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The Daily Record Announces 2018 Leadership in Law Awards - Harry Johnson Selected

Date: March 29, 2018

Baltimore — The Daily Record selected Harry S. Johnson, Partner, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP to receive the 2018 Leadership in Law Award. 

May 16, 2018 update – click here to read The Daily Record's special profile on Harry S. Johnson.

Leadership in Law Awards recognize Maryland's legal professionals – lawyers and judges – whose dedication to their occupation and to their communities is outstanding.

The top winner of this year's Leadership in Law Awards will be announced at the celebration event May 17 at the BWI Hilton. The honoree will be determined by a vote of this year's Leadership in Law winners.

In addition, The Daily Record's Leadership in Law Awards include additional honors recognizing up-and-coming legal professionals through Generation J.D. and legal professionals with exemplary careers through the Lifetime Achievement Award. 

Nominations for all the awards were received from The Daily Record's readers in addition to area law firms, bar associations, chambers of commerce and the business and legal communities at large. Nominees were asked to complete an application that outlined their career accomplishments, community involvement and mentoring activities that would distinguish them as outstanding leaders in the law. Winners were selected by a panel of legal and business leaders.

The Daily Record launched the Leadership in Law Awards in 2001 as a way to recognize the outstanding work being done by members of the legal community throughout Maryland. 

"The recipients of this year's Leadership in Law and Lifetime Achievement awards are outstanding leaders in the legal profession and also in the greater community. They are actively involved in making the communities in which they live and work the best they can be," said Suzanne Fischer-Huettner, publisher of The Daily Record. "Following closely in their footsteps are the Generation J.D. honorees who are already making a difference in their profession and in their communities. The Daily Record is honored to recognize all the award winners."

The 2018 Leadership in Law Awards will be presented May 17 at a reception and dinner starting at 5:30 p.m. at the BWI Hilton, 1739 West Nursery Road in Linthicum Heights. The event hashtag is #TDRawards.

Winners will be profiled in a special magazine that will be inserted into the May 18 issue of The Daily Record and will be available online at www.TheDailyRecord.com.

Sponsors of The Daily Record's 2018 Leadership in Law Awards include the Presenting Sponsor, the Maryland State Bar Association, and Congratulatory Sponsors Epsilon Registration and VPC Inc. 

For more information about sponsorships and tickets for The Daily Record's 2018 Leadership in Law Awards, visit www.TheDailyRecord.com or call 443-524-8161.


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2018 Leadership in Law Honorees

LaKeecia Allen, Prince George's County Office of the County Attorney
Alex Allman, Offit Kurman, P.A.
Terrence Artis, Maryland Commission on Civil Rights
Judge Kendra Ausby, Baltimore City Circuit Court
Gregory Care, Brown, Goldstein & Levy, LLP
Judge Donine Carrington, Seventh Judicial Circuit Court of Maryland-Charles County
Natasha Dartigue, Office of the Public Defender
Anna Davis, Advocates for Children and Youth
Swata Gandhi, DAP Products Inc.
Stanford Gann, Levin & Gann, P.A.
Angela Grau, Davis, Agnor, Rapaport & Skalny, LLC
Barry Herman, Womble Bond Dickinson
Elizabeth Hewlett, Maryland National Capital Park & Planning Commission (M-NCPPC)
Ned Himmelrich, Gordon Feinblatt LLC
Timothy Hodge Jr., Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Brett Ingerman, DLA Piper
Kevin Kelehan, Carney Kelehan Bresler Bennett & Scherr, LLP
Irwin Kramer, Kramer & Connolly
Judge Michael Mason, Montgomery County Circuit Court
Margaret Mead, Mead Law P.A.
Richard Neuworth, Lebau and Neuworth LLC
Deborah Potter, Potter Burnett Law
Christopher Rahl, Gordon Feinblatt
Gary Simpler, Shawe Rosenthal LLP
Kerry Staton, Schochor, Federico and Staton
Kim Wagner, Law Office of Kim L. Wagner 

2018 Generation J.D. Honorees

Monise Brown, Maryland Judiciary
Joshua Caplan, Maryland Office of the Attorney General, Contract Litigation Unit
Catherine Grason, Maryland Insurance Administration
Jonathan  Havens, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Venroy July, Miles & Stockbridge, PC
Thomas Prevas, Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Kerri Smith, Silverman, Thompson, Slutkin & White LLC

2018 Lifetime Achievement Honorees

Harry Johnson, Whiteford Taylor & Preston, LLP
Judge Peter Krauser, Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
M. Natalie McSherry, Kramon & Graham
Thomas Minkin, Law Offices of Peter G. Angelos, PC