The Public Justice Foundation proudly salutes the five Finalists for the 2010 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award.  This year’s Finalists were chosen from a field of 16 outstanding teams whose socially significant legal accomplishments were extraordinary or precedent-setting and in the public interest. The finalists will be feted at our annual Gala and Awards Dinner on July 13, 2010 in Vancouver, B.C.  The winner of the 2010 TLOY Award will be announced at that event.  To order tickets or for more information, click here.

The 2010 TLOY Finalists are (in alphabetical order according to lead counsel’s last name):
 
Coleman v. Schwarzenegger and Plata v. Schwarzenegger
Michael Bien, Donald Specter, Jeffrey L. Bornstein, Fred Heather, Raymond Loughrey, Ed Sangster, Rachel Chatman, Paul D. Clement, Ernest Galvan, Amy Whelan, Jane Kahn, Maria Morris, Lisa Ells, Mark Feeser, Tom Nolan, Lori Rifkin, Sara Norman, Rebekah Evenson, Alison Hardy and Steven Fama.
To read about the team’s work in this case, click here.  

Wiwa v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co .
Jennifer M. Green, Judith Brown Chomsky, Beth Stephens, Anthony DiCaprio, Maria LaHood, Deborah Gordon, Agnieszka Fryszman, Maureen McOwen, Richard L. Herz, Jonathan G. Kaufman, Abby Rubinson, Marco B. Simons, Jacqui Zalcberg, Susan Farbstein, Paul Hoffman and Julie Shapiro.
To read about the team’s work in this case, click here. 
 
Owens v. ContiGroup Companies
Richard H. Middleton, Jr., Charles F. Speer, Stephen A. Weiss, Stephen A. Sael, Britt Bieri and Gerald Lee Cross, Jr.
To read about the team’s work in this case, click here.
 
De la Rosa v. Wackenhut Corrections Corp.
Ronald Rodriguez
To read about the team’s work in this case, click here.
 
City of New York v. Exxon Mobil Corp.
Victor Sher, Robert Chapman, Marnie Riddle, Nick Campins, Harvey Friedman, Julia Haye, Susan Amron, Daniel Green, Amanda Goad, Ramin Pejan, Chris Reo and Bill Plache
To read about the team’s work in this case, click here.