Emily Gianquinto ’06 is the incoming Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) president. She begins her one-year term in July, and has served as the CBA’s vice president from 2023 to 2024. Gianquinto’s has been working at McCarter & English Since 2018.

Daniel E. Goren ’11 joined Holland & Knight as a Partner at their Stamford office specializing in international trade. While at UConn Law he was the editor-in-chief of the Connecticut Law Review.

Sarah Colbert ’05 (Certificate in Taxation) was promoted at Sturm, Ruger & Co to vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary. She has been with the company since 2011 and has served as vice president of administration since 2017.

Cassandra Sanchez ’16 has joined Wood Smith Henning & Berman LLP. She will work out of the Hartford office as senior counsel.

Hon. Brandon Freeman ’02, First Justice of the Chicopee District Court, has been appointed to the Massachusetts Access to Justice Commission by the Supreme Judicial Court.

Jerzy Piatkowski ’91 has joined Fenwick & West LLP as counsel in its government contracts & public sector procurement group. He will be based in Fenwick’s Washington, D.C. office.

James Carolan ’89 has joined as senior counsel at Crowell & Moring’s Corporate Group. Carolan has more than 35 years of experience as a lawyer, most recently as a partner at Steptoe LLP.

Alex Tsarkov ’16 was nominated by Governor Ned Lamont and approved by the legislature to join the CT Board of Pardons and Paroles. He most recently served as the Executive Director of the Connecticut Sentencing Commission since 2015.