Past Honorees
201143rd Annual Installation Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Leah M. Bishop
Trust & Estates Lawyer of the Year
Carla Christofferson
Litigator of the Year
James D. Nguyen
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
Thomas E. Patterson
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Carole E. Handler
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
2010
42nd Annual Installation Banquet and Awards Ceremony
Jeffrey E. Donfeld
Real Estate Lawyer of the Year
Marshall B. Grossman
Litigator of the Year
David Nimmer
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
James I. Stang
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Juliette Youngblood
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
2009
41st Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Stacy D. Phillips
Family Law Lawyer of the Year
Scott Edelman
Litigator of the Year
Joe Calabrese
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Lawrence Peitzman
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Andrew Garb
Trusts & Estates Lawyer of the Year
2008
40th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Isaac Pachulski
Stutman Treister & Glatt
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Janet Kobrin
Warner Brothers
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
C.N. Frank Reddick III
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Corporate Lawyer of the Year
Stuart Liner
Liner Yankelevitz et al LLP
Litigator of the Year
Eugene Volokh
UCLA Law School
Honorary Award in the Field of Constitutional Law
2007
39th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Lee Bogdanoff
Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Henry Shields
Irell & Manella LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Laurence Midler
CB Richard Ellis, Inc.
General Counsel of the Year
Gwyn Quillen
Litigator of the Year
Alschuler Grossman LLP
Pamela Westhoff
DLA Piper US LLP
Real Estate Lawyer of the Year
2006
38th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Jay Cooper
Greenberg Traurig LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Gail Migdal Title
Katten Muchen Rosenman LLP
Litigator of the Year
Robert Plotkowski
Advisors LLP
Real Estate Lawyer of the Year
Marc Cohen
Kaye Scholer LLP
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Wayne Levin
Lion’s Gate Entertainment
General Counsel of the Year
2005
37th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Michael Plonsker
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Daniel Jordan
Case, Knowlson, Jordan & Wright LLP
Real Estate Lawyer of the Year
Bruce Broillet
Green, Broillet, Panish & Wheeler
Litigator of the Year
Kenneth Klee
Klee Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Louis Scali
Pixar Animation Studios
General Counsel of the Year
2004
36th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Peter Dekom
Weissman Wolff, Bergman, Coleman Grodin & Evall, LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Richard B. Kendall
Irell & Manella LLP
Litigator of the Year
Howard J. Weg
Peitzman, Weg & Kempinsky LLP
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Perry S. Silver
Silver & Freedman
Transactional Lawyer of the Year
2003
35th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Robert M. Myman
Myman Abell Fineman Greenspan Light LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Daniel M. Petrocelli
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Litigator of the Year
Michael L. Tuchin
Klee, Tuchin Bogdanoff & Stern LLP
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Jane Shay Wald
Irell & Manella
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
2002
34th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Ernest Del
Del, Shal Moonves, Tanaka & Finkelstein
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
Richard M. Pachulski
Pachulski, Stang, Ziehl, Young & Jones PC
Bankruptcy Lawyer of the Year
Dennis M. Wasser
Wasser, Cooperman & Carter
Family Lawyer of the Year
Eric N. Landau
McDermott, Will & Emory
Securities Litigator of the Year
2001
33th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
Morgan Chu
Irell & Manella
Litigator of the Year
Christopher C. Murray
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
Kenneth Ziffren
Ziffren, Brittenham, Branca & Fischer LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year
2000
32th Annual Installation Dinner & Awards Banquet
William Poms
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
Intellectual Property Lawyer of the Year
Susan Berkle Fogel
California Women’s Law Center
Public Interest Lawyer of the Year
Michael J. Brill
Troy & Gould, P.C.
Real Estate Lawyer of the Year
Stanton “Larry” Stein
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP
Entertainment Lawyer of the Year