At the Leadership Breakfast held during the American Association for Justice Convention in Baltimore July 27, AAJ President Burton LeBlanc honored CCL's Robert S. Peck with the David S. Shrager President’s Award for his outstanding contributions to the civil justice system and to the work of AAJ.

In presenting the award, LeBlanc talked about Peck's victories challenging different tort reforms around the country and quoted from the Florida Supreme Court's March 2014 decision in Estate of McCall v. United States, which struck down that state's 2003 law capping non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases resulting in wrongful death.  The Shrager Award is named after a revered past president of AAJ, who served in that capacity from 1983-84 and who, as a Philadelphia trial lawyer, exhibited an unrivaled passion for the law and for the trial bar, as well as making an outstanding contribution to civil justice and to the work of AAJ.

In accepting the award, Peck picked up on a theme that had been sounded by the breakfast's featured speaker, Professor Laurence Tribe of Harvard Law School, on the hostility that the Supreme Court had shown to litigation in its recent decisions, and talked about how the work in assuring access to the courts was a labor of love by each of the attorneys who constitute CCL, while also sounding a note about how special the award was because of Peck's past association with David Shrager.