Cara D. Joyce

Cara D. Joyce is a partner in Morrison Mahoney’s Hartford office with trial and appellate civil litigation experience. Her practice focuses on professional liability defense, including representation of doctors, hospitals, other medical professionals, attorneys, and non-medical professionals. She also handles general liability defense, commercial trucking matters, employment law, and product liability. Her current profile lists appellate, employment and labor, health care providers, medical malpractice defense, product liability, professional liability, and tort liability among her practice areas.

Joyce earned her J.D. from Quinnipiac University School of Law and her B.A. from Johns Hopkins University. Her legal background includes service as a law clerk to the Honorable Richard A. Robinson of the Connecticut Appellate Court, who later became Chief Justice of the Connecticut Supreme Court. She has written on evidentiary issues involving child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome, adding published legal scholarship to her litigation and appellate experience.

Joyce has represented clients in civil disputes at the trial and appellate levels. Her work includes medical malpractice defense for physicians, hospitals, and other medical professionals, legal malpractice defense for attorneys, and matters involving general liability, trucking, employment, and products. She has argued before the Connecticut Appellate Court and has continued to handle appellate matters. Her firm has also reported a successful Connecticut Supreme Court argument on behalf of an insurance agency client and a defense verdict in a Waterbury Superior Court matter.

Cara D. Joyce is admitted in Connecticut and the US District Court for the District of Connecticut. Her firm profile notes recognition in The Best Lawyers in America for Personal Injury Litigation – Defendants for 2023 through 2025. Her practice combines trial work, appellate advocacy, and professional liability defense, with experience addressing claims involving medical providers, lawyers, businesses, products, employment issues, trucking matters, and other civil liability disputes.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Morrison Mahoney LLP
• Member, Connecticut Bar Association

Licensed State

• Connecticut

Education

• Quinnipiac University School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Johns Hopkins University
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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