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Kaplan Wins Savitsky Award

Pat Kaplan receives the Savitsky Award from Jack Walsh.

Upon graduation from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1978, Patricia Kaplan joined New Haven Legal Assistance Association, Inc. (LAA) as a staff attorney, specializing in family and child law.  She was the co-founder of Valley Legal Assistance, a branch office of LAA,  as her first project out of law school and was there as a staff attorney and then Managing Attorney for 13 years.   In 1991, she became the Executive Director of LAA. This, however, was her third career.  Her first was as a kindergarten/first grade teacher and her second was as a stay-at-home mom.  She is the mother of two and grandmother of 4, ranging in age from 14 to 3.

In addition to her legal services= work, Attorney Kaplan has been involved in many community boards and associations.  She is a member of the Connecticut Law Tribune Advice of Counsel Board and on the board and executive committee of the United Way of Greater New Haven.  She is actively involved in the Connecticut Bar Association, is a past President of the New Haven County Bar Association and current President of the New Haven County Bar Foundation.  In June of 2003, she received the Community Mediation award for her role in the creation of the Child and Family Mediation Program.   In May of 2005, she was the recipient of the Connecticut Law Tribune Service to the Profession award.  In her spare time, she is a photographer with work in several juried shows in CT.

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