The Law Journal’s lifetime achievement award is an award apart: “Best” lawyers and “Super” lawyers seem a dime a dozen in the supremely talented New York legal community—but this award is particularly outstanding. And so is Lee Richards.

Lee has compiled a remarkable record of success for clients in consequential matters. There is hardly a high-profile white-collar matter in the past four decades in which Lee hasn’t had a critical assignment. From Salomon Brothers’ firm-threatening treasury auction scandal of the early 1990s to the recent London Whale, LIBOR and FIFA investigations, Lee has represented key players.