Profiling the work of the best attorneys in Pennsylvania can be a bit of a double-edged sword. On the one hand, there is a seemingly endless field of candidates for the awards bestowed in this magazine; on the other hand, narrowing down such an esteemed field of attorneys and legal departments tends to be a difficult task.
How should one go about choosing which of the long list of lawyers to leave their mark on the profession in Pennsylvania to name as Lifetime Achievement Award winners? In a year as busy as 2014, full of cases and mergers that reshaped the law and the firms that practice it, how should one determine which attorneys left the biggest footprints? When so many corporate legal departments are finding new and exciting ways to push their companies forward, how should one select just a small handful to honor for their accomplishments?
