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Latham & Watkins and Kirkland & Ellis have each won two awards at the Thomson Reuters Foundation’s (TRF) annual TrustLaw Awards, held recently in New York.

The awards recognise pro bono projects, as well as lawyers, NGOs and social enterprises doing notable work in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

Kirkland & Ellis associates David Birnbaum, Evan Knobloch and Jonathan Man shared the Lawyer of the Year award with Botswana-based Chilume & Company’s founder Yvonne Chilume. It also picked up the impact award, along with its NGO partner Equality Illinois, which works in the field of LGBT rights.

Latham & Watkins won both the Collaboration Award and the International Law Firm of the Year, while Norton Rose Fulbright South Africa emerged as the domestic law firm of the year.

The innovation award was presented to Microsoft and Ashu Thakur & Associates, an intellectual property firm in India. Meanwhile, Hewlett Packard Enterprise was named as the In-house Legal Team of the Year.

 

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