How Key Lawyers Describe Our 2022 40 Under 40 Class

For our 2022 “They’ve Got Next: The 40 Under 40” issue, we asked all nominees to submit recommendation letters from fellow lawyers with their applications. Recommending lawyers spoke about the nominees’ recent client successes, their pro bono contributions, and their overall participation and impact within the legal community. We wrote in our submission guidelines that the letters would be on the record.

We heard from chief legal officers and other high-ranking in-house counsel, law firm practice group leaders, a law professor, a bar association executive director, and a former U.S. attorney general and more.

Read below to see how these ...