Manatt Litigation Associate Michael Nordon received the California Lawyers Association’s 2024 Jack Berman Award of Achievement, which recognizes young attorneys for distinguished service to the public, the judiciary and the legal profession.
Since joining Manatt in 2018, Nordon has contributed more than 1,300 hours of pro bono work to clients across a broad range of matters, including adoptions, foster care approval hearings, immigration matters and high-impact litigation. In one of his most recent cases, Nordon co-led a Manatt team in successfully securing asylum for a single mother from Mexico who fled her home country after a lifetime of persecution at the hands of a powerful and dangerous Mexican criminal organization.
He was also one of the primary associates working on J.L. v. Cissna, a class action lawsuit challenging the changes made to the Special Immigrant Juveniles (SIJ) Status program during the Trump Administration.
Established by the New Lawyers Section of the California Lawyers Association in 1992, the Jack Berman Award is named after a young attorney who tragically died in a shooting in San Francisco. This honor is given to one young attorney each year in celebration of Berman’s service to the industry.
Read Nordon’s full profile here.