The New England Legal Awards will be presented in September. Announcing Winners and Finalists in the New England Legal Awards 2024
We're excited to announce the winners and finalists in our second annual New England Legal Awards, recognizing attorneys and firms from Connecticut and across New England.
July 24, 2024 at 02:17 PM
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Awards
We're excited to announce the winners and finalists in our second annual New England Legal Awards, recognizing attorneys and firms from Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
What we've ended up with is one of our strongest-ever groups of finalists in our annual excellence awards, which will be celebrated at a gala in September. Winners in categories such as Attorney of the Year and Litigation Departments of the Year, General Litigation will be recognized at an awards dinner on Thursday, Sept. 26 at Fairmont Copley Plaza in Boston. For more information, please visit the New England Legal Awards event site. For tickets and sponsorships, please contact Andre Sutton at [email protected].
Many of the names below are familiar to all, but there will likely be some who are new to you from neighboring New England states. Connecticut's legal community remains proudly represented in this year's contest, which reaches out to a broader audience and will be showcased on a bigger stage.
Thanks to everyone who nominated candidates for this year's awards, and please join in celebrating the following winners and finalists:
Attorney of the Year Finalists
Benjamin H. Diessel, Wiggin and Dana
Chinh H. Pham, Greenberg Traurig
Lisa Pirozzolo, WilmerHale
Lifetime Achievement Winners
Daniel Halston, WilmerHale
John Rattigan, DLA Piper
Stanley A. Twardy, Jr., Day Pitney
Litigation Departments of the Year: General Litigation Finalists
Day Pitney
Latham & Watkins
Motley Rice
Silver Golub & Teitell
Wiggin and Dana
WilmerHale
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Antitrust Winner
Wiggin and Dana
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Appellate Finalists
FordHarrison Wiggin and Dana
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Business Litigation Winner
Latham & Watkins
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Commercial Litigation Winner
Latham & Watkins
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Family Law Winner
Pullman & Comley
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Intellectual Property Finalists
Mintz
WilmerHale
Litigation Departments of the Year: Other Specialty Category Winner, M&A and Private Equity Litigation
Brown Rudnick
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, Products Liability/Mass Torts Winner
Motley Rice
Litigation Departments of the Year: Specialty Category, White Collar/Corporate Compliance Winner
Nixon Peabody
Distinguished Leader Winners
Bill Baldiga, Brown Rudnick
William D. Belanger, Troutman Pepper
Tanya Bovée, Jackson Lewis
Hans Brigham, Latham & Watkins
Steven C. Browne, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
James A. Budinetz, McCarter & English
Brian Flood, The Flood Law Firm
Daniel Halston, WilmerHale
Ryan Henry, Cramer & Anderson
Garrett Lee, Morgan & Morgan
Lou Lieto, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Alan Rome, Rome Clifford Katz & Koerner
Michael D. Schweitzer, Goldberg Segalla
Banking and Finance Attorney of the Year Finalists
David Ephraim, Morrison Foerster
Brian Rich, Barclay Damon
Intellectual Property Attorney of the Year Finalists
Sarah Chapin Columbia, McDermott Will & Emery
Sarah Gagan, Latham & Watkins
Tony Gangemi, Barclay Damon
Melissa Hunter-Ensor, Greenberg Traurig
Matthew Karlyn, Morrison Foerster
Jane Remillard, Nelson Mullins
Jackie Scheib, Robinson & Cole
Merger and Acquisition Attorney of the Year Finalists
Gregory Daddario, Greenberg Traurig
Laura Knoll, Skadden
Armand A. Della Monica, Kirkland & Ellis
Outside Counsel Management Finalists
Ben Hayden and Christina Ciaramella, Cengage Group
Resolute Management, Inc.
Real Estate Firm of the Year Winner
DLA Piper
Partner of the Year Finalists
Wayne Dennison, Brown Rudnick
Farah Gerdes, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
David Tolley, Latham & Watkins
Barbara Trachtenberg, DLA Piper
Regional Managing Partner of the Year Finalists
Leander Dolphin, Shipman & Goodwin
David J. Dykeman and Terence P. McCourt, Greenberg Traurig
Christopher McKenna, Foley & Lardner
Richard L. Street, Carmody Torrance Sandak & Hennessey
Dr. Maria Laccotripe Zacharakis, McCarter & English
Social Impact Finalists
Amanda Eckhoff, Robinson & Cole
Claudia Quintero, Central West Justice Center
Elizabeth Ritvo, Brown Rudnick
Charles Sanders, Latham & Watkins
Steven J. Stafstrom, Pullman & Comley
Troutman Pepper's Education Law Center Partnership
Unsung Hero Winners
Max Gladstone and Mayisha Khan, Troutman Pepper
Ashley J. Hornstein, Motley Rice
Jarod Taylor, Axinn
In-House Impact Winner
Tony Naquan Woolard, Genus PLC
Legal Innovators & Disrupters Finalists
Ashley Picker Dubin, Day Pitney
Anusia Gillespie, SkillBurst Interactive
Troutman Pepper's "Athena"
Best Mentors Finalists
Anne Littlefield, Shipman & Goodwin
Alisha Nanda, Skadden
Margaret "Peggy" Strange, Jackson Lewis
Lisa Tittemore, Sunstein
New Leaders in the Law Winners
Megan E. Boorsma, BBB Attorneys
Richard C. Buturla, Berchem Moses
Rebecca Clegg, Axinn
Blake Driscolli, Trantolo & Trantolo
Stesha A. Emmanuel, McCarter & English
Ellen Sutliffe Hain, Cohen and Wolf
Kenyon Hall, Sidley Austin
Monica Kwok, Goodwin
Paul Lewis, DLA Piper
Erica Nolan, Hurwitz Sagarin Slossberg & Knuff
K. Alexandra O'Neill, Saxe Doernberger & Vita
Amy Pimentel, McDermott Will & Emery
Sheldon R. Poole, Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Leah Segal, Goulston & Storrs
Chadé Severin, Skadden
Jeremy Shaw, Vicente
Rebecca Sivitz, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
Matthias Sportini, FLB Law
Gwendolyn Tawresey, Troutman Pepper
Joshua Taylor, Wiggin and Dana
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- Morrison & Foerster LLP
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