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Proskauer Rose LLP - Elise Bloom, Ariane Buglione of Proskauer Rose Win Burton Award For Legal Writing July 13, 2009 (New York, NY) - "International law firm Proskauer Rose LLP has won the prestigious Burton Award for Legal Achievement for an article written by Elise Bloom, partner and co chair of the firm's Labor & Employment Law Department and co-head of its Employment Law Class and Collective Action Practice Group, and Ariane Buglione, an associate in the department. Their article, "Workplace Peace and Speech" appeared in the November 2008 edition of Corporate Counsel magazine. It explored the topic of political speech in the workplace."
http://www.proskauer.com/news_publications/press_releases/content/2009_07_13

Morrison & Foerster LLP - FDIC's Sheila Bair Honored With First Annual Burton Foundation Regulatory Innovation Award, Established By Morrison & Foerster New York, May 26, 2009 - "Morrison & Foerster LLP announced today that Sheila Bair, Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), will receive the first annual Regulatory Innovation Award. Morrison & Foerster established this award through the Burton Foundation to honor an academic or non-elected public official whose innovative ideas have made a significant contribution to the discourse on regulatory reform in the arena of corporate governance, securities, capital markets or financial institutions. Bair was selected by an independent panel of academics and practitioners."
http://www.mofo.com/news/pressreleases/15625.html

Simpson Thacher: Lori Lesser Wins 2008 Burton Award for Legal Achievement April 29, 2008 - Announces "Intellectual property partner Lori E. Lesser has been named a recipient of the prestigious Burton Award for Legal Achievement for her article, The Communications Decency Act at 10 -- New Issues for the Years Ahead, published in the inaugural issue of Bloomberg Intellectual Property Law Reports (February 2007). Past Simpson Thacher winners of the Burton Award are Barry Ostrager (2007) and Joe McLaughlin (2005)."
http://www.stblaw.com/siteContent.cfm?contentID=3&itemID=75&focusID=1202

White & Case: GEORGE J. TERWILLIGER III RECEIVES 2009 BURTON AWARD June 15, 2009, Library of Congress, Washington DC - Announces "George J. Terwilliger III, a partner in White & Case's Washington, DC, office and global head of the Firm's White Collar Practice Group, received the 2009 Burton Award for Outstanding Legal Writing for his article on "The Financial Crisis," published in the 1 December 2008 issue of The National Law Journal. George's receipt of the 2009 award marks the eighth consecutive year that a White & Case lawyer has won the Burton Award."
http://www.whitecase.com/news/awards/Detail.aspx?news=5e8d39d4-1726-403a-b65c-c8792660a9af

Faegre & Benson LLP - Callison Receives Burton Award for Legal Writing DENVER, May 1, 2008 - "J. William Callison, a partner at Faegre & Benson LLP, received a 2008 national award for legal writing from the Burton Awards for Legal Achievement. The awards ceremony will be held June 16 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.This marks the eighth consecutive year Faegre & Benson has received a Burton Award for exceptional and leading-edge legal writing. The 2008 award recognizes Bill's article "Why a Fiduciary Duty Shift to Creditors of Insolvent Business Entities is Incorrect as a Matter of Theory and Practice." The article appeared in the Journal of Business & Technology Law, vol. 1, no. 2, 2007."
http://www.faegre.com/shownews.aspx?Show=6936

Weil Gotshal - Glenn D. West and Sara G. Duran Receive Burton Award for Legal Writing NEW YORK, April 30, 2009 - "Partner Glenn D. West and associate Sara G. Duran of Weil Gotshal's Dallas office have been selected as 2009 Burton Award Winners in the Legal Writing category for their article "Reassessing the "Consequences" of Consequential Damage Waivers in Acquisition Agreements," which was originally published in The Business Lawyer (an ABA publication.)"
http://www.weil.com/news/newsdetail.aspx?news=37498

