SAN FRANCISCO, CA (April 22, 2013) – Shareholder Philip Gordon (Denver) and Associate Lauren Woon (San Diego), attorneys from Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s foremost employment and labor law firm representing management, have earned the Burton Foundation’s coveted Distinguished Legal Writing Award. The Burton Award, bestowed by the Burton Foundation in association with the Library of Congress, honors the finest law firm writers. This year, 30 winners were selected from the nominations submitted by the nation’s 1,000 most prestigious and largest law firms. In addition, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor was awarded the Burton Foundation’s “Contemporary Book of the Year in Law Award.”
Gordon and Woon were honored for their article, “Re-thinking and Rejecting Social Media ‘Password Protection’ Legislation.” This year’s winners will be recognized at the 14th Annual Burton Awards event at the Library of Congress on June 3, 2013.
“It is an honor to receive this award in the company of other prestigious lawyers and law firms and Justice Sotomayor,” said Gordon, chair of Littler’s Privacy and Data Protection Practice Group. “At Littler, we take great pride in providing timely, relevant and well written content that addresses the challenging, cutting edge labor and employment issues that our clients confront on a daily basis. Social media continues to be an area of great concern for employers nationally and globally.”
The Academic Board, which reviewed article submissions included Virginia Wise, Harvard Law School; Anne E. Kringel, University of Pennsylvania Law School; Grace Tonner, University of California Law School at Irvine; Judge Ed Forstenzer, California Superior Court (retired); and William Ryan, former Chair of the White House Plain Language Committee.
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Littler Mendelson is the world’s foremost labor and employment law firm exclusively devoted to representing management. With over 970 attorneys and 57 offices throughout the U.S. and globally, Littler has extensive resources to address the needs of U.S.-based and multi-national clients from navigating domestic and international employment laws and labor relations issues to applying corporate policies worldwide. Established in 1942, the firm has litigated, mediated and negotiated some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record.
