On February 23, JD Supra announced the honorees for its 2026 Readers' Choice Awards – recognizing the top authors and firms who were read by C-suite executives, in-house counsel, media, and other professionals across the JD Supra platform during 2025. This year, the awards recognize specific authors for their visibility and thought leadership covering 33 key, cross-industry topics (10 authors per category, barring ties) and firms for their visibility and engagement in the 33 topics covered by the awards (one firm per category).
2026 JD Supra Readers' Choice Awards
In 2026, Bass, Berry & Sims was honored in the following categories:
Top Authors
Richard Arnholt – Government Contracting
Angela Humphreys – Healthcare, M&A
Top Read Article
Healthcare – Healthcare Trends & Transactions Q2 2025
The Readers' Choice Awards reflect a deep dive into the platform's 2025 reader data, studying total visibility and engagement among readers across many industries interested in certain defining topics of the day.
JD Supra editors chose the 33 main topics covered in this year's Readers' Choice Awards for their timeliness as well as their proven, ongoing importance. In each category, JD Supra recognized ten authors and one firm for consistently highest readership and engagement within that category for all of 2025. In total, across all categories, JD Supra recognized the excellence and achievement of 342 authors selected from over 70,000 who publish their excellent work on the JD Supra platform.
The full list of 2026 honorees is available here.