Attorney Jock M. Smith Receives Prestigious Award
The Cochran Firm, with office locations nationwide
BlackNews.com
Tuskegee, AL (BlackNews.com) - Jock Smith, President and Co-Founder of The Cochran Firm, received the prestigious Wiley A. Branton Issues Symposium Award presented by the National Bar Association at the Nineteenth Annual convention earlier this month.
"I am extremely humbled to receive this prestigious award named after a man who spent his life working for justice," Smith said.
The NBA presents the award annually at its symposium to a person or persons demonstrating or have demonstrated "leadership on the cutting edge of law for civil, social, and economic justice."
Wiley A. Branton handled a number of civil rights cases, and along with Thurgood Marshall, represented the Little Rock Nine during the 1957 school desegregation case in Little Rock, Arkansas.
The NBA established the Wiley A. Branton Issues Symposium as its principle vehicle for gathering lawyers and other citizens from across the country to address national issues advocated by the organization.
Mr. Smith has obtained numerous, record setting verdicts and settlements including an $80 million verdict and a $1.6 billion verdict, the largest verdict in America for the year 2004, as well as the top verdict in the history of the nation by an African American lawyer as lead counsel.
He was inducted into the Million Dollar Advocates Forum and served as the nation's first African American Trial Trustee for the Alabama Trial Lawyers Association. The Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory has given Jock an AV rating, the highest achievable rating given to an attorney. Lawdragon named Smith as one of the top litigators in the country in 2006 and 2007.
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