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• Daniel G. Johnson (Stamford)

- Daniel Johnson's practice covers trust and estate administration along with family business succession and estate planning. He has a strong reputation for this work in Connecticut.

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Notable Practitioners:

Chambers recognized a number of our attorneys, including the following:

• Paul L. Bourdeau (West Hartford) - Paul Bourdeau has a strong reputation among interviewees for his comprehensive trust and estates practice. Many of his matters involve clients with high-value assets. "Paul has the very highest level of knowledge and practical approach to complex estate planning issues."

• Michael P. Kaelin (Stamford)

- Michael Kaelin is a highly rated litigation lawyer with significant experience handling contentious trust and estate disputes. "Michael is insightful and practical, which is the highest praise I can give someone. He understands the legal and real issues: what a client needs and wants, and what their influences are."

• Howard S. Tuthill III (Stamford) - Howard Tuthill works with high net worth clients on trust and estate planning and probate administration, and acts as a fiduciary. He is well respected among trusts and estate lawyers for this work.

• Laura Weintraub Beck (Greenwich) - Laura Beck's practice covers trust and estate administration, and business succession planning. She also represents clients in probate litigation.

• Heather J. Rhoades (West Hartford) - Heather Rhoades advises clients on charitable and estate planning in addition to trust administration. "She impressed me, she was very responsive, competent and responsible."

• Kelley Galica Peck (West Hartford) - Kelley Galica Peck advises on trust and estate planning and administration, as well as charitable gift planning. "She's extremely thoughtful when she gets involved in a matter and very sharp."

• Douglas H. Olin (Greenwich)

- Douglas Olin advises high net worth clients on estate and trust planning as well as administration. "He's a standout - was attentive to subtle facts, very insightful and focused on client particularities. I was very impressed."

• B. Cort Delany (Greenwich)Cort Delany handles trusts, estates and business succession planning and estate

Founded in 1909, Cummings & Lockwood provides sophisticated legal counsel to individuals, families, family offices, closely held businesses, charitable entities and other commercial enterprises in the areas of trusts and estates, corporate and finance, litigation and arbitration, and commercial and residential real estate.

The firm has over 200 attorneys, fiduciary accountants, paralegals and staff, as well as six offices located in Stamford, Greenwich and West Hartford, Connecticut, and in Naples, Bonita Springs and Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. While many of our clients reside in Connecticut, New York and Florida, we have clients in nearly all 50 U.S. states and in over 20 countries around the world.

For more information, visit the firm’s website at www.cl-law.com.

About Chambers High Net Worth Guide

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The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum is pleased to announce the installation of Alex Strada and Tali Keren: Proposal for a 28th Amendment? Is it Possible to Amend an Unequal System (2021-present) in the Museum’s Sculpture Garden, the first time this project will be presented outdoors on a long-term basis. Strada and Keren’s work will be free and open to the public from dawn until dusk on the Museum’s grounds from July 15 to September 17, 2023.

Via sonic soapbox sculptures, Strada and Keren ask visitors to engage with the United States Constitution by listening to and contributing their own responses to questions about systems repair and abolition. The sculptures, a range of interactive wooden painted objects, build upon the history of the soapbox as a site of collective struggle, while also emphasizing listening, mutuality, and access. The artists pose two questions for visitors to record responses to: What 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution would you propose? And: Do you think it is possible to amend an unequal system?

Opening with the phrase, “We the People,” the United States Constitution, the oldest functioning constitution in the world, was written in 1787 by and for wealthy white male property owners. To date, of 11,000 proposed amendments, 27 have been ratified to change the document. The artists’ proposed questions illuminate this legacy and ask for a collective response interrogating the Constitution’s embedded issues of structural racism, settler-colonial vi- olence, heteropatriarchy, reproductive injustice, labor inequities, and non-human animal and climate neglect.

The soapbox sculptures take several distinctive forms including an ADA soapbox that is fully wheelchair and stroller accessible, a two-person soapbox for collective listening and dialogue, a daybed soapbox for visitors to recline upon and politically imagine, and an individual soapbox. Each soapbox sculpture includes headphones which emit an evolving oral archive of responses to the project’s questions recorded by visitors. At the time of this project’s installation at The Aldrich, the audio will include responses from the project’s former installation locations at the Queens Museum in New York City (October 2, 2021 to February 13, 2022) and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco, CA (October 20, 2022 to March 12, 2023). Visitor responses will be collected

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The project title describes Zheng’s aim to be transported through her creative process in her pursuit of loftier dimensions. Her solitary journeying, initially a way to create refuge from an oppressive childhood in China, evolved into a means to evade the entrapments of our impersonal digital world. Zheng takes inspiration from the varied and expansive landscapes she visited during the numerous artist residencies she has attended over the last decade throughout the United States, Europe, and China.

She also cites artists that orbit many centuries and geographies who too made work that merge their experiences of the natural world with a special blend of personalized spiritualism. Her sources are wide-ranging and span ancient Chinese landscape painting and twentieth and twenty-first century visionary abstractionists like Hilma af Klint, Agnes Pelton, Georgia O’Keeffe, Judy Chicago, Matthew Wong, Joseph E. Yoakum, and Takako Yamaguchi. Working exclusively in oil stick, Zheng presses fingers to paper through intuitive systems of choreographed movements. She builds a distinctive and recurring lexicon of symbolic couplings that range from lighthearted rainbows and pulsating waterfalls, shadowy tree lines and glowing moonbeams, voluptuous mountains and rippling lakes, to cascading canyons and sunny orbs. The works are installed in a sequence that reflects the dramatic passage of light from daybreak to nightfall. Some works feature celestial objects and cosmic phenomena that underscore the unpredictable magic of our sizable planet.

This project will be accompanied by a full-color eight-page ‘zine designed by the Museum’s Design Director Gretchen Kraus.

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