White & Case Partner George Terwilliger Receives Burton Award
Firm is Honored for the Eighth Straight Year
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June 16, 2009 ... George J. Terwilliger III, a partner in White & Case's Washington, D.C., office and global head of the Firm's White Collar Practice Group, has been named a recipient of the 2009 Burton Award for Legal Writing Excellence. Terwilliger's selection makes White & Case the only firm to have won the award eight years in a row.
Terwilliger was recognized by the Burton Foundation for his article "The Financial Crisis," which was published in the December 1, 2008, issue of the National Law Journal. The article examined how the economic crisis had fueled public and political demand for justice and summarized recent congressional hearings and criminal grand jury investigations into various financial institutions. Describing it as the "new financial order," Terwilliger discussed the challenges and liabilities now faced by companies and their managements and their need for new risk management strategies.
"The risks attendant to dealing with allegations and investigations of wrongdoing stemming from the financial crisis is sufficiently great so as to justify enhancing corporate systems, controls and compliance," Terwilliger said. "Stepped-up risk management is essential given current investigation and enforcement trends, and I am pleased my writing on this topic was recognized by the Burton Foundation."
Now in its tenth year, the Burton Awards was established to select the finest law firm authors and set an example for all other legal writers. The nominations are submitted by law firm managing partners and include exemplary articles that have been published during the past year. Only 30 winners are selected each year from among the nation's 1,000 largest law firms.
The entries were judged by an academic board led by Virginia Wise, a renowned teacher at Harvard Law School; Anne E. Kringel, a widely acknowledged expert in legal writing at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; Grace Tonner, a prominent dean from the University of California Law School at Irvine; Judge Ed Forstenzer, a distinguished judge from California's Superior Court; and William Ryan, a direct descendent of Noah Webster.
Terwilliger will be honored at the 2009 Burton Awards program at the Library of Congress on June 15, 2009. To read Terwilliger's article, click
here.
About the Burton Foundation The Burton Foundation is a not-for-profit, academic organization concentrating on legal writing. The Burton Awards are dedicated to the refinement and enrichment of writing in the legal profession. The program annually honors lawyers and law students who use clear, concise language. The submissions, nominated by managing partners of law firms and law school deans, include articles published over the past year.
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