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2016 Lawyer of The Year – Presented by AboveTheLaw
[Photo: Donald McGahn II, by Sam Hodgson for the NYTimes]
Congratulations Jones Day partner Donald McGahn II, the 2016 Lawyer of the Year. Mr. McGahn served as general counsel to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and will serve as President Trump’s White House counsel.
For most of the race, it looked as though Allen Parker would win. The former presiding partner of Cravath Swaine & Moore, and the man widely credited with taking New York (and most of BigLaw) to a new $180K pay scale, enjoyed a healthy lead in the polls. But that lead eroded in the home stretch, and victory went to a relative outsider.
FINAL TALLY: McGahn prevailed with 41% of the vote; Parker was second with 34%, Hillary Clinton was third with 11%.
And, in fairness to Don McGahn, there’s a strong case to be made that he was the most consequential counselor of 2016. If not for McGahn’s expert legal work - defeating challenges that would have kept Trump off the ballot in early primary states, avoiding a contested convention (with the help of fellow JD partner Bill McGinley), and keeping the Trump campaign on the right side of the FEC and the law - Donald Trump might not be our president-elect. Few lawyers can plausibly claim that they made such a difference in national and world history.
