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Biography
Kay Wilson joined Parrett Porto Parese & Colwell, PC, in November of 2023 as a Senior Litigation Attorney.
Attorney Wilson is a graduate of the University of Connecticut (BA, 1989) and the University of Connecticut School of Law (JD, 1994) and served as Managing Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law from 1993-1994. She also earned a position on the Moot Court Board through competitive oral argument.
Attorney Wilson also served as an Editor-at-Large for the CBA’s Connecticut Bar Journal from 1998 through 2002. She is a member of the New Haven County Bar Association and the Connecticut Bar Association.
For the entirety of her legal career, Attorney Wilson has been a litigation attorney. Her practice has focused on commercial disputes, employment law and civil rights claims (both defense and prosecution), prosecution of intellectual property infringements, construction litigation (both GC and subcontractors claims) defense of class actions and other matters involving complex litigation.
From April 2001 through June of 2006, Attorney Wilson was a federal attorney for the United States Postal Service Northeast Area Law Department where she distinguished herself by creating award winning training programs to improve the workplace environment and decrease claims of discrimination. Attorney Wilson served on a USPS national training team which created and delivered training for new agency attorneys and paralegals for their work at the USPS Law Department including a program titled “Advocacy Best Practices Before the EEOC and MSPB”.
She also served as the USPS Law Department liaison and advisor to the Northeast Area Diversity Committee, the Northeast Area FMLA Committee and the Northeast Area ADA Reasonable Accommodations Committee. She conducted open forum town hall meetings at mail processing plants throughout New England to ensure compliance with law and policy and to improve the workplace environment.
Attorney Wilson also worked to develop close relationships with the USPS unions and was repeatedly asked to speak at the mailhandlers’ and mail clerks’ annual union conferences.
Attorney Wilson was a de novo hearing officer for the State of Connecticut Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection for hearings on appeals of license revocations from 2020 through 2023.
PRACTICE AREAS
- Prosecution of Intellectual Property Infringements
- Employment Law and Civil Rights
- Commercial Litigation
- Construction Litigation
- Administrative Appeals from Agency Decisions