BCA Awards
A list of recent awards and acolades bestowed on BCA from our peers.
Brent Coon Named As One of Top 75 Trial Attorneys in the Country
BCA Founder, Brent Coon, was named to an exclusive group of the nation’s top 75 trial lawyers. The group, entitled “Trial Lawyer Kingpins”, was chosen in a survey of defense attorneys throughout the country to identify 'the best plaintiff trial attorneys in terms of experience and influence.' The survey was conducted by the 1,500 attorney worldwide defense firm, Shook, Hardy & Bacon. Shook contacted hundreds of defense firms throughout the country and asked them to identify the best of their counterparts in the plaintiff’s bar.
Mr. Coon has also been named as a Texas Super Lawyer. In 2007 he received the “Lawyer of the Year” award from the American Association of Justice.
Click here to view the Trial Lawyer Kingpins list.
National Web Award for TexasCityExplosion.com
For the second time in 2009, BCA Marketing has been honored with a prestigious web marketing award. The Web Marketing Association honored with the Legal Standard of Excellence Award for “Outstanding Achievement in Web Development” for the site www.texascityexplosion.com. The website, designed as an informational site to keep the media and public informed on the BP trial in 2005, features court-released documents, terms of the settlement, video from the deposition and trial and a full press room archive chronicling news reports over the course of the litigation. Jay Jackson, BCA’s Director of Communications, said, “We worked very closely with attorney Eric Newell on this site. Eric had a great vision for how to present the information in a manner that was succinct, powerful and took advantage of a medium that allowed us to combine both video and text.” Read the full article.
BCA Wins National Award for Local Ike Campaign
The Beaumont-based law firm of Brent Coon & Associates, was presented with the prestigious 2009 Internet Advertising Competition (IAC) Award for its marketing efforts in the category of Best Integrated Legal Campaign. The campaign, entitled I Hate Ike, blended of online and offline tactics utilizing traditional marketing methods (TV, Radio and Newspaper), while incorporating 21st century marketing methods such as interactive online video seminars and traffic generation efforts targeting online social networks.
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Steven J. Sharp Public Service award from the American Association of Justice
Attorney Brent Coon and his client Eva Rowe, who settled a hard-fought legal battle against oil giant BP over her parents’ deaths at the company’s Texas City plant, today received the Steven J. Sharp Public Service award from the American Association of Justice (AAJ) during the group’s annual convention in Chicago.
The award is the most prestigious presented by the AAJ to lawyers and their clients. The award is for those “whose cases tell the story of American civil justice, and help educate state and national policy makers and the public about the importance of consumers’ rights.”
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