The American Lawyer Honors Top Big Law Innovators

NEW YORK, July 30, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- ALM's The American Lawyer has chosen The Top 50 Innovators in Big Law in the Last 50 Years and details their innovations in its August issue and online at americanlawyer.com . The winners, picked for their contributions in the categories of Big Ideas, Law Firm Values, Outsiders' Influence, The Work, and Business of Law, will be honored at a reception in New York City on October 10th.

"Big Law is notorious for its hidebound habits, but over the last 50 years a few dozen men and women have had an outsize impact on the profession," wrote Robin Sparkman, Editor in Chief of The American Lawyer . "Our research and reporting teams spent six months looking for the people whose ideas, policies, and practices have left an indelible mark on the legal industry."

The innovators are:

Big Ideas

• Russell Baker, Baker & McKenzie
• Ralph Baxter, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
• Jerome Cohen, Coudert Brothers
• Allen Holmes, Jones Day
• Wang Junfeng, King & Wood Mallesons
• Peter Kalis, K&L Gates
• Young Moo Kim, Kim & Chang
• W. James MacIntosh, Morgan. Lewis & Bockius
• Owen Nee Jr., Coudert Brothers
• Regina Pisa, Goodwin Procter
• John Quinn, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
• Ralph Savarese, Howrey
• Clinton Stevenson, Latham & Watkins

Law Firm Values

• Hillary Rodham Clinton, ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
• Esther Lardent, Pro Bono Institute
• Jonathan Lippman, New York State Chief Judge
• Robert MacCrate, ABA Task Force on Law Schools and The Profession
• David Morley, Allen & Overy
• Roderick Palmore, Leadership Council on Legal Diversity
• Thomas Sager, E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company
• Howard Westwood, Covington & Burling
• Keith Wetmore, Morrison & Foerster

Outsiders' Influence

• Robert Banks Sr., American Corporate Counsel Association
• Steven Bochco, L.A. Law
• Steven Brill, The American Lawyer
• Mark Chandler, Cisco Systems, Inc.
• Sir David Clementi, The Clementi Report
• Mark Harris, Axiom
• Ben Heineman Jr., General Electric Company
• Sanjay Kamlani, Pangea3
• David Lat, Above the Law
• Hugh McLernon, IMF (Australia) Ltd.
• David Perla, Pangea3
• Marla Persky, Baxter Healthcare Corporation
• Jerome Rubin, LexisNexis
• Amy Schulman, Pfizer Inc.
• John Walker, IMF (Australia) Ltd.
• Earle Yaffa, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

The Work

• Richard Beattie, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
• Thomas Boggs Jr., Patton Boggs
• H. Rodgin Cohen, Sullivan & Cromwell
• Kirk Davenport, Latham & Watkins
• Robert Fiske, Davis Polk & Wardwell
• Joseph Flom, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
• Jack Levin, Kirkland & Ellis
• Martin Lipton, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
• Harvey Miller, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
• Charles Ruff, Covington & Burling

Business of Law

• David Boies, Boies, Schiller & Flexner
• Andrew Grech, Slater & Gordon
• Scott Green, Pepper Hamilton
• Simon Harper, Berwin Leighton Paisner
• Stephen Hopkins, Eversheds
• Sir Nigel Knowles, DLA Piper
• Peter Martyr, Norton Rose
• Diana Newcombe, Eversheds
• Raymond Niro, Niro, Haller & Niro
• Larry Sonsini, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

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