Rose Kallor, LLP is pleased to announce that Firm partners Michael Rose, Robin Kallor and Cindy Cieslak were recognized in the 2025 editions of The Best Lawyers in America^® and The Best Lawyers:  Ones to Watch in America^® and Robin Kallor was named the Best Lawyers^® 2025 Employment Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor and Employment "Lawyer of the Year" in Hartford.

Robin B. Kallor Robin Kallor was named the Best Lawyers^® 2025 Employment Law-Management, and Litigation-Labor and Employment "Lawyer of the Year" in Hartford. Only a single lawyer in each specialty in each community is being honored as the “Lawyer of the Year.” Best Lawyers^® compiles its list of outstanding attorneys by conducting exhaustive peer-review surveys in which thousands of leading lawyers confidentially evaluated their professional peers. The lawyers being honored as “Lawyer of the Year” have received particularly high ratings in the surveys by earning a high level of respect among their peers for their abilities, professionalism, and integrity.

Ms. Kallor regularly advises and represents employers on a broad range of labor and employment matters involving discrimination, retaliation, wage and hour issues, breach of contract, hiring processes, employee discipline, workplace policies, and any other matter that pertains to the employer-employee relationship in both the unionized and non-union settings.  Additionally, a significant portion of Ms. Kallor's practice is devoted to her role as a neutral, through her role as an independent workplace investigator and as a mediator. Ms. Kallor provides workplace training to clients and through continuing legal education programs and is a frequent speaker on emerging labor and employment law issues.   

Managing Partner Michael J. Rose was recognized by Best Lawyers^® in the Labor & Employment Law category for the thirteenth year in a row. As Managing Partner of Rose Kallor, LLP, Mr. Rose is widely recognized as one of Connecticut's leading employment litigators in his representation of governments, government officials, and private businesses both large and small.  He has tried over twenty cases to verdict in the areas of employment law and civil rights.

Partner Cindy M. Cieslak was recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America 2025 in the Labor & Employment Law category for the fifth year in a row.  Ms. Cieslak's practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment litigation in state and federal courts, as well as administrative agencies, including the defense of public sector and private employers against claims of discrimination, wage and hour violations, breach of contract, free speech retaliation, whistleblower retaliation, and other civil rights violations.

Since it was first published in 1983, Best Lawyers^® has become universally regarded as the definitive guide to legal excellence. Best Lawyers recognitions are compiled based on an exhaustive Purely Peer Review^® evaluation. More than 184,000 industry leading lawyers are eligible to vote (from around the world), and we have received more than 25.8 million evaluations on the legal abilities of other lawyers based on their specific practice areas around the world.  For the 2025 edition of The Best Lawyers in America^®, more than 23 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 80,000 leading lawyers included in the milestone 31st edition.  For the 2025 edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch^® in America, more than 4 million votes were analyzed, which resulted in more than 27,000 lawyers honored in the new edition. Lawyers are not required nor allowed to pay a fee to be listed; therefore, inclusion in Best Lawyers is considered a singular honor. 

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