Stephen Sheller - 2016 Clarence Darrow Award Recipient

The Clarence Darrow Award is nationally regarded as one of the most prestigious and highly coveted in the realm of trial law. Prominent trial attorney and radio talk show host Mike Papantonio of the Florida law firm Levin Papantonio presented the 2016 award to Stephen A. Sheller, founder of the Philadelphia law firm Sheller, P.C.. The award was also sponsored by "Mass Torts Made Perfect" which hosted the Philadelphia Complex Litigation Judicial Forum March 2-3. One of history’s most well-known civil rights and trial lawyers of the 20th century, Clarence Darrow argued Brown v. Board of Education, which ended racial segregation in public schools prior to becoming the first African American justice on the U.S. Supreme Court. The award was presented March 3, 2016 in an evening program at the Philadelphia Ritz Carlton including a fundraiser for the Sheller Center for Social Justice law student scholarships. Other speakers included Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. Temple Law Dean JoAnne Epps and the Hon. Sandra Mazer Moss (ret.), now Executive Director of the Sheller Center for Justice. The program concluded with a one-man performance by Montae Russell, "An Evening with Thurgood Marshall." From Temple University School of Law: The Sheller Center for Social Justice at Temple University Beasley School of Law, created in 2013 by a generous gift from Stephen and Sandra Sheller, is a hub for social justice inquiry and advocacy. The Center’s faculty, staff and affiliated faculty work with law students, the Law School’s other legal clinics and experiential programs, others at the University, community organizations, and external partners to seek justice for disadvantaged populations in Philadelphia and across Pennsylvania. For more information, visit Sheller.com.