The 2022 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards—Highlights in Pictures
The 2022 Elite Trial Lawyers Awards honored excellent legal work in 23 practice areas as well as Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar and Rising Stars.
July 19, 2022 at 04:11 PM
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The National Law Journal Elite Trial Lawyers Awards held in New York City on July 14, 2022. Photo: Rob Tannenbaum.
Winners and Finalists Include:
Lifetime Achievement Award: |
- Elizabeth Cabraser — Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
- Christopher Seeger — Seeger Weiss
The Keith Givens Visionary Award: |
- Mark Lanier — The Lanier Law Firm
Diversity Initiative Award: |
- Winner: Tycko & Zavareei
- Highly Commended: Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
- Finalists: Bailey & Glasser; Edelson; Seeger Weiss
Elite Women of the Plaintiffs Bar: Anne McGinness Kearse, Motley Rice; Carol C. Villegas, Labaton Sucharow; Christine E. Webber, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Christine Mackintosh, Grant & Eisenhofer; Debra Katz, Katz, Marshall & Banks; Hannah Ross, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann; Jeanne Christensen, Wigdor; Jen Scullion, Seeger Weiss; Jennifer Selendy, Selendy Gay Elsberg; Karen M. Lerner, Kirby McInerney; Megan Jones, Hausfeld; Michelle Simpson Tuegel, Simpson Tuegel Law Firm; Murielle Steven Walsh, Pomerantz; Annick Persinger, Tycko Zavareei; Zina Bash, Keller Postman; Rising Stars of the Plaintiffs Bar: Abe Alexander, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann; Adam Polk, Girard Sharp; Albert Pak, Keller Postman; Amanda Lee-DasGupta, Hausfeld; Anne Shaver, Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Brent Ceryes, Schochor, Federico and Staton; Brooke Clason Smith, Keller Postman; Christopher Young, Joseph Saveri Law Firm; Daniel H. Silverman, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Derrick Connell, Morgan & Morgan; Halley Josephs, Susman Godfrey; Ian Gore, Susman Godfrey; Jan E. Messerschmidt, Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Joseph N. Cotilletta, Labaton Sucharow; Joseph T. Murphy, Clifford Law Offices; Kristine Hermiz, Motley Rice; Kyle Bates, Hausfeld; Lisa Strejlau, Labaton Sucharow; Max Gruetzmacher, Motley Rice; Melissa H. Nafash, Labaton Sucharow; Pablo Rojas, Podhurst Orseck; Amy B. Hausmann, Edelson; Eli Wade-Scott, Edelson; Brandt Silver-Korn, Edelson; Benjamin Steinberg, Robins Kaplan; Rohit Nath, Susman Godfrey; Qiaojing Zheng, Sanford Heisler Sharp; Sarah R. LaFreniere, Hausfeld; Seth Meyer, Keller Postman; Temitope O. Leyimu, Motley Rice. Litigation Firm of the Year: Antitrust |
- Winner: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro
- Finalists: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Joseph Saveri Law Firm
Litigation Firm of the Year: Aviation |
- Podhurst Orseck
Litigation Firm of the Year: Business Torts |
- Winner: Reid Collins & Tsai
- Highly Commended: MoloLamken
Litigation Firm of the Year: Catastrophic Injury |
- Winner: Podhurst Orseck
- Highly Commended: Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amala
- Finalists: Clifford Law Offices; Zehl & Associates
Litigation Firm of the Year: Civil Rights |
- Winner: Sanford Heisler Sharp
- Finalist: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
Litigation Firm of the Year: Class Action |
- Winner: Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd
- Highly Commended: Zuckerman Spaeder
- Finalists: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan; Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Labaton Sucharow; Susman Godfrey
Litigation Firm of the Year: Consumer Protection |
- Winner: Cohen Milstein Seller & Tolls
- Finalists: Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro; Motley Rice; Keller Postman
Litigation Firm of the Year: Disability Rights |
- Winner: Bailey & Glasser
- Finalist: Morgan & Morgan
Litigation Firm of the Year: Discrimination |
- Winner: Cohen Milstein Seller & Tolls
- Finalists: Sanford Heisler Sharp; Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
Litigation Firm of the Year: Employment |
- Winner: Hall & Lampros
- Finalist: Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
Litigation Firm of the Year: Environmental Protection |
- Winner: Morgan & Morgan
- Finalists: Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll; Susman Godfrey
Litigation Firm of the Year: Governmental Representation |
- Winner: The Lanier Law Firm
- Finalist: Baird Mandalas Brockstedt Federico & Cardea*
Litigation Firm of the Year: Human Rights |
- Adam S. Hall
Litigation Firm of the Year: Insurance |
- Winner: Daly & Black
- Highly Commended: AZA Law
- Finalists: Anderson Kill; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Litigation Firm of the Year: Mass Torts: |
- Winner: Panish Shea Boyle Ravipudi
- Finalists: Robins Kaplan; Martin Baughman; Baird Mandalas Brockstedt Federico & Cardea*; Arias Sanguinetti Wang & Torrijos
Litigation Firm of the Year: Medical Malpractice |
- Paul da Costa
Litigation Firm of the Year: Pharmaceutical Litigation |
- Winner: Motley Rice
- Finalists: Girard Sharp; Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
Litigation Firm of the Year: Privacy/Data Breach |
- Winner: Keller Postman
- Highly Commended: Morgan & Morgan
- Finalists: Susman Godfrey
Litigation Firm of the Year: Products Liability |
- Winner: Seeger Weiss
- Finalists: Dean Omar Branham Shirley; Girard Sharp
Litigation Firm of the Year: Securities Litigation |
- Winner: Labaton Sucharow
- Highly Commended: Pomerantz
- Finalists: Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Motley Rice; Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd; Susman Godfrey
Litigation Firm of the Year: Shareholder Rights |
- Winner: Labaton Sucharow
- Finalist: Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
Litigation Firm of the Year: Trial Innovation |
- Winner: Kaplan Hecker & Fink
- Finalist: Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
*For work done at previous firm Schochor, Federico and Staton
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