Martin E. Lybecker Receives Grassroots Advocacy Award from the American Bar Association

WASHINGTON, DC  (April 20, 2011) – Perkins Coie partner, Martin E. Lybecker, was among three lawyers and the New York State Bar Association to be honored by the American Bar Association with its annual Grassroots Advocacy Award at a ceremony in the U.S. Supreme Court building on April 13.

Lybecker was honored due to his leadership role in efforts against proposed provisions of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act that would have placed lawyers under the regulatory authority of a new federal bureau. Thanks in part to Lybecker’s outreach, the final version of the legislation contained a robust exemption for lawyers, meaning that state courts continued to regulate lawyers as before.