
Members of the winning team accept the 2014 Trial Lawyer of the Year Award at the Annual Gala.
Public Justice hosted the organization’s 32nd Annual Gala on July 27th at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, Md. The Gala is a celebration and an opportunity to reflect on important work in the public interest in the past year.
During the Gala we launched the Access to Justice Campaign’s 10th Anniversary campaign: A2J – Stronger & Smarter.
The Trial Lawyer of the Year Award was presented to the team of People of California v. Atlantic Richfield. To see a video on this case and all of the other nominees, please see: http://www.publicjustice.net/news-events/awards/trial-lawyer-year-award.
New this year, Public Justice presented the Illuminating Injustice Award, to Karen Bartlett for injuries she sustained from the side effects of a prescribed generic drug. The award is given to an individual who has suffered a significant injury but received no recovery or only a partial recovery in calendar year 2013. This $25,000 award was made possible by Synergy Settlement Services. For more information in this award, please see: http://www.publicjustice.net/news-events/awards/Illuminating-Injustice-Award.
None of this would have been possible without the incredibly generous contributions from the following sponsors.
Annual Gala Sponsors
Platinum – $25,000
GCG, Inc.
Gold – $10,000
Leonard Bennett, Consumer Litigation Associates
Berger & Montague, PC
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
Girardi Keese
Grant & Eisenhofer
Gwilliam Ivary Chiosso Calvalli & Brewer, PC
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Joe Piacentile, Whistleblowers Against Fraud
Power Rogers & Smith
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi, LLP
Williams Cuker Berezofsky, LLC
Silver – $7,500
Mary Alexander & Associates, PC
Bailey & Glasser LLP
Baron & Budd, PC
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
Cunningham Bounds, LLC
Fay Kaplan Law, PA
Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro, LLP
Motley Rice
Rochon Genova
Rust Consulting & Kinsella Media
Bronze – $5,000
Ferrer, Poirot & Wansbrough
Goldberg, Persky & White, PC
Golkow Technologies
Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood, PLC
Pitt, McGehee, Palmer & Rivers
Terrell Marshall Daudt & Willie, PLLC
Brass – $2,500
Epiq Systems
Herman, Herman & Katz
Landskroner Grieco Merriman, LLC
NastLaw, LLC
Needles, Inc.
Pfau Cochran Vertetis Amale, PLLC
Schultz Collins Lawson Chambers, Inc.
Stritmatter Kessler Whelan
Treinen Law Office, PC
Trial Works
Copper – $1,000
AB Data, Ltd.
Beasley Allen Law Firm
Thomas M. Dempsey
Greenfield/Belser, LTD
Grossman & Moore, PLLC
Michael P. Malakoff, PC
Roger Mandel/Lackey Hershman, LLP
Morris & Morris LLC
Jack H. Olender & Associates, PC
Paulson & Nace, PLLC
Pomerantz, LLP
Lee Rohn
Scott Elliot Smith LPA
Sokolove Law
Will Davidson, LLP