Berger Montague Executive Partner Sherrie Savett the Recipient of the 2025 Judge Learned Hand Award

Berger Montague, a national plaintiffs’ law firm’ is pleased to announce that Executive Partner and Chair Emeritus Sherrie Savett has been awarded the 2025 Judge Learned Hand Award by the American Jewish Committee (AJC) of Philadelphia/Southern New Jersey.

“This has been a tremendous honor,” said Ms. Savett, who is also Chair of the False Claims Act, Qui Tam, & Whistleblower practice and Co-Chair of the Securities, Fraud & Investor Protection practices. “I am awed and humbled to receive the Learned Hand Award and to be in the company of so many great men and women who have won this award before me,” added Ms. Savett.

Ms. Savett recognized the role the firm has played in her career, “I have loved my career as a lawyer.  I have been at Berger Montague for virtually my whole career,” said Ms. Savett. “It is a great firm filled with talented and dedicated lawyers, many of whom are not just colleagues, but close friends.  The firm is infused with excellent values which coincide with the Jewish values I spoke about earlier: the quest for justice, the importance of each individual client, and profound respect for the rule of law,” Ms. Savett added.

Each year, AJC presents the Judge Learned Hand Award to recognize outstanding members of the Philadelphia legal community who have distinguished themselves through professional achievement and dedicated community leadership. The Judge Learned Hand Award was established in honor of the senior judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit from 1924 to 1951, widely admired as a dean among American jurists and famous for the extensive range of decisions he rendered.

View photos of the event here. Read the tribute journal here.

Berger Montague is one of the nation’s preeminent law firms focusing on complex civil litigation, class actions, and mass torts in federal and state courts throughout the United States. The firm is active in the fields of antitrust, commercial litigation, consumer protection, defective products, environmental law, employment law, securities, and whistleblower cases, among many other practice areas. For more than 50 years, Berger Montague has played lead roles in precedent-setting cases and has recovered over $50 billion for its clients and the classes they have represented. Berger Montague is headquartered in Philadelphia and has offices in Chicago, Minneapolis, San Diego, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington, D.C., and Wilmington, DE.