Burton Awards "Legends in Law" Announced
The Burton Awards Program presented awards to five recipients of the first ever "Legends in Law" award June 4 at the Library of Congress.
June 07, 2007 at 07:04 AM
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The Burton Awards Program presented awards to five recipients of the first ever “Legends in Law” award June 4 at the Library of Congress.
The Awards, funded by the Burton Foundation in association with the Library of Congress and the Law Library of Congress, recognize and reward achievement in the legal profession. The “Legends in Law” category, introduced this year, honors outstanding general counsel of corporations with 2006 gross revenues exceeding $1 billion. Managing partners in the country's 1,000 largest law firms as well as law school deans can make “Legends in Law” nominations.
The “Legends” winners are James T. Hale, GC, Target Corp.; Michele Coleman Mayes, senior vice president and GC, Pitney Bowes, Inc.; Timothy Mayopoulos, executive vice president and GC, Bank of America; Geralyn M. Presti, senior vice president, GC and assistant secretary, Forest City Enterprises Inc. and Richard H. Walker, GC, Deutsche Bank AG.
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