Please note: Each firm / company may submit multiple candidates. You may also submit a candidate for multiple categories, but a candidate can only win in one category. If you are submitting a candidate for multiple categories, please submit a separate submission for each category.
Law Firm and In-House Awards
Innovative Leaders
Women who are the thinkers, the idea women. Women who are looked at as the ones impacting change and developing new strategies for better solutions.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Thought Leadership
Women who focus on how true leadership can change the world. It is their passion and drive to have a successful department/team through their outstanding leadership skills.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Collaborative Leadership
Women who stand out as working well with others with external and internal stakeholders – the “team players.”
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
General Counsel of the Year / Managing Partner of the Year
Women who have had a huge, impactful year. A year that stands out among their peers.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Lifetime Achievement
Women who had made their lasting mark on the legal profession over their years of dedication, innovation and hard work.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Champion
A firm or in-house leader that has taken an active role in fostering diversity, equity and inclusion in the industry at large. This individual, through their efforts, has made a significant, measurable impact in their department, firm or organization in driving real, lasting change.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Mentor & Mentee Collaboration
Mentees - nominate your mentor! This award recognizes a woman lawyer who has excelled at mentoring others in achieving their career objectives through moral, social, and intellectual support.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Leadership Through Crisis: Successful Stories of Crisis Management by Industry
This award is to recognize you and your department’s impactful and innovative efforts in managing and mitigating crises. Describe what you and your department implemented to successfully lead your organization through a time of disruption.
Please note: Each firm/company may submit multiple candidates. You may also submit a candidate for multiple categories, but a candidate can only win in one category. If you are submitting a candidate for multiple categories, please submit a separate submission for each category.
- Please provide name, title, organization and contact details of nominee
- Short essay (600 words or less) about why this nominee deserves recognition in this particular category
- Short answer Q&A responses from the nominee about their legal career that will be published if nominee is selected.
Q&A questions
Please note: If selected as an honoree, this answer may be published as part of the honoree's profile (with editing for grammar, spelling, clarity purposes only).
- What was your route to the top? (125 words)
- Looking back, what do you wish you had known when you started out in the legal profession? (125 words)
- What is the best leadership advice you’ve given or received, and why do you think it was effective?
Please note: Each firm / company may submit multiple candidates. You may also submit a candidate for multiple categories, but a candidate can only win in one category. If you are submitting a candidate for multiple categories, please submit a separate submission for each category.