Practice Areas

With offices in Meriden, New Haven, and Guilford, the lawyers at Tobin & Melien provide outstanding legal advice and representation to clients throughout Connecticut in a wide variety of areas of the law including

• Residential and Commercial Real Estate
• Elder Law and Estate Planning
• Probate Administration and Litigation
• Commercial Law and Collection Litigation
• Personal Injury and Wrongful Death

Residential and Commercial Real Estate—We represent clients in all types of commercial and residential real estate projects. Clients include both sophisticated real estate players and relative newcomers, and we tailor our services to buyers, sellers, and lenders accordingly. Our real estate services include:

• Buying and selling real estate
• Commercial and retail leases
• Condominium law and owner associations
• Real estate closings
• Landlord-tenant law
• Land-use, subdivisions, variances, and zoning
• Mortgages and foreclosures
• Purchase agreements, deeds, quit claim deeds, and bills of sale
• Real estate corporations and partnerships
• Residential and commercial real estate closings
• Short sale transactions
• Title examinations, marketability, and title insurance

In addition to our office locations in Meriden, New Haven, and Guilford, we also handle real estate closings at locations in Killingworth, East Hartford, Glastonbury, and Manchester. Tobin & Melien acts as agents for the following Title Insurance Companies: First American Title Insurance Company, Stewart Title Insurance Company, Lawyers Title Insurance Company, Connecticut Attorneys Title Insurance Company, and Fidelity Title Insurance Company.

Elder Law and Estate Planning—We use a variety of legal tools and techniques to help individual clients and families in Connecticut plan for the future. Our estate planning and elder law areas of practice include:

• Asset protection
• Charitable trusts
• Conservatorships and guardianships
• Durable power of attorney
• Health care directives and living wills
• Insurance coverage and planning
• Life insurance trusts
• Medical power of attorney
• Probate and trust administration
• Wills and trusts

Probate Administration and Litigation—Probate is nothing more than a court-supervised transfer of title of an asset. Probate is the legal process that takes place after someone dies and often involves:

• Court accountings
• Contested will proceedings
• Probate administration
• Probate litigation
• Trust and estate fiduciary returns

Commercial Law and Collection Litigation—We represent debtors and creditors in a wide range of contexts in Connecticut including:

• Chapter seven bankruptcy discharges
• Collection litigation
• Debt workouts
• Judgment enforcement
• Lender liability
• Loan documentation
• Mortgages and foreclosures
• Pre-judgment collection remedies
• Receiverships

Personal Injury and Wrongful Death—We handle serious personal injury accident and wrongful death cases throughout Connecticut involving:

• Motor vehicle accidents, crashes, and collisions involving cars, motorcycles, and semi-trucks
• Premises liability
• Slip, trip and fall accidents
• Other accidents caused by the negligence, carelessness, and recklessness of others.

Our personal injury and wrongful death cases often involve the following types of injuries:traumatic brain injuries, head injuries, burns and scars, broken bones, dislocations, fractures, neck injuries, back injuries, shoulder injuries, knee injuries, nerve injuries, paralysis, paraplegia, quadriplegia, and spinal cord injuries.