This year's edition of the New York City Bar Association's Henry L. Stimson Medal, a prestigious award presented to outstanding New York City federal prosecutors working in the Eastern and Southern districts of New York, featured a passing of the torch for the event's sponsoring committee.

Since the inception of the annual presentation in 1992, named for the U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1906-09, Mark Hellerer of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman led the Stimson medal sponsoring committee and hosted the presentation.