"The time has come the Walrus said to speak of many things, of
shoes and ships and sealing wax and cabbages and kings".
TAA WAA
Beginning with the Annual Meeting in 1995,
each year one of the members receives the prestigious Workers Achievement
Award (TAA WAA) in recognition of his or her contribution to the work of TAA.
The past recipients of the award are:
|
1995 |
- |
Tom Lynch (New York, NY) |
|
1996 |
- |
Kevin Condron (Chicago,
IL) |
|
1997 |
- |
Fred Aebi (Portland, OR) |
|
1998 |
- |
Frank Daily (Milwaukee,
WI) |
|
1999 |
- |
* Terry Crebs (St.
Louis, MO) |
|
2000 |
- |
Joe Pomeroy (Fon du Lac,
WI) |
|
2001 |
- |
Kemp Morton (Huntington,
W.VA. |
|
2002 |
- |
Ellen Cohen (Boston, MA) |
|
2003 |
- |
Craig Nelson (New
Orleans, LA) |
|
2004 |
- |
David Canter (Los
Angeles, CA) |
|
2005 |
- |
* Joe Daly
(Philadelphia, PA) |
|
2006 |
- |
Frankie Colon-Pagan (San
Juan, P.R.) |
|
2007 |
- |
Richard Leslie (Miami,
FL) |
|
2008 |
- |
Paul Leitner
(Chattanooga, TN) |
|
2009 |
- |
John Wagener (Chicago, IL) |
|
2010 |
- |
Joseph P. H. Babington (Mobile, AL) |
|
2010 |
- |
Louis A. Lehr, Jr. (Chicago, IL), TaaWaa Superstar Award |
|
2011 |
- |
Carrie L. Palmer (Oklahoma City, OK) |
* Deceased
Publications
The United States 8th Circuit Court of Appeals cited Lou Lehr's book Premises Liability 3d in support of part of the majority opinion written by Chief Judge Riley in DuPont v. Fred's Stores Of Tennessee, 652 F.3d 878, fn3 (8th Cir. 2011)
Lewis Collins, of Tampa Florida, recently published an article: “Turning Bad Faith Inside Out: How Plaintiff Attorneys Are Creating Third-Party Bad Faith Claims” in the Summer 2011 edition of the Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel Quarterly, Vol. 61, #4, page 366.
