Deborah R. Willig Named Among Top 10 2020 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers

Willig, Williams & Davidson managing partner recognized as one of PA’s top attorneys

PHILADELPHIA (May 2020) – Pennsylvania labor, employment and workers’ compensation law firm Willig, Williams & Davidson is pleased to announce that managing partner Deborah R. Willig has been named among this year’s Top 10 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. She is the only female attorney to make the Top 10 in 2020. Only one other woman has been named among the Top 10 since Super Lawyers started 16 years ago.

Willig also has been named among the Top 50: 2020 Women Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, the

Top 100: 2020 Philadelphia Super Lawyers and the Top 100: 2020 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers. She has been recognized on lists of top Pennsylvania attorneys 25 times over the last 16 years by Super Lawyers.

The first female Chancellor of the Philadelphia Bar Association in 1992, Willig continues to shatter the glass ceiling and set the stage for women as leaders in the legal profession. She has been recognized for her work and advocacy with the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Philadelphia Inquirer, the Legal Intelligencer Lifetime Achievement Award, the Sandra Day O’Connor Award from the Philadelphia Bar Association, the Philadelphia Business Journal Women of Distinction Award, the Labor Human Rights Award from the Jewish Labor Committee, The Agent of Change Award from Women’s Way, the Israel Labor Medal from the State of Israel Bonds, the Vocational Service Award from the Rotary Club of Philadelphia, and the Outstanding Service Award from Pennsylvania Citizen’s Action. She was also selected by a nationwide group of peers as a Member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers.

Super Lawyers, part of Thomson Reuters, is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. The annual selections are made using a patented multiphase process that includes a statewide survey of lawyers, an independent research evaluation of candidates and peer reviews by practice area. The result is a credible, comprehensive and diverse listing of exceptional attorneys.

Every year, Super Lawyers evaluates lawyers across the country for its annual list of top attorneys. Each candidate is measured against 12 indicators of peer recognition and professional achievement. The patented multiphase selection process is rigorous and methodical. The Top Lists take exclusivity one step further by featuring selected Super Lawyers attorneys with the most total points earned.

About Willig, Williams & Davidson – Willig, Williams & Davidson (www.wwdlaw.com) is one of the largest and most respected union-side labor law firms in the United States. The firm has offices in Philadelphia, Harrisburg, and Jenkintown Pa., as well as Haddonfield, N.J., and Chicago, Ill. Founded in 1979, Willig, Williams & Davidson focuses on representing labor unions, employee benefit funds and individual working people and their families on a variety of legal fronts, including national, regional and local contract negotiations; election and campaign finance; dispute resolution through mediation, arbitration and litigation; family law matters; benefits law design and compliance issues; discrimination, overtime and unpaid wages, and other employment matters; prepaid legal services for union members; social security disability; and workers’ compensation matters in Philadelphia and beyond. Workers inspire us.