Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Chimes & Richardson, P.C.

Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Chimes, Richardson & Fitzgerald, P.C. has been known statewide in Connecticut for providing the highest quality representation to individuals for nearly thirty years.

Lewis Chimes

Attorney Chimes joined the firm in 1993. Since joining the firm, he has represented individuals in employment, personal injury, medical malpractice, criminal and civil rights matters. Lew regularly appears in both the state and federal courts at the trial and appellate level. In addition, as the trend towards alternative dispute resolution has accelerated, Lew has represented many individuals, groups and classes in complex mediations, and has consistently sought creative solutions to difficult disputes on behalf of his clients. He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America, and has been selected as a Connecticut Super Lawyer, and was included in related articles in Connecticut and New York Magazines.

Garrison, Levin-Epstein, Chimes, Richardson & Fitzgerald, P.C. is nationally known for representing individuals in employment matters. From his first employment case for the firm, in which he successfully represented a teacher with severe cerebral palsy who had been wrongfully denied a position in her former school system, Lew has been an advocate for victims of discrimination and wrongful discharge in the workplace. He has been class and individual counsel for victims of race, age, disability, and sex discrimination against Fortune 500 companies, local companies, state agencies and municipal police departments. He was one of the first attorneys in the state to bring claims under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in a case in Connecticut that was the first to recognize a right to a jury trial under the FMLA. Lew has provided counsel and represented numerous individual on sexual harassment claims, including an alleged co-worker rape in a corporate office, a hostile environment claim by a state Judicial Marshal, and a same sex harassment claim by a secretary in a parochial school. He has represented whistleblowers and brought qui tam actions on behalf of individuals who have provided information about their companies’ illegal activities. He was co-counsel on trials that resulted in the some of the largest defamation and negligent infliction of emotional distress verdicts in the state in the field of employment law at the time. In Roberton v. Citizens Utilities, he obtained a $1.3 million dollar verdict for a former executive, one of the largest individual ERISA verdicts in the state. He has obtained million dollar settlements in several individual cases and class actions.