2 West Hartford Attorneys Elected To James W. Cooper Fellows Program

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT – Two West Hartford attorneys, Amy L. Lydon and Joseph Arcata, have been elected as 2017 Fellows of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows Program.

“We are pleased to recognize our new Fellows for their distinguished services to our legal system and for their commitment to the principles of equal justice and the rule of law,” President of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James Shearin said in a release.

The Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows Program was established to honor the leading members of the legal profession and the Judiciary in Connecticut, to promote a better understanding of the legal profession and the judicial system and to explore ways to improve the profession and the administration of justice in Connecticut.

Membership in the Fellows is by invitation only and is evidence of professional distinction. Seventy Fellows were elected this year. (To sign up for West Hartford breaking news alerts and more, click here.)

Lydon is intellectual property counsel at Medtronic in North Haven. She received a duel B.S. in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2004 and a J.D. from UCONN School of Law in 2008. She was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 2008. She is also admitted to the United States District Court, District of Connecticut and the United States Patent and Trademark Office.

She is president and founder, Judge Janet Bond Arterton American Inn of Court (2015-present), adjunct professor of Patent Litigation, University of Connecticut School of Law (2012-preset), member of the Connecticut Intellectual Property Law Association (2008-present).

The Connecticut Technology Council honored Lydon as a 2015 Woman of Innovation, in the Large Business Innovation category.

Arcata is a partner at Halloran & Sage LLP in Hartford. He received a B.A. from Providence College in 1999 and a J.D. from Quinnipiac School of Law in 2005. He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 2005. He is also admitted to the United States District Court, District of Connecticut.

He is a member of the Connecticut Bar Association, the Voice of the Defense Bar (DRI) and the Professional Liability Underwriting Society.

Arcata’s public service includes Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors for Hartford’s Camp Courant and Dean’s Advisory Board at Quinnipiac University School of Law. He has received the “Rising Star” Connecticut Super Lawyers® (2016), Connecticut Law Tribune’s “New Leaders in the Law (2016) and the Hartford Business Journal’s “40 Under 40” (2012).

Both Lydon and Arcata were honored at the James W. Cooper Fellows Reception at the Hartford Club on April 25.

The Fellows Program is now in its 22nd year. In addition to lawyers in private practice, the group consists of U.S. Court of Appeals judges, U.S. District Court judges, Connecticut Supreme, Appellate, and Superior Court judges. It also includes corporate counsel and attorneys at corporations, heads of associations and corporations, directors and attorneys at legal services agencies and more.

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