Black Enterprise magazine recently published its list of America's top Black attorneys (see November 2003 issue), marking the first time that any major business journal has focused on African American legal talent. MCCA is proud to have been among the organizations Black Enterprise turned to for input during its lengthy and arduous selection process.
While MCCA believes that all of the lawyers in our network are stars, we were particularly proud to see so many familiar names make this prestigious list. Congratulations to all of the lawyers listed below who were selected for the Black Enterprise List of Top Black Lawyers!
Corporate General Counsel
Ken Frazier, Merck & Co.
George Madison, TIAA-CREF
Michele Coleman Mayes, Pitney Bowes
Stacey Mobley, DuPont Company
Rick Palmore, Sara Lee Corporation
Deval Patrick, The Coca-Cola Company
Sol Watson, The New York Times Co.
Paul Williams, Cardinal Health
Law Firm Partners
Sharon Barner, Foley & Lardner
Alicia Batts, Foley & Lardner
Milton Marquis, Dickstein, Shapiro, Morin & Oshinsky LLP
Willie Hudgins, Jr., Collier Shannon Scott, PLLC
Patrick Thompson, Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
John Carr, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
Sharon Bowen, Latham & Watkins
Deryck Palmer, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Phil Isom, O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Michael Banks, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Willie Dennis, Thelen Reid & Priest LLP
Vincent Dunn, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Jack Jackson, Proskauer Rose LLP
Marsha Simms, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Barron F. Wallace, Vinson & Elkins
Dennis Archer, Dickinson Wright
Michael H. Reed, Pepper Hamilton
Phil Hampton, Gardner Carton & Douglas
Marilyn Holifield, Holland & Knight
Curtis Mack, McGuire Woods
Marty Wickliff, Epstein Becker Green Wickliff & Hall
Naomi Young, Baker & Hostetler
Paul Williams, Bryan Cave
Michael Flowers, Bricker & Eckler
Michael Jones, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Eric Holder, Covington & Burling
Claudette Christian, Hogan & Hartson
David Baker Lewis, Lewis and Munday
Alphonso Tindall Jr., Nixon Peabody
Steven Cousins, Armstrong Teasdale
Reginald Jackson, Vorys, Sater, Seymour and Pease
Clifton Jessup Jr., Patton Boggs
Julius Chambers, Ferguson, Stein, Chambers, Adkins, Gresham & Sumter
Constance Rice, English, Munger & Rice
Kenneth Lawson, Lawson & Associates
William Moffitt, Asbill Moffitt & Boss
Jeffery Robinson, Schroeter Goldmark & Bender
John Payton, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
James Willis, Willis Blackwell & Watson
Stephen Barnes, Barnes Morris Klein Mark & Yorn
Leroy Bobbitt, Bobbitt & Roberts
Virgil Roberts, Bobbitt & Roberts
Lisa Davis, Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz
Peter Haviland, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
L. Londell McMillan, L. Londell McMillan, PC
C. Lamont Smith, All Pro Sports & Entertainment
William Strickland, Strickland & Ashe Management
James Cannon Jr., Baker Botts
Teresa Wynn Roseborough, Sutherland Asbill & Brennan L.L.P.
Melvin Garner, Darby & Darby
Nina Shaw, Del, Shaw, Moonves, Tanaka & Finkelstein
Brent Wilson, Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson
Prince Chambliss Jr., Stokes, Bartholomew, Evans & Petree
Vincent Cohen Sr., Hogan & Hartson
Michele Roberts, Shea & Gardner
Channing Johnson, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld
Ted Wells, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
Bart Williams, Munger, Tolles & Olson L.L.P.
Issac Vaughn, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Vaughn Williams, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
Isaac Byrd Jr., Byrd & Associates
Harry Johnson, Whiteford, Taylor & Preston
William Lightfoot, Koonz, McKenney, Johnson, DePaolis & Lightfoot
Peter Bynoe, Piper Rudnick
Gordon Davis, LeBoeuf, Lamb, Greene & MacRae
Charles Hamilton Jr., Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
John Sherrell, Latham & Watkins
Dennis Sweet III, Langston, Sweet & Freese
Joe Caldwell, Baker Botts
James Johnson, Morrison & Foerster
Loretta Lynch, Hogan & Hartson
William Martin, Blank Rome
Johnnie Cochran Jr., The Cochran Firm
Willie Gary, Gary, Williams, Parenti, Finney, Lewis,
McManus, Watson, & Sperando P.L.
Government Attorneys
Thurbert Baker, Georgia Attorney General
Michael Battle, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of New York
Jeffrey Collins, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Michigan
Peter Harvey, New Jersey Acting Attorney General
Roscoe Howard Jr., U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia
Donald Washington, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
Civil Rights Organization Attorneys
Elaine Jones, President and Director – Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Theodore Shaw, Associate Director -Counsel, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund
Eva Paterson, Executive Director, Equal Justice Society
From the January/February 2004 issue of Diversity & The Bar®