U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Richard Wesley, second from right, was awarded the Learned Hand Medal for Excellence in Federal Jurisprudence Tuesday at the Federal Bar Council’s 2017 Law Day dinner in Manhattan.

Joining Wesley, from left, is Adeel Mangi, a partner at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler; Western District Judge Lawrence Vilardo; and Federal Bar Council president David Schaefer, managing partner at Brenner Saltzman & Wallman.