Anastasios T. Savvaides, Attorney

Anastasios T. Savvaides is primarily involved in handling life altering and catastrophic personal injury claims as a result of motor vehicle, motorcycle and truck or tractor-trailer collisions, products liability, premises liability and sexual assault cases, including wrongful death, brain and spinal cord injury cases. Andy, as he is known, graduated from Hartwick College, cum laude, in 1989 where he was an Oyaron Scholar. He received his law degree from Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts in 1992. While at Suffolk he made the Dean's List and worked as a law clerk at Liberty Mutual Insurance Company's Home Office Legal Department.

After graduating from law school, Mr. Savvaides worked briefly as an assistant clerk for the Connecticut Judicial Department before entering the general practice of law with the firm of Reid, Cafero & Corsello in Norwalk, Connecticut in 1993. In 1995 he accepted a position as Trial Attorney with Allstate Insurance Company where he concentrated on defending personal injury claims on behalf of Allstate and its policyholders. While there, he completed an in house trial advocacy program offered by the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and tried several civil jury cases to verdict. He was promoted to Senior Trial Attorney while employed by Allstate in 1998. In 1999 he joined the firm of Casper & deToledo, LLC in Stamford, Connecticut as an associate, effectively switching sides from representing insurance companies and their policyholders to representing injured victims. He practiced law at Casper & deToledo, LLC until his departure from that firm in 2008. In August 2008, Mr. Savvaides joined Tooher & Wocl, LLC, now Tooher, Wocl & Leydon LLC, as a partner and member of the firm where he continues to represent injured victims of either negligent, reckless or intentional conduct.

In January 2004, Mr. Savvaides completed the certification process to be board certified as a Civil Trial Advocate by the National Board of Trial Advocacy and was re-certified in 2009. In 2007, 2008 and 2009 he was nominated and recognized in "Connecticut Magazine" as a Connecticut Super Lawyer and also nominated and recognized by "Law & Politics" Magazine as a New England Super Lawyer. In 2007 he was recognized as one of the Top 100 Trial Lawyers in the State of Connecticut by The American Association for Justice.

He has been a member of the Board of Governors of the Connecticut Trial Lawyers' Association (CTLA) since 2004 and continues to serve on CTLA's Continuing Legal Education Committee, Membership Committee and Public Relations Task Force. He is also a Sustaining Member of the American Association for Justice. He also serves on the National Advisory Board of the Association of Interstate Trucking Lawyers of America. He is also a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and the Fairfield County Bar Association (FCBA). In July 2008, he was appointed to serve as a Co-chair of the FCBA's Civil Litigation Committee.

Mr. Savvaides has chaired and lectured at numerous trial practice seminars for the Connecticut Trial Lawyers' Association, the Fairfield County Bar Association and the National Business Institute. He also devotes his time to serving as an attorney trial referee, arbitrator and special master for the Connecticut Judicial Department in the Stamford Superior Court. He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1992, and the New York Bar and the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut in 1993.

Favorable Verdicts and Settlements Obtained by Andy Savvaides