Crowell & Moring Shortlisted for 2024 Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America Awards

Washington – October 15, 2024: Crowell & Moring has been shortlisted in three categories for the Financial Times Innovative Lawyers North America 2024 awards. The awards honor the innovative ways lawyers are delivering value for clients and driving positive change in the profession.

Crowell is shortlisted in the following categories:

• Innovation in Generative AI Strategy – Pioneering Ethical AI Use with Robust Safeguards in the Nascent World of Generative AI
• Innovative Lawyers in Pro Bono – Securing Voter Rights and Election Reform in Federalsburg, Maryland: History 200 Years in the Making
• Legal Intrapreneur – Alma Asay

The firm was recognized for its development of CrowellAI, an in-house generative AI platform, along with robust and unique ethical usage guidelines and guardrails. In addition, Alma Asay, Crowell’s Chief Innovation & Value Officer, was shortlisted in the Legal Intrapreneur category for her leadership in developing CrowellAI and other innovation initiatives throughout the firm.

Crowell was also shortlisted in the Innovative Lawyers in Pro Bono category for its work with the ACLU of Maryland in securing history-making election reform, with a landmark settlement in a federal lawsuit that challenged 200 years of discrimination against Black voters in the Town of Federalsburg, Maryland.

Winners will be announced at an awards gala in New York on December 9.

To learn more about the awards and view the shortlisted nominees, please click here.

About Crowell & Moring LLP

Crowell & Moring is an international law firm with operations in the United States, Europe, MENA, and Asia. Drawing on significant government, business, industry and legal experience, the firm helps clients capitalize on opportunities and provides creative solutions to complex litigation and arbitration, regulatory and policy, and corporate and transactional issues. The firm is consistently recognized for its commitment to pro bono service as well as its programs and initiatives to advance diversity, equity, and inclusion. 

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