About Elissa Flanagan
Elissa Flanagan Magnant earned her Juris Doctor from Western New England College in 1992 after finishing a bachelor’s diploma in history and political science on the University of Connecticut in 1988. Those formative years set a clear trajectory toward public service and court work. Her educational record paired liberal arts education with practical legal study.
She began her professional legal career in Connecticut and Massachusetts courts. Early roles covered an internship in 1993 at the offices of Governor Lowell P. Weicker, Jr. in Hartford and a law clerk role that identical year at Grafstein and Associates in Farmington. In 1995 she labored as a caseflow clerk at the Superior Court in New Britain and returned to private practice as an associate at Grafstein and Associates.
Courtroom process and insolvency law have become central themes within the subsequent segment of her career. In 2000 she served as a law clerk to Judge Joel B. Rosenthal and Judge Henry J. Boroff on the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Worcester. She later took a brief regulation clerk post with Judge William C. Hillman at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Boston in 2002. Those clerkships supplied sustained exposure to insolvency filings, adversary hearings, and the realistic demanding situations judges face when resolving complex creditor-debtor disputes.
Between and round her clerkships she practiced at numerous firms. In 1995 she used to be an affiliate at Grafstein and Associates and later joined Howd and Ludorf as an associate in 1998. Those years in firm settings concerned pretrial motions, client counseling, and litigation preparation throughout state and federal matters. The range of roles gave her an operating information of each administrative courtroom features and personal practice dynamics.
She based the Law Office of Elissa F. Magnant in 2011 and has practiced beneath that call since. She is admitted to practice before the U.S. highest court and is licensed in Connecticut and Massachusetts; she additionally holds admission within the First and Second Circuit Courts of Appeal. Her professional memberships consist of the American Bankruptcy Institute, the National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Lawyers, the Massachusetts Bar Association, the Boston Bar Association, the Worcester County Bar Association, the Greater Lowell Bar Association, and Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education.
Her practice draws on decades of experience in bankruptcy courts and in personal practice. She handles shopper bankruptcy things, advocates for debtors in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 hearings, and works on associated litigation and creditor bargaining sessions. She presently practices on the Law Office of Elissa F. Magnant, the place her work facilities on consumer insolvency and associated things.
