Leaders’ Circle Award

In 2002, DuPont Legal created a new award for individual members of the Network’s PLFs and PSPs. The DuPont Legal Leaders’ Circle Award is presented at the DuPont PLF/PSP Annual Meeting to recognize leadership in embracing and promoting the ideals of the DuPont Legal Model. Recipients of this prestigious award are chosen by previous years’ award winners and a committee of DuPont staff. Criteria for selection include:

Excellence in the delivery of legal services and results for DuPont;
Selfless dedication to serving the needs of the DuPont Company;
Ongoing support of the DuPont Legal Model;
Valuing diverse legal teams and promoting the growth and development of individual members;
Collaboration with other members of the DuPont PLF and Service Provider Network; and
Active commitment to growing DuPont’s business.

Winners of this award have been:

2012
Clement L. Glynn of Glynn & Finley, LLP and David Siegel of Crowell & Moring LLP

2011
Meron Hewis of Kelly Law Registry

2010
Mark Stewart of Ballard Spahr LLP

2009
Thomas M. Harrison of Hornblower, Manning & Ward Professional Corporation and Richard L. Horowitz of Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP.

2008
Deborah Kuchler of Abbott Simses & Kuchler in New Orleans, Louisiana.

2007
Larry E. Cotten, Esq. from the firm of Cotten Schmitt, L.L.P. in Fort Worth, Texas and Deborah E. Naylor from Daticon, LLC in its Wilmington, Delaware office.

2006
Lawrence E. Abbott, from the firm of Abbott Simses & Kuchler in New Orleans, Louisiana and Sandra S. Clark from the firm of MehaffyWeber in Beaumont, Texas

2005
James K. Leader from the firm of Leader & Berkon LLP in New York City

2004
Kathleen Sooy of Crowell & Moring LLP in Washington, DC

2003
J. Michael Brown, from the firm of Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs in Louisville, Kentucky

2002
Mark Rochefort, from the firm of Weston, Benshoof, Rochefort, Rubalcava & MacCuish, LLP in Los Angeles, California and and Robert Krause, from the firm of Dickinson Wright PLLC in Detroit, Michigan