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The tireless efforts of two Maine lawyers brought the “robo-signing” scandal to light this fall, and foreclosures across the country to a screeching halt.

When he agreed to take a tragic case involving a family who careened to their death in their 2009 Toyota Lexus ES 350, John Gomez had no idea it would spark a massive recall of millions of vehicles, a federal investigation and a nationwide mass tort over sudden unintended acceleration.

By the time Holly Averyt called solo attorney Jeffrey Hill, every other lawyer had turned her case down.

But Hill and Gregory Gold, two small-firm lawyers, managed to turn a case that no one else wanted into a $15 million jury award, the largest slip and fall verdict in history.

After becoming the first female Dean of Harvard Law School in 2003 and the first female Solicitor General of the United States in 2009, this year Elena Kagan became only the fourth woman in history to sit as a U.S. Supreme Court justice, marking the first time three women have been on the bench at once.

When Stephen B. Kinnaird stood before the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court urging them to hold that bad advice from a defense attorney about the deportation risks of a guilty plea can amount to a Sixth Amendment violation, he knew he had to tread carefully.

If you want to start a fight, state your views on illegal immigration. No issue will stir up more emotion.

On the frontline of the country’s legal battles over this hottest of hot-button issues is Kris Kobach.

In April, William Levin won a $209 million asbestos verdict in favor of a pipe cutter’s wife who herself developed mesothelioma from asbestos dust her husband brought home on his clothes for 20 years.

When the case New Process Steel v. National Labor Relations Board landed before the U.S. Supreme Court, it was a David vs. Goliath story of sorts.

On one side, there was the federal agency in charge of administering federal labor laws. On the other, an attorney from a small firm – Sheldon ‘Don’ Richie – tasked with convincing the nation’s highest court that NLRB had lacked the authority to operate for more than two years.