Ponte litigates for Levett Rockwood
Ryan N. Ponte has joined Westport-based commercial and health care law firm Levett Rockwood P.C. as a litigation associate. Levett Rockwood represents diverse U.S. and international business clients, commercial ventures and health care entities throughout the state and nationally.
Ponte practices in the area of business litigation with experience in government antitrust and finance investigations. He is a recent graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served on the editorial board of the Columbia Journal of Tax Law.
Business Council fetes Wathen
A regional business community leadership award was presented by The Business Council of Fairfield County to Michael Wathen, partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers, L.L.P. at the Stamford Marriott Hotel Nov. 12. The evening included a reception with dinner, followed by the award presentation by John Stewart, president and CEO, Purdue Pharma L.P., and chairman of The Business Council of Fairfield County Board of Directors.
The Walter H. Wheeler Jr. Leadership Award, named after the visionary Pitney Bowes leader, celebrates corporate leadership in our community. Through the award, the Business Council demonstrates its commitment to volunteer leadership and offers a role model for all businesspeople to emulate.
Veteran upgrades
Veterans”™ Day Nov. 11 found Greenwich-based Interstate+Lakeland Lumber, Andersen Windows and Murphy Brothers Contracting ”“ owned by Greenwich residents Sean and Chris Murphy and based in Mamaroneck, N.Y. ”“ joining Habitat for Humanity of Westchester (HFHWC) during the Veterans build-a-thon, adding energy efficiencies to the first of two homes in Westchester County.
Operation turkey at Ed”™s Garage Doors
Norwalk-based Ed”™s Garage Doors will host “Operation Turkey: Feeding Families in Fairfield County,” the company”™s second annual food drive to benefit The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County, Nov. 23.
Rich Cunningham, owner and president of Ed”™s Garage Doors, began “Operation Turkey” last year after seeing a local news story about the severe shortage of turkeys at local food banks, due in part to recovery efforts for victims of Hurricane Sandy. Cunningham”™s goal for 2013 is to surpass last year”™s collection of more than 500 turkeys and more than 500 pounds of nonperishable food at 136 Water St. Ed”™s is more than 40 years in business.
Radio station WEBE 108 will broadcast live and the Norwalk fire and police departments will have vehicles on site for the kids. The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County will have trucks on-site to accept all turkey and canned good donations. Monetary donations will also be accepted.
New hires for law firm
Law firm Ryan Ryan Deluca L.L.P., with an office in Stamford, welcomes Joanne P. Sheehan as counsel and Thomas S. Lambert as associate.
Sheehan, a registered nurse and attorney, practices in the firm”™s litigation department defending civil lawsuits in the area of medical malpractice and in representing nurses and allied health professionals before licensing boards.
Lambert received his B.A., magna cum laude, in political science from Pepperdine University in 2010 and received his J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law in 2013. While at Wake Forest, he was a senior editor for the Wake Forest Journal of Law & Policy.
