New Haven attorney Nina Pirrotti has teamed up with celebrity civil rights attorney Gloria Allred as local counsel in a highly publicized gender bias federal lawsuit brought by several current and former University of Connecticut students who claim the university failed to properly investigate their sexual assault complaints.

Pirrotti, who is well-known in employment law circles, has spoken at numerous American Bar Association and Connecticut Bar Association conferences. It was through those engagements that Pirrotti caught Allred’s eye.