Firm News

  • Garcia & Milas, P.C. is pleased to announce that Allan P. Hillman has been selected to the 2021 Connecticut Super Lawyers List and Jaime Paoletti has been selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars List. Super Lawyers® is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. For information on the selection process please visit
    superlawyers.com/Connecticut/selection
  • Allan Hillman has been named a 2021 “Legal Eagle” by Franchise Times.  The selection process for this distinction involves nominations by clients and legal professionals and recognizes those lawyers with deep knowledge of franchising.   For more on the selection process visit https://www.franchisetimes.com/Resources/Legal-Eagles.
  • Garcia & Milas, P.C. is pleased to announce that Raymond A. Garcia, Jane I. Milas, Allan P. Hillman have been selected to the 2020 Connecticut Super Lawyers List and Justin J. Garcia and Jaime Paoletti have been selected to the Super Lawyers Rising Stars List. Super Lawyers® is a rating service of outstanding lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The selection process includes independent research, peer nominations and peer evaluations. For information on the selection process please visit
    superlawyers.com/Connecticut/selection.
  • Garcia & Milas is pleased to announce that Raymond Garcia, Jane Milas, and Allan Hillman have been selected to the  2019 Connecticut Super Lawyers  List.  Justin Garcia and Jaime Paoletti have been selected to the 2019 Connecticut Rising Stars list.  For information on the selection criteria of this peer review process, please visit superlawyers.com/Connecticut/selection.

  • Garcia & Milas Attorneys present at the 2019 Marcum New England Construction Summit

  • Jane Milas was a recent speaker at the Connecticut Bar Association 2019 Annual Meeting on the topic of Construction Law–The Year in Review.

  • Allan Hillman has been named as Lawyer of the Year, Franchise Law by Best Lawyers Connecticut, 2019 publication and has been named to the Best Lawyers New England 2019 publication in the area of Franchise Law.

  • Jaime Paoletti presented at a recent CBA Franchise, Distribution & Dealer Law Section meeting on the topic of Choice of Law: Evolving Standards and Public Policy Considerations.

  • Jane Milas has been named to the Connecticut Science Center Board of Trustees.

  • Jane Milas, a Connecticut Veterans Legal Center pro bono attorney, wins a discharge upgrade for a navy veteran.

  • Astoria Federal Mortgage Corp. v. Genesis Limited Partnership, 167 Conn. App. 183 (2016). Jane I. Milas, with whom on the brief was Jaime Paoletti, obtained a decision from the Connecticut Appellate Court. In a case of first impression, the Appellate Court analyzed whether the assignee of a non-recorded assignment of mechanic’s lien had standing to foreclose a mechanic’s lien.