Audrey Blondin | Torrington Bankruptcy & Debt Lawyer

Audrey B. Blondin

Audrey B. Blondin

Bankruptcy, Real Estate, Estate planning and Probate, Business Law

Experience: 45 years
Language(s): English | Spanish

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About Audrey

Attorney B. Blondin is a 1975 graduate of Southern Connecticut State University magna cum laude, and a 1979 graduate of Temple University School of Law. She also received a certificate of Public Health from the University of Connecticut School of Public Health, May 2009 and is currently a part-time MPH student at UCONN. She was born and raised in West Haven and Orange Connecticut, graduated from the Academy of Our Lady of Mercy, Lauralton Hall in 1971 and has practiced law in the Torrington and Litchfield area for over 35 years where she has Torrington's oldest woman owned law firm and the only mother-daughter law firm in Litchfield County, Blondin Law Offices. Her primary areas of practice include real estate, wills, estate planning and probate, juvenile, family and animal law. She is a member of the Connecticut and Litchfield County Bar Associations and serves as the co-founder and Secretary/Treasurer of VOSH-Connecticut (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity). Attorney Blondin has lobbied in Washington, D.C. on behalf of responsible bankruptcy reform, has performed relief mission work in Nicaragua since 1999, and was a member of the first delegation of women attorney's to visit mainland China. She has published a number of articles and opinion pieces in local newspapers including the Hartford Current and The Connecticut Law Tribune. She also served as a member of the Litchfield Board of Selectmen from 1993 - 2003 and was Litchfield's longest serving Democratic woman member of the Board of Selectmen. She was a member of the Connecticut Delegation to the 2000, 2004, 2012 and 2016 Democratic National Conventions and was a candidate for Secretary of the State 2006. She is currently serving her 8th term as a member of the Democratic State Central Committee representing the 30th District of 14 towns in the Northwest Corner. She is married to Torrington Optometrist Dr. Matthew Blondin and they have 3 children, along with an adopted son from Nicaragua and 6 grandchildren.

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Experience

Attorney

Blondin Law Offices

Present

Torrington, CT

Admission

Verified Connecticut

1980

Education

Southern Connecticut State University

Bachelors

1975

Recognitions & Achievements

Associations
  • Admitted to Connecticut Bar, May 19,
    1980
  • Admitted to U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut, August,
    1980
  • Admitted to the Supreme Court of the U.S., January 9,
    1984
  • Admitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit, June 12,
    1984
Honors / Awards
  • Torrington's oldest woman owned law firm and the only mother-daughter law firm in Litchfield County

Notable Work

Publications

Various political, legal, optometric, opinion and other articles, including Connecticut Bar Journal, Connecticut Law



Tribune, Optometric Economics, The Connecticut REALTOR and the Register Citizen, Litchfield Enquirer, Litchfield


County Times, Republican-American and the Hartford Courant.

Questions & Answers

How did you build a successful practice?

Audrey Blondin has been serving Litchfield County since 1980, so time, hard work, and dedication to the practice has really helped build up our client base. I think that our clients also appreciate our family atmosphere being a Mother-Daughter law firm.

What should clients look for in a lawyer?

Clients should look for a lawyer that really cares about helping them. When you become a client of Blondin Law Firm, you become part of our family and we do whatever we can to solve your legal issue with kindness and compassion.

How important is local knowledge to the success of your cases?

Local knowledge is very helpful to us. We know many other local lawyers, in which we can refer clients to that can help them with specialized legal problems outside of the scope of our practice. We also have long standing relationships with many local vendors we can help refer our clients to for any of their needs that come up.

What information can you provide in a free phone consultation?

We can provide basic legal advice to the problem that the client is calling about and outline a quote for our services. We always tell our clients if it's an issue that they can easily do themselves to save them the cost of hiring a lawyer. We are dedicated to helping our clients, not just viewing them as dollar signs!

What information do you need in a free phone consultation?

In a free phone consultation we need to know a general outline of whatever the legal issue is in question.

What differentiates you from other lawyers in your community?

We are Litchfield County's only Mother-Daughter Law Firm. Rose Blondin was born and raised in Litchfield, and Audrey Blondin has worked in Torrington for 30 years, so we know the area extremely well.

What is the most rewarding aspect of your job?

We love being able to work together in a family business and also truly help our clients with whatever legal issue they have.

What are your other interests in addition to law?

Rose Blondin loves being outdoors, doing yoga, and baking. Audrey Blondin loves to travel and entertain. They both love animals and at their office you can always find one of their dogs lying on the sofa in their office.

Are you involved in your community?

Audrey Blondin is a member of the Connecticut and Litchfield County Bar Associations and serves as the co-founder and Secretary/Treasurer of VOSH-Connecticut (Volunteer Optometric Services to Humanity). Attorney Blondin has lobbied in Washington, D.C. on behalf of responsible bankruptcy reform, has performed relief mission work in Nicaragua since 1999, and was a member of the first delegation of women attorney's to visit mainland China. She has published a number of articles and opinion pieces in local newspapers including the Hartford Current and The Connecticut Law Tribune. She also served as a member of the Litchfield Board of Selectmen from 1993 - 2003 and was Litchfield's longest serving Democratic woman member of the Board of Selectmen. She was a member of the Connecticut Delegation to the 2000, 2004, 2012 and upcoming 2016 Democratic National Conventions and was a candidate for Secretary of the State 2006. She is currently serving her 8th term as a member of the Democratic State Central Committee representing the 30th District of 14 towns in the Northwest Corner. Rose Blondin has been on seven VOSH-Connecticut Missions to Nicaragua with her family. She has also been serving as an alternate on the Litchfield Board of Finance since 2015. Throughout college and law school she was very active in her school's environmental and animal rights clubs. While in Law School she served in her school's Education Advocacy Clinic where she represented children in gaining better access to education. She is very dedicated to animal rights issues and is General Counsel to the Little Guild of St. Francis and Kitty Quarters, two animals shelters in Litchfield County.

Blondin Law Offices Highlights

Bankruptcy & Debt, Real Estate, Wills & Probate, Estate Planning, Business

Firm Size: 1
Firm Locations: 1
Languages: English, Spanish