Media Advocacy Award Finalists

• Ballard Spahr — WINNER
• Covington & Burling
• Greenberg Traurig
• Reed Smith
• Wiley Rein
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

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Legal Services Innovation Finalists

• Dechert
• Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian
• Irell & Manella
• Labaton Keller Sucharow
• McDermott Will & Schulte
• Munger Tolles & Olson
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• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan — WINNER

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Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

• Judge Shelley Chapman, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
• Judge Allyson Duncan, JAMS
• Irving Picard, BakerHostetler
• Judge David Tatel, Hogan Lovells
• Dean William Treanor, Georgetown Law
• Michael Mukasey, Debevoise & Plimpton    

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Law Firm Distinguished Leaders Winner

• Seth Zachary, Paul Hastings    

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Best Law Firm of the Year Finalists

• Joint Nomination: Perkins Coie, Jenner & Block, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Susman Godfrey, Williams & Connolly, Cooley, Clement & Murphy and Munger, Tolles & Olson — WINNER
• Covington & Burling
• Reed Smith
• Akin
• Cleary Gottlieb
• Ropes & Gray
• Sidley Austin
• McDermott Will & Schulte

 
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Attorney of the Year Finalists

• Bill Burck, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
• Neel Chatterjee, King & Spalding — WINNER
• Laurie Carr Mims, Keker Van Nest & Peters
• Michael Buchanan, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler, and
• Muhammad Faridi, Linklaters

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Best Use of Technology Finalists

• Frost Brown Todd
• Honigman
• Labaton Keller Sucharow — WINNER
• McDermott Will & Schulte
• Morgan Lewis & Bockius
• Munger Tolles & Olson 
• Seyfarth Shaw
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges

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Best Provider Collaboration Finalists

• DLA Piper/ITU and Stanford Law School CodeX
• Hogan Lovells/ELTEMATE and Lineal
• McDermott Will & Schulte/Thomson Reuters CoCounsel
• Morgan Lewis & Bockius/Thomson Reuters CoCounsel — WINNER
• Paul Hastings/Dashboard Legal by Bloomberg Law
• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan/Syllo
• Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr/Law Offices of Joel B. Rudin P.C. and Hoover & Durland

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Best Business Team

• A&O Shearman
• Ballard Spahr
• Benesch — WINNER
• Cahill Gordon & Reindel
• Frost Brown Todd
• Norton Rose Fulbright
• Reed Smith
• Troutman Pepper Locke

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Best Mentor: Law Firm Finalists

• Omar Alaniz, Reed Smith
• Monica Call, Foley & Lardner
• David Fish, Romano Law
• Timothy Flaherty, Clark Hill
• Alicia Grant, Norton Rose Fulbright
• Kate Mueting, Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight
• Rahul Patel, King & Spalding
• Mark Plotkin, Covington & Burling — WINNER

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Litigator of the Year Finalists

• Dane Butswinkas, Williams & Connolly
• Jessica Ellsworth, Hogan Lovells
• Lindsay Harrison, Jenner & Block
• Moez Kaba, Hueston Hennigan
• Jeffrey Kessler, Winston & Strawn
• Josh Rosenkranz, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe — WINNER
• Jeffrey Wall, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Ned Weinberger, Labaton Keller Sucharow

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National Boutique/Specialty Litigation Department of the Year Finalists

• Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann — WINNER
• Bird Marella
• Desmarais
• Keker Van Nest & Peters
• Kobre & Kim
• McKool Smith
• Susman Godfrey
• Wilkinson Stekloff

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Best Client Law-Firm Team Finalists

• DLA Piper and Microsoft
• Fenwick and Databricks
• Jenner & Block and BMO Financial Group
• Latham & Watkins and U.S. Soccer Federation
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison and Carrier Global Corp.
• Sullivan & Cromwell and Philips
• Troutman Pepper Locke and Zurich North America
• Williams & Connolly and CVS — WINNER

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Young Lawyer of the Year (Beyond Practice) Finalists

• Amber Carson, Gray Reed
• Jenna Cutler, Barclay Damon
• Jesse-Justin Cuevas, Susman Godfrey — WINNER
• Alla Digilova, Haynes Boone
• John Drosick, Winston & Strawn
• Mark Goldstein, Reed Smith
• Katie Harrington, Foley & Lardner
• HC Jones III, Cole Schotz
• Melodie Khosrovani, Shutts & Bowen
• Kasey Koballa, Kilpatrick Townsend

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Young Lawyer of the Year (Corporate) Finalists

• Ann Marie Brodarick, McDermott Will & Schulte
• Emily Cai, Jones Day
• Matthew Falcone, Vinson & Elkins
• Dan Gibbons, Davis Polk
• Nitya Kumar Goyal, Dechert
• Steven R. Green, Wachtell, Lipton Rosen & Katz — WINNER
• Dotun Obadina, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• Joseph F. Rosati, White & Case
• Brittany Sakowitz, Kirkland & Ellis
• Mark Schenkel, Sullivan & Cromwell

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Young Lawyer of the Year (Litigation) Finalists

• Alejandra Ávila, Kellogg Hansen
• Lee Crain, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
• Lauren Hartz, Jenner & Block
• Roxana Guidero, Wilkinson Stekloff
• Michael Huston, Perkins Coie
• Allyson Julien, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum
• Erin Morgan, Dunn Isaacson Rhee
• Pravin Patel, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
• Brittany L. Sukiennik, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
• Katie Wellington, Hogan Lovells — WINNER

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Corporate Culture & Wellbeing Finalists

• Covington & Burling
• McGuireWoods
• Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp — WINNER
• Morrison Foerster
• O'Melveny & Myers
• Weil, Gotshal & Manges 

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Managing Partner of the Year Finalists

• Lorie Almon, Seyfarth Shaw
• Hailyn Chen and Malcolm Heinicke, Munger Tolles & Olson
• Douglas Clark, Wilson Sonsini
• Julie Jones, Ropes & Gray
• Randy Mehrberg, Jenner & Block — WINNER
• Anjan Sahni, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
• Donna Wilson, Manatt, Phelps & Phillips
• Stephen Zubiago, Nixon Peabody

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Best Professional Development Initiative Finalists

• Arnold & Porter
• Cahill Gordon & Reindel
• Dechert
• Eversheds Sutherland
• Husch Blackwell
• Morgan, Lewis & Bockius — WINNER
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
• Ropes & Gray
• Stradley Ronon

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U.S. Impact Law Firm of the Year Finalists

• Clifford Chance
• Freshfields
• Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer — WINNER
• Kennedys
• Linklaters

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Most Promising Newcomer Finalists

• Reid Carroll, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
• Dinis Cheian, Susman Godfrey
• Danielle Izzo, Labaton Keller Sucharow
• Lauren Lummus, Kessler Topaz Meltzer & Check
• Pearl Dzifa Mansu, Reed Smith — WINNER
• Andrew Santana, Jenner & Block
• Bethany Thomas, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr
• Julia Zasso, Goldman Ismail Tomaselli Brennan & Baum