Brent E. Kidwell, Jenner & Block partner and Chief Knowledge Counsel, received the award on January 31 from the legal profession’s leading technology publication. Kevin Vermeulen, the magazine’s publisher, said Kidwell’s selection was based on his “remarkable success in melding the expertise of technology professionals with lawyers’ practices to create a synergy that measurably enhanced client service.”

Kidwell leads the Firm’s technology program and implemented its robust Strategic Technology Plan, cornerstones of which are Onward Technologies’ portal solutions, kmSearch, and Onward Q&A survey and evaluation tool.”

Jenner & Block, founded in 1914, is a Chicago-based law firm with more than 400 attorneys and other professionals in Chicago, Dallas and Washington, DC.