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David S. Hoopes
Mr. Hoopes has a diverse business and real estate law practice including complex business litigation. He is a business law generalist, who has extensive litigation experience, but also regularly represents and counsels business clients in zoning and other land use matters, real estate purchase and sales, leasing and financing transactions, real estate title matters, business formations and transactions, and employment matters. Mr. Hoopes’ decades of experience as a business litigator has given him perspectives and insights that have proven invaluable when representing clients in transactional and other non-litigation matters.
Mr. Hoopes has tried cases in a variety of jurisdictions and has argued appeals before the Connecticut Supreme and Appellate Courts, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and the Massachusetts Appeals Court. He has served as a National Institute of Trial Advocacy faculty member and has lectured concerning real estate topics.
Mr. Hoopes’ transactional and business formation clients include entrepreneurs, developers, investors, lenders, non-profit organizations, municipalities, and housing authorities.
Mr. Hoopes has a special interest in land use. Throughout his career he has represented numerous developers and property owners in applications before planning and zoning commissions, zoning boards of appeals, wetlands commissions, the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and in zoning appeals. He has represented applicants in numerous successful applications under Connecticut’s affordable housing law and has obtained land use approvals for many other substantial commercial, residential and school projects. Mr. Hoopes is a member of the Glastonbury Zoning Board of Appeals.
Education:
Mr. Hoopes earned his law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with honors, 1984). He holds a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst (B.A., summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, 1981).
Bar Admissions:
Mr. Hoopes is admitted to practice in Connecticut and Massachusetts, and before the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
Professional & Civic Organizations:
Member, American Bar Association
Member, Connecticut Bar Association, Commercial Law and Bankruptcy Section
Member, Hartford County Bar Association