Designed by Cassidy Communications, Inc., The Pennsylvania Lawyer magazine “flagship” publication of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, is the winner of the National Association of Bar Executives’ Fastcase Luminary Award for large bar association publications. The annual, national awards “recognize excellence in bar association communications by honoring outstanding projects of the past year.” Judged on criteria including consistent quality of writing and readability; quality, clarity and effectiveness of design and format; and success in meeting stated objectives and reaching the targeted audience, the magazine was recognized as a publication that “exemplifies excellence.”
“Being recognized on a national level is a testament to our professionalism and is fitting recognition of the work the PBA does to serve its members and the public,” said PBA Executive Director Barry M. Simpson in announcing the awards to the PBA Board of Governors on Oct. 5.
The magazine previously won a NABE Luminary Award for Excellence among large bar association publications in 2011 and earlier this year received an APEX Award for writing in the Twenty-Seventh Annual Awards for Publication Excellence competition. In recent years the magazine has also won APEX awards for design in 2009 and 2010 and for writing in 2011 and 2013.