Five attorneys have been named winners of the Detroit Bar Association’s Outstanding Young Lawyers Awards for 2020.
The honorees include Morgan Schut, Ponce Clay, Justin Hanna, Monica Andrade-Fannon, and Stephanie White.
“These awards recognize the accomplishments of attorneys, who despite being in the early stages of their career (10 years or fewer), have demonstrated great potential as future leaders of the legal community,” said a spokesperson for the Detroit Bar.
Morgan Schut is the recipient of the 2020 Barrister of the Year Award. A 2016 graduate of Michigan State University College of Law, Schut is an attorney with Kemp Klein, who has been “highly involved” in the Barristers Section of the Detroit Bar, and “made the most significant contributions to the Barristers” over the past year.
Ponce Clay received the Community Impact Award for 2020. A 2015 alumnus of University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, Clay spent 20 years in the U.S. Navy before being named director of Veterans Services for the Wayne County Department of Health, Veterans, and Community Services. The award recognizes a young attorney “whose integrity, competence, and accomplishments have significantly impacted the local community.”
Justin Hanna, an attorney with Jaffe Raitt Heuer & Weiss, is this year’s recipient of the Pro Bono Award. Hanna holds bachelor, master, and law degrees from Wayne State University. He led a team of more than 20 Jaffe attorneys in an effort to assist some 140 Iraqi nationals from the Metro Detroit area who were detained as part of the administration’s push to increase immigration enforcement.
Monica Andrade-Fannon is this year’s winner of the President’s Award, which recognizes a young attorney “whose early career has exhibited high standards of service to the profession, his or her clients, and the public.” A 2017 graduate of MSU College of Law, Andrade-Fannon is a Skadden Fellow with the ACLU of Michigan, where she has worked for the past three years.
Stephanie White is the 2020 recipient of the “One to Watch Award,” which is presented to a young attorney who has demonstrated “not only their legal acumen and talent, but also their potential for future professional growth and achievements.” Also a graduate of MSU College of Law, White is an attorney with the Juvenile Law Group.
While there won’t be an “in-person” awards ceremony this year due to the pandemic, the Detroit Bar Association plans to circulate “virtual interviews of all award recipients, as well as posting them to YouTube, in the near future,” according to the Detroit Bar spokesperson.
“The virtual interviews will provide an opportunity to learn about each recipient’s background, the work they are doing that has earned them their respective awards, and include a Q & A session between the award recipients and their mentors or nominators,” the spokesperson said.
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