Wyatt R. Jansen

Background

Wyatt is a Principal in Cummings & Lockwood's Fiduciary and Probate Litigation Group and Litigation Group. He represents fiduciaries and beneficiaries in contested accounting and removal proceedings; breach of fiduciary duty claims; trust construction, modification, and termination matters; will and trust contests, tortious interference claims and other inheritance disputes; creditor claims; and charities issues.  Wyatt also advises fiduciaries on administration issues and risk management.

Wyatt has additional experience in complex business litigation, including the successful defense at trial and on appeal of a claim seeking to enforce a $300 million foreign judgment and the successful defense and prosecution of business tort, competition, derivative, and books and records claims.

Practice Areas

• Fiduciary and Probate Litigation Group
• Business and Commercial Litigation
• Closely-Held Business Litigation
• Litigation Group

Education

• New York University (B.A., 2008)
• University of Connecticut School of Law (J.D. with Honors, 2012)

Bar Admissions

• New York, 2013
• Connecticut, 2013
• U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut
• U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

Articles/Publications/Presentations

• In Terrorem Clauses: Bark vs. Bite – Cambridge Forum on Private Wealth Litigation (May 2025)
• Litigation Under the Connecticut Uniform Trust Code – CBA Estates and Probate Section (April 2025)
• With Great Power(s) Comes Great Responsibility:  Litigating Powers of Appointment – Cambridge Forum on Private Wealth Litigation (April 2024)
• Ethics and Confidentiality for Paralegals – Federal Tax Institute of New England (November 2024)
• Common Conflicts in Trust, Estate, and Fiduciary Matters: Problems and Solutions – Federal Tax Institute of New England (November 2023)
• When Offshore Trust Disputes Wash Up Onshore, ALI/ABA – Representing Estate and Trust Beneficiaries and Fiduciaries (June 2019)
• Connecticut’s Celotex Problem: Preventing Unnecessary Trials by Revitalizing Summary Judgment, Connecticut Law Tribune (February 14, 2018)
• Opportunity and Danger: Connecticut Statutes of Limitations Don’t Apply to Arbitration, Connecticut Law Tribune (February 8, 2018)
• Strategic Removal and the Voluntary-Involuntary Rule, Connecticut Law Tribune (August 15, 2016)
• Enforcing the Unenforceable Forum Selection Clause, Connecticut Law Tribune (December 1, 2016)
• Impermissible Windfalls? Unemployment Insurance, Back Pay, and the Two Classes of Title VII Plaintiffs, 18 Connecticut Insurance Law Journal 307 (2012)