Legal Services & Lawyers

For over 22 years, Attorney Steven Basche has been helping individuals and businesses resolve disputes, simple and complex, in a constructive fashion.

Professional Highlights:

* Admitted to the Connecticut and U.S. District Court, District of Connecticut Bars in 1986.
* Admitted to the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in 1998.
* Graduated from the University of Connecticut, B.A.
magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Honors Scholar in 1983, President of the Undergraduate Student Government.
* Awarded Donald L. McCullough award for outstanding service to the University of Connecticut.
* Graduated from the University of Connecticut School
of Law, with honors, Moot Court Board, in 1986.
* Past member of the Board of Managers of the Indian Valley YMCA.
* Past President of the Hartford County chapter of the Federal Bar Association.
* Member of the Manchester and Connecticut Bar Associations.
* Appointed Fact Finder/Arbitrator and Attorney Trial Referee
by Chief Justice of Connecticut Supreme Court.
* Member of the Glastonbury Chamber of Commerce

The Law Offices of Cecilia Buck-Taylor, P.C. has been providing our clients with experienced legal services for many years. We provide all of our clients with personalized professionalism so that we successfully represent the needs of each of our clients.

Cecilia Buck-Taylor, J.D. has been practicing law for over 18 years in the areas of Domestic & Family Law, Real Estate, Probate, Corporate, Criminal, and Juvenile Matters. Attorney Buck-Taylor received her juris doctorate from the Fordham University School of Law where she graduated in 1991. Attorney Buck-Taylor also has dual majors in Psychology and Criminal Justice from the State University of New York at Albany from which she graduated with honors. Attorney Buck-Taylor also has many years of experience and training as a mediator, collaborator and an arbitrator and is committed to resolving disputes outside of the court system.

Attorney Buck-Taylor is a member of the CT Bar Association - ADR & Family Law Sections, American Bar Association - ADR & Family Law Sections, the Litchfield County Collaborative Divorce Group, the International Association of Collaborative Professionals as well as the Association for Conflict Resolution - International & New England Chapters. Most recently Attorney Buck-Taylor has been appointed to the CBA Standing Committee - Dispute Resolution in the Courts (2009-2010).

Attorney Buck-Taylor is also active in her community and serves on the Ethics Commission of the Town of New Milford and the New Milford Housing Partnership. Attorney Buck-Taylor is also a member of the Board of Directors for the Greater New Milford Chamber of Commerce.

Having many years of experience as a court appointed attorney for minor children and guardian ad litem and as a Family Masters, Attorney Buck-Taylor understands family and divorce issues, including custody issues, divorce, mediation, and collaborative work from many different perspectives.

Attorney Buck-Taylor's extensive experience and attention to the specific needs of her clients has been the cornerstone of her practice. This attention to detail allows Cecilia Buck-Taylor to provide each and every one of her clients with the personalized professionalism that can be hard to find at other law firms.

After many years as an attorney and mediator, I founded Dovetail Resolutions, LLC. Dovetail Resolutions is based in Connecticut and works to prevent, reduce, and resolve conflicts through mediation, consulting, and strategic planning. The main focus areas of Dovetail Resolutions are business conflicts (including within partnerships and family businesses), estate planning and settlement conflicts, and elder mediation, as well as work for nonprofits.