The Complex Litigation Ethics Conference grants four ethics awards each year, one to a judge, one to a plaintiffs’ attorney, one to a defense attorney, and one to a professor or other commentator on or participant in complex litigation. The conference honors professionals who have made extraordinary contributions to the effective functioning of complex litigation over the course of their careers and who, in doing so, have acted with extraordinary integrity.
This years honorees are:
Judges:
- Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California
- Judge Joy Flowers Conti, U.S. District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Academic Award
- Myriam Gilles, Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Plaintiffs’ Attorney
- Roberta Liebenberg, Fine Kaplan and Black
Defense Attorney
- J. Gordon Cooney, Jr, Morgan Lewis