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We are excited to again begin the process to honor five in-house law departments and law department leaders in our Best Legal Departments issue.
In order to be considered, you have to first complete this survey. It consists of several questions about your company and its law department and a brief (no more than 1,000 words) essay about why you should be considered.
The deadline for submissions is April 8, 2019.
Our staff will select the honorees on the basis of these submissions, along with our own research.
Stories about the five honorees will be featured in our July 2019 issue and celebrated at the prestigious American Lawyer Industry Awards at the end of the year.
Below please find the categories and submission requirements. Please feel free to reach out to Pearl Wu at pwu@alm.com with any questions. ALM reserves the right to consider and award organizations, regardless of whether they have submitted nominations. We also reserve the right to take notice of external information that would impact the submission. For all categories, please include the appropriate contact information in case we require more information. An organization can only submit up to two entries per category. Good luck!
Corporate Counsel Awards
Best Legal Departments
There is one survey for all five subcategories. You only need to fill out the survey for the category or categories in which you are submitting a nomination. Click here for the Survey to enter for any of the Best Legal Department categories.
Five Subcategories:
1. U.S. Legal Dept. of the Year (for U.S. companies)
Who Should Apply: Legal department leader/GC, in-house attorney or in-house staff member.
Award Description: This prestigious award goes to the legal department that surmounted extreme challenges the past year, was innovative in its thinking and achieved measurable successes in 2018.
Deadline: April 8, 2019
Materials required: A brief description (no more than 1,000 words) of your most-significant activities in the last year, including litigation achievements (You can include arbitrations and settlements.) and any strategies that you put into play to achieve measurable success. Items can include but are not limited to:
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Describe any unique strategies for multiple litigation matters, such as suits involving the same product.
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Describe any out-of-the-ordinary nonlitigation matters in the last year, such as working on a major M&A transaction or responding to a government investigation.
Describe any unique strategies for routine nonlitigation matters, such as patent applications or employment contracts. In describing all matters, please provide specific details about what your in-house lawyers did in each case. Please limit yourself to accomplishments that occurred during the past year (though you can describe work done in prior years that contributed to the accomplishment).
Winner Announced: July