Background
Silver Sorokin, Ethel was born on September 17, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Silver Sorokin, Ethel was born on September 17, 1928 in Hartford, Connecticut, United States.
Vassar College (Bachelor of Arts, 1950). University of Connecticut (Bachelor of Laws, with honors, 1953).
Worked at Sorokin Sorokin Gross Hyde, & Williams Professional Corporation (Hartford, Connecticut) specializing in General Practice including Administrative, Antitrust and Trade Regulation, Banking, Bankruptcy Reorganizations and Loan Workouts, Construction, Computer, Corporation, Employment, Estate Planning, Family, Insurance, Employment, Legislative Practice, Litigation, Mergers and Acquisitions, Negligence, Pension and Profit Sharing, Probate, Real Estate, Secured and Unsecured Lending, Securities and Taxation Law. Trials and Appeals in all State and Federal Courts. Admitted to the bar, 1953, Connecticut.
1960, United States.
Supreme Court. Member, 1952-1953, and Editor-in-Chief, 1953, University of Connecticut Board of Student Editors. Member, Board of Editors, Connecticut Bar Journal, 1951-1956.
Editor, "Family Relations Jurisdiction, Connecticut," 26 Connecticut Bar Journal 302. Author: "Duty of Father to Support Minor ChildEffect of Wrongful Deprivation of Custody," 25 Connecticut Bar Journal 413.
"Lessons of Two Lives in the Law," 29 Connecticut
L.R. 1 (1996). Lecturer, "Contemplated/Uncontemplated Factors in the Modification of Matrimonial Judgments," Continuing legal education, Connecticut Bar Association, November 2, 1985. Faculty Advisor to Law Review and Lecturer in Law, University of Connecticut, School of Law, 1955-1958.
1961-1966. Recipient, University of Connecticut Law School, Service Award, 1989.
Attorney Representative and Secretary, 1978-1983, 1983-1989, 1989, Connecticut Judicial Review Council. Trustee, 1976-1992 and President, 1978-1979, University of Connecticut Law School Foundation. Director, 1993 and President, 1996, Center for the First Amendment Rights, Incorporated.
Awards: University of Connecticut School of Law, Distinguished Service Award, 1989.
Connecticut Law Review Award, 1996. Connecticut Bar Association Media Law Award, 1996.
Incorporator, Joslin Diabetes Center, 1986. Greater Hartford Jewish Federation, Business Professional Cabinet, 1988.
Member: Hartford County, Connecticut (Member, Sections on: Estates and Probate.
Family Law. Intellectual Property. Member, Executive Committee, Section on Status of Women.
Chair, Family Law Legislation Committee, 1984-1987) and American (Member: Committee on Business Torts, Litigation Section.
Family Law Section. Probate and Trust Law Section) Bar Associations. History: Sorokin Sorokin Gross Hyde & Williams Professional Corporation is a medium-sized (21-attorney) law firm with one office in downtown Hartford, one in Simsbury, Connecticut, and one in Rocky Hill, Connecticut.
The firm was formed in 1989 through the merger of Sorokin & Sorokin Professional Corporation and Gross, Hyde & Williams, one of the oldest continuous law partnerships in Connecticut.
Member, 1952-1953, and Editor-in-Chief, 1953, University of Connecticut Board of Student Editors. Member, Board of Editors, Connecticut Bar Journal, 1951-1956. Editor, "Family Relations Jurisdiction, Connecticut," 26 Connecticut Bar Journal 302.