Hartford attorney Timothy Fisher, a partner in McCarter & English, is the new president of the Connecticut Bar Foundation.
The nonprofit bar foundation is the main source of funding for legal aid in Connecticut.
The foundation’s projected 2010 budget is $14.8 million, up from $11.3 million in 2009. This year, the foundation expects to issue $13.9 million in legal aid grants and scholarships, up from $10.7 million last year.
Fisher’s many hours of pro bono work with the foundation, particularly with the “Innocence Project” and mentoring at-risk teens, earned him a nomination to the post, said M&E Managing Partner Eric Wiechmann.
“Tim’s formidable skills of intellect, creativity and personal persuasiveness are concentrated and focused on everything he does, framed and fueled by an energy few can match,” said Hugh Macgill former dean of the University of Connecticut School of Law and Fisher’s predecessor.
Fisher, 56, graduated from Hartford Public High School in 1971. He earned his undergraduate degree from Yale and his law degree from New York’s Columbia Law School.
