Professor John C. Coffee Jr. Inducted Into Lawdragon "Hall of Fame"
Distinguished Alumni and Adjunct Faculty Members Also Named to the Prestigious List
New York, August 21, 2015—John C. Coffee, Jr., the Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, has been inducted into Lawdragon’s inaugural “Hall of Fame,” an honor created by the legal media company to mark the 10th anniversary of its prestigious Lawdragon 500 list of the nation’s top attorneys.
A prolific writer, in his latest book, Entrepreneurial Litigation, Coffee examined the dilemmas surrounding entrepreneurial litigation in a variety of specific contexts, including derivative actions, securities class actions, merger litigation, and mass tort litigation.
In addition to Coffee, a number of prominent Columbia Law School alumni and adjunct faculty members were also inducted: Peter C. Canellos LLB’67 and John T. Bostelman ’79 were named as Dealmakers, and the Honorable Jack B. Jacobs, a Justice of the Delaware Supreme Court and an adjunct professor at Columbia Law School, ranked among the judges selected, while the late Harvey R. Miller LLB’59 was included among legal luminaries who have passed away. James E. Ferguson II ’67 and lecturer Mel M. Immergut ’71 were hailed for their leadership, while Victor A. Kovner ’61, Victor E. Schwartz ’65 and Jerold Oshinsky ’67 made the list as top litigators.