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Duane Morris Partner Nolan Atkinson Receives Barristers' Association of Philadelphia Award
PHILADELPHIA, January 17, 2006 - Duane Morris is pleased to announce that partner Nolan N. Atkinson, Jr., has been named the recipient of the Honorable William F. Hall Award. The award, presented today by the Barristers' Association of Philadelphia at its Martin Luther King, Jr. Annual Memorial Breakfast, honors attorneys who show a commitment to Dr. King's values through legal work and efforts to promote diversity and uplift communities.
Nolan chairs the Philadelphia Diversity Law Group, Inc., a consortium of law firms and corporations committed to increasing ethnic and racial diversity in Philadelphia's legal environment. He is also chair of the Duane Morris Diversity Committee and head of the firm's Commercial Litigation Practice Group. Nolan has developed his litigation practice over the course of three decades, representing clients such as banks, insurance companies, hospitals and other businesses in matters involving product, toxic tort and complex health-related matters. He is a member of the Litigation Section of the American Bar Association as well as the Philadelphia Bar Association. In addition, he has taught trial advocacy at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Temple University School of Law.
The Barristers' Association of Philadelphia, an affiliate of the National Bar Association, provides a forum for discussion and dissemination of information on matters of interest to African American attorneys and the Philadelphia African American community as a whole. The organization encompasses a network of more than 1,000 lawyers and jurists who serve in both the private and public sectors of the legal profession.
Admitted to practice in Pennsylvania, Nolan graduated from Boston University in 1964 prior to earning an LL.B. from Howard University School of Law in 1967. He is a 1969 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he received his LL.M. in International Law.
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