The American Lawyer Announces 2021 Industry Awards Finalists
Winners will be announced at our December 2 event in New York.
September 30, 2021 at 04:02 PM
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As another highly unusual year in the legal industry enters its final months, The American Lawyer is preparing to recognize and celebrate the important work being done across the profession—and the people doing it.
On December 2, The American Lawyer Industry Awards will honor the most exceptional lawyers, law firms, legal departments and organizations in the country. Today, we are pleased to announce the finalists for many of the awards that will be featured that night. All finalists will be celebrated—and winners announced—at the awards event in New York.
In addition to those listed below, we will also recognize at the event our Lifetime Achievement Award recipients, Attorney of the Year finalists and Litigation Department of the Year finalists, all of whom will be announced in the coming days.
Congratulations to all our finalists! And without further ado…
Law Firm of the Year Finalists
- Covington & Burling
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Fenwick & West
- Kirkland & Ellis
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Ropes & Gray
Tony Mauro Award Winners
- Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
- Tom Leatherbury of Vinson & Elkins
Best Business Team Finalists
- Barnes & Thornburg
- Goodwin Procter
- Latham & Watkins
- Mayer Brown
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Reed Smith
- Winston & Strawn
Best Client-Law Firm Team Finalists
- Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner and Unilever
- Goodwin Procter and Moderna
- Greenberg Traurig and Becton, Dickinson & Co.
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton and Levi Strauss & Co.
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and Zynga
Best Diversity Initiative Finalists
- Ballard Spahr
- Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Goodwin Procter
- Kaplan Hecker & Fink
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Winston & Strawn
Best Mentor: In-House Finalists
- Kenita Barrow, Otsuka US
- Brooks Beard, VMWare
- Ben Shively, R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.
Best Mentor: Law Firm Finalists
- Lisa Bebchick, Ropes & Gray
- Lisa Collins, Baker Hostetler
- Rachel Cowen, McDermott Will & Emery
- Chanler Langham, Susman Godfrey
- Michelle Reed, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Linda Swartz, Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
Best Provider Collaboration Finalists
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Level Legal
- Jenner & Block, Nishimura & Asahi, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
- Hogan Lovells LIBOR Advanced Delivery Toolkit
- LexFusion, Agiloft and Factor
- McGuireWoods, Bank of America, Duke Energy, Husqvarna Group, Wells Fargo, Charlotte Center for Legal Advocacy, Legal Aid of NC—Charlotte, Moore & Van Allen
- Perkins Coie and ElevateFlex
Best Use of Technology Finalists
- Holland & Knight
- Latham & Watkins
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Robins Kaplan
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders
Legal Services Innovation Finalists
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Ballard Spahr
- Konexo / Eversheds Sutherland
- Holland & Knight
- Troutman Pepper Hamilton Sanders
Young Lawyers of the Year Winners
- Jennifer Cheng, Reed Smith
- Leah Godesky, O'Melveny & Myers
- TJ Graham, Cooley
- Alexia Korberg, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
- Joshua Matz, Kaplan Hecker & Fink
- Joanna Wright, Boies Schiller Flexner
National Boutique / Specialty Litigation Department of the Year Finalists
- Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
- Irell & Manella
- Keker, Van Nest & Peters
- McKool Smith
- MoloLamken
- Reid Collins & Tsai
Regional Litigation Departments of the Year Finalists
- California
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Latham & Watkins
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Susman Godfrey
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Florida
- Boies Schiller Flexner
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
- Georgia
- Greenberg Traurig
- King & Spalding
- Pennsylvania
- Carlson Lynch
- Cozen O'Connor
- Reed Smith
- Texas
- Haynes and Boone
- Jones Day
- Susman Godfrey
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Law Firms Mentioned
- Susman Godfrey
- Boies Schiller Flexner
- Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner
- Seyfarth Shaw
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Vinson & Elkins
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
- Keker, Van Nest & Peters
- Robins Kaplan LLP
- Perkins Coie
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Baker & Hostetler LLP
- Ballard Spahr
- Cozen O'Connor
- Reed Smith
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Irell & Manella
- Nishimura & Asahi
- Greenberg Traurig
- Ropes & Gray
- Cooley
- Latham & Watkins
- Moore Van Allen
- Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
- McGuireWoods
- Fenwick & West
- Barnes Thornburg
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Hunton Andrews Kurth
- Haynes and Boone
- Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft
- Barnes & Thornburg
- Holland & Knight LLP
- King & Spalding
- Jones Day
- Eversheds Sutherland
- Winston & Strawn LLP
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Hogan Lovells
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Mayer Brown
- Jenner & Block
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Pepper Hamilton
- Goodwin Procter
- Covington & Burling
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