PRESS RELEASE: 36 Pullman & Comley Attorneys Named to 2023 Best Lawyers® List

note:  this press release was updated on november 7, 2022

Pullman & Comley, LLC would like to congratulate 36 of its attorneys for being named to The Best Lawyers in America 2023 list.  Lawyers included in The Best Lawyers in America list are divided by geographic region and practice areas. They are reviewed by their peers on the basis of professional knowledge and experience, and undergo an authentication process to make sure they are in current practice and in good standing. For the 2023 Edition of The Best Lawyers in America, 10.8 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in recognition of approximately 5 percent of lawyers in private practice in the United States.

The following Pullman & Comley attorneys appear in The Best Lawyers in America 2023 in the following practice areas:

• Michael J. Andreana — Public Finance Law
• David P. Atkins — Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
• Campbell D. Barrett — Family Law
• Megan Y. Carannante — Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Stephen M. Cowherd — Health Care Law
• Anne C. Dranginis — Appellate Practice, Family Law
• Geoffrey F. Fay — Real Estate Law
• Monte E. Frank — Commercial Litigation
• Eliot B. Gersten — Commercial Litigation
• Andrew C. Glassman — Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships), Corporate Compliance Law, Corporate Governance Law, Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Irve J. Goldman — Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Bankruptcy
• Nancy A. D. Hancock — Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships)
• Joshua A. Hawks-Ladds — Labor Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Lee D. Hoffman — Energy Law, Energy Regulatory Law, Environmental Law
• Robert L. Holzberg — Arbitration, Mediation
• Brion J. Kirsch — Real Estate Law
• Frederic Lee Klein — Energy Law, Water Law
• Jon T. Kukucka — Family Law, Family Law Arbitration
• Kristin B. Mayhew - Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Lynda B. Munro — Arbitration, Family Law, Family Law Arbitration, Family Law Mediation, Mediation
• Gary B. O'Connor — Litigation - Real Estate, Real Estate Law
• Jonathan B. Orleans — Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Alan S. Parker — Trusts and Estates
• Michael E. Riley — Arbitration
• Richard C. Robinson — Litigation - Construction
• Stephen M. Sedor — Education Law, Employment Law - Management, Labor Law - Management, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Gregory F. Servodidio — Eminent Domain and Condemnation Law
• James T. Shearin — Bet-the-Company Litigation, Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Antitrust, Litigation - Banking and Finance, Litigation - Intellectual Property, Litigation - Securities
• John F. Stafstrom Jr. — Public Finance Law
• James B. Stewart — Trusts and Estates
• Marcy Tench Stovall — Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
• Diane W. Whitney — Commercial Litigation, Environmental Law

Ten Attorneys Named ‘Lawyer of the Year’
Within The Best Lawyers in America list, only a single lawyer in each practice area and designated metropolitan area is honored as the "Lawyer of the Year," making this accolade particularly significant. These lawyers are selected based on particularly impressive voting averages received during the peer review assessments. Receiving this designation reflects the high level of respect a lawyer has earned among other leading lawyers in the same communities and the same practice areas for their abilities, their professionalism and their integrity.

Pullman & Comley would like to congratulate the following attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers as the 2023 “Lawyer of the Year” in the following practice areas and locations.

• Anne C. Dranginis — Appellate Practice (Stamford)
• Andrew C. Glassman — Mergers and Acquisitions Law (Hartford)
• Irve J. Goldman — Litigation - Bankruptcy (Stamford)
• Nancy A. D. Hancock — Business Organizations (including LLCs and Partnerships) (Stamford)
• Frederic Lee Klein — Energy Law (Hartford)
• Lynda B. Munro — Family Law Arbitration (Stamford)
• Jonathan B. Orleans — Litigation - Labor and Employment (Stamford)
• Michael E. Riley — Arbitration (Hartford)
• Stephen M. Sedor — Labor Law - Management (Stamford)
• James T. Shearin — Litigation - Intellectual Property (Stamford)

Note: The metropolitan area location categories are assigned by Best Lawyers and may not reflect the Pullman & Comley office where these attorneys most commonly work.

‘Ones to Watch’
Pullman & Comley would also like to congratulate the following attorneys recognized by Best Lawyers as "Ones to Watch" in the following practice areas.

• Thomas S. Lambert — Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Construction, Product Liability Litigation - Defendants
• Erick A. Russell — Banking and Finance Law, Municipal Law
• Kelly A. Scott — Family Law, Family Law: Arbitration and Mediation
• Zachary T. Zeid — Employee Benefits (ERISA) Law, Labor and Employment Law - Management

About Pullman & Comley
Pullman & Comley is one of Connecticut’s largest law firms and, for more than 100 years, has provided a wide range of legal services to clients in the New England region, as well as throughout the United States and internationally. Pullman & Comley’s major practice areas include business organizations and finance; government finance; health care; labor, employment law and employee benefits; litigation; property tax and valuation; real estate, energy, environmental and land use; and trusts and estates. The firm has offices in Bridgeport, Hartford, Waterbury and Westport, Connecticut; White Plains, New York; Springfield, Massachusetts; and Wakefield, Rhode Island. The firm is an active member of the Law Firm Alliance, an international affiliation of law firms. For more information, please visit www.pullcom.com.

About Best Lawyers
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