Goldberg Segalla

Lila McKinley concentrates her practice in the areas of professional and product liability. Lila is a phi beta kappa, magna cum laude graduate of Political Science and Sociology from the University of Connecticut. She received her Juris Doctorate, with honors, from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 2008. During law school, she served as the Notes and Comments Editor of the Connecticut Journal of International Law and participated in the law school's asylum and human rights clinic where she was awarded the Honorable M. Joseph Blumenfeld Prize for Outstanding Service as an Advocate on Behalf of Clients in the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic. Additionally, while in law school, she earned the Cali Award for Excellence in Criminal Procedure and served as an intern to U.S. District Court Chief Magistrate Judge Kenneth Neiman for the District of Massachusetts.

Before joining Goldberg Segalla, Lila was a judicial law clerk to the judges of the Connecticut Superior Court in the Middletown and New Britain Judicial Districts. She is also a mentor in the Career Beginnings program.

Honors

• The Honorable M. Joseph Blumenfeld Prize for Outstanding Service as an Advocate on Behalf of Clients in the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic
• Cali Award for Excellence in Criminal Procedure

Admitted to Practice

• Connecticut, 2008

Prior Experience

• Judicial Law Clerk to the Judges of the Middletown and New Britain Connecticut Superior Court

Civic Activities

• Mentor, Career Beginnings

Education

• University of Connecticut, B.A., magna cum laude, 2004
• University of Connecticut School of Law, J.D., with honors, 2008