Mark Aronchick was honored as the 2019 Attorney of the Year at the The Legal’s annual Professional Excellence Awards dinner in Philadelphia on Thursday night.

In 2018, Aronchick, a longtime fixture in the Pennsylvania and national legal scene, played a leading role in two of the most significant and talked-about cases in Pennsylvania—if not the country. One of those cases dealt with the implementation of the first tax on sweetened beverages levied by a major U.S. city, and the other pushed to dismantle the state’s congressional map for being an unconstitutionally partisan gerrymander.