Southeastern Legal Awards Nominations Now Open for 2025
The submission deadline is Jan. 15, 2025.
October 28, 2024 at 02:48 PM
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AwardsLaw.com and the Daily Report's Southeastern Legal Awards have opened for nominations. We're accepting nominations from firms, companies and organizations in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Tennessee.
The deadline is Jan. 15, 2025. Click here to submit a nomination.
This year's awards will feature 15 categories:
- Attorney of the Year
- Best Legal Innovation
- Best Mentors
- Distinguished Leaders
- Diversity Initiative
- In-House Counsel of the Year
- Law Firm of the Year (selected by editorial staff, not open for submissions)
- Legal Innovators
- Lifetime Achievement
- Litigation Departments of the Year, General Litigation
- Litigation Departments of the Year, Specialty Practice (Appellate, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Personal Injury, Products Liability, White Collar)
- Managing Partner of the Year
- Most Effective Deal-Makers
- Most Promising Newcomer
- On the Rise
One of our new categories, Most Promising Newcomer, will spotlight young attorneys with one to three years of experience, who have started their legal career strong with a track record that shows more than beginner's luck.
We also will accept nominations from firms of all sizes for Litigation Departments of the Year, which will include the subcategories General Litigation, Insurance, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment, Product Liability, Personal Injury, White Collar, Appellate and Other Specialty Practice.
Nominations, which can come from third parties or the nominees themselves, should be made online via the portal link listed below. The deadline for nominations is Jan. 15, 2025.
In the coming weeks, we will publish a helpful tips column from our editor Michael Marciano, who will be leading the judging process. Also stay tuned for the date of an upcoming Q&A with Marciano, where nominators can log on and ask questions during the session.
If you have any questions, please contact Recognition Events desk manager Pearl Wu.
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