Member Accomplishment

American Counsel Association Past President Livia DeFilippis Barndollar has been awarded the 2025 Edward F. Hennessey Professionalism Award by the Connecticut Bar Association, and will be honored at the CBA’s Celebrate with the Stars event on the evening of April 9. The Edward F. Hennessey Professionalism Award recognizes and honors a member of the Connecticut bar whose career embodies a commitment to the highest ideals and standards of the legal profession. According to the CBA, “the recipient must be a lawyer who has demonstrated such integrity, character, competence, ethics, civility, and mentoring over the course of his or her career as to inspire greater professionalism among lawyers and pride in their profession and who has enhanced the public’s perception of the legal profession.