Antonio Ponvert III

With compassion and concern for his clients, Antonio Ponvert III represents child and adult victims of catastrophic personal injury, sexual abuse, wrongful death, deprivation of Constitutional rights, police misconduct, and other abuses of power. He cares deeply about his clients and how their injuries have altered their lives, and is passionately committed to obtaining maximum justice for his clients and to punishing wrongdoers. Since joining Koskoff in 1999, Antonio has earned multiple record-breaking verdicts and settlements, including the second largest personal injury verdict in Connecticut history ($41.75 million) on behalf of a young woman who contracted Tick-Borne Encephalitis on an overseas school trip, a $20 million verdict against a rabbi for child sexual abuse, and the only wrongful death settlement in history with the manufacturer of Skoal smokeless tobacco on behalf of the surviving wife and children of a man who died from tongue cancer. Antonio has won substantial compensation for victims of child sexual abuse at private schools, and for mentally ill prisoners, suicide victims, and people abused and tortured by prison guards and by psychiatric hospital staff. He achieved substantial monetary and injunctive relief for female correctional officers who were victims of sexual harassment and discrimination, and for the Guardians Black Police Officers Association in one of the longest-running race discrimination cases in the nation. Awards and Honors Super Lawyers® Selectees Antonio Ponvert III included in a Super Lawyers® list Honors Connecticut Law Tribune Distinguished Leader Award, 2019 Fellow, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 2016 Connecticut Federal District Court Pro-Bono Award, 2014 Best Lawyers, Civil Rights Super Lawyers Martindale-Hubbell Rated AV Order of the Coif Trial Lawyers College Warrior of the Year 2005 Other Sources of Feedback About Antonio Ponvert III Included on the 2025Connecticut Super Lawyers list Past Lists 2024 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2023 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2022 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2021 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2020 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2019 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2018 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2017 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2016 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2015 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2014 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2013 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2012 Connecticut Super Lawyers list 2011 Connecticut Super Lawyers list

• Attorney

• Tyler, Cooper & Alcorn, New Haven, CT, 1997 - 1999
• Law Offices of Amitai Schwartz, San Francisco, CA, 1992 - 1997
• O'Melveny & Myers San Francisco, CA, 1991 - 1992
• Judge Edmund V. Ludwig, U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Law Clerk, 1990 - 1991

• $41.5 Million for a 15-year-old student who contracted a life-altering disease while on a school trip to China
• Confidential Settlements for three young men who were sexually abused when attending Indian Mountain School, a junior boarding school in Connecticut
• $20 Million for a young man who was sexually abused by a rabbi while attending a religious school
• $5 Million for the family of a man who died of mouth cancer resulting from use of smokeless tobacco products
• $2.3 Million for the wrongful death of a psychiatric patient
• $2 Million for a woman who suffered severe emotional distress after her ex-boyfriend spied on her with covert surveillance equipment

• Faculty, Trial Lawyers College, Dubois, Wyoming, 2008 - 2015
• Member, Civil Pro Bono Panel, United States District Court
• Court-appointed representation of prisoners
• Lecturer at the Practicing Law Institute

• Pennsylvania, 1990
• California, 1992
• Connecticut, 1997
• U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1991
• U.S. District Court Northern District of California, 1991
• U.S. District Court Southern District of California, 1993
• U.S. District Court District of Connecticut, 1997
• U.S. Court of Appeals 1st Circuit, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals 2nd Circuit, 1997
• U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals 4th Circuit, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals 6th Circuit, 2000
• U.S. Court of Appeals 9th Circuit, 1993
• U.S. Court of Appeals 10th Circuit, 2001
• U.S. Court of Appeals 11th Circuit, 2000
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2002

• Connecticut Trial Lawyers Association
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Connecticut Civil Liberties Union
• American Association for Justice
• International Academy of Trial Lawyers