American Lawyer Industry Awards 2024 | ALM Global | 12 June 2024 | Cipriani Wall Street, 53 Wall St a, New York, NY 10005, US

The American Lawyer Industry Awards recognize outstanding achievements and contributions made by individuals, law firms, and legal departments across various practice areas and specialties.

The prestigious awards serve not only as a platform to honor these achievements but also as a means to inspire excellence and innovation within the legal industry. Recipients of these awards often set benchmarks for others to follow and contribute significantly to the advancement of the legal profession in the United States.

Corporate Counsel Awards

Best Legal Departments
1. U.S. Legal Department of the Year (for U.S. companies)
2. Compliance Department of the Year (in-house compliance departments)
3. Solo GC of the Year
4. Best Use of Technology
5. General Counsel of the Year
6. Best Deputy or Associate GC
7. Champion of Diversity Award
8. Best Legal Ops Team
9. Corporate Culture & Wellbeing
10. Best Mentor: In-House Legal Department
11. Lifetime Achievement Award

American Lawyer Categories
1. Lifetime Achievement Award
2. Law Firm Distinguished Leader
3. Best Law Firm of the Year
4. Attorney of the Year
5. Legal Services Innovation Award
6. Best Use of Technology
7. Best Client Law-Firm Team
8. Best Provider Collaboration
9. Best Business Team
10. Best Mentor: Law Firm
11. Young Lawyer of the Year-Corporate
12. Young Lawyer of the Year-Litigation
13. Young Lawyer of the Year-Beyond Practice
14. Litigator of the Year
15. Best Diversity Initiative
16. Corporate Culture & Wellbeing
17. Best Professional Development Initiative
18. International Law Firm of the Year
19. The Tony Mauro Award
20. Managing Partner of the Year

Law Firm Corporate Practices of the Year
• Corporate Practice of the Year

Specialty Categories
• Best Corporate Practice — Small/Midcap Deals
• Best Corporate Practice — Health Care / Pharmaceutical
• Best Corporate Practice — Tech/Telecom
• Best Corporate Practice — Energy
• Best Law Firm Corporate Lawyers of the Year

2023 Honorees

The American Lawyer Industry Award

Best Business Team
• Eversheds’ Key Account Program

Best Client-Law Firm Team
• King & Spalding and Blackstone Credit

Best Diversity Initiative
• Latham & Watkins and Yale Law School Launchpad Scholars Program

Best Law Firm of the Year
• King & Spalding

Best Mentor: Law Firm
• Katya Jestin, Jenner & Block

Best Provider Collaboration
• Latham & Watkins and Andreessen Horowitz

Best Use of Technology
• Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison

Corporate Purpose Award
• Morrison & Foerster

Legal Services Innovation Award
• Akin

Managing Partner of the Year
• Barbara Becker of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher

The Tony Mauro Award (Winners)
• The New York Times
• Covington & Burling

Young Lawyer of the Year—Beyond Practice
• Ronak Desai, Paul Hastings

Young Lawyer of the Year—Litigation
• Camille Vasquez, Brown Rudnick

Young Lawyer of the Year—Corporate
• Jake Kling, Wachtell Lipton Rosen & Katz

Lifetime Achievement Honorees
• Rosemary Alito, K&L Gates
• W. Neil Eggleston, Kirkland & Ellis
• Kenneth Frazier, former chairman and CEO, Merck
• John Gleeson, Debevoise & Plimpton
• Roberta Liebenberg, Fine, Kaplan and Black

Law Firm Distinguished Leader Honoree
• Gary Naftalis, Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel

Attorney of the Year
• Sally Yates, King & Spalding

The Litigation Department of the Year
• Enu Mainigi, Williams & Connolly

General Litigation Department of the Year Category
• Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan

Specialty Category—Financial Services
• Sullivan & Cromwell

Specialty Category—Products Liability
• Covington & Burling

Specialty Category—Intellectual Property
• WilmerHale

National Boutique/Specialty Litigation Firm of the Year
• Susman Godfrey

Regional Litigation Department of the Year—California
• Jones Day

Regional Litigation Department of the Year—Florida
• Boies Schiller Flexner

Regional Litigation Department of the Year—Georgia
• Alston & Bird

Regional Litigation Department of the Year—New Jersey
• Marshall Dennehey

Regional Litigation Department of the Year—Pennsylvania
• Morgan, Lewis & Bockius

Regional Litigation Department of the Year—Texas
• Gibson Dunn & Crutcher

Corporate Counsel Best Legal Departments

Best Deputy or Associate GC
• Ricky Raven, Senior Vice President, Deputy General Counsel, Allstate Corporation

Best Legal Ops Team
• Adtalem Global Education

Best Mentor: In-House Legal Department
• Patrick Flaherty, Senior Managing Associate General Counsel, Verizon

Best Use of Technology
• Hewlett Packard Enterprise

Champion of Diversity Award
• Suzanna Rich Folsom, Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Philip Morris International

Compliance Dept. of the Year
• Nokia

Purpose and Wellbeing Award
• Julie Rottenberg, Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Visa

Startup Solo GC of the Year
• Deitzah Raby, General Counsel, AppliedVR

General Counsel of the Year
• Tony West, Senior Vice President, Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary, Uber

U.S. Legal Department of the Year
• United Airlines