John W. Cooley Lawyer as Problem Solver Award
Nominations Due
The John W. Cooley Lawyer as Problem Solver Award recognizes individuals and organizations that use their problem-solving skills to forge creative solutions. The award is given to an individual member of the legal profession and/or institution who has exhibited extraordinary skill in either promoting the concept of the lawyer as problem-solver or resolving individual, institutional, community, state, national, or international problems. Award recipients will be acknowledged for their use or promotion of collaboration, negotiation, mediation, counseling, decision-making, and problem-solving skills to help parties resolve a problem in a creative and novel way.
The Lawyer as Problem Solver Award recognizes individuals and organizations that use their problem-solving skills to forge creative solutions. An award is given to an individual member of the legal profession and/or institution who has exhibited extraordinary skill in either promoting the concept of the lawyer as problem-solver or resolving individual, institutional, community, state, national, or international problems.
The lawyer as problem solver, in both orientation and skills, demonstrates:
- the ability to analyze situations or to consider expert analysis from a multi disciplinary perspective, taking into account the broad array of client or party interests and the multitude of factors and circumstances that impact the "problem" presented;
- the ability to translate positions into interests;
- the ability to generate and assess--and to help the client or parties involved generate and assess-- both conventional and novel options to address the problem; and
- the ability to build consensus around an option which best addresses the goals and interests of a client or the involved participants.
The deadline for nominations is Sept. 30.
Nominations must be submitted online. Click here for a nominations form.
PAST RECIPIENTS
2002
Individual Award: Pauline Tesler
Individual Award: Stuart Webb
Institution Award: Passaic County Legal Aid Society
2003
Individual Award: Charles Asher
Institution Award: United States Air Force
2004
Individual Award: Forrest S. Mosten
Institution Award: The Dispute Resolution Center of Harris County, Texas
2005
Individual Award: Carl Poirot
Institution Award: San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program
2006
Individual Award: David W. Plant
Institution Award: The Red Hook Community Justice Center
2007
Individual Award: David Sandborg
Institution Award: The Innocence Project
2008
Individual Award: Tina Rasnow
Institution Award: Brooklyn, New York, District Attorney’s Office
2009
Individual Award: Basil Paterson
Institution Award: Boston Law Collaborative
2010
Individual Award: Bennet Picker
Individual Award: Andrew Schepard
Institution Award: Mediate.com
2011
College of Commercial Arbitrators
2012
Kenneth R. Feinberg
Harry Tindall
