During the 2024 Santa Fe Annual Meeting Amanda Cialkowski was presented The Strubinger Award.  She was selected from a field of twenty-three nominees. The field is then narrowed down to five finalists from which the winner is selected. Quite an accomplishment!  Congratulations Amanda!

The other four finalists were:

  •      Dyan Ebert
  •      Chelsey Golightly
  •      James "Jamie" B. Hood
  •      Dan Kohane

At the 2009 Annual Meeting in Scottsdale Arizona, the Marketing Committee of ADTA introduced a new client referral network initiative, "We Prefer to Refer." As part of this program, the Marketing Committee created an award that will be given annually to the ADTA member who has best exemplified our commitment to refer business to other ADTA members. The first "We Prefer to Refer" Award was presented to Bobby Hood of Charleston, S.C. at the 2010 Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts.

The participation of the members in the nominating process is vital and ensures that all of those who deserve recognition will have the opportunity to be duly considered for this prestigious award.

The field of 2024 Nominees are listed below.  The number in parenthesis details how many nominations they received.

You can submit referral reporting forms year-round! Did someone recently refer a case to you? Fill out a “referral reporting form” (previously a “nomination”) today!

The ADTA encourages self-nominations for the Strubinger Award! If you refer a case to another ADTA member, fill out a referral reporting form for yourself ASAP.

You might be wondering: what does it take for a referral to be considered as a “nomination” for the Strubinger Award?

    • What if someone referred a case to me and it settled before I could bill any time to the file?
    • What if someone referred their client to another attorney at my office because I don’t handle that type of litigation?
    • What if I referred a case to an ADTA member and they were conflicted out?

Yep, you guessed it, those should ALL be submitted via referral reporting forms as Strubinger Award nominations!

Happy referring!!