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Laura Ann K. Froning Selected to Receive the Connecticut Defense Lawyers Association’s Rising Star Award

November 12, 2019

Wiggin and Dana is pleased to announce that Laura Ann K. Froning, an associate in the firm’s Litigation Department, has been selected to receive the Connecticut Defense Lawyers Association’s Rising Star Award. The award will be presented at the CDLA’s Fall Meeting on November 13 at the Inn at Middletown.

The CDLA Rising Star award recognizes a civil defense lawyer who is truly “one to watch” because of his or her contributions to the profession, the civil defense bar, and the community, and who shows promise of leadership in the future. The Rising Star recipient must be 40 years of age or younger OR have less than 10 years of civil defense work experience.

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