Pullman & Comley litigation attorney James T. (Tim) Shearin recently started his term as the 101st president of the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA). He was officially installed as president at the CBA’s annual meeting on June 10 at the 2024 Connecticut Legal Conference in Hartford. Shearin served as CBA vice president in 2022-2023 and president-elect in 2023-2024; his term as president runs through June 30, 2025. Margaret I. Castinado is the outgoing president.
Shearin was chairman of Pullman & Comley from 2013 to 2022 and before that chaired the firm’s Litigation practice for 15 years. He was honored in 2018 with the CBA’s Career Service Award, and in 2009 was the recipient of the CBA’s John Eldred Shields Professional Service Award for outstanding service to the legal profession, the members of the CBA and the greater community.
“Tim is the rare combination of an absolutely top-notch attorney and a transformational leader,” said Lee D. Hoffman, chair of Pullman & Comley. “His speech at the CBA’s Legal Conference truly inspired the CBA’s membership. Going forward, I know he will have a tremendous positive impact on the CBA, as he has for the past three decades. I look forward to all he will accomplish to protect and expand the integrity and vibrance of our profession.”
Shearin has held more than a dozen roles and positions with the CBA over the years and is ranked in Band 1, the highest level, by Chambers USA, where he has been listed for more than 20 years in the area of commercial litigation. He has been ranked among the top 10 lawyers in Connecticut by Super Lawyers since 2011 and has been named to Connecticut Super Lawyers lists in the areas of business litigation, antitrust litigation and securities litigation each year since 2006. He is also named to The Best Lawyers in America in six practice areas — bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation, litigation – antitrust, litigation – banking and finance, litigation – intellectual property, and litigation – securities.
Pullman & Comley, one of Connecticut’s largest law firms with offices throughout Connecticut, has for more than 100 years provided a wide range of legal services to clients in the New England region, as well as throughout the United States and internationally.
