Jonathan Katz

Biographical Information

Jonathan Katz graduated from University of Connecticut (B.A. 1975) and received his legal education at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts (J.D., 1979). Northeastern requires students to perform four quarters of full time cooperative legal work experience.

Jonathan joined the predecessor firm, Jacobs, Jacobs & Grudberg, P.C. as a co-op student in March 1979. He became an associate in the fall of 1979, a member of the firm in 1987, President of the firm in 2004, and is still working his last co-op job. Jonathan has been named to The Best Lawyers in America since 2005 in three categories, personal injury, professional malpractice and business litigation. He was named a Super Lawyer by Connecticut Magazine in 2006 in the area of business litigation.

Jonathan currently focuses his practice on two areas: representing people who have been seriously injured or killed as a result of medical malpractice, automobile collisions or other torts; and business litigation, typically involving the breakup of closely-held corporations. Jonathan became President of the firm in 2004 and devotes about 20% of his time to firm management issues.

Outside the office Jonathan serves as Co-chair of the Branford Clean Energy Task Force. He is married, with three teenage children and a 9 year old stepson. His hobbies include bicycling and whitewater kayaking.