46 Pullman & Comley Attorneys Named to 2026 Best Lawyers® List

Pullman & Comley, LLC would like to congratulate 46 of its attorneys for being recognized by The Best Lawyers in America® on their 2026 list. Of those attorneys, four were named “Lawyer of the Year” in their practice area and location, and 10 were identified as “Ones to Watch.”

Recognition by Best Lawyers is based entirely on peer review. The process is designed to capture, as accurately as possible, the consensus opinion of leading lawyers about the professional abilities of their colleagues within the same geographical area and legal practice area. For the 2026 edition of The Best Lawyers in America, more than 3.4 million confidential evaluations were analyzed, which resulted in recognition of approximately 5% of lawyers in private practice in the United States. To learn more about the methodology used by Best Lawyers, one of the leading guides to legal excellence first published in 1983, click here.

The following Pullman & Comley attorneys appear in The Best Lawyers in America 2026 in the following practice areas:

• Michael J. Andreana — Public Finance Law
• Livia DeFilippis Barndollar — Family Law
• Campbell D. Barrett — Appellate Practice, Family Law
• Isabelle Bibet-Kalinyak — Health Care Law, Immigration Law
• Megan Y. Carannante — Employment Law - Management, Litigation - Construction, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Stephen M. Cowherd — Health Care 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
• Dana M. Hrelic — Appellate Practice
• Jonathan Kaplan — Commercial Litigation
• Brion J. Kirsch — Real Estate Law
• Frederic Lee Klein — Energy Law, Water Law
• Thomas S. Lambert — Commercial Litigation
• James F. Martin — Real Estate Law
• Kristin B. Mayhew — Bankruptcy and Creditor Debtor Rights / Insolvency and Reorganization Law, Commercial Litigation
• D. Robert Morris — Tax Law, Litigation - Antitrust, 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
• Zachary D. Schurin — Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Kelly A. Scott — Family Law, Family Law Arbitration, Family Law Mediation
• 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, Trademark Law
• John F. Stafstrom Jr. — Public Finance Law
• James B. Stewart — Trusts and Estates
• Marcy Tench Stovall — Commercial Litigation, Ethics and Professional Responsibility Law, Legal Malpractice Law - Defendants
• Frederic Ury — Commercial Litigation, Personal Injury Litigation - Plaintiffs

Four 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 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 2026 “Lawyer of the Year” in the following practice areas and locations:

• Campbell D. Barrett — Family Law (Hartford)
• Lee D. Hoffman — Energy Regulatory Law (Hartford)
• Robert L. Holzberg — Arbitration, Mediation (Hartford)
• Jonathan B. Orleans — Employment Law - Management (Stamford)

This is the tenth year that Mr. Orleans has been named Lawyer of the Year by Best Lawyers. It is the sixth such honor for Judge Holzberg, the fifth for Mr. Barrett and the third for Mr. Hoffman.

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.” These attorneys, each of whom is earlier in their career, have been highlighted for the contributions they have made in the following areas of practice:

• Tabitha Ayer — Corporate Law
• Meagan A. Cauda — Appellate Practice, Commercial Litigation
• Danielle Erickson — Trusts and Estates
• Matthew D. Glennon — Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law
• Ashley Tyler Hokanson — Real Estate Law
• Bianca LoGiurato — Commercial Litigation, Litigation - Labor and Employment
• Sean M. McAuliffe — Commercial Litigation
• Stacie L. Provencher — Family Law
• Christopher M. Rousseau — Land Use and Zoning Law, Real Estate Law
• Joshua S. Smith — Corporate Law, Mergers and Acquisitions Law

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; public 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 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.