Municipalities and Connecticut government agencies are grappling with the challenges of the COVID-19 State of Emergency, and Halloran Sage’s municipal attorneys are working right alongside them, providing guidance, clarity, and assurance. With experience representing more than half of Connecticut’s 169 cities and towns, these attorneys understand the issues that municipal officials face, and are at the forefront of the response to legal questions and complications arising from coronavirus.

Halloran Sage’s municipal attorneys provide Client Alerts to assist a variety of Connecticut public officials, including:

• Mayors,
• First Selectmen/women,
• Town Managers,
• Town Administrators,
• Town Planners,
• Tax Assessors,
• Appraisers,
• Land Use Administrators,
• Inlands Wetlands and Watercourses Commission members and staff,
• Zoning Enforcement Officers,
• Town Clerks,
• Board of Education members,
• Building Inspectors, and
• Town Engineers.

Within the Client Alerts, attorneys provide clarity on how to comply with recent Connecticut Executive Orders, and successfully adapt to a variety of changes, including: virtual meetings, new processes for annual budget adoption, and modifying property tax collection and appropriations and borrowing processes.

Halloran Sage is one of Connecticut’s leading law firms in representing municipalities and government agencies. We have served in the capacity of town attorney and special counsel, and have represented various municipalities and their officials, both directly and by virtue of insurance coverage. The Firm’s attorneys represent officials, boards, commissions and employees in administrative proceedings and in litigation in both state and federal courts.