Grant Thornton LLP Legal Counsel Team Wins Four First Chair Awards

Four members of Grant Thornton LLP‘s Risk, Regulatory and Legal Affairs team have received First Chair Awards for excellence in legal counsel.

This organization brings together private practice and in-house attorneys together with the common goal of networking and recognizing the accomplishments in the legal profession. The First Chair Awards annually selects in-house counsel members who have made significant contributions to the legal community and honors them for their accomplishments in the past year.

The winners are:

• Associate general counsel Chris Stathopoulos – Won the 2016 Top Assistant General Counsel award. Prior to joining the firm, he was an attorney at Winston & Strawn LLP. Stathopoulos received a juris doctor degree from the University of Michigan Law School.
• Senior legal counsel Jason Anderson – Won the 2016 Top Litigation Counsel award. Anderson served as a special trial attorney for the Internal Revenue Service prior to joining Grant Thornton. He received a juris doctor degree from the University of Illinois College of Law.
• Senior counsel Elizabeth Epstein – Won the 2016 Top Corporate Counsel award. Prior to joining the firm, Epstein was an associate attorney at Stein, Ray & Harris LLP. She received a juris doctor degree from Washington University in St. Louis School of Law.
• Senior counsel Hina Sodha – Won the 2016 Top Employment Counsel award. She has served in Grant Thornton’s Regulatory, Risk and Legal Affairs department for more than six years. Sodha received a juris doctor degree from DePaul University College of Law.