Denis R. Caron will receive the John Eldred Shields Distinguished Professional Service Award at the CBA’s annual awards ceremony, Celebrate with the Stars, on Wednesday, April 9.
Before his retirement, Attorney Caron served as a Vice President of Commonwealth Land Title Insurance Company from 1994 to 2016. Before first joining the company as a staff attorney in 1985, he spent four years as a partner at Whelton Caron & Connors and another four as an associate at Sherwood & Plessinger. Attorney Caron received his law degree from the University of Connecticut School of Law in 1974.
Throughout his fifty-year legal career, Attorney Caron has provided countless hours to educating members of the Connecticut Bar on the intricacies of foreclosures and real property law. During his time as an assistant clerk for the Hartford Superior Court in the 1970s, he gained a prodigious knowledge of Connecticut’s foreclosure procedures and became well known for his expertise. He later used this knowledge, which grew during his years of private practice, to provide presentations on the topic of foreclosures to the CBA and other CLE organizations. In 1981 he authored the widely renowned Connecticut Foreclosures: An Attorney’s Manual of Practice and Procedure, currently published and available in its fourteenth edition.
Over the years, Attorney Caron has held several roles within the Connecticut Bar Association, serving on the Real Property Section Executive Committee from 1985-2019 and on the Special Committee on Standards of Title from 1985-2024, of which he was chairman from 2004-2016. During his time on the Special Committee on Standards of Title, he led efforts to continuously update and expand the published Connecticut Standards of Title as the preeminent state-based standards of title in the United States, being the principial draftsman of five new chapters to these standards. In addition to his CBA roles, Attorney Caron also served as President of the Connecticut Title Association from 1991-1993 and a fellow of the American College of Real Estate Lawyers from 1999-2016.
The John Eldred Shields Distinguished Professional Service Award recognizes CBA members who have performed outstanding service through or on behalf of the CBA for the benefit of the legal community and the community at large.
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