The 2007 Burton Awards

The 2007 Burton Award Winners

The winners of the 2007 Burton Awards have been announced. Click on a link below to view the winners.

• 2007 Law Firm Winners
• 2007 Law School Winners
• 2007 National Award Winners
• 2007 ALA Award Winners
• 2007 Legends in the Law

The 2007 Burton Awards

Bob Schieffer is broadcast journalism’s most experienced Washington reporter. He is CBS News’ chief Washington correspondent and also serves as anchor and moderator of Face The Nation, CBS News’ Sunday public affairs broadcast.

Schieffer served as interim anchor of The CBS Evening News from March 10, 2005 until Aug. 31, 2006. He is now a regular contributor to The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric.

Schieffer has covered Washington for CBS News for more than 30 years, and is one of the few broadcast or print journalists to have covered all four major beats in the nation’s capital – the White House, the Pentagon, the State Department and Capitol Hill. He has been chief Washington correspondent since 1982 and congressional correspondent since 1989 and has covered every presidential campaign and been a floor reporter at all of the Democratic and Republican National Conventions since 1972. He began anchoring Face The Nation in May 1991.

Schieffer is a member of the Broadcasting/Cable Hall of Fame and is the recipient of the 2003 Paul White Award, presented by the Radio-Television News Directors Association. The award recognizes an individual’s lifetime contribution to electronic journalism. Past CBS recipients include Edward R. Murrow (‘64), Morley Safer (‘66), Walter Cronkite (‘70, ‘81), Don Hewitt (‘87), Mike Wallace (‘91), Charles Kuralt (‘94), Dan Rather (‘97) and Ed Bradley (2000).

He has won many other broadcast journalism awards, including six Emmy Awards and two Sigma Delta Chi Awards. Schieffer is the 2004 recipient of the International Radio and Television Society Foundation Award and the American News Women’s Club Helen Thomas Award for Excellence in Journalism. In 2002, he was chosen as Broadcaster of the Year by the National Press Foundation. He has been a principal anchor for CBS News since 1973, when he was named anchor of the CBS Sunday Night News.

In August 1996, Schieffer stepped down as anchor of the Saturday edition of the CBS Evening News, a post he held for 20 years. He and his colleague, Dan Rather, stand as the only two 20-year anchors of a regularly scheduled network news broadcast.

Schieffer joined CBS News in 1969 and, after a brief stint as a general assignment reporter, was named Pentagon correspondent, a post he held for four years.

Before joining CBS News, he was a reporter at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram and, in 1965, became the first reporter from a Texas newspaper to report from Vietnam. Schieffer later became news anchor at WBAP-TV Dallas/Fort Worth, a post that eventually led to his joining CBS News.

He is the author of Face The Nation: My Favorite Stories from the First 50 Years of the Award-winning News Broadcast, as well as the 2003 New York Times best-seller, This Just In: What I Couldn’t Tell You On TV, and Acting President, published in 1989.

Schieffer was born in Austin, Texas. He and his wife reside in Washington, D.C.

The 2007 ALA Award Winners

BEST LAW FIRM ADVERTISEMENT
1ST PLACE	MINOR & BROWN PC Michelle Maynard, CLM- ALA Member "Law For Business Owners. From Start to Finish. No If's … And's … Or …" - December, July, and July 2006
HONORARY MENTION	HALLELAND LEWIS NILAN & JOHNSON PA Kimberly A. Ess - ALA Member "100 Percent Lean" - April 2006

BEST LAW FIRM COMPENDIUM
1ST PLACE TIE	DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP Yolanda R. Cartusciello- ALA Member "The Private Equity Primer: The Best of the Debevoise & Plimpton Private Equity Report" - September 2006
1ST PLACE TIE	DUANE MORRIS LLP Charles J. O'Donnell- ALA Member "Risk and Recovery 2006 - Developments in Business Bankruptcy and Commercial Finance Law" - May 2006
HONORARY MENTION	STEWART McKELVEY Stephen Mabey - ALA Member "Doing Business In Atlantic Canada" - June 2006 (original 2005 with first revision)

BEST LAW FIRM NEWSLETTER
1ST PLACE	SHEPPARD, MULLIN, RICHTER & HAMPTON LLP Robert Zuber "Bob"- ALA Member "Enfoque Latino" - Spring & Fall 2006
HONORARY MENTION	MORRISON & FOERSTER LLP Kathleen Dykstra - ALA Member "Financial Services Report - Staying Ahead of the Summons" - Spring, Summer, Fall 2006

BEST LAW FIRM PROFILE
1ST PLACE	BECKER & POLIAKOFF, PA Vicki Massengill - ALA Member "Firm Profile and Integrated Marketing Materials" - January - December 2006
HONORARY MENTION	FITZGERALD ABBOTT & BEARDSLEY LLP Marsha van Broek - ALA Member "FAB Brochure" - January 2006

BEST LAW FIRM PUBLICATION
1ST PLACE	PATTON BOGGS LLP Ira Fishman - ALA Member "Capital Thinking" - Spring/Summer 2006, Fall/Winter 2006
HONORARY MENTION	FULBRIGHT & JAWORSKI LLP Jack Vaughan - ALA Member "Third Annual Litigation Trends Survey Findings" - October 2006