Awards Ceremony

Our annual awards ceremony gives us a chance to recognize the outstanding contributions of lawyers who perform pro bono and public-interest work.

We will celebrate our Award Recipients on Thursday, December 1, 2022, at 6:30 pm at Arnold & Porter (601 Massachusetts Avenue, NW). We are thrilled to honor these award recipients:

Presidents Award for Public Service
Karen Newton Cole
Neighborhood Legal Services Program

Government Pro Bono Award
Tracy Suhr
U.S. Department of Justice
Drug Enforcement Administration

Law Firm Award
Latham & Watkins LLP

Legal Services Award
Kristin Eliason
Network for Victim Recovery DC

We are looking forward to celebrating together. RSVP here. Then share your congratulations on social media using #Awards22.

SILENT AUCTION! You can also support our mission of ensuring our justice system treats everyone fairly, regardless of money, position, or power through our silent auction. Bidding is open now and closes on Friday, December 2nd. We are exceedingly excited about the incredible auction items available! We hope you will Bid Early and Often!

Thank you to all of our Awards Ceremony Sponsors
Your support makes sure we can continue our mission of ensuring that our legal system treats everyone fairly, regardless of money, position, or power

Champion

Arnold & Porter
Compass Lexecon
Kirkland & Ellis

Trailblazer

Latham & Watkins

Benefactor

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman

Defender

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
Buckley
Covington & Burling
DLA Piper
Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson
Hogan Lovells
Morgan Lewis & Bockius
Sidley Austin
Steptoe Foundation
TM Financial Forensics
Zuckerman Spaeder

Pioneer

Alix Partners
ArentFox Schiff
Cleary Gottlieb
Cooley
Crowell & Moring
Dechert
Relman Colfax
Wiley

Sponsors help make our work possible. If you would like to become a sponsor, please contact our Executive Director, Christina Jackson, at cjackson@wclawyers.org or 202.451.8129.