The American Lawyer Industry Awards 2021 | ALM Media, LLC | 14 January 2021 | Virtual Broadcast

These awards are focused at the national level, largely around Big Law and in-house departments, and are backed by our signature national brands, The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, the National Law Journal and Legaltech News.

Categories:

• The American Lawyer Industry Awards
- Lifetime Achievement
- Law Firm Distinguished Leader
- Best Law Firm of the Year
- Attorney of the Year
- Legal Services Innovation Award
- Best Use of Technology
- Best Law Company
- Best Client Law-Firm Team
- Best Provider Collaboration
- Best Business Team
- Best Mentor: Law Firm
- Best Mentor: In-House Legal Department
- Young Lawyer of the Year
- Litigator of the Year
- Regional Litigation Departments of the Year Awards
- National Boutique/Specialty Litigation Department of the Year
- Corporate Departments of the Year
- Specialty Categories

Nine Subcategories:
1. U.S. Legal Dept. of the Year (for U.S. companies)
Who Should Apply: Legal department leader/GC, in-house attorney or in-house staff member Award Description: This prestigious award goes to the legal department that surmounted extreme challenges the past year, was innovative in its thinking and achieved measurable successes in 2019.

2. Compliance Dept. of the Year (in-house compliance departments)
Who Should Apply: Legal department leader/GC, in-house attorney or in-house staff member Award Description: An award recognizing an in-house team that has developed or implemented creative innovative compliance plans to achieve success.

3. Startup Solo GC of the Year
Who Should Apply: General Counsel of a startup company
Award Description: An award recognizing the challenges a startup GC has and acknowledges the achievement of successfully overcoming those obstacles by innovation and determination.

4. Best Use of Technology
Who Should Apply: General Counsel or in-house counsel teams
Award Description: This award recognizes the legal department that showed innovative uses of technology to solve issues and enhance productivity.

5. General Counsel of the Year
Who Should Apply: General Counsel
Award Description: This award is focused on the significant positive impact a GC has had on their business and broader industry.

6. Best Deputy or Associate GC
Who Should Apply: Associate or Deputy General Counsel
Award Description: As the role of the GC shifts more to business strategist, this award is to recognize the work of an Associate or Deputy GC in helping a GC with their new responsibilities.

7. Champion of Diversity Award
Who Should Apply: General Counsel
Award Description: This award is focused on the work a GC has done to move the needle for women and people of color in the legal industry.

8. Best Legal Ops Team
Who Should Apply: Legal Ops professionals
Award Description: This award is focused on legal ops teams that through their efforts have had a significant impact in helping to create a more effective and efficient department.

9. Outstanding Community Service Award
Who Should Apply: General Counsel and team
Award Description: This award is focused on the work by a GC or legal department team outside of their day job that truly has an impact in their community.

2021 Speaker

HOST:

Kal Penn
Actor, writer, producer, and former Associate Director of the White House Office of Public Engagement.

2021 Sponsors

PRINCIPAL SPONSOR:
• Lexis Nexis

SPONSORS:
• 3M
• Baker Botts
• Cravath
• Debevoise & Plimpton
• Fish & Richardson
• Gibson Dunn
• GReenbergTraurig
• Hunton Andrews Kurth
• Latham & Watkins
• Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein
• Metro Health
• Morgan Lewis
• O'Melveny
• Paul Weiss
• Sheppard Mullin
• Sidley
• Simpson Thacher
• Uber
• Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
• WilmerHale