Keith Bradoc Gallant

Keith Bradoc "Brad" Gallant advises individuals and families in all aspects of trust administration and estate planning. In addition to assisting with the resolution of complex legal and financial disputes he guides clients through often complicated and sensitive personal situations, such as medical and end-of-life decision-making, long-term care issues, conservatorships, commitments and guardianships of minors and developmentally disabled adults.

Brad has litigated a wide range of matters in probate and appellate courts, including lost wills, paternity disputes, will and trust constructions, charitable trust deviations, contested conservatorships, accountings and undue influence cases. He has appeared on behalf of clients in virtually all Connecticut probate courts, as well as in numerous Connecticut and federal trial and appellate courts. Brad was lead counsel for the amicus curiae in the landmark Connecticut Supreme Court case, Department of Social Services v. Saunders. He is consulted regularly by trial counsel and testifies as an expert in trusts and estates disputes, dissolution of marriage actions and disabilities litigation. He also has extensive experience in alternative dispute resolution of probate controversies.

Brad has spoken on special needs trusts, long-term care insurance, probate litigation, the disposition of interests in trusts incident to divorce and ethical issues in estate planning at seminars throughout the U.S., including the annual meetings of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel, the National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys and the American Bar Association, as well as at seminars sponsored by ALI-ABA, NYU Institute of Federal Taxation, the Connecticut Probate Assembly, the Federal Tax Institute of New England and other groups. Brad has been quoted in Forbes, Connecticut Law Tribune and The New York Times.

Brad lives in New Haven with his wife, Professor Joanna Waley-Cohen and his dog, Sadie. Brad is a former President of the Connecticut Bar Association and now serves on the CBA Standing Committee on Professional Ethics. He served four terms as President of the Board of the New Haven Free Public Library and is now a member of the NHFPL Foundation Board.