When New London attorney Robert Reardon Jr. got a phone call in 2003 about a serious slip and fall in a city apartment complex, little did he know the case would turn into a class action that would last until 2018.

For Reardon, president of the Reardon Law Firm, the case of Nicole Majette and her neighbors in the Thames River Apartments became personal. After seeing what Reardon called “deplorable living conditions” in the three buildings that made up the complex, he and his firm committed to not only seeing the case through, but seeing it through pro bono.