THE AMERICAN LAWYER AUGUST 2013
Innovator Rick
Palmore (pictured) has
“arguably had a bigger
impact over the last 15
years than any other
single individual on the
way large firms think
about diversity,” says
Microsoft GC Brad Smith.
SPECIAL REPORT
Innovators
Fifty ideas and initiatives that changed the world of Big Law over the past 50 years—and the people behind them.
28 Big Ideas
■ Russell Baker
■ Ralph Baxter
■ Jerome Cohen and
Owen Nee Jr.
■ Allen Holmes and
W. James MacIntosh and
Clinton Stevenson
■ Wang Junfeng
■ Peter Kalis
■ Young Moo Kim
■ Regina Pisa
■ John Quinn
■ Ralph Savarese
33 Law Firm Values
■ Hillary Rodham Clinton
■ Esther Lardent
■ Jonathan Lippman
■ Robert MacCrate
■ David Morley
■ Roderick Palmore
■ Thomas Sager
■ Howard Westwood
■ Keith Wetmore
36 Outsiders’ Influence
■ Robert Banks Sr.
■ Steven Bochco
■ Steven Brill
■ Mark Chandler
■ Sir David Clementi
■ Mark Harris
■ Ben Heineman Jr.
■ Sanjay Kamlani and
David Perla
■ David Lat
■ Hugh McLernon and
John Walker
■ Marla Persky
■ Jerome Rubin
■ Amy Schulman
■ Earle Yaffa
40 The Work
■ Richard Beattie and
Jack Levin
■ Thomas Boggs Jr.
■ H. Rodgin Cohen
■ Kirk Davenport
■ Robert Fiske and
Charles Ruff
■ Joseph Flom
■ Martin Lipton
■ Harvey Miller
45 Business of Law
■ David Boies
■ Andrew Grech
■ Scott Green
■ Simon Harper
■ Sir Nigel Knowles
■ Peter Martyr
■ Diana Newcombe and
Stephen Hopkins
■ Raymond Niro
■ Larry Sonsini
On the cover: A team of American Lawyer reporters and researchers spent six months identifying Big Law’s industry influencers.
Cover Illustration by Gerard Huerta
