Law Offices of Martha A. Dean, LLC

Law Offices of Martha A. Dean, LLC ... because your rights and your freedom matter.

       ENVIRONMENTAL LAW: Our firm represents commercial establishments, land owners, outdoor shooting ranges and select individuals with environmental compliance, enforcement defense, dispute resolution, cost recovery, remediation, and legislative/policy objectives. We are committed to providing the highest quality legal services in an efficient, creative and cost-effective manner.  We serve as compliance/enforcement defense counsel to corporations on the full range of environmental and hazardous chemical/worker safety issues. We frequently work collaboratively with teams of legal and technical experts to assess and develop strategies for resolving clients' legal issues in the context of complex business transactions and liability disputes. 

     SHOOTING RANGE DEFENSE: We have achieved unparalleled success defending outdoor shooting ranges in litigation around the country. We also provide environmental, safety, and noise-related strategic advice and legal guidance to shooting ranges. 

     CONSTITUTIONAL LAW: We challenge inappropriate government action under the federal and state constitutions, appealing adverse decisions where appropriate. Past cases have involved the state's balanced budget amendment, free speech/campaign finance issues, arbitration clauses in adhesion contracts and the rights of consumers to a jury trial. Currently, we serve as local counsel to a national team representing organizations and individuals who are challenging Connecticut's post-Newtown firearms law under the 2nd Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. 

       Whether on the public policy or the practical side of the law, we have distinguished ourselves by identifying cost-effective, creative, fast-track approaches that bring finality to difficult situations.

Martha Dean is the co-founder and past co-executive director of the Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies’ Hartford Lawyers Chapter.  

Attorney Dean is a past Steering Committee member of the Connecticut Business & Industry Association's Environmental Policies Council; former Executive Committee member of the Connecticut Bar Association's Environmental Law Section; and executive director of the Hartford Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society of Law and Public Policy Studies. 

Attorney Dean served on the Wetlands Commission for the Town of Avon for many years. She helps several churches in the Farmington Valley area to grow and find new space. She has been a Cub Scout leader, a CCD instructor, and a Big Sister in the Big Brothers/Big Sisters program.  

Attorney Dean is an avid outdoors-woman and past eventing, dressage, and show jumping rider.

 

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