Every year at the Annual Lavender Law® Conference & Career Fair, the National LGBT Bar Association recognizes legal professionals and students who have advocated for LGBT rights and equality through their work in the legal profession. The following awardees will be honored throughout the conference being held in Hollywood, California, from September 8-10.
Dan Bradley Award
Top LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Awards
Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
Student Leadership Award
Dan Bradley Award
The National LGBT Bar Association is proud to announce Nancy Polikoff as the recipient of the 2011 Dan Bradley Award, the organization's highest honor. Nancy Polikoff is a professor of law at American University Washington College of Law. For 35 years, she has been writing, teaching, and working on litigation and legislation about LGBT families. Each year, the LGBT Bar recognizes the efforts of a member of the LGBT legal community whose work, like Attorney Dan Bradley's, has led the way in our struggle for equality under the law. Dan Bradley was the founder of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibility's Committee on the Rights of Gay People (now known as the ABA's Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity). Please click here to read Nancy's full biography.
The 2011 Dan Bradley Award will be presented on Friday, September 9.
Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Award
The National LGBT Bar Association is proud to announce the recipients of its second annual Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Award. The LGBT Bar established this award to recognize lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender legal professionals under the age of 40 who have distinguished themselves in their field and demonstrated a profound commitment to LGBT equality. The National LGBT Bar Association's congratulations go out to all of this year's winners. To view this year's recipients, please click here.
The Best LGBT Lawyers Under 40 Award, Class of 2011, will be presented on Saturday, September 10.
Michael Greenberg Student Writing Competition
Established in memory of Michael Greenberg, a former National LGBT Bar Association board member and Philadelphia attorney who died in 1996 from complications of AIDS, this exciting competition is dedicated to encouraging and recognizing outstanding law student scholarship on the legal issues affecting lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) persons. Each year, the LGBT Bar receives dozens of submissions from law students on the cutting edge legal issues affecting the LGBT community. Please click here to view the winner of this year's competition and the two runners-up.
The winner and runners-up of the writing competition will be honored on Saturday, September 10.
Student Leadership Award
This year, the National LGBT Bar Association is proud to present Jason C. Beekman, recent graduate from Cornell Law School, with the 2011 Student Leadership Award, the organization's highest honor for law students. Mr. Beekman is a active leader, scholar, and community builder. His activities in the legal community show a progressive, active engagement with the law. Read Mr. Beekman's full biography as well as Ashland J. Johnson's, this year's runner-up, here.
The Student Leadership Award will be presented on Saturday, September 10.
2011 Lavender Law Conference & Career Fair