Kate Dion is a member the firm's Litigation Section, where her practice includes all aspects of civil and criminal litigation. Her experience includes counseling clients in government investigations, internal investigations, and white collar criminal matters. She also represents clients in complex commercial litigation, including allegations of patent infringement, breach of contract, misappropriation of trade secrets, unfair trade practices, tortious interference with business relations, and other business torts. In addition, she represents institutional clients and individuals in probate litigation.
Ms. Dion is an active member of the firm's Appellate Practice Team, briefing appeals in state and federal courts.
Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Dion served as a law clerk to the Honorable Robert. E. Beach of the Connecticut Appellate Court.
Experience
- Representation of three foundations to investigate embezzlement from the foundations, which were incorporated in three different states. An employee of the foundations' management company embezzled over $1 million from the foundations collectively by writing fraudulent checks and making fraudulent wire transfers. Representation involved working with a forensic accountant to investigate the extent of the loss, analyzing electronic bank records and computer software, and interviewing the management companies' employees and the independent auditor's personnel. Robinson & Cole coordinated the foundations' reporting of the findings of the investigation to attorneys general offices that oversee the foundations and assisted with the Department of Justice and Secret Service's investigation and prosecution of the wrongdoer. Robinson & Cole also assisted the foundations in seeking recovery from the management company and the independent auditors.
- Representation of a Connecticut nonprofit to investigate embezzlement of several hundred thousand dollars by its chief financial officer, who made fraudulent wire transfers from the nonprofit's bank account to his bank account. Investigation included working with a forensic accountant to investigate the extent of the loss, analyzing electronic bank records and computer software, interviewing the chief financial officer, reporting the loss to the Connecticut attorney general, obtaining a full recovery for the loss through restitution from the chief financial officer and the nonprofit's insurance company, and representing the nonprofit regarding an investigation by the Department of Justice, the FBI, and the IRS.
Publications & Presentations
Articles
- "Means Test or Just a Mean Test: An Examination of the Requirement That Converted Chapter 7 Bankruptcy Debtors Comply with Amended Section 707(B)" (2008), published in American Bankruptcy Institute Law Review, coauthor
News
4.06.11, Robinson & Cole Welcomes 10 New Attorneys