As part of our 10th Year Anniversary celebration in 2015, we added a Hall of Fame recognizing past members of the Lawdragon 500 and other outstanding lawyers who have made remarkable contributions as leaders, litigators, dealmakers, power brokers, judges and innovators. Each of these lawyers has been part of Lawdragon’s story and it is an honor to recognize them.
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Russ Herman | Herman Herman | 2018 |
Richard Godfrey | Kirkland | 2017 |
Eduardo Leite | Baker & McKenzie | 2017 |
Ted Olson | Gibson Dunn | 2017 |
Frank Schreck | Brownstein Hyatt | 2017 |
F. Joseph Warin | Gibson Dunn | 2017 |
Dan Webb | Winston | 2017 |
Stephen Immelt | Hogan Lovells | 2016 |
Robert Barnett | Williams & Connolly | 2015 |
Robert Bennett | Hogan Lovells | 2015 |
Plato Cacheris | Trout Cacheris | 2015 |
H. Rodgin Cohen | Sullivan & Cromwell | 2015 |
Bert Fields | Greenberg Glusker | 2015 |
Joe Jamail | Joe Jamail | 2015 |
Martin Lipton | Wachtell | 2015 |
Thomas Malcolm | Jones Day | 2015 |
Brendan Sullivan | Williams & Connolly | 2015 |
James Thompson | Winston & Strawn | 2015 |
Ken Ziffren | Ziffren Brittenham | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Arthur Abbey | Abbey Spanier | 2018 |
Robert Baron | Cravath | 2018 |
Bruce Broillet | Greene Broillet | 2018 |
Richard Clary | Cravath | 2018 |
Martin Flumenbaum | Paul Weiss | 2018 |
Jay Goffman | Skadden | 2018 |
Christy Jones | Butler Snow | 2018 |
Colleen Mahoney | Skadden | 2018 |
William McLucas | WilmerHale | 2018 |
Tom Nolan | Latham | 2018 |
Bernard Nussbaum | Wachtell Lipton | 2018 |
Debra Pole | Sidley | 2018 |
Pete Romatowski | Jones Day | 2018 |
David Schulz | Ballard Spahr | 2018 |
Christian Searcy | Searcy Denney | 2018 |
Steven Sunshine | Skadden | 2018 |
Donald Verrilli | Munger Tolles | 2018 |
Herbert Wachtell | Wachtell Lipton | 2018 |
Cris Arguedas | Arguedas Cassman | 2017 |
Sam Baxter | McKool Smith | 2017 |
Jere Beasley | Beasley Allen | 2017 |
David Beck | Beck Redden | 2017 |
Ralph Campillo | Sedgwick | 2017 |
Mike Dowd | Robbins Geller | 2017 |
Patrick Fitzgerald | Skadden | 2017 |
Gary Fox | Stewart Tilghman | 2017 |
Dicky Grigg | Spivey & Grigg | 2017 |
John Keker | Keker Van Nest | 2017 |
Steven Lane | Herman Herman | 2017 |
Andrew Levander | Dechert | 2017 |
Greg Markel | Seyfarth | 2017 |
Gary Naftalis | Kramer Levin | 2017 |
Steven Newborn | Weil | 2017 |
Mike Papantonio | Levin Papantonio | 2017 |
Gordon Rather | Wright Lindsey | 2017 |
Broadus Spivey | Spivey & Grigg | 2017 |
John Tarantino | Adler Pollock | 2017 |
Chilton Davis Varner | King & Spalding | 2017 |
Wylie Aitken | Aitken Aitken Cohen | 2016 |
Morgan Chu | Irell | 2016 |
Joseph Cotchett | Cotchett Pitre | 2016 |
Larry Feldman | Liner LLP | 2016 |
Marshall Grossman | Orrick | 2016 |
Larry Rogers Sr. | Power Rogers | 2016 |
Floyd Abrams | Cahill Gordon | 2015 |
Francis Barron | Cravath | 2015 |
Fred Bartlit | Bartlit Beck | 2015 |
Sheila Birnbaum | Quinn Emanuel | 2015 |
Roy Black | Black Srebnick | 2015 |
Maxwell Blecher | Blecher & Collins | 2015 |
