Edward A. Groobert Award for Legal Excellence

Individuals whose company or organization is a member in good standing of ELFA may nominate an individual. Submit your nomination to Kyle Alexandre, VP, State Government Relations, [email protected].

• Current Legal Committee Chair
• Immediate Past Legal Committee Chair
• ELFA President/CEO or her designee
• Past Award Winners

Honorees receive a personalized plaque. 

1. A nominee cannot be a current member of the Legal Committee or the Awards Committee.
2. Nominees must clearly meet one or more of the following criteria:
   • The nominee has made extraordinary contributions to one or more projects sponsored by, or under the domain of, the ELFA and/or Legal Committee (or any of their committees or subcommittees) since the immediately preceding Legal Forum (which project(s) may have commenced prior to the immediately preceding Legal Forum). A nominee's presentation(s) at a Legal Forum should not be considered when evaluating the nominee's contributions. However, nominees’ contributions are eligible for consideration if the subject matter or work product of those contributions was later used in a presentation at the Legal Forum.
   • The nominee has played an outstanding leadership role in representing the ELFA and/or the Legal Committee to constituencies outside of the ELFA and its membership.
   • The nominee has made significant contributions over a substantial period of time, even though such contributions in the period since the last Legal Forum may not have been in, and of themselves, adequate to merit the award.
   • Such other criteria as the Awards Committee may choose to employ.