Legal heavyweights in Connecticut are combining their talents and networking prowess to launch a new fundraising campaign aimed at improving support services for attorneys representing low-income immigrant children and families.

In the past few months, there has been an explosion in the need for services to immigrant families, according to retired Judge Robert Holzberg, a partner at Pullman & Comley who co-chairs the Connecticut Lawyers for Immigration Justice campaign. Holzberg announced he was launching the campaign Wednesday with co-chairwoman and former Connecticut Supreme Court Chief Justice Chase Rogers, now a partner at Day Pitney.