His choice of a Connecticut lawyer for Attorney General would make her the first woman to hold the position.
Several Connecticut lawyers said the plea agreement showed that Mr. Kelly was dealing realistically with the long odds he faced in continuing his legal battle.
William Samuel Johnson, a Connecticut lawyer, was known in the 1760s as an colonial rights.
He had thought of calling her Connecticut lawyer, but had decided just to wait for Allison's call.
The effort stopped when Nancy Burton, a disbarred Connecticut lawyer without relation to the family, filed legal action to stop the dig.
She gave no reason for the request, and her Connecticut lawyer did not return two calls seeking comment in the past week.
F. Mac Buckley, the Connecticut lawyer who vanished on his way to court on March 1, is no longer simply missing.
"He is a man of peace and good will," said Arnold Beizer, a Connecticut lawyer, who helped organize the trip.
Their weapon: a standardized sales contract, something that southern Connecticut lawyers have resolutely refused to use.
He also codified a body of ethics opinions that Connecticut lawyers regularly consult and performed a similar task nationally for the American Bar Association.