James Brosnahan | Morrison & Foerster | 2015 |
Michael Ciresi | Ciresi Conlin | 2015 |
Roxanne Conlin | Roxanne Conlin & Associates | 2015 |
David Dean | Sullivan Papain | 2015 |
Ralph Ferrara | Proskauer | 2015 |
Browne Greene | Greene Broillet | 2015 |
Harvey Kaplan | Shook Hardy | 2015 |
Victor Kovner | Davis Wright | 2015 |
Maureen Mahoney | Latham & Watkins | 2015 |
Billy Martin | Martin & Gitner | 2015 |
Robert Morgenthau | Wachtell | 2015 |
Jack Olender | Jack Olender & Associates | 2015 |
Jerry Oshinsky | Kasowitz | 2015 |
John Phillips | Phillips & Cohen | 2015 |
Bruce Rogow | Law Offices of Bruce Rogow | 2015 |
Victor Schwartz | Shook Hardy | 2015 |
Jerry Shargel | Winston & Strawn | 2015 |
Gerry Spence | Spence Law Offices | 2015 |
Larry Stewart | Stewart Tilghman | 2015 |
Anton Valukas | Jenner & Block | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
David Gordon | Latham | 2018 |
Kenton King | Skadden | 2018 |
Sara Moss | Estee Lauder | 2018 |
Eileen Nugent | Skadden | 2018 |
Paul Schnell | Skadden | 2018 |
Rodd Schreiber | Skadden | 2018 |
Robert Denham | Munger Tolles | 2017 |
Howard Ellin | Skadden | 2017 |
Kris Heinzelman | Cravath | 2017 |
Simon Lorne | Millennium Corporation | 2017 |
Lou Kling | Skadden | 2016 |
Paul Tosetti | Latham | 2016 |
Peter Atkins | Skadden | 2015 |
Franci Blassberg | Debevoise & Plimpton | 2015 |
John Bostelman | Sullivan & Cromwell | 2015 |
Peter Canellos | Wachtell | 2015 |
John Coffee | Columbia Law School | 2015 |
Ken Feinberg | Feinberg Rozen | 2015 |
Christopher ‘Kit’ Kaufman | Latham | 2015 |
Michael Meyer | DLA Piper | 2015 |
Gilchrist Sparks | Morris Nichols | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Stasia Kelly | DLA | 2018 |
David Levi | Duke Law School | 2018 |
Carlos Mendez-Penate | Akerman | 2018 |
Robert Mueller | U.S. Department of Justice Special Counsel | 2018 |
Gloria Santona | McDonald’s | 2018 |
William Whitehurst | Whitehurst Harkness | 2018 |
Stephen Zack | Boies Schiller | 2018 |
Valerie Ford Jacob | Freshfields | 2017 |
William Lee | WilmerHale | 2017 |
Michele Coleman Mayes | New York Public Library | 2017 |
Ronald Olson | Munger Tolles | 2017 |
Diane Patrick | Ropes & Gray | 2017 |
John Quinn | Arnold & Porter | 2017 |
Paul Smith | Jenner | 2017 |
Myron Steele | Potter Anderson | 2017 |
Mary Jo White | Debevoise | 2017 |
Mary Cranston | Pillsbury | 2016 |
Ben Heineman Jr. | GE | 2016 |
Raymond Marshall | Sheppard Mullin | 2016 |
Vilma Martinez | MALDEF/Munger Tolles | 2016 |
William Neukom | Microsoft/K&L Gates/Stanford/World Justice Project | 2016 |
John White | Cravath | 2016 |
Cesar Alvarez | Greenberg Traurig | 2015 |
Dennis Archer | Dickinson Wright | 2015 |
Richard Beattie | Simpson Thacher | 2015 |
Paula Boggs | Boggs Media | 2015 |
Lon Bouknight | Steptoe & Johnson | 2015 |
John Bouma | Snell & Wilmer | 2015 |
Frank Burch | DLA Piper | 2015 |
Robert Clark | Harvard Law School | 2015 |
Ralph Cook | Birmingham City Attorney | 2015 |
Robert Dell | Latham | 2015 |
Marshall Doke | Gardere | 2015 |
James Ferguson | Ferguson Sumter | 2015 |
