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.
