It is no secret that Americans love heroes and that we look everywhere to find them. Moreover, at this time of year, during the sleepy segue between the Oscars and the Final Four, we cry out for new types of champions to honor. Already we pay homage to seemingly normal people who are gifted at pretending to be someone else, to astonishingly tall people who can put a ball through an elevated net, to grade-school dropouts who can drive very fast while pumping impressive amounts of carbon into the atmosphere, and to young entrepreneurs whose hand-made alcoholic spirits apparently taste smoother than anyone else’s. We have no shortage of heroes. We love awards and we love winners. That said, this is a good time and place to announce the winners of the First Annual TWITA Awards.
But first, some background. TWITA, the acronym for, “That’s What I’m Talking About!” is my personal Johnny-come-lately not-for-profit enterprise, whose mission is to identify and acknowledge groups and individuals whose service to lawyers or to the law exemplifies the best of our profession. The candidates are drawn from a pool of people and organizations that have personally impressed yours truly, and the winners are announced unceremoniously in this column following deliberation, often heated, by a committee of one. We present the awards in no particular order, thus demeaning none of the honorees who, frankly, care little about awards or publicity. We eschew the use of envelopes so as to avoid any embarrassing mix-ups.
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