M. BRAMAN Leonard

Lenny Braman practices commercial and general litigation on behalf of businesses large and small, municipalities, and individuals. He handles a variety of matters including contract disputes, construction litigation, land use and zoning matters, civil rights claims, and insurance litigation. He previously served as the Vice-Chair of the Town Plan and Zoning Commission of the town of Fairfield and he co-chairs the firm’s Land Use/Zoning Group. He currently serves as a member of Fairfield’s Representative Town Meeting. He is also a member of the firm’s Pro Bono Committee.

Lenny graduated summa cum laude in 2002 from Columbia University, and cum laude in 2005 from Harvard Law School, where he served as an executive editor of the Harvard Negotiation Law Review. He clerked for the Hon. Anita B. Brody of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and for the Hon. Judith A. Cowin of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts.

Prior to joining the firm in 2016, Lenny served as Senior Counsel in the Affirmative Litigation Division of the New York City Law Department, where he represented the City as plaintiff in a wide range of commercial and public policy litigation, ranging from tax evasion, fraud, and RICO cases, to construction and design litigation involving City schools and public buildings, to civil rights cases on behalf of the City’s Commission on Human Rights. Before that, Lenny practiced complex commercial litigation for several years at the law firm of Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler in New York City.

Lenny is a member of the Connecticut and New York bars, and is admitted to the U.S. District Courts for the District of Connecticut and the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York, as well as the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Second and Third Circuits.

Lenny was selected to the 2018 and 2019 Super Lawyers Rising Stars list by Thomson Reuters for his work in Business Litigation (a distinction awarded to no more than 2.5% of lawyers in Connecticut) and has been recognized in the Super Lawyers list every year since 2022. Lenny is a member of the Raymond E. Baldwin chapter of the American Inns of Court, and has served as a District Leader in the Fairfield Democratic Town Committee. For several years, Lenny served as a volunteer arbitrator in the New York City Small Claims Court. He was awarded the MFY Legal Services, Inc. Partner in Justice Award in 2010 for his pro bono efforts on behalf of that organization. He was awarded the Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publico Award in 2010 and 2011 for his work on a successful federal class action on behalf of children in the foster care system. Outside the office, Lenny enjoys playing guitar and singing, and he performs regularly with several local bands. He also enjoys volunteering with little-league baseball in Fairfield.