Top lawyers in two of Connecticut’s most respected firms are being charged in a 16-count civil suit of illegally taking $4.3 million in unearned fees and using elaborate tactics to escape detection by the probate court system.

The plaintiffs are Cathy and Domenic D’Attilo, a high school-educated office worker and her bricklayer husband. Almost 12 years ago, their only child, Danny, was born in a Stamford Hospital with severe brain damage caused by alleged mistakes by a doctor during the birthing process. Kathleen Nastri and James Horowitz, of Bridgeport’s Koskoff, Koskoff & Bieder, won a $58.6 million verdict from a Waterbury jury in 2011.

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