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Keith Ainsworth

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Keith Ainsworth

Managing Member
Law Offices of Keith R. Ainsworth, Esq., LLC

Keith Ainsworth has been an environmental and land use litigator of the New Haven Bar for over three decades. He has a broad conservation-based practice representing land trusts, non-profits, land owners and businesses in transactions and litigation throughout Connecticut before administrative agencies and state and federal courts.

Currently Acting Chair of the CT Council on Environmental Quality, former chair of the CT Bar Association Environmental Law section and a municipal first selectman (Haddam), Keith brings a rounded perspective to conservation. A graduate of Tufts with a B.S. in biology, environmental studies and English literature, Keith applies a scientific and analytical background to the law. He is a life member of the Madison Land Conservation Trust and served on the national leadership council of Trout Unlimited.

Keith also serves as General Counsel to Vista Life Innovations, Inc., a private educational institute for adults with intellectual disabilities. Keith is also an avid outdoorsman and the author of several volumes of poetry.

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