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Indelible Impact: This Year’s Lifetime

Achievement Awards

By Michael Marciano

mong the most coveted and
respected awards lawyers can
Areceive during the annual Con-
necticut Legal Awards is the Lifetime
Achievement Award, which recognizes
veterans of the industry who have had
a widespread positive impact on their
colleagues, and have improved the
practice of law. The award often en-
compasses aspects of all other honors,
epitomizing true greatness.
This year, we celebrate two Lifetime
Achievement Award winners, Stephen
E. Goldman of Robinson & Cole and
William Bruce Louden of Loud-
en, Katz & McGrath, both of whom
have earned praise from colleagues, Stephen Goldman, left, immediate past managing partner at
students, opponents and clients in Robinson & Cole; and William Bruce Louden, partner at Louden,
courtrooms, board rooms and class- Katz & McGrath. Courtesy photos.
rooms. It almost goes without saying that these team is one of the things I love most about practic-
leaders in the profession are known for produc- ing law.”
ing exceptional and often historic results, whether As a trial lawyer, Goldman has handled civil litiga-
through adjudicated verdicts or skillfully negotiated tion in some 35 states, trying many cases to verdict
settlements. and handling appeals in seven of the 11 federal cir-
cuit courts, plus many state appellate courts. Cases
Stephen E. Goldman, Robinson & Cole have been as significant as business losses resulting
As the immediate past managing partner at from the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, post-
Hartford’s Robinson & Cole, Stephen Goldman Hurricane Katrina flooding in New Orleans and an
capped off his five-year tenure at the helm by steer- array of high-profile class actions.
ing the firm through the COVID-19 pandemic and Some of Goldman’s momentous cases have
tallying a remarkably prosperous year before pass- included Standard Fire Insurance Company v.
ing the reins to current Managing Partner Rhonda Knowles, in which the Supreme Court of United
Tobin. States held that a plaintiff’s stipulation could not
“Being managing partner of a major law firm defeat federal jurisdiction under the Class Action
during a pandemic was a unique but also inspiring Fairness Act; Travco v. Ward, wherein the Virginia
experience,” Goldman told the Law Tribune. “The Supreme Court upheld a trial court’s judgment
response of our lawyers and staff in rising to the that property insurance policies do not cover
occasion to meet the numerous challenges we en- losses caused by presence of Chinese drywall; and
countered reminded me that working as a part of a ■ Continued on PAGE S-24

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