91 Day Pitney Lawyers Named to 2015 Super Lawyers List
Stamford, Conn., October 30, 2015 – Day Pitney is pleased to announce that 91 of the firm's attorneys in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Washington, D.C., have been recognized by Super Lawyers as leaders in their respective practice areas. Twenty-one of these Day Pitney attorneys were selected for inclusion on the list of Super Lawyers Rising Stars.
The Super Lawyers recognition is based on peer nominations and evaluations as well as third-party research. Each candidate is evaluated on 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. Selections are made on an annual, state-by-state basis.
The following Day Pitney attorneys are included on the respective lists:
Connecticut Super Lawyers:
Elizabeth Alquist, Intellectual Property Litigation, Employment Litigation: Defense, Hartford
Elizabeth Barton, Environmental, Environmental Litigation, Energy & Natural Resources, Hartford
R. Scott Beach, Business/Corporate, Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Greenwich
Paul Belval, Energy & Natural Resources, Utilities, Hartford
Harold Blinderman, Environmental, Energy & Natural Resources, Utilities, Hartford
Joshua Cohen, Bankruptcy: Business, Business Litigation, New Haven
Richard Colbert, Business Litigation, Civil Litigation: Defense, Stamford
David Doot, Energy & Natural Resources, Utilities, Administrative Law, Hartford
Glenn Dowd, General Litigation, Civil Litigation: Defense, Employment & Labor, Hartford
B. Dane Dudley, Estate & Probate, West Hartford
David Elliot, Business Litigation, Securities Litigation, Hartford
Steven Fast, Estate Planning & Probate, West Hartford
Daniel FitzMaurice, Insurance Coverage, Business Litigation, Hartford
Keith Bradoc “Brad” Gallant, Estate Planning & Probate, New Haven
Thomas Goldberg, Business Litigation, Stamford
Joseph Hammer, Land Use/Zoning, Environmental, Hartford
Richard Harris, Intellectual Property, Business/Corporate, Hartford
Gregory Hayes, Estate Planning & Probate, Stamford
Charles Lenore, Tax, Hartford
Ernest Mattei, Insurance Coverage, Construction Litigation, Family Law, Hartford
Kathleen Monnes, Insurance Coverage, Business Litigation, Hartford
John Nolan, Business Litigation, Hartford
Kenneth Ritt, Business Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, Stamford
James Rotondo, Personal Injury, Defense, Insurance Coverage, Hartford
Daniel Schwartz, Employment & Labor, Civil Litigation: Defense, Stamford
Joseph Scully, Insurance Coverage, Business Litigation, Hartford
James Sicilian, Intellectual Property Litigation, Antitrust Litigation, Estate & Trust, Hartford
Robert Siegel, Mergers & Acquisitions, Closely Held Business, Tax, Hartford
Felix Springer, Employment & Labor, Employment Litigation: Defense, Hartford
David Swerdloff, Business/Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, Intellectual Property, Stamford
James Tancredi, Business Litigation, Mergers & Acquisitions, Alternative Dispute, Hartford
Jonathan Tropp, Intellectual Property Litigation, Intellectual Property, Business Litigation, Stamford
Stanley A. Twardy, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Business Litigation, Appellate, Stamford
Paul Williams, Civil Litigation: Defense, Personal Injury - Products: Defense, Personal Injury - Medical Malpractice: Defense, Hartford
Shawn Wooden, Securities & Corporate Finance, Business/Corporate, Hartford
Albert Zakarian, Employment Litigation: Defense, Civil Litigation: Defense, Business Litigation, Hartford
Connecticut Rising Stars:
Marie Bertrand, Real Estate: Business, Hartford
Sebastian Lombardi, Energy & Natural Resources, Utilities, Administrative Law, Hartford
Ruth Solomon Moskowitz, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust Litigation, Greenwich
Jeffrey Mueller, Business Litigation, Appellate, Hartford
Robert Rahilly, Real Estate, Stamford
Elizabeth Retersdorf, Insurance Coverage, Hartford
Erick Sandler, Business Litigation, Hartford
Matthew Shiroma, Insurance Coverage, Hartford
Cecilia Zhang Stiber, Intellectual Property, Stamford
Susan Ylitalo, Estate Planning & Probate, Greenwich
Washington D.C. Super Lawyers
Joseph Fagan, Energy & Natural Resources, Utilities, Washington, DC
Massachusetts Super Lawyers
