This year I began to receive notices of awards from numerous legal publications. The offers were remarkably similar, all notifying me that I had been nominated by my peers in legal for a prestigious award and was a finalist based on recent voting. Some of the awards received so far this year include:
- Finance Monthly’s Legal Awards Global Award 2019.
- CIO Application’s Magazine’s Top 10 Legal Tech Consulting/Services Companies 2019
- Lawyer Monthly’s Women in Law Awards for 2019
- and then again Finance Monthly’s Global Award 2019.
And this doesn’t include the number that I deleted before I started saving my “Award” notifications. I think my favorite early honor was one that named me as a top lawyer. I corrected them several times that I was not a J.D., but apparently that wasn’t enough to disqualify me from the award.
Each of these honors required a fee to be interviewed and for the printing, shipping, etc. of the award. So my question is this: Who pays for an award?
Recently Forbes Magazine published an article on top corporate law firms in the Americas, which can be found here. I believe I have finally found an award I can respect. At the bottom of the page you will see the following note: “Companies do not pay a fee for placement on the list, which is independently determined by Forbes.” My congratulations to all who were honored on the Forbes list and to Forbes for their methodology and process.