Shattuck-Price Outstanding Lawyer Award
The Shattuck-Price Outstanding Lawyer Award is given to an individual who has made an extraordinary contribution to improving the administration of justice. The Award, originally named the “Shattuck-Price Memorial Award,” was established by the LACBA Board of Trustees in 1968 to commemorate past LACBA Presidents Edward S. Shattuck and Ira M. Price II, both of whom passed away during their presidential term, within a three-year period. The Award may be given only once during each bar year (July 1 to June 30) and need not be given every bar year.
Award Criteria
The award recognizes an individual’s contributions as a lawyer, as distinguished from contributions made as a jurist or while on the bench. Contributions as a lawyer may include those made while representing clients as well as those made as an author, educator, administrator, public policy advocate, government or non-profit employee, elected or appointed official, bar leader, community leader or in some other non-judicial capacity.
Among the factors to be considered are whether the individual contributed to one or more of the following aspects of the civil or criminal justice system and the legal profession:
(1) enhanced fairness or impartiality of the legal system;
(2) increased responsiveness of the legal system to changing public needs;
(3) enhanced performance in or other improvement to our legal system;
(4) expanded or improved delivery of legal services;
(5) increased public knowledge or understanding of the high principles and functioning of the legal system and profession;
(6) assuring access to the legal system and a just result for an individual, class of individuals or group who would have otherwise been denied such access and result; and/or
(7) advancement of the legal profession or the organized bar.
In addition, among the personal characteristics to be considered are whether the individual:
(1) exhibited professional or personal courage;
(2) maintains high ethical, moral, and professional standards; and/or
(3) exhibited dedication to the highest principles of the legal profession.
Eligibility
The Award Committee may nominate only individuals who, when nominated, have not previously received the Award and either: (1) are attorneys licensed to practice law or retired from the practice of law; or (2) met the foregoing criteria at any time during the five years immediately prior to the Award Committee’s first meeting. Organizations and groups are not eligible to be nominated.
See Shattuck-Price Outstanding Lawyer Award Guidelines for more details.
