With 2025 almost within the rearview mirror, we thought it might be a great time to solicit nominations for Above the Regulation’s annual LAWYER OF THE YEAR competitors. Which legal professionals made main headlines throughout the 12 months that was?
We’ll conduct the competitors as we’ve accomplished for the previous decade. Please submit your nominees to us by electronic mail (topic line “Lawyer of the Yr 2025”). We are going to evaluate them and decide a slate of finalists, and then you definately’ll vote on them in a reader ballot.
The winner will be a part of an august group of previous LOTY honorees, together with Chief Justice John Roberts (2012) and President Barack Obama (2008). However the contest has room for “enjoyable” as nicely. In 2019, Christopher Hook, a lawyer who advised a Biglaw companion to “eat a bowl of dicks” throughout settlement negotiations took house the grand prize, and in 2015, our champion was a younger Texas lawyer by the title of Bryan Wilson — higher recognized to the world because the “Regulation Hawk,” well-known for his irreverent and inventive lawyer commercials.
What does it take to be nominated? As we’ve defined earlier than:
What are the factors for being our Lawyer of the Yr? Because you’re doing the nominating and voting, it’s actually as much as you.
You may nominate a LOTY primarily based on no matter reasoning you select — e.g., as a result of the lawyer in query is influential, notorious, superior, or terrible.
As mirrored up to now victory of Loyola 2L (2007), not all nominees must be well-known — and even named. And as with the previous victory of Kyle McEntee and Patrick Lynch (2010), the co-founders of Regulation Faculty Transparency, you possibly can nominate a number of folks if their achievements are intently associated.
We now have solely three issues to ask of you earlier than the nominations start to roll in:
- Please attempt to nominate precise legal professionals.
- Please attempt to nominate legal professionals who’re nonetheless dwelling.
- Please submit all nominations by way of electronic mail, with this precise topic line: “Lawyer of the Yr 2025.”
Let the nominations start! Please submit your nominations by FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19, at 11:59 p.m. (Jap time). We look ahead to studying your ideas and insights on the potential candidates who will go on to vie for the title of Above the Regulation’s Lawyer of the Yr for 2025.
Staci Zaretsky is the managing editor of Above the Regulation, the place she’s labored since 2011. She’d love to listen to from you, so please be happy to electronic mail her with any ideas, questions, feedback, or critiques. You may observe her on Bluesky, X/Twitter, and Threads, or join along with her on LinkedI
