The Legal's Lifetime Achievement Award Winners

By Ben Seal
Of the Legal Staff

With this year being The Legal Intelligencer’s 170th anniversary, we wanted to do something special to commemorate the occasion and to honor the great history of the legal profession in Pennsylvania. So we decided to identify some of the most important members of the legal community by giving them Lifetime Achievement Awards. Our focus in selecting this group of noteworthy individuals was to represent the figures who have helped to shape the law in Pennsylvania, whether through their work on the bench, assisting those in need of legal services, building a firm or any other means. We had only a select few requirements: the attorney must have had a distinct impact on the legal profession in the state and must still be practicing the law.

Selecting these winners was not a simple process. We began by consulting trusted members of the community for their recommendations of attorneys to consider, as well as mining the knowledge of our experienced staff. We ended up with a list of names more than twice as long as the one you see below. It would have been easy to honor far more attorneys, but through several rounds of discussion and continued consultation with informed members of the legal community, we pared down the list to the first recipients of The Legal Intelligencer’s Lifetime Achievement Award. We feel these attorneys represent the best the Pennsylvania legal community has to offer. They have collectively moved forward the legal profession in the state, helped foster the legal education of younger attorneys and stood as examples of some of the best virtues of Pennsylvania attorneys.

Information about each award recipient will be included in the special anniversary magazine The Legal will publish later this spring and they will all be honored at a celebratory dinner on June 27. The following attorneys, in alphabetical order, are the first recipients of The Legal’s Lifetime Achievement Award:

• Arlin M. Adams, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
• Samuel A. Alito Jr., U.S. Supreme Court
• Nolan N. Atkinson Jr., Duane Morris
• Lawrence J. Beaser, Blank Rome
• Phyllis Beck, Independence Foundation
• Frank Cervone, Support Center for Child Advocates
• David L. Cohen, Comcast Corp.
• Stephen A. Cozen, Cozen O’Connor
• Albert S. Dandridge III, Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis
• Nelson A. Diaz, Dilworth Paxson
• Lawrence J. Fox, Drinker Biddle & Reath
• John Gismondi, Gismondi & Associates
• Robert C. Heim, Dechert
• Lawrence Kaplan, Rothman Gordon
• Tsiwen Law, Law & Associates
• Charisse R. Lillie, Comcast Foundation
• Edward W. (Ned) Madeira Jr., Pepper Hamilton
• Barbara W. Mather, Pepper Hamilton
• Theodore A. McKee, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Edward G. Rendell, Ballard Spahr
• Norma L. Shapiro, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• Carol Nelson Shepherd, Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock & Dodig
• Dolores K. Sloviter, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit
• Dick Thornburgh, K&L Gates
• R. Stanton Wettick Jr., Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas
• Deborah R. Willig, Willig, Williams & Davidson
• Barton J. Winokur, Dechert

Comments

[Morgan Stewart]

I have looked at this list and find Cheryl Lynn Austin not on your list. Did I miss something here? She is the first Black female elected in Montgomery County in Pennsylvania.