Meet Attorney Nate Baber
Nate Baber manages the firm’s personal injury, wage and hour, and criminal defense practice groups. He has tried jury and bench cases in State and Federal Court, argued in the Connecticut Appellate Court, and has litigated cases in a number of Connecticut State Agencies.
As a lawyer, Nate is passionate about taking on the most powerful on behalf of the least.
“Lawyers have one primary and essential purpose: to be in your corner, by your side, ensuring that you have a fair fight against whomever or whatever is on the other side. Oftentimes, the people and organizations you are up against are well-positioned to hide, delay, embarrass you and out-spend you. They have every incentive to make you believe that they are big and powerful and that you are not. Stopping that from happening is exactly the reason I became a lawyer.”
Over the last decade, Attorney Baber has focused his energy on representing the underserved, the “little guy,” against some of the State’s and Country’s mightiest institutions in personal injury claims, wage and hour claims, criminal defense matters, and civil litigation. He has helped his clients recover tens of millions of dollars in damages in claims against state agencies, corporations, insurance companies, schools and municipalities, hospitals, churches, and other powerful institutions with deep pockets and heavy influence.
He takes special pride in his representation of victims of sexual abuse and harassment from toddlers to adults. Attorney Baber takes sexual abuse cases against the Catholic Church, municipalities, public and private universities and professors, and other authorities who commit or permit acts of sexual abuse, including those that occur in daycares, assisting living facilities, and nursing and group homes.
Attorney Baber also takes on the most powerful institution: the government. He has represented men and women who have been falsely accused of crimes ranging from misdemeanors to serious felonies in state and federal court for more than a decade. He was awarded the pro bono attorney of the year by the Federal Judges of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for his representation of indigent prisoners against the State of Connecticut. And, his results on behalf of his clients have been reported and featured in media coverage throughout the United States.
As the son of a single mother who worked as a direct care healthcare worker her entire career, Nate has taken pride in representing blue-collar employees in wage and hour overtime claims. The firm’s wage and hour practice group, which includes overtime and minimum wage claims, has grown dramatically as a result. Nate has represented direct care workers, service technicians, white collar “exempt” employees, and other individuals who have been unfairly denied overtime.
Nate is currently the President of the Board of Directors for the Hockanum Valley Community Council, a large non-profit social services agency dedicated to providing services to low income and at-risk families in the Vernon, CT and Tolland County area.
Nate and his wife, Kristin, are also licensed foster parents. In 2023, Nate and his wife were awarded Foster Parents of the Year by the Department of Children and Families.
Recognition
Nate has received recognition and praise from the federal judges of the United States District Court for the District of Connecticut for his Pro Bono work, including the Pro Bono Attorney of the Year award for his work on behalf of Connecticut inmates.
He has been selected as a Super Lawyers Rising Star every year since 2015 and received the Martindale-Hubbell ranking of Distinguished after only his first 8 years of practice.
Education
Nate graduated from the University of Connecticut, where his analysis of the constitutionality of DNA Databases was recognized as the best research paper in political science his senior year. He also won an internship in the United States Senate.
Attorney Baber went on to graduate with Honors from the University of Connecticut School of Law in only two and a half years. He won awards for receiving the highest grade in Trial Advocacy and the Criminal Defense Clinic, and he also won the Alva P. Loiselle Moot Court Competition.
Contact Nate Baber today for a free and confidential discussion about your case.
