The Labor & Employment landscape continues to change and present compliance challenges. This seminar will focus on hot topics in 2021.

Best Lawyers, the oldest and most respected peer-review publication in the legal profession, has announced that 40 attorneys from Murtha Cullina LLP have been selected for inclusion in the 2022 edition of The Best Lawyers in America®.In addition, Marcel J. Bernier was selected as “Lawyer of the Year” in Corporate Law and Stephanie Sprague Sobkowiak was selected as “Lawyer of the Year” in Health Care Law.

The Urban League of Greater Hartford (ULGH) Board of Directors has elected a new Chair and officers, and added four new Board members. The organization’s 2021-2022 Chair is Jonathan W. Roberts, Executive Vice President, Head of Retail Banking at Webster Bank and Webster Financial Corporation. Other officers are: Vice Chair Brian Foley, Assistant to the Commissioner of the CT State Department of Emergency Services and Public; Treasurer Elissa Eddie, Senior Vice President/Private Bank Team Lead at KeyBank; Secretary Renee Coleman-Mitchell, Chief Strategist of Academia, Government and Healthcare for Ready Global; Chair Emeritus Edwin Shirley, Senior Advisor at Fairview Capital Partners, Inc.; and David Hopkins, ULGH President and CEO. The four new Directors are: Nicole Hughey, SiriusXM Vice President of Diversity and Inclusion; James Michel, Access Health CT’s Chief Executive Officer; new Board Secretary Renee Coleman-Mitchell (the new Board Secretary), and Leah Wade, Dalio Education’s Operations Manager.

Whittlesey partner Edward Engberg, CPA was named one of the Hartford Business Journal’s 2021 40 Under Forty.

Greg Toczydlowski, Executive Vice President and President of Business Insurance at Travelers, has been named Honorary Chair of the Urban League of Greater Hartford’s 2021 Equal Opportunity Day (EOD) Celebration. Travelers is the title sponsor for the 57th annual signature fundraising event, which will be held on Dec. 2, 2021, with the theme, A Season of Hope: Reflect. Restore. Renew.

Hartford Marathon Foundation this week launched the Lace Up for Social Justice campaign, selling shoelaces to benefit the Boys & Girls Clubs of Hartford Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs. https://www.hartfordmarathon.com/lace-up-for-social-justice/The laces will be available at HMF Events, through their Shop and at Eversource Hartford Marathon events in October - participants are encouraged to wear their laces proudly on race day, October 9.

Whittlesey partner Edward Engberg, CPA was named one of the Hartford Business Journal’s 2021 40 Under Forty.