Zeldes, Needle & Cooper represents businesses and individuals in litigation and transactions throughout Connecticut. The companys practice groups include business and commercial law, civil litigation, employment law, health care, real estate, criminal defense and estate planning. It also represents clients in the defense of products liability and workers compensation claims, wrongful death actions, aviation disasters and motor vehicle accidents. Its bankruptcy and insolvency practice group provides advisory services to individual and institutional lenders, borrowers and guarantors in the fields of loan workouts and foreclosures, bankruptcy proceedings and acquisition of assets. Zeldes, Needle & Cooper, founded in 1971, is headquartered in Bridgeport, Conn.