John M. Gesmonde practices in the areas of labor, education, and employment law as well as municipal law and select land use issues. Mr. Gesmonde has been designated by a blue ribbon panel as both a Connecticut Super Lawyer and a New England Super Lawyer, annually since 2007 and, nationally, since 2009 as a Corporate Counsel Super Lawyer in employment and labor law, designations that are awarded to the top 5% of attorneys in Connecticut, New England and the country. Mr. Gesmonde has experience representing individual employees, including superintendents of schools, more than 90 school administrator associations, and other public sector unions including police, fire, secretarial, paraprofessional, nurse, custodial, and town hall employee units in collective bargaining, grievance arbitration, termination matters, and unfair labor practice complaints. He has extensive experience appearing and arguing before local boards and commissions, in the Connecticut Superior Courts, and in both the Appellate and Supreme Courts on labor and education issues as well as land use issues, including eminent domain, affordable housing, zoning, and inland wetland matters. Since his appointment in 1982, Mr. Gesmonde has served on the State Department of Education Arbitration Panel as a labor sector advocate arbitrator. While at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Mr. Gesmonde served as Associate Editor of the Law Review and received the American Jurisprudence Award for excellence in contracts. He is a frequent guest lecturer for teacher, administrator, superintendent, and assistant superintendent organizations and is a contributor to the Connecticut Association of School Administrators (CASA) newsletter. Mr. Gesmonde is a member of the New Haven County and Connecticut bar associations, the Connecticut Employment Lawyers' Association, the National Employment Lawyers' Association, and the American Arbitration Association. He served as Town Attorney for North Branford, Connecticut from 1985 to 2007, and again from 2009 to the present.