Attorney of the Year Finalists
Stephen Shackelford, Jr., Susman Godfrey
Alex Spiro, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan **Winner**
Carol Villegas, Labaton Sucharow
Lifetime Achievement Award Winners
Anna Glick, Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft
Christine A. Varney, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Gideon Cashman, Pryor Cashman
Jonathan L. Mechanic, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
Joseph Shenker, Sullivan & Cromwell
Paul N. Roth, Schulte Roth & Zabel
Peter A. Atkins, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Richard A. Rothman, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Roger Juan Maldonado, Smith, Gambrell & Russell
Spencer Fisher, New York City Law Department
Distinguished Leaders
Terri Adler, Adler & Stachenfeld
Greg Asciolla, DiCello Levitt
Bradley J. Butwin, O’Melveny & Myers
Thomas Cerabino and Matthew Feldman, Willkie Farr & Gallagher
Robin Cohen, Cohen Ziffer Frenchman & McKenna
Susan Crumiller, Crumiller
Patricia L. Gannon, Greenspoon Marder
Rich Jacobsen, Orrick
Blair Kaminsky, Holwell Shuster & Goldberg
Karen M. Lent, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Sven G. Mickisch, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Julie Muniz, Fragomen
Deborah G. Rosenthal, Rosenthal, Attorneys at Law
Belinda G. Schwartz, Herrick Feinstein
Jared Scotto, Weitz & Luxenberg
Innovation Award Winners
Jared Rosenblatt, Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University
Leni Cummins, Cozen O’Connor
Jennifer Pafiti, Pomerantz
Katherine Forrest, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
DiCello Levitt
Epstein Becker Green
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison’s Civil Rights and Racial Equity Audit Practice
Litigation Departments of the Year
General Litigation Winner: Latham & Watkins
General Litigation Finalists
Davis Polk & Wardwell
King & Spalding
Milbank
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Sullivan & Cromwell
WilmerHale
Litigation Departments of the Year, Specialty Category Winners
Class Action: Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Insurance: Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Finance: Sullivan & Cromwell
IP: Desmarais
Labor and Employment: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
Products/Mass Torts: Dechert
Real Estate: Kramer Levin
Diversity Initiative Winners
Mylan Denerstein, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
Demetrius Warrick, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Concepcion Montoya, Hinshaw Culbertson
Haimavathi V. Marlier, Morrison Foerster
Ross Moskowitz, Stroock Stroock & Lavan
Michèle Penzer, Latham & Watkins
Kimberly C. Petillo-Décossard, White & Case
Dealmakers of the Year
David J. Perkins, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
David M. Klein, Kirkland & Ellis
Sullivan & Cromwell Restructuring Group
Anthony Vernace, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Margaret Tahyar and Lee Hochbaum, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Marshall Huebner, Davis Polk & Wardwell
Jake Kling, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Alan Zoccolillo, Baker McKenzie
Michael Aiello, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Joshua A. Sussberg, Kirkland & Ellis
In-House Impact Winner
Travelers Insurance Legal Services
Rising Stars
Randall Adams, Schulte Roth & Zabel
Charlie Allen, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Alexia Bedat, Klaris Law
Effie Blassberger, Clayman Rosenberg Kirshner & Linder
Peter S. Borock, Greenberg Traurig
CeCe Cole, Cowan DeBaets
John S. Crain, Wigdor
Shawn G. Crowley, Kaplan Hecker & Fink
Andrew Darcy, Mobilization for Justice
Jennifer Rea Deneault, Groombridge, Wu, Baughman & Stone
Chris Errico, Dentons US
Gianfranco Finizio, Kilpatrick Townsend
Sesi Garimella, Cahill Gordon & Reindel
Genna Ghaul, Jones Day
Sharonmoyee Goswami, Cravath, Swaine & Moore
Ilan T. Graff, Fried Frank
Hilary Atzrott Hamburg, Venable
Jackie Hamilton, Wilson Sonsini
Shalom D. Huber, Skadden
Ashley Iodice, New York City Law Department
David A. Moreno Jr., Blank Rome
Ryan Kim, Akin Gump
Jake Bissell-Linsk, Labaton Sucharow
Francesca Brody, Sidley Austin
Khasim Lockhart, Frankfurt Kurnit
Derrick Lott, Shearman & Sterling
Deborah P. Low, Haynes Boone
Katherine “Kara” McBride, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Christine Okike, Kirkland & Ellis
Iliana Ongun, Milbank
Tamir Packin, Desmarais
Janicelynn Asamoto Park, Proskauer Rose
Y. Gloria Park, Susman Godfrey
Moira Kim Penza, Wilkinson Stekloff
Ephraim Pierre, Seyfarth Shaw
Craig M. Reiser, Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider
Katherine A. Rocco, Latham & Watkins
Jeremy Saks, Fish & Richardson
Steven Silverberg, Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney
Suni Sreepada, Ropes & Gray
M. Alejandra Vargas, Duane Morris
Nathan Werksman, Merson Law
Temidayo Aganga-Williams, Selendy Gay Elsberg
