Wyatt R. Jansen

Background

Wyatt  is a Principal in Cummings & Lockwood's Corporate Fiduciary and Probate Litigation Group. His experience includes contested accountings; fiduciary removal and breach of fiduciary duty claims; trust construction, modification, and termination matters; will contests and other inheritance disputes; and nonprofit issues.  Wyatt also counsels clients in connection with administration matters.

Wyatt has additional experience in complex business litigation, including the successful defense at trial and on appeal of a claim seeking to enforce a $300 million foreign judgment and the successful defense and prosecution of business tort claims, derivative actions, and books and records demands.  He also regularly serves as Connecticut counsel for leading international firms.

Practice Areas

• Fiduciary and Probate Litigation Group
• Business and Commercial Litigation
• Closely-Held Business Litigation
• Litigation Group

Education

• New York University (B.A., 2008)
• University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with Honors, 2012)

Bar Admissions

• New York
• Connecticut
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Articles/Publications/Presentations

• When Offshore Trust Disputes Wash Up Onshore, ALI/ABA – Representing Estate & Trust Beneficiaries & Fiduciaries (June 2019)
• Connecticut’s Celotex Problem: Preventing Unnecessary Trials by Revitalizing Summary Judgment, Connecticut Law Tribune (Feb. 14, 2018)
• Opportunity and Danger: Conn. Statutes of Limitations Don’t Apply to Arbitration, Connecticut Law Tribune (Feb. 8, 2018)
• Enforcing the Unenforceable Forum Selection Clause, Connecticut Law Tribune (Dec. 1, 2016)
• Strategic Removal & the Voluntary-Involuntary Rule, Connecticut Law Tribune (Aug. 15, 2016)
• Impermissible Windfalls? Unemployment Insurance, Back Pay, and the Two Classes of Title VII Plaintiffs, 18 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 307 (2012)