LITIGATION GROUP’S NEW CHAIRMAN

Principal Steven I. Frenkel has been appointed the new chairman of the Cummings & Lockwood Litigation Group. He replaces John W. Cannavino who served in that position for 18 years.

Based in the firm”™s Stamford office, Frenkel began his legal career at Cummings & Lockwood as a summer associate in 1988 and then officially joined the firm as a litigation associate in 1989, becoming a principal in 1998.  During his long tenure with the firm, he has been a member of the Board of Directors several times, including currently, as well as serving on the partner and associate compensation committees.

He brings more than 30 years of trial, arbitration and mediation experience in the areas of commercial and business litigation, creditors”™ rights and asbestos defense for which he serves as national asbestos counsel to a major oil petrochemical company and as regional defense counsel to a number of global and national firms.

Frenkel received his Juris Doctorate from Columbia Law School, his Bachelor of Arts degree, cum laude, from Yeshiva University and is admitted to practice law in Connecticut and New York. He is a member of the Fairfield County Bar Association, a Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation, a member of The Raymond E. Baldwin American Inns of Court, and a member of the Defense Research Institute.  

Founded in 1909, Cummings & Lockwood provides legal counsel to individuals, families, family offices, closely held businesses, private foundations and other commercial enterprises in the areas of trusts and estates, corporate and finance, litigation and arbitration and commercial and residential real estate.  The firm has more than 200 attorneys, fiduciary accountants, paralegals and staff, as well as six offices located in Stamford, Greenwich and West Hartford, Connecticut; and in Naples, Bonita Springs and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.