New Canaan resident Thomas Parrino, co-founder and principal of Nusbaum & Parrino, PC, in Westport, has been selected to the 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers Top 50.
The Top 50 designation signifies an attorney received the highest point totals in the Connecticut nominations, research and blue ribbon review process.
Parrino is a principal and co-founder of Nusbaum & Parrino. He has been practicing family law for more than 27 years handling some of the most intricate and high-asset family law litigation in Connecticut, according to his firm’s website. He represents clients in all areas of family law, including divorce, alimony, child support, property division and child custody. In 2013, Attorney Parrino earned the designation Lawyer of the Year as selected by peer recognition and published by Best Lawyers.
Super Lawyers, a Thomson Reuters business, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. Less than 5% of the lawyers in Connecticut are selected by Super Lawyers.
The Super Lawyers lists are published nationwide in Super Lawyers magazines and in leading city and regional magazines and newspapers across the country.
Nusbaum & Parrino P.C., according to its website, “provides sophisticated legal services to individual clients in complex and high-asset family law matters, including divorce, alimony, child support, property division, child custody, post-judgment modification and post-judgment contempt hearings. Nusbaum & Parrino has long been regarded as a preeminent family law boutique in Fairfield County. In short, our performance speaks for itself.”
Parrino is admitted to practice in the State of Connecticut, and the U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut. He is a Fellow, and President-Elect of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers. In June 2014, Mr. Parrino will become President of the Connecticut Chapter of the AAML. He currently chairs the Connecticut Chapter’s Examining Committee. He is also a member of the American, Connecticut and Fairfield County Bar Associations, and the Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association.
Parrino serves as a member of Connecticut’s Family Law Commission, which is composed of Connecticut Superior Court Judges and select Connecticut attorneys who have been invited to serve as members. The Connecticut Family Law Commission’s purpose is to review Connecticut’s Rules of Court, decisional law and legislation that apply to family law; and to craft proposed reforms, and new initiatives designed to enhance family law in the State of Connecticut.
He also serves as a Delegate to the National Board of Governors of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, in which he previously served as chairman of the National Admissions Committee, and served as a member of the National Test Subcommittee. Additionally, Parrino is a fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers.
Attorney Parrino, and his partner, Edward Nusbaum, became international authors by co-authoring a chapter in the book, “Family Law Jurisdictional Comparisons,” Second Edition 2013, published by European Lawyer/Thomson Reuters. This book is the result of the growing importance of international family law and the need among family lawyers for a definitive guide to family law in core jurisdictions around the globe. The jurisdictions consist of 37 countries and six states in the U.S. Nusbaum and Parrino wrote about Connecticut family law covering many of the typical subjects including pre- and post-nuptial agreements, finances/capital, property, child maintenance, surrogacy and adoption, financial relief after foreign divorce proceedings, and civil partnership/same-sex marriage, among others.
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