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The Connecticut Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section (YLS) hosted its annual leadership retreat on August 11-12 at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard. The YLS Executive committee holds this event each summer to familiarize new members of the committee with the duties of their leadership roles and to present awards to members of the committee for their service during the previous bar year.

On July 25 and 26, The Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) Pro Bono Committee and Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut held a Free Legal Advice Clinic, where 20 volunteer attorneys met with 41 clients over Zoom meetings.

On the week of July 10-14, the CBA hosted the virtual 2023 LAW camp for a group of Connecticut high school students. LAW Camp exposes high school students to the legal profession and teaches them critical and analytical thinking to help them succeed in their educational and professional careers.

The Connecticut Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section (YLS) hosted its annual leadership retreat on August 11-12 at Foxwoods Casino in Ledyard. The YLS Executive committee holds this event each summer to familiarize new members of the committee with the duties of their leadership roles and to present awards to members of the committee for their service during the previous bar year.

On the morning of June 23 at the Connecticut Supreme Court building, 29 new attorneys were sworn into the Connecticut Bar. After the ceremony, CBA President Daniel J. Horgan presented a welcome speech to the new attorneys and they were invited to a reception, where they met with members of the CBA Young Lawyers Section and other bar associations from across Connecticut.

On May 25, 32 CBA members were sworn into the bar of the Supreme Court of the United States. The trip to Washington, DC for the swearing in was organized by past Young Lawyers Section (YLS) chair Cindy Cieslak, who currently serves as the Connecticut Young Lawyer Division delegate to the American Bar Association House of Delegates.

Grayson “Colt” Holmes is a partner at the firm Bartlett & Grippe in Cheshire. His practice focuses primarily on DUI, criminal defense, personal injury cases, and civil defense litigation.

Yamuna Menon is General Counsel/Assistant State Comptroller at the Connecticut Office of the State Comptroller. She serves as chief legal advisor providing executive leadership and independent authoritative legal guidance and recommendations to the state comptroller and senior staff.

Michelle Querijero is an assistant vice president in Allied World Insurance Company’s errors and omissions claims team. Prior to joining Allied World, she was a civil litigator in private practice in Hartford.