2025 Honorees
Anthony J. Benedetti, Committee for Public Counsel Services
Joel R. Carpenter, Sullivan & Worcester
John J. Carroll Jr., Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow
David E. Cherny, Atwood & Cherny
Martha Coakley, Zucker Law Group
Miriam Conrad, Miriam Conrad Law
Russell F. Conn, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford
Leo J. Cushing, Cushing & Dolan
Carmen L. Durso, Law Office of Carmen L. Durso
Pamela S. Gilman, Barton Gilman
Regina M. Hurley, Verrill
Michael B. Keating, Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow
Nancy J. Kelly, Greater Boston Legal Services
Leonard H. Kesten, Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten
Arthur P. Kreiger, Anderson & Kreiger
Renee M. Landers, Suffolk University Law School
David A. Lowy, University of Massachusetts, Office of General Counsel
Bonnie H. MacLeod, JAMS
Ralph C. Martin, Prince Lobel Tye
Neil V. McKittrick, Ogletree Deakins
Ellen J. Messing, Messing, Rudavsky & Weliky
Frederick M. Misilo Jr., Fletcher Tilton
Harold B. Murphy, Murphy & King
Martin F. Murphy, Manatt
A. John Pappalardo, Greenberg Traurig
Eric J. Parker, Parker Scheer
Thomas F. Reilly, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Lauren Stiller Rikleen, Lawyers Defending American Democracy
Marian T. Ryan, Middlesex D.A.’s Office
Donald K. Stern, Affiliated Monitors
Neil Sugarman, Sugarman
Richard C. Van Nostrand, Mirick
Marcia S. Wagner, The Wagner Law Group
Christopher Weld Jr. (posthumous), Todd & Weld
Steven H. Wright, Boston Federal Reserve
2024 Honorees
Lisa G. Arrowood, Arrowood
Pamela E. Berman, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford
Wayne A. Budd, Goodwin
Thomas J. Carey Jr., Boston College Law School
J.W. Carney Jr., Carney, Gaudet & Carney
Lawrence G. Cetrulo, Cetrulo
Lydia G. Chesnick, Bernkopf Goodman
Hon. Judith A. Cowin (ret.)
Paul T. Dacier, Quinn Emanuel
John J. Egan, Egan, Flanagan & Cohen
Elaine M. Epstein, Todd & Weld
George M. Ford, Conn, Kavanaugh, Rosenthal, Peisch & Ford
Mitchell Garabedian, Mitchell Garabedian Law Office
Hon. Nancy Gertner, Fick & Marx/Harvard Law School
L. Scott Harshbarger, Casner & Edwards
Margaret R. Hinkle, JAMS
David A. Hoffman, Boston Law Collaborative
Hon. R. Marc, Kantrowitz (ret.)
James B. Krasnoo, Krasnoo, Klehm & Falkner
David H. Lee, Lee & Rivers
Thomas F. Maffei, Sherin & Lodgen
John J. McGivney, Rubin & Rudman
Elizabeth N. Mulvey, Libby, Hoopes, Brooks & Mulvey
Carmen M. Ortiz, Anderson Kreiger
Samuel Perkins, Brody, Hardoon, Perkins & Kesten
Regina M. Pisa, Goodwin
Pauline Quirion, Greater Boston Legal Services
Mary K. Ryan (posthumous award), Nutter
Robert A. Sherman, Greenberg Traurig
Bruce D. Sunstein, Sunstein
Anthony Tarricone, Kreindler & Kreindler
Arthur G. Telegen, Seyfarth Shaw
Donald G. Tye, Prince Lobel
Donald R. Ware, Foley Hoag
Harvey Weiner, Peabody & Arnold
2023 Honorees
Paul J. Ayoub, Nutter
Beth I.Z. Boland, Foley & Lardner
Mary L. Bonauto, GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders
Leo V. Boyle, Meehan, Boyle, Black & Bogdanow
Margaret A. Burnham, Northeastern University School of Law
Lisa J. Damon, Seyfarth Shaw
Hon. Suzanne V. DelVecchio, Commonwealth Mediation
Hon. Judith Fabricant, JAMS
Susan M. Finegan, Mintz
Lisa C. Goodheart, Fitch
Martin W. Healy, Massachusetts Bar Association
Lawrence P. Heffernan, Robinson & Cole
Bradley M. Henry, Sweeney & Merrigan
Jeffrey L. Hirsch, Hirsch Roberts Weinstein
Thomas M. Hoopes, Libby Hoopes Brooks & Mulvey
Patrick T. Jones, Jones Kelleher
Joyce Kauffman, Kauffman Law & Mediation
Marsha V. Kazarosian, Kazarosian Costello
George N. Keches, Keches Law Group
Benjamin H. Keehn, Committee for Public Counsel Services
Joseph F. Krowski, Law Office of Joseph F. Krowski
Joan A. Lukey, Manatt
Harry L. Manion III, Hunton Andrews Kurth
Andrew C. Meyer, Lubin & Meyer
Demitrios M. Moschos, Seder & Chandler
Susan W. Murley, WilmerHale
Walter B. Prince, Prince Lobel Tye
David P. Rosenblatt, Burns & Levinson
Douglas K. Sheff, Sheff & Cook
Nancy S. Shilepsky , Sherin & Lodgen
Carol A. Starkey, Conn Kavanaugh
Paul R. Sugarman, Sugarman & Sugarman
Michael J. Sullivan, Ashcroft Law Firm
J. Owen Todd, Todd & Weld
Richard M. Zielinski, Goulston & Storrs