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The Awards This year during the DRI Annual Meeting, DRI honored individuals and institutions with 11 awards that recognized their contributions to important areas of the law, the profession, and the defense bar. ■ The Louis B. Potter Lifetime Professional Service Award recognizes lifetime contributions to the profession. The recipient of this award serves the best interests of clients and the public and exemplifies professionalism and professional service beyond observing the legal profession’s ethical rules. His or her conduct demonstrates respect for the law, upholds the decorum and integrity of all aspects of the judicial process, and preserves and enhances the public image of the legal profession. This year’s recipient was James W. Morris III. Mr. Morris is chair of Morris & Morris PC in Richmond, Virginia, where he practices civil litigation. He has written and spoken extensively on legal topics before a variety of organizations and has lectured on trial practice at the law schools of the University of Virginia and the University of Richmond. He has been included in the publication The Best Lawyers in America from its inception. Based on a poll of his peers, he is regularly identified as one of the “elite” trial lawyers in Virginia in Virginia Business Magazine. Louis B. Potter Lifetime Professional Service Award recipient James W. Morris III with R. Matthew Cairns, DRI President 2010–11. 14 ■ For The Defense ■ December 2011 He is named one of the “Top Ten Super- Lawyers” in Virginia by Richmond Magazine and the SuperLawyers of America. He has tried over 500 cases to jury verdict in his career. Mr. Morris is a past president of DRI (1988). He is a past recipient of the Award for Excellence in Civil Litigation by the Virginia Association of Defense Attorneys. He has also been presented with the Hunter W. Martin Professionalism Award by the Bar Association of the City of Richmond. ■ To honor a DRI member involved in community or public service activities that demonstrate active and outstanding commitment to improving the social or cultural well being of the general public through programs that have a positive impact on a community segment or the general public, DRI bestows the Community Service Award. Joseph M. Hanna, a partner of Goldberg Segalla in Buffalo, New York, received the award for 2011. Mr. Hanna is the founder and president of the nonprofit organization Bunkers in Baghdad, whose mission is to collect and supply new and used golf equipment to U.S. soldiers in combat zones and to Wounded Warriors programs across the country. It provides much-needed recreational outlet to our The Community Service Award is presented to Joseph M. Hanna. troops and is a rehabilitation aid to our soldiers recovering from injuries. More than two million golf balls and 50,000 clubs have been distributed to active military members and veterans in all 50 states and 11 countries. ■ DRI conferred the Richard H. Krochock Award to Anne M. Talcott, a shareholder Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Portland, Oregon. This award recognizes a DRI member who has provided exemplary leadership to the DRI Young Lawyers Committee through sponsorship or participation in its programs and activities, education, guidance, support, and mentoring and who has otherwise exhibited those qualities, enhancing the image of the civil defense trial lawyer. Ms. Talcott’s practice focuses on complex business and product liability litigation. She defends a broad range of clients in business disputes, class actions, mass torts, and automotive, pharmaceutical, and medical device product liability litigation. Ms. Talcott was selected as an Oregon Super Lawyer Rising Star in 2008, an honor bestowed on no more than two percent of eligible lawyers. She is chair of her firm’s Diversity Committee, where she was instrumental in implementing the firm’s First Year Law Student Diversity Scholarship Program. Ms. Talcott joined DRI as a young lawyer and became active in the Young Lawyers Committee, holding several leadership roles, including committee chair. She is an active member of several DRI
Anne M. Talcott is the recipient of the Richard H. Krochock Award. committees and was the chair of the 2011 DRI Annual Meeting. Even with her busy practice and DRI work, Ms. Tal cott continues to serve as a resource to the Young Lawyers Committee and its members. ■ The Davis Carr Outstanding Committee Chair Award was presented to Vickie L. Henry, a senior staff attorney at the Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders (GLAD) office in Boston. This award honors a current or immediate past DRI committee chair under whom the committee has achieved its goals, has increased membership, has motivated member participation, including among minorities, has created and implemented new projects, and has filled all required committee leadership positions. Ms. Henry is a skilled litigator who came to GLAD from the law firm Foley Hoag LLP, where she worked for 15 years, becoming a partner in 2002. She focused her career on intellectual property and commercial litigation disputes. Ms. Henry is the recipient of many honors and awards. She received the Massachusetts LGBTQ Bar Association Pioneering Spirit Award in 2008. Ms. Henry has been named a Massachusetts Super Lawyer since 2004. Ms. Henry is the immediate past chair of DRI’s Commercial Litigation Committee. She has held several leadership roles within the committee and has continued the work of past committee leaders. The committee has thrived under her leadership. The Davis Carr Outstanding Committee Chair Award is presented to Vickie L. Henry. ■ Asim K. Desai received the Albert H. Parnell Outstanding Program Chair Award. This award recognizes an individual who created a dynamic educational program enhancing DRI’s image and who has effectively led educational program planning, marketing, and presentation, displaying leadership, dedication, and creativity in seminar development and meeting organizational expectations for a seminar. Mr. Desai was the program chair for DRI’s Insurance Bad Faith and Extra- Contractual Liability Seminar in the summer of 2011. He effectively led the seminar programming committee from the early planning stages through the marketing phase. He kept the program on schedule and was thoroughly engaging as an on-site chair. Attendance and sponsorships exceeded the projections for the seminar. His dedication as program chair was remarkable and contributed to the program’s success. Mr. Desai is the managing partner of Carlson, Calladine & Peterson LLP’s Los Angeles office, where he specializes in high stakes complex litigation including insurance bad faith, corporate fraud, commercial litigation, product liability, and catastrophic personal injuries. ■ DRI bestowed the Outstanding State Representative Award on Thomas J. Maroney, a founding member of Maroney O’Connor LLP in New York City. This award is presented to a current or immediate past DRI State Representative who has made significant contributions toward promoting DRI membership within his or her state. This recipient has also been instrumental in implementing a significant, unique program to foster the relationship between DRI and his or her SLDO, enhancing DRI’s stature or the public’s view of the role of the defense lawyer in society. Mr. Maroney has given generously of his time and talents as the DRI New York State Representative. His leadership skills have been beneficial in recruiting and retaining members for DRI and the Defense Association of New York (DANY). Mr. Maroney is a past- president of DANY, and now acts as an outstanding liaison between DRI and the DANY. Mr. Maroney has spent the last 29 years dedicating his practice to high exposure, complex, and multi- party civil defense litigation. He serves as chair of the executive committee of the New York State Bar Association’s Torts, Insurance and Compensation Law Section. ■ The SLDO Diversity Award is presented to a state or local defense organization that has achieved significant success in demonstrating a commitment to diversity within and outside the organization. The organization must also demonstrate a commitment to diversity as evidenced by a formal diversity The Albert H. Parnell Outstanding Program Chair Award is accepted by Anthony R. Zelle on behalf of Asim K. Desai. For The Defense ■ December 2011 ■ 15
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