HARTFORD – FordHarrison LLP, one of the country's largest management-side labor and employment law firms, is pleased to announce that Proloy Das, Michael Harrington, and Johanna Zelman Partners in the firm's Hartford office, were named to the 2025 Connecticut Super Lawyers List.
Attorneys are selected for Super Lawyers through a statewide nomination process, peer review by practice area and independent research on candidates. This rigorous process is designed to identify lawyers who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Only five percent of attorneys in the state of Connecticut are named “Super Lawyers."
Proloy has extensive experience in appellate law, having argued over 80 appeals in state and federal appellate courts, including the Connecticut Supreme Court and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Proloy is well versed in election law practice and deals with important issues such as ballot access, recounts, and challenges, as well as administrative proceedings. Proloy is currently the Connecticut chair to the Republican Nation Lawyers Association, and previously served as general counsel to the Connecticut Republican Party and represented the House and Senate Republican caucuses in constitutional litigation.
Michael handles a broad range of employment law matters, but concentrates his practice on providing legal guidance to public and private sector employers. Mike is experienced in handling arbitrations and mediations before the State Board of Mediation and Arbitration and arbitrators of the American Arbitrator Association. Michael has extensive experience litigating cases in state and federal courts and has argued numerous cases before the Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, the Connecticut Appellate Court, and the Connecticut Supreme Court. He also provides employers with preventative counsel to minimize legal risk within the changing landscape of labor and employment laws.
Johanna is the office managing partner for FordHarrison's Hartford, Connecticut office and is on the firm's Diversity Advisory Board. Johanna’s unique background results in highly competent, in-depth, and knowledgeable advice and representation for her clients. While she has represented a wide variety of employers from various industries on matters ranging from general advice on daily human resource related to matters, to highly fact specific investigations, to wage and hour class and collective actions, Johanna has a specific strength public sector and public school and university employment issues. She has litigated and successfully defended her clients before a multitude of state and federal appellate and trial courts, including the United States Court of Appeals for the Second and Ninth Circuits, the United States District Courts for the District of Connecticut and more.