Heidi Silton to Receive 2024 Hollis Salzman Memorial Leadership Award

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The American Antitrust Institute (AAI) and the Committee to Support Antitrust Laws (COSAL) recently announced LGN partner Heidi M. Silton as the 2024 recipient of Hollis Salzman Memorial Leadership Award. Heidi will be honored at AAI’s Awards Night on October 30, 2024, in Washington, DC.

AAI and COSAL created the Hollis Salzman Memorial Leadership Award in 2021 to honor the life of Hollis Salzman, a friend, colleague, and incomparable member of the antitrust community. One of the nation’s leading antitrust attorneys, Ms. Salzman spent more than 25 years litigating some of the world’s largest cases and recovered over $2 billion in settlements for victims of antitrust cartel and unfair competition practices.

She was a champion of gender equality and diversity in her profession, embracing her role as a mentor and role model to other female attorneys, and helping to inspire them to shine on their own merit. “Women can succeed and lead blockbuster investigations, even in a male-dominated field, without losing their identity or acting in a way that is not true to themselves,” Ms. Salzman noted. Her tireless dedication to advocating on behalf of women included an extensive pro bono practice representing indigent women and victims of domestic violence.

Heidi Silton

About Award Recipient Heidi Silton:

Heidi is a seasoned litigator with more than 25 years of experience representing clients in high-stakes complex civil litigation. She is known as consistently positive and courteous in dealing with co-counsel, opposing counsel, and the Courts, even while pressing her clients’ best interests. She is a vigorous defender of the need for antitrust enforcement by the civil justice system and also devoted to training the next generation of antitrust lawyers and ensuring that the bar is ever more prepared, diverse, and knowledgeable. She stands out as a leader in the antitrust bar and possesses many of the characteristics of Hollis Salzman: honest, tough, mentor, friend.

Heidi is an active member of both the AAI Advisory Board and COSAL. For AAI, she has served on AAI’s Antitrust Enforcement Awards Judging Committee since 2017 when it was chaired by Hollis Salzman. She has been committee chair or co-chair since 2020. For COSAL, Heidi has served in numerous leadership positions, including as President in 2021, and was instrumental in creating the Hollis Salzman Memorial Leadership Award. She was on the leadership team that established COSAL’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee and she presided over the first annual COSAL Leadership and Diversity Summit.   

Heidi is also a past chair of and current council member emeritus of the Minnesota State Bar Association Antitrust Law Section.

Heidi has led LGN’s Business Development Committee, the Hiring Committee and the Summer Associate Program and has been active in the firm’s efforts related to diversity, equity, and inclusion. She currently sits on the firm’s executive committee. She mentors lawyers inside and outside her firm to support diversity in the bar. She regularly encouraged new law clerks and associates, including from underrepresented groups, to work with her on writing projects that allow them to get published and start making their mark professionally.  More than that, she works with an open door and a welcoming smile that encourages everyone at LGN to do their best work and strive to both lead and learn.