Bill Bloss

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Bill Bloss: Attorney with Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder PC
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Biography

After receiving his law degree in 1984 from Washington College of Law, The American University, Bill served as law clerk to U.S. District Judge Robert C. Zampano in New Haven and then to U.S. Circuit Judge Carolyn Dineen King in Houston. He then joined Jacobs, Grudberg, Belt & Dow, P.C., in New Haven, where he handled a broad variety of cases including personal injury, commercial disputes, and criminal defense. In 2004, he started practicing with Koskoff Koskoff & Bieder, P.C., in New Haven and Bridgeport. At Koskoff, Bill concentrates on wrongful death, product liability, and personal injury cases. He has also been a member of the Criminal Justice Act panel in the U.S. District Court since 1986 and is a lecturer in trial practice at Yale Law School.

Bill also has litigated several election cases, most recently the absentee ballot fraud case leading to a new primary and election in Bridgeport. He also represented Common Cause and Connecticut Citizen Action Group in federal litigation that led to the overhaul of the state primary election system, and he represented the state comptroller, several members of the General Assembly, including in one case clarifying the roles of the courts and the General Assembly in election disputes, and two Governors.

Bill has been a member of the Federal Grievance Committee and two local panels of the Statewide Grievance Committee. He was appointed to a committee to improve defense services under the Criminal Justice Act and served twice on committees to recommend U.S. Magistrate Judge candidates.

In the community, Bill has been active with the Guilford Land Conservation Trust for over twenty years.He served on the Guilford Board of Education for twenty years, including fourteen years as its chairman.

Connecticut Bar Foundation.

(Also at Danbury, New Haven and Stamford Offices)
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Areas of Practice (5)

  • Personal Injury
  • Products Liability
  • Trucking Accidents
  • Automobile Negligence
  • Civil Rights

Education & Credentials

University Attended:
Wake Forest University, B.A., cum laude, 1979
Law School Attended:
American University, Washington College of Law, J.D., summa cum laude, 1984
Year of First Admission:
1984
Admission:
1984, Connecticut; 1984, New York; 1985, U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit; 1986, U.S. Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit; 1995, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York; 1995, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York; 1995, U.S. Tax Court; 1996, U.S. Court of Appeals, First Circuit
Memberships:
New Haven County, Connecticut (Chairman, Criminal Justice Committee, Young Lawyers Section, 1987-1991) and American (Member, Criminal Justice Section, U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Committee, 1991-1995) Bar Associations; Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association; The Association of Trial Lawyers of America; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers; Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association.
Birth Information:
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, November 1, 1957
Reported Cases:
Haddock v. Nationwide Financial Services, 514 F. Supp. 2d 267 (D. Conn. 2007) (ERISA); MIIX Ins. Co. v. Associated Women's Health Specialists, P.C., 2007 WL 4163999 (D.N.J. Nov. 19, 2007) (jurisdiction); Deutsch v. Circa Bistro, LLC, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 20176 (D. Conn. Sept 13, 2005) (personal injury); Curtin v. Town of Brookfield, 2005 Conn. Super. LEXIS 919 (Apr. 14, 2005) (personal injury); Gonzalez v. University System of New Hampshire, 2005 Conn. Super. LEXIS 288 (Jan 28, 2005) (personal injury); Tilley v. Anixter Inc., 332 B.R. 501 (D. Conn. 2005); State v. Lopez, 271 Conn. 724, 859 A.2d 898 (2004)(criminal); Campbell v. Bysiewicz, 213 F. Supp. 2d 152 (D. Conn. 2002), 242 F. Supp. 2d 164 (D.Conn. 2003) (first amendment, election law); Mahler v. United States, 195 F.Supp. 2d 379 (D. Conn. 2002) (tax); Blumenthal v Barnes, 261 Conn. 434, 804 A. 2d 152 (2002) (authority of Attorney General); Lucas Aerospace, Ltd. v. Advanced Executive Aircraft, Ltd., 292 A.D.2d 201, 738 N.Y.S. 2d 211 (2002) (arbitration); Cowras v. Hard Copy, 56 F.Supp. 2d 207 (D.Conn. 1999) (first amendment); United States v. Autuori, 49 F.Supp.2d 321 (D.Conn. 1998), aff'd in part, rev'd in part, 212 F.3d 105 (2d Cir. 2000) (criminal); Bernet v. Bernet, 56 Conn. App. 661, 745 A.2d 827 (2000) (corporate dissolution); Schaeffer v. Vera Wang Bridal House, Ltd., 64 F.Supp.2d 286 (S.D.N.Y. 1999) (personal injury); Automated Salvage Transport, Inc. v. Wheelabrator Environmental Systems, Inc., 155 F.3d 59 (2d Cir. 1998) (antitrust, environmental).
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