Saluting Service Honorees & Speakers

Monte E. Frank is the co-chair of Pullman & Comley’s Litigation practice. He represents business and municipal clients in the state and federal courts in Connecticut and other states on a wide range of matters, using his thirty years of experience to help clients resolve problems as effectively and efficiently as possible.

He regularly represents clients in complex and sophisticated business litigation and construction matters. In recent years, he has handled numerous corporate embezzlement and fraud cases, including wire fraud, for business clients. He also has extensive experience in mediation and arbitration.
Monte is an active member of the legal community; serving in leadership roles at both the state and national level. Monte is a past president of both the Connecticut Bar Association (CBA) and the New England Bar Association, and received the John Eldred Shields Professional Service Award. He represented Connecticut in the American Bar Association’s House of Delegates for many years. In 2018, Monte ran for Lieutenant Governor.

Monte is an advocate for democracy reform, working to improve our elections, and bring accountability to government. He served on the American Bar Association’s Advisory Commission to the Task Force on Democracy by presidential appointment. He was recently appointed to co-chair the inaugural Rule of Law Committee of the National Conference of Bar Presidents. He also brings a wealth of knowledge to gun violence issues. He serves as the chair of the ABA’s Committee on Gun Violence. He has successfully presented many resolutions to the House of Delegates, testified at state legislatures and has worked on amicus briefs to the United States Supreme Court. For many years, he appeared on television, radio and in newspapers for his work on violence prevention, including CNN, MSNBC, NPR, WCBS, USA Today, and The Washington Post. He has written numerous op-ed pieces on gun violence, coauthoring many with United States Senators and members of Congress that have been published by Connecticut, national and international media outlets, including The Guardian and The Hill, where he was a contributor. He has also authored numerous op-ed pieces on election reforms in the Hartford Courant and the New Haven Register.

He recently served as vice chair of the governor’s working group on ranked-choice voting. Monte has lectured at Cornell Law School and has sat on many panels at the Connecticut Legal Conference, the University of Connecticut School of Law, Quinnipiac Law School and The National Conference of Bar Presidents.

An avid cyclist, Monte competes in cycling races throughout the United States and Canada. He medaled as a member of the United States cycling team at the 2013 and 2017 World Maccabiah Games. He founded and led Team 26 on the Sandy Hook Ride on Washington (2013-2019).