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Sharon Kowal Freilich
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Sharon practices in the firm's Pension Practice Group. Sharon counsels business entities, non-profit organizations and individuals on all aspects of tax-qualified retirement plans, cafeteria and fringe benefit plans, and non-qualified benefit arrangements. Sharon also provides advice to corporate and individual trustees as to their responsibilities as fiduciaries of ERISA plans. A portion of Sharon's time is also devoted to counseling clients on corporate, securities and intellectual property issues.
Sharon became of counsel to the firm in 2000. Prior to the joining firm, Sharon was an attorney at Sorokin, Gross & Hyde for fourteen years.
Sharon is a director of the Hebrew School of New England and a director of the Paul and Bess Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford. Sharon formerly served as a director of Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Jewish Family Services of Greater Hartford, a member of the Commission on Jewish Education, the Chairperson of the Greater Hartford Coalition for A World of Difference, the Connecticut State Chairperson of A World of Difference Campaign, and a member of the West Hartford School Board Ad Hoc Committee on the Recognition of Religious Holidays in the public schools.
Sharon has taught courses on Deferred Compensation at the University of Hartford and on Law and Medicine at Augusta, a college in Georgia.
Sharon received her B.A. from George Washington University (1977) and her J.D. from George Washington University (1980). Sharon is a member of the bars of Connecticut, Georgia, and the District of Columbia and is admitted to practice before the United States District Courts for the Districts of Connecticut and Georgia and the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.