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Simpson Thacher litigation partner, Joseph M. McLaughlin, has been named a recipient of the Burton Award for Legal Achievement, for his two-volume treatise, McLaughlin on Class Actions: Law and Practice (Glasser LegalWorks, 2004).  The Burton Awards, which honors the nation’s finest legal writers, is run in association with the Library of Congress Law Library. The entries are judged by an academic board led by Virginia Wise, a teacher at Harvard Law School, Anne E. Kringel, Legal Writing Director at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, Grace Tonner, a professor from University of Michigan Law School, Ed Forstenzer, a judge from California’s Superior Court, and William Ryan, a direct descendent of Noah Webster. The awards dinner will be held in the Great Hall of the Library of Congress on June 6, 2005. Chris Matthews, host of Hardball with Chris Matthews, will be the guest speaker. The second edition of McLaughlin on Class Actions: Law and Practice will be published later this year.