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CONNECTICUT MOVERS DECEMBER 28, 2020 ¦ 3

Shipman & Goodwin Elects 3-Partner
Leadership Team to Replace Alan Lieberman

By Michael Marciano

(l-r) Shipman & Goodwin’s incoming leadership team: partners Leander A. Dolphin,
Kent S. Nevins and James P. Ruggeri. Courtesy photos

Shipman & Goodwin has elected a three-partner Nevins focuses on large-scale commercial real
leadership team to take over for outgoing managing estate projects with a national scope. He handles
partner Alan Lieberman, who announced in Octo- complex transactions for the acquisition, develop-
ber that he would step down at year-end. ment and financing of properties.
Partners Leander A. Dolphin, Kent S. Nevins Ruggeri focuses his practice in the area of litiga-
and James P. Ruggeri have been chosen to take tion in state and federal courts.
over for Lieberman. The three currently serve on “This is a bold move that will take this firm to a
the firm’s management committee. They will take new level,” said Lieberman, who has been the man-
over Jan. 1. aging partner of the firm for the past five years.
Lieberman announced his retirement Oct. 27, but Shipman has 150 lawyers in offices in Connecti-
did not name a successor. He said after 38 years at cut, New York and Washington, D.C.
the firm he wanted to spend more time with his chil- ¦

dren and grandchildren. Michael Marciano is bureau chief of the Con-
Dolphin is a partner in the firm’s school law prac- necticut Law Tribune. He can be reached at
tice group, serving as general counsel for many of [email protected] or call 646-957-3022. On
Shipman’s education clients. Twitter: @BreakingCTLaw

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