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Click below to view Robinson & Cole's most recent press releases.| 5.17.12 |
The Women’s Initiative of Robinson & Cole’s Hartford office hosted a women’s networking event on April 27, 2012, and collected donations for Foodshare. Foodshare President and CEO Gloria McAdam attended and shared facts with the guests about the mission and projects of the organization. The event raised over $1,450 for Foodshare. Following the reception, guests attended a performance by Buddy Valastro, The Learning Channel’s Cake Boss, at The Bushnell. Robinson & Cole also sponsored The Cake Boss performance as part of The Bushnell’s Family Series. Robinson & Cole partner Eric D. Daniels, who serves on The Bushnell Board of Trustees, gave the introduction to The Cake Boss’s performance. more details |
| 5.16.12 | Carla M. Moynihan was recently appointed to the Massachusetts Interest on Lawyers Trust Accounts (IOLTA) Committee by the Supreme Judicial Court for a three-year term commencing April 2012. The Massachusetts IOLTA Committee was created by the Supreme Judicial Court in 1985 to administer the Massachusetts IOLTA program. more details |
| 5.14.12 | Robinson & Cole is pleased to announce that two partners and ten other lawyers have joined the firm’s ranks across its Northeast offices. The new attorneys add a depth and breadth of experience to various practice areas, including business, labor & employment, finance, litigation, land use, and construction. more details |
| 4.16.12 | Gregory R. Faulkner and Martin A. Onorato, partners of Robinson & Cole LLP’s Construction Practice Group, were contributing authors to Connecticut Construction Guidelines: The Manual for Successful Building Projects, 2nd Edition, published by the Connecticut Construction Guidelines Coalition. Attorney Faulkner authored the “Requests for Information” guideline and edited numerous other guidelines. Attorney Onorato authored the “Retainage” guideline and also edited other guidelines. more details |
| 4.03.12 | For the seventh consecutive year, the Hartford Business Journal has recognized Robinson & Cole as one of the “Best Places to Work” in Connecticut. The ranked companies were honored at an awards ceremony on March 21, 2012, at the CoCo Key Resort in Waterbury, Connecticut. more details |
| 3.22.12 | The law firm of Robinson & Cole recognized its commitment to diversity, education, and local community at a private reception prior to the Hartford Stage performance of Matthew Lopez’s The Whipping Man on March 7, 2012. more details |
| 3.14.12 | Robinson & Cole LLP is pleased to announce that Super Lawyers® (Super Lawyers is a registered trademark of Key Professional Media, Inc.) has again named two partners from the Hartford, Connecticut, office to its 2011/2012 list of the top 50 lawyers in Connecticut. Land law lawyers Dennis C. Cavanaugh and Dwight H. Merriam received the honor. more details |
| 3.07.12 | Jeanmarie B. Shea, an attorney in the Individual Clients Practice Group at Robinson & Cole LLP, has been elected to serve as secretary on the Board of Trustees for The Mark Twain House & Museum in Hartford, Connecticut. Samuel Clemens, who wrote under the pen name Mark Twain, and his family lived in what is now The Mark Twain House from 1874 to 1891. Today, the house is a national historic landmark and the museum keeps the legacy of Mark Twain’s work and life alive. Ms. Shea was elected to the Board of Trustees in 2011 and has been serving on the Development Committee. more details |
| 2.28.12 | Business litigation partner Bradford S. Babbitt has assumed leadership responsibilities of Robinson & Cole’s Litigation Section alongside insurance partner Rhonda Tobin. Mr. Babbitt has served as chair of the Business Litigation Practice Group for the past four years and will continue in this role in addition to cochairing the Litigation Section. As cochairs, Mr. Babbitt and Ms. Tobin will lead the section’s initiatives in the areas of business development, hiring, professional development, and project management. more details |
| 2.01.12 |
Robinson & Cole LLP is sponsoring the 50th annual WALKS interscholastic Constitution Essay Contest and awards dinner on April 17, 2012, at Avon Old Farms School. “We are proud to sponsor this academic competition that promotes greater knowledge of our nation’s Constitution,” said Edward J. Samorajczyk, Jr., a partner at Robinson & Cole and an Advisory Board member of WALKS. WALKS (an acronym for Westminster School, Avon Old Farms School, Loomis Chaffee School, Kingswood-Oxford School, and Suffield Academy) provides students with limited financial means from Greater Hartford an opportunity to attend and succeed at each of its member schools. more details |
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