About Katherine Bertrand
Katherine Bertrand earned her law degree from Western New England University School of Law, where she was a quarterfinalist in the Jeffrey G. Miller National Environmental Law Moot Court Competition and was named one of the Best Advocates in the Lawyering Skills Oral Argument Competition. She also served as a student attorney in the law school's Global Justice Clinic. Before law school, she attended the University at Albany (SUNY), earning a Bachelor of Arts in English summa cum laude, and then worked as a litigation paralegal, developing her commitment to advocacy and client relations. She began at RisCassi & Davis as a law clerk in the summer of 2023 and was hired as an attorney upon her admission to the bar in 2024.
Proven verdicts and settlements at RisCassi & Davis
These results are credited to RisCassi & Davis. A result appears under an attorney's own name only when a published source names them as counsel on the case.
A Hartford jury returned a $7.25 million verdict for the estate of Daniel DiNardi, a Connecticut DOT supervisor fatally struck by a tractor-trailer while working on the shoulder of Route 8 northbound near Waterbury.
RisCassi and Davis attorneys secured a $6.5 million settlement for students hurt when a school bus plunged down a 20-foot I-84 embankment, killing a 16-year-old Rocky Hill boy on his way to a robotics competition.
Michael Jainchill of RisCassi & Davis secured a $3.8 million settlement for the adult children of Janet Pulver, a 66-year-old Avon grandmother killed when a speeding driver crossed the center line and struck her car head-on in Farmington, Connecticut.
A Hartford Superior Court jury returned a $3,476,025 verdict in September 2014 for motorcyclist Matthew Karotkin, who suffered skull fractures and a lung injury when a UPS driver cut left across his path at a Windsor, Connecticut intersection.
A Waterbury jury returned a $2 million verdict in November 2024 for construction laborer Keven Shepard, who was electrocuted when an excavator struck an Eversource power line marked nearly eight feet from its actual underground position.
Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Each case is unique and depends on its own facts.
