The Federal Bar Council presented the Thurgood Marshall award for exceptional pro bono service to Davis Polk and Wardwell associate Scott Wilcox, center, at an event held Thursday at the Battery Gardens in Manhattan.

Joining the honoree is Lewis Liman, left, a Cleary Gottlieb Steen and Hamilton partner and the bar council’s public service committee chairman, and bar council president Villa Hayes, a partner at Hughes Hubbard & Reed.