ALM'S The American Lawyer Named Triple Winner in Neal Journalism Award Competition.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- ALM, a leading media company serving legal and business professionals, today announced that The American Lawyer([R]) has been named as the winner in three categories of the 2007 Jesse H. Neal National Business Journalism Business journalism is the branch of journalism that tracks, records, analyses and interprets the economic changes that take place in a society. It could include anything from personal finance, to business at the local market to the malls, to performance of well-known and Awards. The magazine was the only triple winner in the competition. Winners were selected from more than 1,130 entries and 102 finalists. Established in 1955, the Neal Awards are presented by the American Business Media American Business Media is an association of business information providers that was founded in 1906. Currently, the association has more than 300 member companies and delivers business intelligence to industry, Madison Avenue, Wall Street and the Beltway, representing almost 5,000 association. The awards recognize and reward editorial excellence in business-to-business publications and are considered the industry's most prestigious editorial honors. The American Lawyer was named the winner in the following three categories: "Best Single Article" (Class C) for "Recipe For Disaster," senior writer Susan Beck's April 2006 cover story detailing how discovery abuses, a preoccupied general counsel, and an overconfident o·ver·con·fi·dent adj. Excessively confident; presumptuous. o  ver·con law firm helped create a $1.6 billion trial fiasco for
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the magazine's January 2006 "Litigation An action brought in court to enforce a particular right. The act or process of bringing a lawsuit in and of itself; a judicial contest; any dispute.When a person begins a civil lawsuit, the person enters into a process called litigation. Department of the Year" project; and for "Best Single Issue of a Magazine" (Class C) for its June 2006 Am Law 200[R] issue. Selected content from all winning stories and issues is available at www.americanlawyer.com. The American Lawyer is the legal industry's leading monthly magazine. Read by partners at corporate law firms, in-house counsel, government lawyers, and litigators at firms of all sizes, its trailblazing trail·blaz·ing adj. Suggestive of one that blazes a trail; setting out in a promising new direction; pioneering or innovative: trailblazing research; a trailblazing new technique. features about attorneys and the work they do has led to numerous national awards. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , ALM is a leading integrated media company, focused on the legal and business communities. ALM currently owns and publishes 34 national and regional magazines and newspapers, including The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal([R]) and Real Estate Forum([R]). The company is one of North America's largest producers of conferences and trade shows for business leaders and the legal profession. ALM's Law.com([R]) is the Web's leading legal news and information network, while ALM's GlobeSt.com([R]) is the Web's leading information source for commercial real estate professionals. Other ALM businesses include book and newsletter publishing, court verdict and settlement reporting, production of professional educational seminars, market research and content distribution. ALM was formed by U.S. Equity Partners, L.P., a private equity fund sponsored by Wasserstein & Co., LP. More information on ALM's businesses and services is available on the Web at www.alm.com. |
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