Law Offices of James C. Wing, Jr.

Law Offices of James C. Wing, Jr. Family law, including divorce, child custody, alimony & support, juvenile, DUI, criminal, personal injury, school discipline and special education law.

Attorney Wing has over 33 years of experience, having been admitted to practice in Connecticut in 1982. His extensive litigation experience includes court and jury trials, administrative hearings and appeals in Connecticut's courts and tribunals. He has also represented clients pro hac vice in other states and federal districts. He has served as an advocate and mediator in arbitration, mediation a

nd other alternative dispute resolution proceedings. Attorney Wing serves as a Family Special Master for the Connecticut Superior Court, taught Family Law as an adjunct professor at The Hartford College for Women/The University of Hartford, presented a seminar to the Hartford County Bar entitled “The New Connecticut Child Support Guidelines”, twice addressed lawyers and educators on “The Discipline of Students with Special Needs in Connecticut”, and lectured the Connecticut Psychological Association at their annual convention on “Bullying in the Public Schools” discussing both the laws regarding bullying and how to stop bullying in our schools. Areas of focus: family law, divorce, child custody, criminal law, juvenile law, education/school law and personal injury claims.

We are proud to announce that Attorney Wing has been selected a SuperLawyer for the 11th consecutive year. This explains...
08/02/2021

We are proud to announce that Attorney Wing has been selected a SuperLawyer for the 11th consecutive year. This explains why this is an achievement.

Selection Process

Followers of this page know that I am no fan of Betsy DeVos. Since she was nominated, I have feared that her school cho...
08/21/2018

Followers of this page know that I am no fan of Betsy DeVos. Since she was nominated, I have feared that her school choice drive might permit the non and for profit schools that would spring up to ignore the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act because they were 'private' schools thus relegating disabled kids to public schools. The attempt to make education 'free market' would leave the existing public schools with reduced enrollment that included the more expensive disabled student population. Of course, lower enrollment would result in reduced funding compounding the traditional public school's problems competing in the market. I also fear that IDEA may cease to be a federal floor on protections because there might be a move to give each state the right to set its own special education standards.

We can see DeVos is busy rolling back the past administration's efforts to regulate for profit schools by protecting the students they failed.

Here is an op-ed piece that shines the light under some of the rocks.

Watch out, the secretary of education is on the loose.

We are pleased that Attorney Wing has again been named a "SuperLawyer," as he has every year beginning in 2011.
09/25/2017

We are pleased that Attorney Wing has again been named a "SuperLawyer," as he has every year beginning in 2011.

A Visual Take on the Super Lawyers Selection Process - Third-Party Support - Superlawyers

Here is a link to our blog. This story is about how young drivers may be subject to having their Connecticut drivers' l...
09/07/2017

Here is a link to our blog. This story is about how young drivers may be subject to having their Connecticut drivers' license suspended without specific notice when they pay a ticket for an infraction, like speeding.

We are currently offering a free half hour initial consultation. If you have a traffic ticket, contact us before deciding whether to just pay the fine.

I sincerely appreciate a parent sharing this story.
09/07/2017

I sincerely appreciate a parent sharing this story.

As my son’s limitations became clearer, I found it harder every year to write a vision statement for his I.E.P. Then he showed us how.

Selling students education is a big business. Individuals and families purchase education as an investment with the exp...
08/19/2017

Selling students education is a big business. Individuals and families purchase education as an investment with the expectation that they will receive skills and knowledge that in turn will result in opportunity.

Our state and federal government play an important role in regulating that business and that of student loans. An example would be Trump University, which allegedly made false promises and delivered little in return for tuition and fees. Trump finally agreed to pay $25 million dollars to settle claims against Trump University. That amount is equivalent to about 80% of what students paid, but the settlement is taxable to the students and deductible to Trump.

The for profit schools, driven by the profit motive, can cause individuals great damage. The Atlantic magazine reported in January, citing a study conducted by the US Department of Education, that
"more than 800 vocational programs the department reviewed (at for-profit schools, private nonprofit schools, and public community colleges) failed to show that their graduates were able to find decent jobs, meaning the former students have annual loan payments that are more than 30 percent of their discretionary income and more than 12 percent of their total earnings.
Not insignificantly, virtually all—98 percent—of the programs that do not meet that bar are for-profit schools."

Of course, January 2017 also brought us a new Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos. One of her changes has resulted in her being sued by 18 States.

NPR recently reported:
"The filing by 18 states and Washington, D.C., asks a U.S. District Court to declare the Education Department's delay of the rule unlawful and to order the agency to implement it. The states say they have pursued "numerous costly and time-intensive investigations and enforcement actions against proprietary and for-profit schools" that violated consumer protection laws.
The Borrower Defense Rule was adopted by the Obama administration last November and had been set to take effect this month. It was created to make it "simpler for students at colleges found to be fraudulent to get their loans forgiven," as NPR's Ed team has reported.
Large amounts of money are potentially at stake. As the states' complaint notes, "taxpayers invested $32 billion in for-profit schools in the 2009-10 academic year, more than the annual budget of the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of State during that time period."

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/07/08/535779235/why-18-states-are-suing-education-secretary-betsy-devos

https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/01/what-happens-to-students-when-for-profit-colleges-close/512831/

https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2017/04/03/trump-university-settlement-nets-25m-write-off-for-trump-taxes-for-students/ #356767397298

Plus other education news: College enrollment is on the decline, school district leaders take a stand against the Senate health care bill, and interest rates on student loans are going up.

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