Felice Duffy
Felice Duffy is a New Haven, Connecticut-based defense attorney and public speaker with over 10 years of experience as a federal prosecutor, She now runs a private law firm.
Education
Duffy graduated first in her class at Quinnipiac University School of Law, and went on to obtain her Masters and PhD degrees in Education and Sports Psychology from the University of Connecticut.While at the University of Connecticut, she was instrumental in filing a Title IX complaint to institute a varsity women's soccer team at the University of Connecticut. She went on to be the captain of this team, and was a first team All-America player.
Career
Duffy worked as an attorney at several firms including Sullivan and Cromwell in New York City and Zeldes Needle & Cooper in Bridgeport, CT and also as a federal judicial law clerk before going on to become an Assistant US Attorney.Duffy has taught at Quinnipiac law school.
During her time at the Attorney's Office, she prosecuted cases in both the Violent Crimes and Major Crimes units. She also served as the U.S. Attorney’s Office Outreach Coordinator, where she developed community engagement programs and conducted civil rights-based training for state/local law enforcement and college/university police departments.
As a federal prosecutor, Duffy has been credited with working to make neighborhoods safer, enforce drug and criminal penalties, support civil rights, and more.
Duffy opened Duffy Law, LLC in 2015. The firm mainly works on Title IX and college-focused cases, but also retains a team of criminal defense attorneys representing individuals accused of federal and state crimes.
Duffy has authored several articles, including a law review article on Title IX.