdicts and Settlements section.

• Won 2005 Jury Verdicts in a car crash case - Bolonos v. Curry - Danbury Verdicts of (1) $255,000 ($5,000 economic and $250,000 non-economic damages awarded) for college-age daughter and (2) $79,000 ($4,000 economic and $75,000 economic damages awarded) for middle-aged mother.

• Won 1999 Jury Verdict in a car crash case - Riley v. Nordic Products, Inc. - Meriden Verdict of $168,000 ($35,000 economic and $133,000 non-economic damages awarded) for a middle-aged man.

• Settled cases of note - medmal case of young girl settled for $690,000; wrongful death medmal case of a teenage male settled for 1.5 million; a 30-year-old male in a truck-car accident with permanent injuries settled for 1.2 million.

• Member, Board of Directors, Good Samaritan Mission, Danbury, Ct. [homeless shelter and discipleship house] (2014 - 2019)\
  
• Member, Board of Directors, Brookfield Museum and Historical Society (2004 - 2019)
  
• Member, Brookfield Youth Commission (2002-2005)
  
• Sponsor, Several Little League and Pop Warner football teams (1996-2006)
• Bible Study Teacher at Men's Bible Study, St. Paul's Anglican Church, Brookfield, CT (1995 - 2022)
  
• Member, City of Milford Board of Education (1989 -1990)
  

Articles:

• Published Probate Court opinion in the Estate of Charlene E. Kreinus, 17 Quinnipiac Prob. L.J. 9 (2003).

Cases:

• State v. Reddy, 135 Conn. App. 65 (Conn. App. 2012) (JPS won appeal reversing the seizure of the firearms of a gunowner).
• New Milford Sav. Bank v. Mulville,258 Conn. 802, 786 A.2d 1090 (Conn. 2001) (JPS obtained a judgment of foreclosure by sale in the trial court and successfully defended the appeal in both the Appellate Court and Connecticut Supreme Court).
• Dolgner v. Alander, 676 A.2d 865, 237 Conn. 272 (Conn. 1996) (JPS won appeal and Connecticut Supreme Court reversed agency action and restored license of JPS's client).
• New Milford Savings Bank v. Roina, 659 A.2d 1226, 38 Conn. App. 240 (Conn. App. 1995) (JPS won summary judgment for plaintiff bank in trial court defeating lender liability counterclaim and successfully defending the appeal in the Connecticut Appellate Court).
• Asset Recovery Management Co. v. Tarzia, 1995 WL 16797, 1995 WL 17181 (Conn. Super. 1995) (JPS won trial and obtained permanent injunction for plaintiff corporation enjoining interference with marketing of real estate).
• Melief v. New Milford Savings Bank, 1996 WL 168011 (Conn. Super. 1996) (JPS won summary judgment for the defendant bank defeating lender liability claims).
• New Milford Savings Bank v. Melief, 1994 WL 174725 (Conn. Super. 1994), affirmed, 659 A.2d 1232, 38 Conn. App. 906 (Conn. App. 1995), cert. denied, 665 A.2d 902, 235 Conn. 910 (Conn. 1995) (JPS won the trial for a deficiency judgment for the plaintiff bank and successfully defended the judgment in both the Appellate and Supreme Courts of CT).
• New Milford Savings Bank v. Zukov, 1993 WL 544768 (Conn. Super. 1993) (JPS won trial court ruling for plaintiff bank which struck the lender liability counterclaim from the jury docket).
• Kagan v. Ginsburg, 622 A.2d 1030, 30 Conn. App. 794 (Conn. App. 1993) (JPS won appeal; Appellate Court reversed trial court dismissal of plaintiff's claims).
• K.W. Dolmar Broadcasting Co., Inc. v. Matar, 1992 WL 188915 (Conn. Super. 1992), affirmed, 632 A.2d 720, 32 Conn. App. 906 (Conn. App. 1993) (JPS won trial and obtained injunction and damages for intentional interference with business relations; JPS successfully defended the appeal in the CT Appellate Court).