Lawdragon 2024 Hall of Fame honorees Beth Wilkinson, Yvette McGee Brown and Neal Manne.
We are honored to announce the 2024 class of The Lawdragon Hall of Fame.
These lawyers truly need no introduction. But we’ll give you a little taste anyhow.
Susman Godfrey has become appreciated near and far as a trial juggernaut, its financials the envy of the nation’s most elite corporate firms and its hiring in the rarest of air. The late, great Steve Susman, of course, founded the firm with fellow Hall of Famer Lee Godfrey. But it is two lawyers honored here – longtime managing partner Neal Manne and rainmaker extraordinaire Bill Carmody – who led arguably the most successful generational transition in law firm history.
A host of environmental lawyers are also recognized – among them Michael Gerrard, Rodney Brown and John Cruden – representing the pioneers who recognized the earth and its bounty, often including people, as something to be preserved. They laid the framework of today’s focus on climate change and doing better for this rock we call home.
Dealmaker Daniel Neff of Wachtell joins his fellow Executive Committee co-chair Ed Herlihy in the Hall of Fame this year, an astounding pairing that led one of the world’s most unique and illustrious law firms and only recently tapped those who will follow in their stead.
Finally, no where will you find more formidable litigators – be they plaintiff lawyers or corporate consiglieres – than at Lawdragon. And our Hall of Fame representatives are magic: Tom Melsheimer and Kimball Anderson of Winston; Sandra Robinson of The Cochran Firm; Beth Wilkinson of Wilkinson Stekloff; Daniel Brockett of Quinn Emanuel.
We could go on, but we’ll leave some of the fun to you. While this guide is selected largely based on our editorial judgment and the assessment of fellow members of the Hall of Fame, we do accept nominations. Those selected here have generally been included many times on a variety of Lawdragon guides, almost always including The Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America.
We hope this New Year has brought reflection and the courage to do great things. And that these new members of our Hall of Fame bring inspiration.
