Criminal Law

• Fraud
• Embezzlement
  Insurers frequently retain the firm to defend suits against directors and officers of businesses, community organizations and condominium associations. Representation also includes the defense of Board members sued for negligent acts, omissions, misleading statements, embezzlement, and negligent hiring and supervision.

Business and Corporate Law

• Mergers and Acquisitions
• Business Disputes
  The attorneys in Neubert, Pepe & Monteith’s Bankruptcy & Creditor Rights group have extensive experience serving individuals and businesses dealing with financial distress and insolvency issues and clients seeking counsel regarding default servicing. Attorneys draw from their experience in bankruptcy, finance, business law, and real estate. As a result, we are able to provide comprehensive services to clients throughout Connecticut, New York, and the Northeast.
• Business Transactions
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith’s Corporate & Business Transactions group provides legal services and business counseling services to varied types and sizes of businesses. Clients include individual entrepreneurs and closely held and family owned businesses. We assist clients in navigating today's business environment, and provide support throughout an organization’s growth cycle.
• Limited Liability Companies
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith provides clients with sophisticated creative advice and documentation for their taxation, trusts & estates needs. Counsel is provided for estate planning and administration, the establishment of trusts, wills, and other wealth transfer entities. Additionally, we advise clients on the selection of fiduciaries and the intricacies of business succession planning. Further, we utilize sophisticated techniques for tax efficiency to accomplish client needs. These techniques include limited liability companies (LLCs), family limited partnerships (FLPs), Irrevocable Life Insurance Trusts (ILITs), Special Needs Trusts (SNTs). Also, Qualified Personal Residence Trusts (QPRTs), Grantor Retained Annuity or Income Trusts (GRATs and GRITs), Charitable Lead and Remainder Trusts, and defective grantor trusts.
• Intellectual Property

Employment Law

• Workers Compensation
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith provides a complete range of labor and employment legal services. We regularly offer counsel in areas such as reorganization, restructuring, and reductions in force counseling. Additionally, we offer counsel for wage and salary administration and workers compensation and unemployment compensation matters. The Employment & Labor Law group is also skilled in helping clients meet and maintain regulatory compliance. Compliance matters address the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Connecticut Fair Employment Act (CFEPA) regulations. Additionally, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and other federal and state statutory and regulatory laws.
• Employment Contract
• Employment Litigation
  Neubert, Pepe and Monteith’s Healthcare Law practice group helps clients navigate, anticipate, and respond to the rapid and fundamental changes occurring in health law and the delivery of healthcare services. Our clients include hospitals and hospital systems, physician group practices, care facilities, physicians and other individual practitioners. Services range from counseling clients on the day-to-day issues that arise in their practices to representing large healthcare systems and business corporations in complex corporate, transaction, and litigation matters. The firm also assists clients with insolvency and reorganization matters, licensing, contract and employment issues. Client matters also include STARK II and anti-kickback compliance counseling, including the analysis of proposed and existing relationships between physicians and hospitals. Further, we provide counsel on the analysis of ancillary service joint ventures, and development of ambulatory centers.
• Severance Agreement

Property Law

• Real Estate Litigation
  “Best Law Firms,” 2014 – 2019, Metropolitan Tier 1, New Haven, Real Estate Law; Metropolitan Tier 2, New Haven, Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights/Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Construction Litigation
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith’s Construction Law & Design Professionals Liability practice provides a broad array of services encompassing all phases of the design and construction process, from construction contract formation and negotiation through close out, claims analysis and litigation. We represent public and private owners, design professionals, and contractors in commercial, institutional, residential and public works projects throughout Connecticut. We handle architectural, structural, mechanical, electrical, product liability litigation. In addition, we handle site planning, civil engineering, surveying, and traffic control planning litigation.
• Real Estate Transactions
  Eric I. B. Beller was a principal at Neubert, Pepe & Monteith from 2001 until his passing in 2002. He concentrated his practice in health law, managed care law, physician contracting and regulatory compliance. He also counseled in the environmental aspects of real estate transactions.
• Land Use and Zoning

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  The Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) practice group offers mediation and arbitration services in complex civil matters in state and federal court. These matters include commercial, construction, employment, environmental, health care, insurance, personal injury and probate disputes.
• Medical Malpractice
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith’s Medical Malpractice & Hospital Liability Defense group defends hospitals and physicians in complex, high exposure medical malpractice cases. We are recognized as a leader throughout the state of Connecticut. The firm provides counsel on risk management issues facing health care entities and practitioners. We represent individual doctors and practice groups before the Department of Public Health and in Probate Court proceedings. We work extensively on trial and appellate matters representing hospitals, group practices, and individual physicians in state and federal courts. All partners in the medical liability group have lectured throughout Connecticut on risk management and credentialing issues. Additionally, topics also include patient/physician relationships and litigation strategies for hospitals and individual physicians.
• Auto Accidents
• Dog Bites
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith has extensive experience defending homeowners, businesses, municipalities, and condominium associations from a variety of lawsuits. Lawsuits include premises defect, negligent security and supervision, dog bites, dram shop, food poisoning, and construction-related accidents. We often retain reputable experts including engineers, physicians, and economists to defend against complex claims.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith’s Corporate & Business Transactions group encompasses not only counseling on issues of organization management and business governance, but also, in the case of closely-held and family owned businesses, counseling on the sensitive issues of ownership succession and compensation of various classes of owners. Clients look to us for legal insight and a pragmatic approach to problem solving. To that end, we respond with an interdisciplinary approach. This approach involves integrating our real estate, tax, estate planning, insolvency and litigation capabilities. Consequently, we are able to provide our clients with a full range of services.
• Wills
• Trusts
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith regularly advises individuals and corporate executors on issues facing closely held businesses. We also counsel individuals to achieve estate and wealth transfer planning objectives. The firm has significant experience in estate and trust administration. We are also experienced in probate court proceedings and all federal and state income, gift and estate tax matters. Additionally, we provide advice concerning advance directives so clients' health care wishes are carried out during their final days.
• Probate
  Sherman H. Krevolin was a principal at Neubert, Pepe & Monteith from 2010 until his passing in 2013. He was a distinguished practitioner in the areas of estate planning, personal income tax planning, retirement programs and probate law and business law. Prior to joining Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, Attorney Krevolin was a founding principal at the New Haven firm of Krevolin & Donato.

Finance Law

• Bankruptcy
• Foreclosure
  The law firm of Neubert, Pepe & Monteith, P.C. is pleased to welcome attorney Joseph R. Dunaj as an Associate with the firm. Attorney Dunaj joins the firm’s commercial litigation, and bankruptcy and creditor rights practice groups. He has extensive experience representing financial institutions and creditors in various collection cases and foreclosure cases, inclusive of…
• Tax Law
  Neubert, Pepe & Monteith also provides retirement and tax planning advice and documentation to hundreds of tax-qualified retirement plans. We advise all forms of business owners (sole proprietors, family businesses, professionals, developers, and municipalities) on the design, implementation, documentation and legal compliance of varied plans. These include retirement, health, dental, life insurance, and cafeteria plans.
• Debt Collection
  Attorneys provide counsel to clients for matters including the defense of claims against mortgage servicers, including Fair Debt Collection claims; claims of violations of other state and federal consumer laws; condominium lien priority litigation; loan workouts and debt restructuring; commercial and residential real estate; commercial leasing; commercial financing; and assisting individuals and small business owners with general business matters.