Kara A.T. Murphy

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Practice areas

• Civil litigation
• General practice
• Insurance defense
• Self-insured defense
• Medical malpractice
• Health and Hospital law
• Municipal law

Bar admissions

• Connecticut, 1996
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut, 1998
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2004

Education

• J.D., University of Connecticut School of Law, 1996
• B.A., cum laude, with honors in History, Lafayette College, 1992

Professional Associations

• Connecticut Bar Association (CBA)
  Board of Governors & House of Delegates 2011–present
• CBA Legislative Policy & Review Committee 2013- Present
• CBA Audit Committee 2013- Present
• CBA Standing Committee on Professional Ethics 2014-2015
• CBA Nominating Committee, 2012
• Fairfield County Bar Association (FCBA)
  Board of Directors, 2010–2014
  Co-Chair Women in Law Committee, 2009–2011
• FCBA Co-Chair, Bench Bar Committee 2014 – 2015
• American Bar Association
• Fellow of the American Bar Foundation
• Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation
• Defense Research Institute
  Women in the Law Subcommittee, 2010–present
• American Health Lawyers Association

Publications

• Author: “Pleading the Policy Limit as a Special Defense,” 1 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 167, 1995; cited in Jon Berk and Michael Jainchill, Connecticut Law of Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist Coverage, section 7.9.3B (4th Ed. 2010)
• Research Editor, Connecticut Insurance Law Journal, 1995–1996.

Biography

• Phi Alpha Theta
• Pi Sigma Alpha
• Member, McKelvy Honors Program, Lafayette College, 1990-1992
• Member: Fairfield Judicial District Grievance Committee, 2004–2010
• Board of Trustees, Norwalk Economic Opportunity Now, 2006–2007