Todd E. Garabedian has joined Cantor Colburn as a partner in the Chemical, Material, and Life Sciences Department in the firm’s Hartford office. Garabedian, a Ph.D. biochemist as well as a lawyer, has almost 20 years of extensive experience in patent application preparation, prosecution, counseling, portfolio management, and legal opinions in a wide variety of disciplines related to the biological and chemical sciences. He formerly worked at Wiggin and Dana.

Sally O. Hagerty has been named partner at Ryan Ryan Deluca of Stamford. She has been with the firm since 2008 and focuses on the defense of medical malpractice cases and cases brought against hospitals and assisted-living facilities, as well as the defense of catastrophic personal injury.