Wallach Receives Advocacy Award

Jason Wallach ’90 Jason Wallach has been awarded the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia’s fourth annual Daniel M. Gribbon Pro Bono Advocacy Award. This prestigious award recognizes an individual or law firm for distinguished advocacy in a pro bono matter before the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.

Wallach, an associate in Dickstein Shapiro’s Antitrust & Dispute Resolution Group, has extensive experience litigating complex, multijurisdictional cases, particularly in the areas of insurance coverage and state and federal false claim actions. He also has a significant pro bono practice.

Wallach received the advocacy award for his work in “Sellmon v. Reilly.” The U.S. Parole Commission had applied parole guidelines adopted in 2000 to Washington, D.C., to offenders who had committed their crimes before the Commission replaced the District of Columbia Board of Parole in August 1998. Wallach challenged that, and four of his clients received new parole hearings. Following Wallach’s success in the Sellmon case, the U.S. Parole Commission issued a proposal under which it will apply the D.C. Board of Parole’s guidelines to all Washington, D.C. offenders who committed their crimes between 1985 and 1998.