When Jenner & Block LLP created an associate-nominated mentorship award in 2010, the firm’s first choice was senior partner Jerry J. Burgdoerfer. “That’s really one of the things he was most proud of,” said fellow partner and longtime colleague Howard S. Suskin. “He always would refer back to the fact of how much it meant to him that he had been recognized by the associates as a good teacher and mentor.” After a five-year battle with multiple myeloma, Burgdoerfer &mdash …