Connecticut Legal Awards 2021 | ALM Media Properties, LLC. | 12 February 2021 | Virtual

The Connecticut Law Tribune is honoring those attorneys and judges who have made a remarkable difference in the legal profession in Connecticut - whether in shaping the law, achieving outsized results for their clients, being an outstanding jurist or assisting those in need of legal services.

Categories for 2021 Include:
• Giant Slayers
• Officiator of the Year
• Attorney of the Year
• New Leaders in Law
• Unsung Heroes
• Lifetime Achievement
• In-house Counsel
• Game Changers
• Litigation Department of the Year
• Best Mentors
• Distinguished Leaders

2020 Winners

Attorney of the Year Finalists:
• Franca DeRosa, partner, Brown Rudnick
• Brenden Leydon, Wocl Leydon
• Leslie King, partner, Carlton Fields

Best Mentors:
• Jonathan Olsson, Deputy General Counsel, Nielsen
• John Mutchler, Partner, Murtha Cullina
• James Sexton, Partner, Sexton & Company
• Mark Carta, Partner, Carta, McAlister & Moore
• Ed Doernberger, Partner, Saxe Doernberger and Vita, PC
• Robert Keane, Vice President & Associate Group General Counsel, Travelers
• Glenn Carberry, Partner, TCORS
• Victoria Woodin Chavey, Principal, Jackson Lewis

Best Officiators:
• Carolanne Rowe, Judge of Probate, Connecticut Probate Court

Distinguished Leaders:
• Attorney General William Tong, Connecticut Office of the Attorney General
• Todd Sharinn, Head of Intellectual Property and Commercial Litigation Practice Groups, Gilbride Tusa Last & Spellane
• John Cordani, Robinson & Cole
• Lawrence Adler, Managing Partner, Adler Law Group
• Steven Katz, Partner, Rome Clifford Katz & Koerner
• Renée Dailey, Head Partner of Hartford office, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
• Keith Trantolo, Managing Partner Trantolo & Trantolo, LLC
• Barry Moller, Partner, Cramer & Anderson LLP
• Jay Sicklick, Center for Children’s Advocacy
• Eric Stockman, Partner, Stockman O’Connor
• Joette Katz, Partner, Shipman and Goodwin

Game Changers:
• Mark Dendinger, Partner, Bracewell
• Eileen Flug, Berchem Moses
• Felice Duffy, Duffy Law
• Sharad Samy, General Counsel, Commonfund

GC Impact:
• Lisa Proch, General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer, Talcott Resolution

Giant Slayer:
• Daniel Lage, Partner, Ruane Attorneys
• Yazmin Rodriguez, Partner, Esperanza Law

Law Firm Innovators:
• Wolf & Shore Law Group

Lifetime Achievement:
• Robert Mitchell, Founding Principal, Mitchell & Sheahan
• John A. Collins, III, Director, Suisman Shapiro Attorneys-at-Law
• Frank Coulom, Partner, Robinson & Cole
• Vincent Trantolo, Trantolo & Trantolo, LLC
• Richard Meehan, MeehanLaw, LLC
• Amado Vargas, Partner, Vargas Chapman Woods
• Maureen Weaver, Partner, Wiggin and Dana
• Beverly Garofalo, Principal, Jackson Lewis

In-House Legal Department Diversity and Quality of Life:
• Eversource Energy, Gregory B. Butler

Litigation Departments of the Year – General:
• Wiggin and Dana

Litigation Departments of the Year – Specialty Categories:
• Cowdery & Murphy – Appellate
• Murtha Cullina – Appellate
• Wiggin and Dana – Product Liability/Mass Torts

• New Leaders in the Law:
• Zachary Phillipps, Wofsey, Rosen, Kweskin & Kuriansky
• Stephen Lebedevitch, The Lebedevitch Law Firm
• Alex Taubes, David Rosen & Associates
• Emily Trudeau, Assistant State’s Attorney Fairfield State’s Attorney’s Office
• Stacy Schleif, Center for Children’s Advocacy
• Brittany Paz, Ruane Attorneys at Law
• Jill Ruane, Ruane Attorneys at Law
• Sebastian Lombardi, Day Pitney
• Taylor Shea, Robinson & Cole
• Kimberly Cohen, Shipman & Goodwin
• Alexander Copp, Cohen and Wolf, P.C.
• Julia Camarco, Shipman & Goodwin
• Martha Royston, Murtha Cullina
• Benjamin Nissim, Murtha Cullina
• Jonathan Schaefer, Robinson & Cole
• Dan Brody, Robinson & Cole
• David Lavery, Connecticut Fair Housing Center
• Jody Erdfarb, Wiggin and Dana
• Caroline Park, Wiggin and Dana
• Richard Luedeman, Wiggin and Dana
• Graham Moller, Cramer & Anderson
• Blake Driscolli, Trantolo & Trantolo
• Bridget D’Angelo, Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
• Isis Irizarry, IMI Law

Unsung Hero:
• Conrad Seifert, Seifert & Hogan
• Barbara F. Green, Law Offices of Green and Gross
• Cullen Guilmartin, Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP
• Ashleigh Backman, Connecticut Veterans Legal Center