Past Recipients of The American Lawyer's Lifetime Achievement Award

2020

Gloria Allred

Juanita Brooks, Fish & Richardson

Kenneth Doran, Gibson Dunn

Robert Grey, Leadership Council for Legal Diversity

Robert Mueller, Wilmer

Ted Wells, Paul Weiss

2019

Steven Brill

Elizabeth Cabraser, Lieff Cabraser

William Lee, Wilmer

Shira Scheindlin, Stroock

Mary Jo White, Debevoise

Stephen Zack, Boies Schiller

Brad Malt, Ropes & Gray

2018

Cesar Alvarez, Greenberg Traurig

A.B. Culvahouse, O’Melveny & Myers

Jamie Gorelick, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr

Eric Holder, Covington & Burling

Mary Ann Hynes, Dentons

Richard Riley, Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough

DLFL: Warren Gorrell, Hogan Lovells

2017

H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell

Donald Flexner, Boies Schiller Flexner

Dan Webb, Winston & Strawn

Bettina Plevan, Proskauer Rose

Roderick Palmore, Dentons

Patricia Ireland, Phillips, Richard & Rind

DLFL: Regina Pisa, Goodwin Procter

2016

Sheila Birnbaum, Quinn Emanuel

Evan Davis, Cleary Gottlieb

Emma Coleman Jordan, Georgetown

Ted Olson, Gibson Dunn

Stephen Susman, Susman Godfrey

Anton Valukas, Jenner

DLFL: Francis Milone, Morgan Lewis

2015

Robert Pitofsky, Arnold & Porter

Esther Larden, Pro Bono Institute

Marna Tucker, Feldesman Tucker

Drew Days, MoFo

Robert Helman, Mayer Brown

Velma Martinez, Munger Tolles

Michael Cardozo, Proskauer

William Fenwick, Fenwick & West

DLFL: Herbert Wachtell & Marty Lipton, Wachtell Lipton

DLFL: Bob Dell, Latham

2014

Vernon Jordan, Akin Gump

Michael Cooper, Sullivan & Cromwell

Rhoda Karpatkin, Consumers Union

Robert Mundheim, Shearman

Martha Barnett, Holland & Knight

Tom Sager, DuPont

Charles Queenan, K&L Gates

Donald Dunner, Finnegan Henderson

DLFL: Bill Lee and William Perlstein, Wilmer

2013

Abe Krash, Arnold & Porter

Charles James, Chevron

Walter Dellinger, O'Melveny

Barton Winokur, Dechert

Stuart Eizenstat, Covington

Joan Hall, Jenner

Floyd Abrams, Cahill

Ron Olson, Munger Tolles

2012

James Brosnahan, MoFo

Thelton Henderson, federal district judge in California

Robert Kapp, Hogan Lovells

Margaret Marshall, Massachusetts Supreme Court

Michele Coleman Mayes, NY Public Library

George Mitchell, DLA

Richard Wiley, Wiley Rein

LFDL: Robert Sheehan, Skadden

2011

Richard Beattie, Simpson Thacher

Wayne Budd, Goodwin Procter

Gordon Erspamer, MoFo

Cathy Lamboley, Shell Oil

Stanley Levy, Manatt

Walter Mondale, Dorsey

Lloyd Sachnoff, Reed Smith

LFDF: Michael Boone, Hayes and Boone

2010

Joseph Bell, Hogan Lovells

Jack Greenberg, Columbia Law School

Robert Juceam, Fried Frank

Judith Kaye, Skadden

James Thompson, Winston & Strawn

Errol Stone, Sonnenschein

Robert Joffe, Cravath

LFDL: Ben Johnson, Alson & Bird

2009

George Hettrick, Hunton & Williams

Dennis Archer, Dickinson Wright

Joan Bernstein, Bryan Cave

Benjamin Civiletti, Venable

Harry Reasoner, Vinson & Elkins

William Webster, Milbank

Alfred Youngwood, Paul Weiss

2008

Howard Baker, Baker Donelson

John Doar, Rieck Kaley & Mack

Robert Fiske, Davis Polk & Wardwell

Jim McKay, Covington & Burling

Stacey Mobley, DuPont

Harry McPherson and Berl Bernhard, DLA Piper

Barbara Paul Robinson, Debevoise & Plimpton

2007

James Baker, Baker Botts

Thomas Gottschalk, Kirkland & Ellis

Shirley Hufstedler, Morrison & Foerster

Nathaniel Jones, Blank Rome

Ira Millstein, Weil, Gotshal & Manges

E. Barrett Prettyman, Hogan & Hartson

Jerold Solovy and Thomas Sullivan, Jenner & Block

2006

David Andrews, Bingham McCutchen

Warren Christopher, O'Melveny & Myers

Joanne Garvey, Heller Ehrman

Conrad Harper, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett

Robert Pennoyer, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler

Alexander Polikoff, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest

Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham

William Zabel, Schulte Roth & Zabel

2005

Brooksley E. Born, Arnold & Porter

John J. Curtin Jr., Bingham McCutchen

James Ellis and William H. Gates, Preston Gates & Ellis

John J. Gibbons, Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger & Vecchione

Ben W. Heinemann, Jr., General Electric

Elaine Jones, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund

R. Sargent Shriver, Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson

2004

William Coleman, Jr., O'Melveny & Myers

John Pickering and Lloyd Cutler, Wilmer Cutler Pickering

Joseph Flom, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

Alexander Forger, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy

Newton Minow and Howard Trienens, Sidley Austin Brown & Wood

Robert Raven, Morrison & Foerster

John Rosenberg, Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky, Inc

Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr., Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Robert Strauss, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Patricia Wald, former chief judge, U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit