Overview
Insights
News
Education and Credentials
Recognition and Community
Overview
Leigh Newman advises individuals and families in connection with estate planning, estate and trust administration and estate and gift taxation.
Leigh served as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard N. Palmer of the Connecticut Supreme Court and to the Honorable Robert N. Chatigny of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for the United Way of Central and Northeastern Connecticut. Leigh is a past Chair of both the Board of Trustees of the Jewish Community Foundation and the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford. She has served on the Alumni Schools Committee for Princeton University and the Planned Giving Committee for the Loomis-Chaffee School.
Insights
Speaker, March 6, 2018, Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education (MCLE) New England
2005 Developments in Connecticut Probate, Estate and Gift Tax Law
Co-author, June 2006, Connecticut Bar Journal, Volume 80, No. 2
News
Featured, August 27, 2018, Day Pitney Press Release
Quoted, September 19, 2017, Legal IT Today
Mentioned, January 25, 2017, The Hartford Courant
Quoted, August 26, 2016, The Connecticut Law Tribune
Mentioned, January 12, 2016, The Hartford Courant
Education and Credentials
Education
University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., with Honors, Editor-in-Chief, Connecticut Journal of International Law
Princeton University, A.B.
Admissions
State of Connecticut
Recognition and Community
Recognition
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Chosen for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America (Woodward/White, Inc.) for Trusts and Estates, 2023-2025
Received 2019 Kipnis-Wilson/Friedland Award for Greater Hartford
Recognized as a "2017 Wonder Woman" by the Malta House of Care Foundation
AV Preeminent rated by Martindale-Hubbell
Community
United Way, Board of Directors
Jewish Community Foundation, Board of Trustees, Past Chair
Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Past Chair