Doneene Keemer Damon of Richards, Layton & Finger received the Delaware Barrister Association’s 2016 Thurgood Marshall Award. The annual award is presented to a member of the bar who has been a dynamic and progressive leader and who has tirelessly sought to improve and facilitate the administration of justice for all.
Ms. Damon serves as the executive vice president of Richards Layton where she focuses primarily on formation and operational issues relating to Delaware statutory and common law trusts in all types of commercial and business transactions. She is also both the vice chair and director of diversity of the American Bar Association Business Law Section’s Securitization and Structured Finance Committee, and serves on the board of trustees of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.