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Lifetime Achievers

Artist Andy Warhol said in 1968, "In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes." Fame may be fleeting and of questionable value, but achievement endures and leaves a lasting legacy. This is demonstrated by the lawyers who make up the recipients of The American Lawyer's third annual lifetime achievement awards. The magazine describes them this way:

These are senior lawyers who have made important contributions to public life while building outstanding private or public-interest practices. They are also exemplars -- lawyers who breathed life into the legal profession's abstract values of client service and public service.

This year's honorees include a former secretary of state, a former attorney general, fighters for human rights and housing rights and pioneers who broke ground for women and blacks. They are:

• David Andrews, Bingham McCutchen
• Warren Christopher, O'Melveny & Myers
• Joanne Garvey, Heller Ehrman
• Conrad Harper, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
• Robert Pennoyer, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler
• Alexander Polikoff, Business and Professional People for the Public Interest
• Dick Thornburgh, Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Nicholson Graham
• William Zabel, Schulte Roth & Zabel

Their careers, says The American Lawyer, "should be both an inspiration and a challenge."

Posted by Robert J. Ambrogi on September 13, 2006 at 04:16 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)