This year’s GP Solo Awards honorees were recognized at a reception on the S.S. Jeremiah O’Brien – a ship named after the first American captain to capture a British naval vessel during the Revolutionary War.
At the reception on Aug. 6, the Milwaukee Bar Association and the State Bar of Wisconsin were awarded the Small Solo Project Award, sponsored by Thomson Reuters, for their partnership on the Wisconsin Solo & Small Firm Conference.
And Jeanne Tate was honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, also co-sponsored by Thomson Reuters.
Legal Current was at the event and caught up with GP Solo award committee chair Marvin Dane, who explains what the awards mean and why the recipients were honored this year, in this video clip:
We also have short video interviews with James Grant, head of the GP Solo division; and honorees Britt Wegner, representing the Milwaukee Bar Association and Nerino Petro, representing the State Bar of Wisconsin:
Finally, Jeanne Tate, the recipient of the lifetime achievement award talks with us about her rewarding work in adoption in this video: