Livia DeFilippis Barndollar, a member of Pullman & Comley LLC Family Law Practice, has received the Edward F. Hennessey Professionalism Award from the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA).
The award honors a member of the Connecticut bar whose dedication to the highest standards of the legal profession inspires others to do the same. DeFilippis Barndollar will be honored at the CBA’s annual Celebrate with the Stars event April 9 at the Aqua Turf Club in Plantsville.
The criteria for the award states that the recipient must be a lawyer who has demonstrated such integrity, character, competence, ethics, civility and mentoring over the course of his or her career as to inspire greater professionalism among lawyers and pride in their profession and who has enhanced the public’s perception of the legal profession.
“Livia’s entire legal career embodies the spirit of this award,” said Lee D. Hoffman, chair of Pullman & Comley. “She has demonstrated a profound commitment to the legal profession and public service through the decades. I am proud to call her my partner.”
DeFilippis Barndollar has more than 40 years of experience in family law and is a past president of the CBA and past chair of its Family Law Section. Throughout the years she has served on many committees in leadership positions as well as serving for a number of years on the Standing Committee on Professional Ethics of the CBA and launched the Fair and Impartial Judiciary Committee during her terms as CBA president. She also is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABA). She was appointed by the then ABA president to the Advisory Committee to the ABA Commission on Youth at Risk, an organization committed to the improvement of child welfare laws and programs on a national level. She also serves on the Board of Directors of Connecticut Legal Services and the Norwalk Community College Foundation, serving as the foundation’s Scholarship Committee chair.
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. 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.
