Jim Hirschfield joined Cramer & Anderson after graduating from the University of Bridgeport School of Law in 1985 and was made a partner in 2000. During his career with the firm, Attorney Hirschfield has practiced extensively in many areas of civil and criminal litigation. He has extensive experience in all areas of Family Law, including divorce, custody and visitation, relocation with minor children, support and paternity matters in the Superior Court, and guardianship, custody, and conservator issues in the Probate Court.
Attorney Hirschfield’s practice includes working with the Connecticut State Police Special Licensing & Firearms Unit (SLFU) and appearing before the state’s Board of Firearms Permit Examiners to obtain the lawful return of a client’s Firearms Permit, as well as firearms, in cases where they were taken by, or surrendered to, police after a criminal arrest, the imposition of a Civil Restraining Order or Criminal Protective Order, or the imposition of a Risk Protection Order.
Attorney Hirschfield is a Family Special Master in the Litchfield Superior Court and at the Regional Family Trial Docket Court in Middletown. He is Connecticut-certified Guardian ad Litem and is often appointed to that position by the court to represent the interests of minor children in contested custody cases. He also has extensive experience in criminal defense law, including DUI, DMV license suspension hearings, issues involving Ignition Interlock Devices, and all motor vehicle offenses.
Additionally, Attorney Hirschfield is appointed by the Court as a Committee of Sale in mortgage foreclosure cases and has extensive experience in defending mortgage foreclosure actions.
He was a member of the Region 12 (Bridgewater, Roxbury, and Washington) Board of Education from 1997 to 2023 and served as Chairman from 2009 to 2017. He represents individuals in areas involving education law, including suspensions, expulsions, residency hearings, and special education. In all areas of his practice, Attorney Hirschfield has extensive trial experience.
He has lived in Washington since 1989 with his wife, Robin, where they raised two children.
1985 – Connecticut 1985 – U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
1986 – New Hampshire
1996 – U.S. Supreme Court
Central Connecticut State College (B.A., 1980)
University of Bridgeport (J.D., 1985) Phi Delta Phi
Litchfield County Bar Association
Waterbury Bar Association
Connecticut Bar Association
Standing Committee on Recommendations for Admissions to the Bar–Litchfield Judicial District
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Beverly Kolessar is Attorney Hirschfield’s legal assistant. Her email address is bkolessar@cramer-anderson.com, and her telephone number is 860-567-8718 x 215.