KCC Law Firm

Attorney Tara Knight

Tara Knight is the founding member and senior partner of the firm of Knight, Conway, Cerritelli L.L.C. located in New Haven, Connecticut. Attorney Knight specializes in criminal defense law and is board-certified in criminal trial advocacy by the National Board of Trial Advocacyl. Her extensive criminal litigation background includes trial and appellate experience in both state and federal courts.

She is admitted to practice before the Connecticut State and Federal Courts; the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; and the United States Supreme Court.

She is one of the first women ever to be listed in the publication, The Best Lawyers in America, as an outstanding criminal law practitioner in Connecticut. She has been listed in The Best Lawyers In America yearly since 2003.

Attorney Knight was named a "Connecticut Super Lawyer"2 in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009. Additionally, she was designated as one of the Top 25 Women Lawyers in the state since 2007 and one of the Top 50 Lawyers in the state in 2006. She was also listed in New York Magazine in its 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 editions as one of the best lawyers in the New York area.

In 2009, Irish America Magazine and the Irish Voice Newspaper named her to their "Legal 100" list- a listing of the leading figures in the legal profession across North America.

She is a past-president of the Connecticut Criminal Defense Lawyers Association (2005-2006) and was appointed by the Judges of the Superior Court in Connecticut to serve as a member of the grievance/ethics panel for the Ansonia/Milford Judicial District (2006-2009, 2009-2012).

In 2007 the Mayor of New Haven, John DeStefano, Jr., selected her to be a member of an independent review board which was formed to examine the policies, procedures and structures of the New Haven Police Department in the wake of a well-publicized corruption scandal.

Attorney Knight is an adjunct professor of criminal law at Quinnipiac University and has been a guest lecturer for classes at Yale University Law School, Quinnipiac School of Law, and the University of New Haven and has participated as a panelist and/or lecturer at numerous seminars and conferences sponsored by various bar associations, law schools, television and radio programs, colleges and other organizations.

She has been a guest commentator on CourtTV, now TruTv, since 1997 and has been invited to comment as an expert on criminal law on Good Morning America, MSNBC, CNN and Fox News. Additionally she has been featured in two A & E Network Productions and on Court TV's, The System. She and Attorney Hugh F. Keefe are frequent guests on New Haven's popular morning radio program, "Chaz and AJ in the Morning" (99.1 WPLR).

Attorney Knight is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association and New Haven County Bar Association. In 2001 she was inducted into the Connecticut Bar Foundation. She is an active member of the National Association of Criminal Defense Attorneys. She has been an executive committee member of the Criminal Law Section of the Connecticut Bar Association since 1995. She is a member of the NORML (National Organization for the Reformation of Marijuana Laws) legal committee and FAMM (Families Against Minimum Mandatories).

Attorney Knight is a graduate of Fairfield University in Fairfield, Connecticut and Suffolk University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. She also completed the National Criminal Defense College in Macon, Georgia.

You may contact Attorney Knight either at 203-624-6115 or you may email her at tknight@kcc-law.com.