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP - Cadwalader Attorneys Honored with Burton Award for Excellence in Legal Writing for Sixth Time June 2, 2009 - "Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, one of the world`s leading law firms,announces that partner Dorothy Auth and associates Andrew C. Chien and John Peter Halski have been selected to receive the 2009 Burton Award for in Legal Writing, marking the sixth consecutive year the firm`s lawyers have been recognized for effective legal writing. Dr. Auth and Messrs Richard Hans In 2009, he won the Burton Award for Legal Achievement for his article "Ebb and Flow: The Changing Jurisdictional Tides of Global Litigation," published in the Winter 2008 issue of the New York International Law Review. The Burton Award is dedicated to the enrichment and refinement of writing in the legal profession and is presented by the Burton Foundation, a nonprofit cultural and academic organization. DLA Piper has won a Burton Award in nine of the past ten years."
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS165221+02-Jun-2009+BW20090602

Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto - Firm to be Recognized As a Burton Award Recipient For the Fifth Time NEW YORK, April 14, 2009 - "Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto, one of the world's premier intellectual property law firms, is pleased to announce that partner, John Carlin, and associate, Christopher Loh, were named recipients of the 2009 Burton Award for Legal Achievement for their article, "Patent exhaustion revitalized?" Supreme Court's 'Quanta' ruling continues recent trend of narrowing rights of patentees," originally published in the August 18, 2008 issue of The National Law Journal. This year's award marks the fifth time Fitzpatrick Cella has received this prestigious honor, an accomplishment for which the firm will be recognized as well as the second time in three years that Chistopher Loh has won. Fitzpatrick, Cella attorneys also received the Burton Award in 2004, 2006, 2007 and 2008."
http://www.fitzpatrickcella.com/news/pressReleaseItem.cfm?pubID=526

King & Spalding - Partner Jeffrey Stein Named 2009 Burton Award Winner - NEW YORK, April 9, 2009 - "Jeffrey M. Stein, a partner in King & Spalding's corporate practice in Atlanta, has been named a winner of the 2009 Burton Awards for Legal Achievement. Stein was among 30 partners selected by the awards committee from among the largest 1,000 law firms in the nation."
http://www.kslaw.com/portal/server.pt?space=KSPublicRedirect&control=KSPublicRedirect&PressReleaseId=3417

Winston & Strawn - Michael Friedman Wins Burton Awards for Article on Common Law Torts - April 8, 2009 - "Winston & Strawn litigation partner Michael Friedman, who is based in the firm's New York office, has been selected as a winner of the 2009 Burton Foundation/Association of Legal Administrators "Distinguished Writing Award."
http://www.winston.com/index.cfm?contentID=24&itemid=9196

Pillsbury: Matus and Davis Awarded Burton Award for Legal Writing - April 9,2009 - New York litigators Wayne Matus and John E. Davis have been named the winners of a 2009 Burton Award for Distinguished Legal Writing. Their New York Law Journal article, Does Your Search Pass Judicial Scrutiny?, was noted by the NYLJ editor as perhaps one of the best articles about E-Discovery she had ever read. The Award honors writing that is highly persuasive, concise and free of legal jargon."
http://www.pillsburylaw.com/index.cfm?pageid=38&itemid=799

Jackson Walker - Byron Egan Honored with Fourth Burton Award for Legal Writing - Jackson Walker partner Byron Egan has been awarded the 2009 Burton Award for Legal Achievement. This is Mr. Egan's fourth time to be honored, which sets a record for most Burton Awards received by an individual. Mr. Egan was presented with the award at the Tenth Anniversary Burton Awards ceremony, which took place June 15 at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C."
http://www.jw.com/site/jsp/newsinfo.jsp?id=637

Kilpatrick Stockton - June 1, 2009: Lisa Pearson recognized for being named a recipient of the 2009 Burton Award for Legal Achievement.
http://www.kilpatrickstockton.com/news/downloads/MediaReportJune5to11.pdf