Awards

• American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities
  The Thurgood Marshall Award - 2010
• American Constitution Society
  Progressive Champion Award - 2012
• Best Lawyers
  Washington, DC Litigation - First Amendment Lawyer of the Year - 2012
• Best Lawyers in America
  Appellate Law,
  First Amendment Law, 2005 - 2013
• Chambers USA
  Appellate (nationwide) and Media & Entertainment Law (District of Columbia) - 2003-2013
  First Amendment Litigation (nationwide) - 2007-2013
• DC Bar
  Thurgood Marshall Award - 2012
• Electronic Privacy Information Center, Champion of Freedom Award - 2009
• Game Developers Choice “Ambassador” Award - 2012
• Human Rights Campaign
  Equality Award 2003
• National Coalition Against Censorship
  Honoree, Annual Celebration of Free Speech & Its Defenders - 2011
• Lawdragon Magazine
  500 Leading Lawyers in America - 2011, 2012
• Legal 500
  Litigation: Appellate and Supreme Court - 2010, 2011
  Litigation: First Amendment Litigation and Counseling - 2009
  Media, Technology and Telecoms: Defamation and Libel - 2008
• The National Law Journal
  The Decade's Most Influential Lawyers - 2010
• Washington DC Super Lawyers
  Top 10 - 2010, 2012
  Top 100 - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012
  Appellate - 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
• Washingtonian Magazine
  Washington’s Best Lawyers, “The Supremes” - 2011
• Whitman-Walker Health Legal Services
  Joel A. Toubin Memorial Award – 2011

Service To The Bar

• American Bar Association
  Member, House of Delegates
• American Constitution Society
  Member, National Board of Directors, 2003-2009
  Chair, National Board of Directors, 2005-2008
• District of Columbia Bar
  Member, Board of Governors, 2002-2008
  Litigation Section
  Member, Steering Committee, 1998-2001
• Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund
  Co-Chair, Board of Directors
• Washington Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs
  Director