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■ From ATTORNEY on PAGE 13 America. Joe Garrison was named Top 50 on the
page of the firm’s website, and I strive to honor it Connecticut Super Lawyers list, and I was selected
every day. for the Top 25 Women Connecticut Super Lawyers.
CLT: What distinguishes your law firm from In addition to dedicating our off-hours to foster-
others that specialize in employment litigation. ing our employment lawyer communities, we take
What makes your firm unique? great pride in reaching people who have employ-
Pirrotti: We are proud that the Connecticut Law ment-related questions, even those who don’t walk
Tribune saw fit to name our firm its 2021 Litiga- through our doors. When the COVID-19 pandemic
tion Department of the Year for Employment Law. I hit, we poured through the state and federal regula-
think what distinguishes us from other law firms is tions and broke them down on our website. Over
that we are an intensely cohesive group. time, we’ve triaged COVID-19 and other questions
Each lawyer in our firm brings tremendous and
varied strengths to the table and we leverage those that people are asking us, and we post short infor-
strengths in the way we team up to fight each good mational pieces so that people can navigate their
fight. To this potent mix, we are supported by an ex- employment concerns, regardless of whether they
traordinary staff. Most of our staff have been with have viable legal claims. ■
our firm for several decades and even our least ten-
ured staff member has been with us for more than Robert Storace covers legal trends, lawsuits and
15 years. analysis for the Connecticut Law Tribune. Follow
All six of our partners are recognized by 2020 him on Twitter @RobertSCTLaw or reach him at
Connecticut Super Lawyers and Best Lawyers in 203-437-5950.

After 25 Years in Asia, Ex-Big Law

Dealmaker Joins US Virtual Firm

By Justin Henry

or U.S. global law firms trying to cash in on the Maddox, a corporate and securities lawyer fo-
growing private equity market in Asia, maintain- cused on debt offerings and complex equity, has
Fing a foreign legal practice comes with a myriad spent the last two-and-half decades on multijuris-
of structural problems, said Jeffrey Maddox, a corpo- dictional teams as a partner in Hong Kong with
rate lawyer who spent the last 25 years as a partner at Clifford Chance and then Cadwalader, Wickersham
Big Law outlets in Singapore and Hong Kong. & Taft, and most recently with Jones Day in Singa-
But Maddox said his move to New York-based vir- pore. He left Jones Day at the end of 2018.
tual firm Sterlington at the beginning of June “makes In the intervening two years, Maddox said, he has
sense in today’s legal world” that’s transitioning to a served as an independent legal consultant for clients
virtual deal-making environment. involved with projects in the real estate, biotech and
“Everyone has come to the reality that we don’t pharmaceutical industries. He joins Sterlington with
need to get on an airplane and fly to visit clients to a book of deal work in technology, which he hopes
get deals done,” said Maddox, now a Connecticut- to continue working on as a lawyer at his new firm.
based partner with Sterlington. “You can get things After 25 years in Asia, Maddox said he wanted
done remotely. In fact, the deal activity has been re- to get out of legal markets where non-Asian firms
ally busy across Asian markets and in the U.S.” are “showing strains” with regard to legal services

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