- Super Lawyers Washington D.C., Top 100 (among 70,000 D.C. bar members in private practice) (2017 to present)
- Super Lawyers main list since 2007
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Lawyers in America (2008, 2009)
- The Best Lawyers in America (2006 edition to present)
- Lawdragon 500 Leading Plaintiff Lawyers in America (2007)
- Irish Legal 100 (2009 to present) (leading Irish-American lawyers)
- Lawyer of the Year, Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC, 1995.
- Frederick Abramson Award, D.C. Bar, June 1998 (pro bono service)
- Martindale-Hubbell: “AV” rated (top rating).
- Yale Law School: Harlan Fiske Stone Prize and Potter Stewart Prize for best moot court efforts; C. LaRue Munson Prize for legal clinic work; editor of the Yale Law Journal.
- Journalism awards (prior to legal career): finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 1980 for a series of articles co-authored on “Dangerous Doctors”
- Other journalism awards: Florida Medical Association, best newspaper medical writer in the state, 1980 and 1981; The Newspaper Guild, Heywood Broun Award, 1980; American Bar Association, Gavel Award, 1980; Sigma Delta Chi, Distinguished Service Award, 1980; National Headliners Club Award, 1980; Women in Communications, Clarion Award, 1980; American Academy of Family Physicians, 2nd prize, 1981.
- College: University of Kansas, 1972: summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa.
- Senior Fellow, Litigation Counsel of America. This is an invitation-only honorary society of trial lawyers limited to 3,500 Fellows nationally.