David W. Griffin JD

David W. Griffin is a partner at Rutkin, Oldham & Griffin, LLC in Westport, Connecticut. Mr. Griffin has dedicated much of his 32-year career to assisting clients through divorce, custody, relocation and income and asset distribution cases, including alimony and support issues arising from complicated compensation structures and high net worth families. He has negotiated prenuptial and postnuptial agreements for individuals whose net worth has ranged from multiple millions to billions of dollars. He has negotiated to settlement, and litigated when necessary, complex financial and custody cases in courts throughout Connecticut. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and serves as a Member and Co-chair of the National Test Committee, the AAML/AICPA National Divorce Conference Planning Committee and the 2016 National CLE Committee. He is Vice-chair of the AAML Sponsorship Committee and sits on the AAML Council of Committee Chairs. Mr. Griffin is the 2015 – 2016 Chair of the Family Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association. He served as the Co-Chair of the Connecticut Child Support Guidelines Commission from 2014 – 2015 and as a member of the Commission from 2011 – 2015. He is a member of the Board of Editors of the Connecticut Family Lawyer, having served in that role from 2011 – present. He is a member of the American Bar Association Family Law Section. He is also a Fellow of the International Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, a Fellow of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers and serves as a Member of the Board of Managers. Mr. Griffin served as the Chair of the Boards of Directors and Trustees of The Waterbury Hospital from 2009–2010 and served variously as a member or chair of the Executive Committee, Finance Committee, Audit Committee, Governance and Nominating Committee, Executive Compensation Committee and CEO Search Committee of that institution over a period of many years. During that time, the Hospital valued and acquired various physician practice groups and had revenues in the multiple hundreds of millions of dollars. He has lectured and been published extensively on a variety of divorce and finance-related topics both in his home state and nationally, on subjects as diverse as digital forensics to earning capacity to valuation and distribution of interests in start-ups and “no-revenue” high-value companies. He has received recognition as a Top Attorney in Connecticut, as a Super Lawyer and by The Best Lawyers in America as published in U.S. News and World Report.