Lawdragon Announces 2017 Hall of Fame Inductions
By Lawdragon News | April 26, 2017 | News Articles, Guides, News & Features
Photo of Ted Olson by Eli Meir Kaplan.
The Lawdragon Hall of Fame celebrates lawyers whose mark on the legal profession is indelible. This year we have chosen 45 additional lions of the law whose impact ranges from Richard Posner, one of the most brilliant jurists of all time, to a Los Angeles lawyer who won the O.J. Simpson murder trial and was a trailblazer through courtrooms for African-American lawyers. And, let’s not forget the one and only Ted Olson. Because only Olson could both win Citizens United and secure marriage equality. View the full Hall of Fame.
| Name | Organization | Category |
|---|---|---|
| Cris Arguedas | Arguedas Cassman | Litigators |
| Sam Baxter | McKool Smith | Litigators |
| Jere Beasley | Beasley Allen | Litigators |
| David Beck | Beck Redden | Litigators |
| Ralph Campillo | Mintz Levin | Litigators |
| Johnnie Cochran | The Cochran Firm | Remembered |
| Richard Cohen | Southern Poverty Law Center | Compassion |
| William T. Coleman | O’Melveny | Remembered |
| Robert Denham | Munger Tolles | Dealmakers |
| Mike Dowd | Robbins Geller | Litigators |
| Lolis Edward Elie | Remembered | |
| Howard Ellin | Skadden | Dealmakers |
| Patrick Fitzgerald | Skadden | Litigators |
| Gary Fox | Stewart Tilghman | Litigators |
| Richard Godfrey | Kirkland | Power Brokers |
| Dicky Grigg | Spivey & Grigg | Litigators |
| Kris Heinzelman | Cravath | Dealmakers |
| Valerie Ford Jacob | Freshfields | Leadership |
| John Keker | Keker Van Nest | Litigators |
| Steven Lane | Herman Herman | Litigators |
| William Lee | WilmerHale | Leadership |
| Eduardo Leite | Baker & McKenzie | Power Brokers |
| Andrew Levander | Dechert | Litigators |
| Simon Lorne | Millennium Corporation | Dealmakers |
| Greg Markel | Seyfarth | Litigators |
| Michele Coleman Mayes | New York Public Library | Leadership |
| Gary Naftalis | Kramer Levin | Litigators |
| Steven Newborn | Weil | Litigators |
| Ronald Olson | Munger Tolles | Leadership |
| Ted Olson | Gibson Dunn | Power Brokers |
| Mike Papantonio | Levin Papantonio | Litigators |
| Diane Patrick | Ropes & Gray | Leadership |
| Richard Posner | 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals | Judges |
| John Quinn | Arnold & Porter | Leadership |
| Gordon Rather | Wright Lindsey | Litigators |
| Frank Schreck | Brownstein Hyatt | Power Brokers |
| Paul Smith | Jenner | Leadership |
| Broadus Spivey | Spivey & Grigg | Litigators |
| Myron Steele | Potter Anderson | Leadership |
| John Tarantino | Adler Pollock | Litigators |
| Chilton Davis Varner | King & Spalding | Litigators |
| F. Joseph Warin | Gibson Dunn | Power Brokers |
| Dan Webb | Winston | Power Brokers |
| Mary Jo White | Debevoise | Leadership |
| Roger Wilkins | George Mason University | Remembered |
