Connecticut Attorney General-Elect William Tong has tapped Timothy Birch, a longtime friend and colleague at Finn, Dixon & Herling, to head his transition team.

As Tong, who narrowly beat out Republican challenger Susan Hatfield last week to become only the nation’s second Asian-American attorney general, gets ready to attend two attorneys general conferences, Birch is working the phones and preparing to form a six-member transition committee. That committee, which will be composed of lawyers from throughout the state, should be in place this week, the 60-year-old Birch told the Connecticut Law Tribune Monday.