Whitman Breed Abbott & Morgan LLC

Full-Service Law Firm Based in Greenwich, CT

Hennessey,
Jevera Kaye

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Jevera practices in all areas of estate and trust planning and administration and breaks down complex matters into digestible bites for her clients.  She advises on estate and gift tax issues as well as creating documents to carry out her clients’ plans.  For many years, she was a regular estate planning course instructor in the Town of Greenwich Continuing Education program.  Jevera has also lectured on probate and estate planning topics through the Greenwich Bar Association, the Fairfield County Bar Association, Connecticut Bar Association, and other private groups.

Professional & Community Affiliation

  • Greenwich Bar Association (President, 1994-1995)
  • Fairfield County Bar Association (Former Member of Board of Directors)
  • SilverSource (formerly Senior Services of Stamford), Advisory Council (Past Vice-Chair of the Board of Directors)
  • Hill House in Greenwich, Advisory Board
  • Stamford Hospital Foundation’s Planned Giving Advisory Committee
  • Professional Advisors Council of Fairfield County’s Community Foundation, Emeritus Member
  • First County Bank, Member of the Board of Directors
  • Stamford Community Emergency Response Team (2017 to present)
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation (Former Member of Board of Directors)
  • Governor Appointee to Connecticut Board of Examiners of Embalmers & Funeral Directors, 1995-2005

Honors & Recognition

  • Greenwich YWCA Brava! Award, 1997
  • Connecticut Yankee Council of the Boy Scouts of America’s Good Scout Award, 2013
  • Greenwich Probate Court’s Pro Bono Award, 2001
  • SilverSource (formerly Senior Services of Stamford), Honoree 2014

Choephel,
Eleni

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Eleni is an associate in the Firm’s Corporate Department. She works with clients in a broad range of corporate matters.

Eleni received her JD from the Quinnipiac University School of Law. While in law school, Eleni worked for a financial services law firm and externed in the legal department of a health care organization.

Prior to joining the Firm, Eleni worked as a law clerk at a financial services law firm in Stamford, Connecticut where she worked with clients in corporate litigation and transactional matters.

Eleni is proficient in Korean and Tibetan.

Professional & Community Affiliation

  • Connecticut Asian Pacific American Bar Association
  • Connecticut Bar Association

Norton,
Erin E.

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Erin is an associate in the Firm’s Trust and Estates Department. She practices in all areas of estate and trust planning matters, including gift, estate and generation-skipping transfer tax planning; the preparation of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and related documents; estate settlement; and trust administration.

Erin received her LLM in Taxation from New York University School of Law with a focus on estate planning and charitable gifting. She received her J.D. from University of Connecticut School of Law with a certificate in tax studies. While in law school, Erin served as Symposium Editor for the Connecticut Law Review and represented low-income taxpayers in a variety of matters before the Internal Revenue Service.

Professional & Community Affiliation

  • Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court
  • Connecticut Bar Association
  • Fairfield County Bar Association

Publications & Presentations

Small Adjustment to 2017 Tax Code Would Do Wonders for Sports Recovery, Sports Business Journal (May 2020)

Larrubia,
Trevor J.

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Trevor is an associate in the Firm’s Litigation Department, where he represents clients in a broad range of complex commercial and business litigation matters as well as general civil litigation matters.

Prior to joining Whitman Breed, Trevor served as a law clerk to the Honorable Lubbie Harper Jr., the Honorable Thomas A. Bishop, and the Honorable Stuart D. Bear of the Connecticut Appellate Court.

Trevor received his J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law with a certificate in tax studies, where he was the Business & Technology Editor of the Connecticut Law Review and was a member of the Connecticut Moot Court Board.  While in law school, he served as a judicial intern for the Honorable Vanessa L. Bryant of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut, and worked as a student representative in the University of Connecticut School of Law Tax Clinic representing low-income taxpayers before the Internal Revenue Service.

Prior to his legal career, Trevor worked for a large international insurer handling latent third-party liability claims and managing complex coverage issues.

Professional & Community Affiliation

  • Connecticut Bar Association
  • Fairfield County Bar Association
  • Greenwich Bar Association
  • Oliver Ellsworth Inn of Court

Honors & Recognition

  • Connecticut Law Review – Business & Technology Editor
  • Connecticut Moot Court Board
  • Alva P. Loiselle Moot Court Competition – Finalist

Publications & Presentations

  • The Hazards of Ethical Lawyering:  Perspectives from a Planner and a Probate Litigator, Connecticut Bar Association/Federal Tax Institute of New England (November 2020)

Thomason,
Michael A. S.

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Michael is an associate in the Firm’s Litigation Department.  He represents clients in all aspects of litigation matters pending in state and federal court.  Prior to joining Whitman Breed, Michael was a judicial law clerk for United States Magistrate Judge Thomas O. Farrish.  Before his clerkship, Michael was an associate attorney at a boutique litigation firm in Greenwich.

Professional & Community Affiliation

  • Fairfield County Bar Association
  • Greenwich Bar Association

Kosnik,
B. Leigh

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B. Leigh Kosnik, Esq. is a graduate of Duke University and Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law. Her early career focused on corporate and international finance beginning, in 1981, at the New York law firm of Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon, then Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and finally, with the London based international law firm, Linklaters, where she spent nine years. During her time with Linklaters, she worked in their London and New York offices and opened their Washington DC office. In 2007, she joined Roberts & Bates, P.C. in Stamford, Connecticut to begin a local focus on trusts and estates. After four years, she moved to Smith & Grant LLP to continue her practice with individual clients in the areas of trusts and estates.

Ms. Kosnik is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York and is a member of the bar associations of those states.