After centuries of legal history in New Haven, the practice of law no longer is the sole domain of white Protestant males. That’s one of the messages of a book written by Wiggin and Dana partner Robert F. Cavanagh, with assistance from the New Haven County Bar Association’s Centennial Committee.

“I want [readers] to see the progress that’s been made in the legal profession over a long period of time, beginning with a bar that was very homogeneous,” Cavanagh said.