“I facilitate cost-saving and time saving, mutually agreeable resolutions, using my 20 years of experience as a Connecticut Superior Court Judge.”

Angela C. Robinson, retired Connecticut Superior Court Judge, provides alternative dispute resolution (ADR) services as a mediator, private judge, and arbitrator for the following types of matters:

• tort,
• personal injury,
• commercial disputes,
• contract disputes, and
• select housing and family law.

Additionally, Judge Robinson provides pre-litigation interventions, including discovery dispute resolution assistance and independent investigations.

For twenty years, Judge Robinson was a Connecticut Superior Court judge, presiding over hundreds of trials and deciding or assisting in the settlement of a variety of matters, including commercial, contract, employment, family, housing, insurance, juvenile, medical and professional malpractice, municipal, personal injury, products liability and zoning cases. As a judge, she wrote over 400 judicial decisions. At the time of her retirement, she was the Administrative Judge for the Judicial District of New Haven, and for many years prior to that, she was the Civil Presiding Judge in the New Haven Judicial District, the busiest Civil docket in the state at the time.

Judge Robinson complements her knowledge as a jurist with a wealth of experience as a practicing attorney. She was both a plaintiff’s lawyer at a nationally renowned boutique law firm in Bridgeport, and a litigation partner with a defense practice at a multi-state, New Haven-based law firm. This background allows Judge Robinson to bring to the ADR community a unique perspective to assist litigants from all walks of life in resolving their matters.

Judge Robinson also learned firsthand about the power and efficacy of ADR in achieving righteous outcomes. Melding her interests in ADR and workplace equity, Judge Robinson established Robinson Diversity Consulting through which she has helped litigants and prospective litigants resolve disputes informally and outside of court, as well as addressed workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion concerns.

Judge Robinson is a James W. Cooper Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. She received the Connecticut Law Tribune’s Distinguished Leader Award in 2019; the Edwin Archer Randolph Diversity Award from the Lawyers’ Collaborative for Diversity in 2017; the Judicial Award from the Connecticut Trial Lawyers’ Association; and the Diversity Award in 2014, presented by the Young Lawyers’ Section of the Connecticut Bar Association.

She serves on the Advisory Council of Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA), as well as the Boards of the Greater New Haven Arts Council and the New Haven Legal Assistance Association. Additionally, she is a Visiting Professor and the Waring and Carmen Partridge Faculty Fellow at Quinnipiac Law School, where she teaches Evidence, Remedies and Critical Race Theory. She also teaches trial practice at Yale Law School. Through these roles, she works to train new generations of lawyers, sharing her knowledge of the law and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion to improve the legal profession.