Livingston, Adler, Pulda, Meiklejohn & Kelly PC, is a mid-sized labor and employment law firm which began in 1981 with the merger of two smaller union-side firms. For over thirty years, our practice has been limited to labor law representing Unions, and employment law representing individual employees. With nine attorneys, we are the largest law firm in Connecticut dedicated solely to representing employees and unions in employment-related matters.

We have represented employees with claims of employment discrimination, wrongful termination, sexual harassment, breach of contract severance negotiations and many other employment disputes. We also represent other progressive and civil rights nonprofit organizations, including the Connecticut Women's Education and Legal Fund and the Connecticut Citizen Action Group, on issues related to Employment, Women's Rights, Health Care, and Constitutional Law.

We represent employees through all phases of litigation, including negotiation, mediation and arbitration; representation in front of the Equal Employment Opporutnity Commission ("EEOC"), Connecticut Commission on Human Rights and Opportunities ("CHRO"), Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") Commission Appeals and various municipal actions; and trial and appellate work in the State and Federal Courts. We represent Unions before the National Labor Relations Board, the State Labor Relations Board, State and Federal Courts and at arbitrations and in negotiations.

In memory of our partner Ruth Pulda

By ANNE M. HAMILTON | Special to The Courant
August 10, 2008

Ruth Pulda was an activist who used her legal skills, energy and passion to champion the rights of women, union workers and others who felt abused on the job.

From the beginning, she exhibited courage and conviction. On her first day as a lawyer, the senior partner asked her to draft a lawsuit on behalf of a client who claimed discrimination at work. He told her to have the document on his desk by the next afternoon.

Twenty minutes later, Pulda gave him the file with a note that might have been audacious from a longtime employee, much less a brand-new lawyer. "There is no case here," she proclaimed.

"She was right," said Dan Livingston, Pulda's law partner and then supervisor.

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