Bob Fiske | Davis Polk | 2015 |
Mel Immergut | Milbank | 2015 |
David Kendall | Williams & Connolly | 2015 |
Regina Pisa | Goodwin Procter | 2015 |
Geoffrey Stone | University of Chicago Law School | 2015 |
Keith Wetmore | Morrison & Foerster | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Richard Posner | 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals | 2017 |
Richard Matsch | U.S. District Court, Colorado | 2016 |
Stephen Reinhardt | 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals | 2016 |
Shirley Abrahamson | Wisconsin Supreme Court | 2015 |
Edith Brown Clement | 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals | 2015 |
John Gibbons | Gibbons P.C. | 2015 |
Jack Jacobs | Sidley | 2015 |
Sandra Day O’Connor | U.S. Supreme Court | 2015 |
John Paul Stevens | U.S. Supreme Court | 2015 |
Diane Wood | 7th Circuit | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Brad Smith | Microsoft | 2018 |
Ralph Baxter | Orrick | 2016 |
William Gates Sr. | World Justice Project/K&L Gates/University of Washington Law School | 2016 |
Robert Armitage | Eli Lilly | 2015 |
James Carter | WilmerHale | 2015 |
Tamar Frankel | Boston University School of Law | 2015 |
Lee Godfrey | Susman Godfrey | 2015 |
Stacey Mobley | Dickstein Shapiro | 2015 |
Tom Sager | Ballard Spahr | 2015 |
Richard Wiley | Wiley Rein | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Martha Bergmark | Voices for Civil Justice | 2018 |
Cheryl Little | Americans for Immigrant Justice | 2018 |
Richard Cohen | Southern Poverty Law Center | 2017 |
Gordon Bonnyman | Tennessee Justice Center | 2015 |
Jon Davidson | Lambda Legal | 2015 |
Morris Dees | Southern Poverty Law Center | 2015 |
Ira Kurzban | Kurzban Kurzban | 2015 |
Don Nicholson | Oklahoma Lawyers for Children | 2015 |
Name | Organization | Year Inducted |
Johnnie Cochran | The Cochran Firm | 2017 |
William T. Coleman | O’Melveny | 2017 |
Lolis Edward Elie | 2017 | |
Roger Wilkins | George Mason University | 2017 |
David Andrews | PepsiCo/McCutchen (Bingham) | 2016 |
Jack Greenberg | Columbia Law School/NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | 2016 |
Esther Lardent | Pro Bono Institute | 2016 |
Antonin Scalia | U.S. Supreme Court | 2016 |
Roger Aaron | Skadden | 2015 |
Eugene Anderson | Anderson Kill | 2015 |
George Barrett | Barrett Johnston | 2015 |
Beau Biden | Grant & Eisenhofer | 2015 |
Caryl Boies | Boies Schiller | 2015 |
Philip Corboy | Corboy Demetrio | 2015 |
Bob Faiss | University of Nevada Law School/Lionel Sawyer | 2015 |
Joe Flom | Skadden | 2015 |
Robert Joffe | Cravath | 2015 |
Judith Kaye | Skadden | 2015 |
Harvey Miller | Weil | 2015 |
Ed Moss | Shook Hardy | 2015 |
Ron Motley | Motley Rice | 2015 |
John Payton | NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund | 2015 |
Mariana Pfaelzer | U.S. District Court for the Central District of California | 2015 |
William Rehnquist | U.S. Supreme Court | 2015 |
Robert Silver | Boies Schiller | 2015 |
Jock Smith | The Cochran Firm | 2015 |
Jerry Solovy | Jenner & Block | 2015 |
Ted Sorensen | Paul Weiss | 2015 |