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Key Facts
- National overview: The ABA says the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards were established in 1991 to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of women lawyers.
- National overview: The ABA’s Commission on Women in the Profession honors up to five outstanding women lawyers each year through the Margaret Brent Awards.
- National overview: The ABA states the award recipients are honored at the ABA Annual Meeting.
- National overview: The ABA’s nomination criteria describe recognition tied to professional excellence within the honoree’s area of specialty and actively paving the way for other women lawyers.
- National overview: ABA describes award themes that include influencing other women to pursue legal careers and opening doors in job settings historically closed to women lawyers.
- National overview: ABA’s recipient archive lists Elizabeth J. Cabraser as a 2010 honoree and describes her as a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and a leader in plaintiffs’ complex litigation/class action bar.
- National overview: ABA states nominations for the 2026 Margaret Brent awards are closed.
- National overview: ABA says the 2026 Margaret Brent awards luncheon will be held on August 2, 2026 in Chicago in conjunction with the ABA Annual Conference.
Last reviewed: May 2026. Legal rules, forms, deadlines, and procedures can change by jurisdiction, agency, and court system.
- Why this archive recovery matters for modern readers
- What the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards are
- The award’s stated purpose and the criteria ABA uses
- The 2010 honoree record for Elizabeth J. Cabraser that ABA’s archive verifies
- How to interpret historical award listings versus current legal effects
- A quick comparison what ABA’s pages confirm here versus what they do not
- Current program context on ABA’s Margaret Brent award pages
- Why the ABA’s described themes connect to the 2010 record
- Where to look next in ABA’s archive materials
- Related legal information
- Sources
Why this archive recovery matters for modern readers
This legal information uses ABA Sources to keep the focus on what the award archive confirms about the 2010 honoree, rather than treating an award listing like a present-day legal entitlement, and it places the Margaret Brent Awards within the program’s long-running history that ABA discussed in its 25-year perspective (Margaret Brent Award Celebrates 25 Years (ABA publication)).
What the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards are
ABA describes the Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Awards as a program where the Commission on Women in the Profession honors up to five outstanding women lawyers each year, with award recipients honored at the ABA Annual Meeting (ABA Margaret Brent Awards overview).
The award’s stated purpose and the criteria ABA uses
According to ABA’s nomination criteria, the award was established in 1991 to recognize and celebrate the accomplishments of women lawyers, and ABA frames selection around professional excellence within the honoree’s area of specialty and actively paving the way for other women lawyers (ABA Margaret Brent nomination criteria).
ABA also presents its criteria using a “two-layer” way of thinking: it pairs achievement within a specialty with recognition that the honoree helped create opportunity for other women lawyers.
ABA connects those themes to specific examples, including influencing other women to pursue legal careers and opening doors for women lawyers in job settings that historically were closed to them, among other professional-excellence themes (ABA Margaret Brent past honorees).
The 2010 honoree record for Elizabeth J. Cabraser that ABA’s archive verifies
In the ABA recipient archive for “2010 Honorees,” ABA lists Elizabeth J. Cabraser and describes her as a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP and as a leader in plaintiffs’ complex litigation/class action bar (ABA Margaret Brent past honorees).
This archive recovery treats that recipient-listing wording as the most reliable confirmation available for what ABA says about the 2010 honor, because it stays within what ABA’s archive entry itself provides.
How to interpret historical award listings versus current legal effects
The ABA archive entry addresses the award honor and the award’s stated recognition themes, not whether any court issued a ruling, whether any government agency took action, or whether any legal eligibility or discipline outcome exists.
A quick comparison what ABA’s pages confirm here versus what they do not
| Topic readers may ask about | What the ABA pages confirm in this archive recovery | What this archive recovery does not claim from ABA’s pages |
Current program context on ABA’s Margaret Brent award pages
ABA’s nomination criteria page states that nominations for the 2026 Margaret Brent awards are closed (ABA Margaret Brent nomination criteria).
The ABA’s main Margaret Brent Awards page also describes the current-cycle luncheon as August 2, 2026 in Chicago in conjunction with the ABA Annual Conference (ABA Margaret Brent Awards overview).
Why the ABA’s described themes connect to the 2010 record
ABA’s publication on Margaret Brent’s legacy discusses the award as an established program created in 1991 that honors up to five outstanding women lawyers, which helps explain why ABA’s archive entries summarize honorees in a way that aligns with the award’s professional-excellence and opportunity-focused themes (Continuing Margaret Brent’s Legacy (ABA publication)).
Read with those themes in mind, the 2010 archive description of Elizabeth J. Cabraser as a plaintiffs’ complex litigation/class action bar leader and as a partner at Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP fits the kind of concise, criteria-based archive entry ABA publishes for individual honorees.
Where to look next in ABA’s archive materials
The most direct follow-up is to review ABA’s own nomination criteria page and the recipient archive listings, because those are the sources that reflect the award’s purpose, the selection framing ABA uses, and the archive wording identifying past honorees.
