WASHINGTON– Covington was named the overall winner in the “Government Relations/Lobbying” category of the 2025 National Law Journal Awards, which “recognizes attorneys who have achieved outstanding results in full-service lobbying and public policy initiatives.”
The award recognizes Covington for some of the most consequential policy and lobbying wins over the past year, including bringing home an American journalist for Radio Free Europe, Alsu Kurmasheva, who was arrested in Russia in 2023 and sentenced to over six years in prison. After Covington engaged consistently with the State Department, White House, and Congress, Alsu was one of three U.S. citizens included in August 2024 in the largest prisoner exchange since the end of the Cold War. In Congress, Covington also helped shepherd the REPO Act to provide to Ukraine confiscated Russian sovereign assets that are currently immobilized in the United States.
Covington is also recognized for leading coalition efforts to advance patent legislation and for successfully advocating for significant changes in the Commerce Department’s connected vehicle rule.
Stephen Rademaker, a lawyer in the firm’s Public Policy group who helped secure Alsu’s release, said in The National Law Journal Q&A, “For any lobbying challenge, it is essential to identify the officials who are both in a position to provide a solution, and likely to be receptive to the arguments in favor of doing so. And because often different arguments appeal to different audiences, a critical skill is tailoring messages to the audience.”
The 2025 National Law Journal Awards winners were named on November 5.
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