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Deloitte Tax promotes from within
There have been a pair of promotions within Deloitte Tax L.L.P. at its Stamford office.
Leigh D”™Andrea is now a principal. She serves a variety of clients in global employer services, specializing in private equity, hedge funds and mutual funds.
Thomas Cecchino has been named director. Cecchino is a global mobility specialist in global employer services. He assists clients with employment tax, human resource and other needs when deploying employees across geographic borders.
In addition to inducting Rosa DeLauro, Barbara Hackman Franklin, Linda Koch Lorimer, and Augusta Lewis Troup at its 20th annual induction ceremony and celebration, “Women”™s Education ”“ Women”™s Empowerment,” Nov. 6, the Connecticut Women”™s Hall of Fame will recognize “10 Education and Empowerment Honorees for 2013.” The Stamford Women”™s Business Development Council president, founder and CEO (and Stamford resident) Fran Pastore is one of those honorees. The other honorees are author/journalist Andrée Aelion Brooks; Dean Carmen Cid of Eastern Connecticut State University; advocate for high-risk girls Julie DeGennaro; educator Merle Harris; victims advocate Donna Palomba; Connecticut Women”™s Education and Legal Fund Executive Director Alice Pritchard; childcare leaders Jessica Sager and Janna Wagner; Lynne Williamson, director, Connecticut cultural heritage arts project; and Teresa Younger, executive director, state Permanent Commission on the Status of Women.
Law firm launches workplace blog
Bridgeport-based Pullman & Comley L.L.C. has launched “Working Together” a blog covering developments in labor, employment and employee benefits law. It can be found at workingtogether.pullcomblog.com
The goal of “Working Together,” is to provide timely, substantive information on the constantly changing workplace laws affecting businesses and their employees, said Joshua Hawks-Ladds, attorney and chairman of Pullman & Comley”™s Labor, Employment Law and Employee Benefits Department. Besides employment and labor issues, the blog will also include commentary by the firm”™s attorneys on immigration, employee benefits and ERISA matters.
“The articles on ”˜Working Together”™ will be authored by nearly two dozen attorneys in our Labor, Employment Law and Employee Benefits Department, each of whom brings individual experience and perspective to their writing,” Hawks-Ladds said. “Over the years, our clients have benefitted from our ability to work as a team, bringing our collective knowledge and experience together to deliver thoughtful legal analysis. We anticipate that our new blog will do the same.”
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Stamford hosts food drive
Anne Fountain, director of Stamford”™s Department of Health and Social Services, announced the department will kick off an initiative to raise food for local food pantries.
Food pantries throughout Stamford and lower Fairfield County are experiencing great demand, with the need for emergency food doubling in the last five years. According the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the Recovery Act”™s temporary boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), also known as food stamp benefits, is scheduled to end this month, resulting in a benefit cut for every SNAP household. Collection centers are: the Stamford Government Center building in the main lobby and the fourth floor, the Katrina Mygatt Recycling Center at 130 Magee Ave., the WPCA at 111 Harborview Ave. and the Scofieldtown Road Recycling Center at the corner of Scofieldtown and Rockrimmon roads in North Stamford.
Healy cited as legal best, brightest
Attorney Lauren M. Healy at Broder & Orland L.L.C. in Westport has been selected by the Connecticut Law Tribune as a “New Leader in the Law.” In announcing her selection, the Tribune indicated it “received over 300 nominations this year and (Attorney Healy) was selected among the best and brightest.”
Healy is the most senior associate at Broder & Orland LLC, the largest matrimonial and family law firm in Connecticut. She is currently on the board of directors of the Fairfield County Bar Association and previously served as co-chairperson of the Young Lawyers Section.
Quinnipiac appoints budget chief
Stephen Summers of Fairfield has been appointed budget manager at Quinnipiac University in Hamden.
Summers will oversee the development, support and expansion of the university”™s annual operating budget and long-range forecasts. He will play a critical role in meeting with stakeholders to develop and maintain reports to support budget-related decision making at all levels of the university”™s leadership.
“I am very excited to join Quinnipiac University and the newly created office of budget and financial planning,” Summers said. “I look forward to becoming part of the Quinnipiac community and contributing to the financial goals of the university.”
Eighty-plus years of panes
The Window People in Stamford has been providing Fairfield and Westchester counties”™ homeowners and businesses with energy-efficient solutions to reduce costs for heating and cooling for more than 80 years, since 1932. This month, owner Ted Davey celebrates his 30th year of personal ownership and continues to work with local residents as the winter heating season approaches. High-profile commercial installations have included the Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk, the Stamford Museum & Nature Center and the Stamford Belltown Fire Department. Since the average home improvement outfit is in business five years or less, according to the company, “being around since 1932 is quite an accomplishment.”
Murtha Cullina EXECÂ named vice-chair of SLR
Janemarie W. Murphy, director of legislative operations for Murtha Cullina L.L.P.”™s Government Affairs Group in the firm”™s Hartford office , was recently named vice-chairperson of State Law Resources Inc. (SLR).
SLR, an international network of independent law firms, helps businesses, trade associations and public policy coalitions navigate the complex and time-consuming process of managing both legal issues and state government relations.
Murphy has served as a board member of SLR since 2009. The firm maintains six offices in Connecticut and Massachusetts, including in Fairfield County.
