James C. Schulwolf

Attorney James C. Schulwolf of West Hartford was elected a 2011 Fellow of the Connecticut Bar Foundation James W. Cooper Fellows Program, according to Timothy S. Fisher, president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation. Schulwolf was honored at a reception at Bushnell Autorino Great Hall on May 10.
The James W. Cooper Fellows Program was established to honor leading members of the legal profession and the Judiciary in Connecticut.  Membership in the Fellows is by invitation only and is evidence of professional distinction. Sixty-eight new Fellows were elected this year.  Now in its 17th year, the Fellows program has 831 members.
Schulwolf is a partner at Shipman & Goodwin, LLP in Hartford.  He received a B.A. cum laude from Amherst College in 1977 and a J.D. from the New York University School of Law in 1980.  He was admitted to the Connecticut Bar in 1993.  He is also admitted to the bar of Massachusetts (1980), the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts (1981), and the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (1981).
Schulwolf has served the American Bar Association as chair of the Commercial Finance Committee Section of Business Law since 2010.  He was a Fellow of the American College of Commercial Finance Lawyers in 1998 and 2005-2009.  Additionally, he served on the CT Law Revision Commission Task Force on revised Article 9 in 2001 and again in 2010.
Schulwolf is actively involved in several communal organizations.  He is a past president of the Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford and serves as a permanent member of the school’s board; a state board member of the Connecticut Venture Group, and as the Hartford chapter president (2003-2008); and a board member of the Connecticut Turnaround Management Association.  Additionally, he was a member of Greater Hartford Leadership in 1993.
Schulwolf has been listed as a Connecticut Super Lawyer (2006-2011) and in The Best Lawyers in America (2005-2011). He was the 1977 recipient of the Sphinx Club Spoon at Amherst College.
Schulwolf and his wife, Lisa Levy, live in West Hartford and are the parents of three children.