About Sean Stokes
Sean Stokes began his legal career at RisCassi & Davis, P.C. as a law clerk and was hired as an attorney immediately upon his admission to the bar in 2015. During his initial tenure at the firm (2015-2019), he was recognized by the Connecticut Law Tribune as a 'New Leader in the Law' and as a Rising Star by Super Lawyers, and in 2017 he obtained one of the top 20 verdicts in Connecticut in Litchfield Superior Court. In 2020, he moved to Portland, Oregon, where his practice focused on cases involving semi-trucks, commercial motor vehicles, and large corporations, and he obtained tens of millions of dollars in recovery for his clients.
He returned to Connecticut and rejoined RisCassi & Davis in 2024. He has been listed in The Best Lawyers in America in Personal Injury Litigation and Product Liability every year since 2021. He is admitted to the state and federal courts of Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Oregon.
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.
