Five Sheppard Mullin attorneys have been recognized as 2023JD SupraTop Authors: Townsend Bourne (Government Contracting), A.J. Dhaliwal (Finance & Banking), Fatema Merchant (Compliance and International Law), Moorari Shah (Finance & Banking) and Liisa Thomas (Data Privacy). The annual Readers' Choice Awards recognize the authors and firms most read by C-suite executives, in-house counsel, media and other professionals across theJD Supraplatform during 2022.

JD Supraeditors chose the 31 main topics covered in this year's Readers' Choice Awards for their timeliness as well as their proven, ongoing importance. In each category, the editors recognize 10 authors and one firm for consistently highest readership and engagement within that category for all of 2022. In total, across all categories, they recognized the excellence and achievement of 303 authors selected from more than 70,000 who published on the site.