Partner Peter J. Pizzi Receives 2025 Richard L. Neumeier Excellence in Service Award by the International Association of Defense Counsel
Walsh Partner Peter J. Pizzi has been awarded the 2025 Richard L. Neumeier Excellence in Service Award by the International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) in recognition of his outstanding contributions to the essential work of the IADC. He was presented the award while attending the 2025 IADC Annual Meeting in Québec City, Canada.
From 2023 to 2025, Peter served as Editor-Elect and Editor of IADC’s Defense Counsel Journal. His commitment to excellence and thoughtful editorial leadership helped shape timely, insightful content for the DCJ. In the President’s note in Peter’s final DCJ issue, IADC President Donna Lamontange praised Peter’s work: “The success of the journal is due in no small measure to the enormous contributions of Editor Peter Pizzi. Peter will roll-off as Editor this year, but he has left his mark and made the DCJ Board of Editors and IADC community stronger with his efforts.”
Peter delighted in the challenge involving in the Editor’s role, as he wrote in his final Editor’s Note: “My DCJ involvement made me realize now how much I enjoy serving as the editor of a journal, coaxing articles out of friends at the bar, panelists encountered at meetings, a valued client or two, lawyers in my own law firm, and entirely new contacts, and then seeing those conversations bear fruit when each issue emerges.”
The International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC) has been serving a distinguished membership of corporate and insurance defense attorneys and insurance executives since 1920. Its activities benefit the approximately 2,500 invitation-only, peer reviewed members and their clients, as well as the civil justice system and the legal profession. Moreover, the IADC takes a leadership role in many areas of legal reform and professional development.