Daniel Carragher, Business/Corporate, Bankruptcy, Boston
Kenneth Grinnell, Estate Planning & Probate, Boston
Jonathan Handler, Business Litigation, General Litigation, Personal Injury - Products: Defense, Boston
Leiha Macauley, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust Litigation, Tax, Boston
Michael Mullins, Insurance Coverage, Business Litigation, Boston
Ken Shulman, Estate Planning & Probate, Elder Law, Real Estate, Boston
Barbara Freedman Wand, Estate Planning & Probate, Nonprofit Organizations, Boston
Stephen Ziobrowski, Estate Planning & Probate, Tax, Boston
Massachusetts Rising Stars
Sean Donovan, Estate Planning & Probate, Boston
David Lieberman, Personal Injury - Products: Defense, Insurance Coverage, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Boston
Amy Lonergan, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust, Boston
Massachusetts Women’s Edition Rising Stars
Amy Lonergan, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust Litigation, Boston
Leiha Macauley, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust Litigation, Tax, Boston
New Jersey Super Lawyers
Warren Casey, Securities & Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Employee Benefits, Parsippany
Hope Cone, Family Law, Parsippany
C. John DeSimone, III, Business Litigation, General Litigation, Real Estate: Business, Parsippany,
Colleen Donovan, Real Estate: Business, Environmental Lawyer, Parsippany
Michael Furey, Business Litigation, Employment & Labor, Parsippany
Douglas Henshaw, Land Use/Zoning, Real Estate: Business, Parsippany
Dennis Kearney, Business Litigation, Banking, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Parsippany
Theresa Kelly, Employment & Labor, Employment Litigation: Defense, Parsippany
Dennis LaFiura, Franchise/Dealership, Business Litigation, Parsippany
Kathy Lawler, Employee Benefits, Parsippany
Anthony Marchetta, Business Litigation, Class Action/Mass Torts, Intellectual Property Litigation, Parsippany
Patrick McCarthy, Employment & Labor, Parsippany
Mark Salah Morgan, Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Parsippany
John O’Reilly, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Business Litigation, Environmental Litigation, Parsippany
Mary Lou Parker, Estate Planning & Probate, Estate & Trust Litigation, Parsippany
Gregory Parliman, Employment Litigation: Defense, Employment & Labor, Parsippany
Mary Rogers, Employment & Labor, Parsippany
Richard Sanders, Estate Planning & Probate, Nonprofit Organizations, Closely Held Business, Parsippany
Elizabeth Sher, Business Litigation, Appellate, Class Action/Mass Torts, Parsippany
Joy Harmon Sperling, Business Litigation, Estate & Trust Litigation, Parsippany
Christopher Stracco, General Litigation, Real Estate, Tax, Parsippany
Peter Wolfson, Real Estate: Business, Land Use/Zoning, Parsippany
New Jersey Rising Stars
Heather Weine Brochin, Employment Litigation: Defense, Employment & Labor, Parsippany
Jennifer Gorga Capone, General Litigation, Real Estate, Tax, Parsippany
Katharine Coffey, Land Use/Zoning, Real Estate: Business, Environmental, Parsippany
Craig Gianetti, Land Use/Zoning, Real Estate, General Litigation, Parsippany
Rachel Gonzalez, Employment & Labor, Parsippany
Denise Rosenhaft, Business Litigation, Criminal Defense: White Collar, Business/Corporate, Parsippany
New York Metro Super Lawyers
Ronald Janis, Securities & Corporate Finance, Business/Corporate, Mergers & Acquisitions, New York
Warren Whitaker, Estate Planning & Probate, International, Tax, New York
New York Metro Rising Stars
Ryan Osterweil, Intellectual Property, New York
Basil Sitaras, Employment & Labor, New York
About Day Pitney
Day Pitney LLP is a full-service law firm with close to 300 attorneys in Boston, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, and Washington, DC. The firm offers clients strong corporate and litigation practices, with experience on behalf of large national and international corporations as well as emerging and middle-market companies. With one of the largest and most sophisticated individual clients practices in the country, the firm also has extensive experience advising individuals and their families, fiduciaries and tax-exempt entities plan for the future.
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