It’s official. The biggest law firm in southeastern Connecticut, familiarly know as Suisman Shapiro, won’t have to fear competition from two sons of the firm’s original founders, practicing as Suisman & Shapiro.

No matter how they punctuate it, S. Joel Suisman and Andrew Shapiro are forbidden, per U.S. District Judge Janet C. Hall’s orders, to use “the prohibited name.” That’s any combining of Suisman followed by Shapiro, whether linked by an ampersand, colon, slash mark, comma or the word “and.”

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