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We applaud Servant of Justice Award recipients, Brooksley E. Born and Thomas E. Perez, for their steadfast commitment to providing legal aid to those in need.
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Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
on its achievements and outstanding commitment to the community. We are proud to support the
22nd Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner
Congratulations to the 2011 Award Recipients
Brooksley E. Born
The Honorable Thomas E. Perez
Aryeh S. Portnoy
DC Fiscal Policy Institute
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Making Justice RealLegal Aid, the District’s oldest,
and largest, general civil legal
services program, strives to
address the crisis in access to
justice facing low-income
individuals and families living
in the District. Every year, our
attorneys provide representation
and other assistance, and
engage in systemic and appellate
advocacy, in the areas of family
law and domestic violence,
affordable housing and eviction
prevention, public benefits, and
consumer law. The generous
support of our dedicated donors
enables us to make access to
justice a reality for thousands
of clients every year.
Thursday, April 28, 20116:00 pm President’s Reception
6:30 pm Opening Reception
7:30 pm Dinner, Awards Program, and Dessert Reception
JW Marriott Hotel1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C.
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President’s Welcome
Deborah B. BaumPillsbury WinthroP shaW Pittman llP
Executive Director’s Remarks
Eric S. Angel
Partnership Award PresentationHonoring
DC Fiscal Policy Institute Presented by Eric S. Angel
Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence Presentation Honoring
Aryeh S. Portnoy CroWell & moring llP
Presented by Arlene Fine Klepper
Dinner
Servant of Justice Award PresentationHonoring
Brooksley E. Born arnold & Porter llP
Presented by Marcia D. Greenberger
national Women’s laW Center
Servant of Justice Award Presentation Honoring
The Honorable Thomas E. Perez CiVil rights diVision oF
the united states dePartment oF JustiCe
Presented by Jonathan M. Smith
CiVil rights diVision oF the united states dePartment oF JustiCe
Closing Remarks
Deborah B. Baum
program program
sponsorssponsors
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Arent Fox LLP
Gilbert LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Defenders of Justice
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Dow Lohnes PLLC
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
LexisNexis
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Patton Boggs LLP
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Advocates of Justice
Baker Botts L.L.P. BET NetworksBNABoies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Capital OneCassidy TurleyChadbourne & Parke LLP
Citi Private Bank – The Law Firm GroupDebevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Deloitte LLP
DLA Piper LLP
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Ernst & Young LLP
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Jones DayK&L Gates LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
King & SpaldingMartin and Arlene KlepperMcDermott Will & Emery LLP
Miller & Chevalier CharteredMorgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Venable LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP
Williams & Connolly LLP
Stewards of Justice
Arnold & Porter LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP Exxon Mobil Corporation
Hogan LovellsO’Melveny & Myers LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
& The Sidley Austin FoundationSteptoe & Johnson LLP
Guardians of JusticeLeaders of Justice
Each year since 1990, the Legal Aid
Society has presented the Servant of
Justice Award to individuals and
organizations who have demonstrated
faithful dedication and remarkable
achievement in ensuring that all
persons have equal and meaningful
access to justice.
Tonight’s honorees and the past
recipients have made the struggle for
equal justice part of their personal
and professional identities. They have
demonstrated on a daily basis their
commitment to and concern for the
community of which they are a part.
Please join us in expressing our
gratitude for their life-long commitment
to community service.
ServantJustice
The
Awardsof
dinner c0-chairs
dinner steering committee
Philip W. Horton Arnold & Porter LLP
Dionne C. LomaxVinson & Elkins LLP
Kurt W. Richter Cassidy Turley
Donald B. AyerJones Day
Deborah B. BaumPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Stephen D. BrodyO’Melveny & Myers LLP
H. Guy CollierMcDermott Will & Emery LLP
Frank M. (Rusty) Conner IIIDLA Piper LLP
Donna CooperBlack Entertainment Television LLC
Steven G. ForsythExxon Mobil Corporation
Gerald S. HartmanDrinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Martin KlepperSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Leslie K. SmithChevy Chase Trust
Alon VogelLexisNexis
Scott L. WinkelmanCrowell & Moring LLP
Brooksley E. Born is a retired partner of Arnold & Porter LLP where she practiced for more than thirty years. She was head of the firm’s derivatives practice, chaired its pro bono committee, and served on its policy committee. From 1996 to 1999 Ms. Born was chair of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, the federal agency that oversees futures and commodity option markets, and strongly advocated for the need for federal regulation of the over-the-counter derivatives market. That unregulated market played a significant role in the recent financial crisis. From 2009 to 2011, she served as a Commissioner on the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission which issued a report on the causes of the crisis in January 2011.
Ms. Born has championed women’s rights, civil rights and the rights of the indigent. She currently chairs the board of the National Women’s Law Center which she helped to found and has served on the boards of a number of other public interest legal organizations. She has also served on the boards of the American Bar Association, the American Bar Foundation, and the American Law Institute-American Bar Association, and has chaired a number of ABA entities including the Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities, the Women’s Caucus, and the Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary.
She has received awards recognizing her public service including the Profile in Courage Award of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, the American Lawyer’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Outstanding Public Interest Advocate of the Year Award of the National Association of Public Interest Law (now Equal Justice Works).
Ms. Born received her law degree from Stanford Law School where she was President of the Stanford Law Review and received the Outstanding Senior Award. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, she was a law clerk to Judge Henry W. Edgerton of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor
Brooksley E. Born ARNOLD & PORTER LLP
The Servant of Justice Award
Thomas E. Perez, nominated by President Obama to serve as the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice, was sworn in on October 8, 2009. Since then, Mr. Perez has worked to restore and transform the Division, in the spirit of its traditional role as the “conscience of the nation,” to further fulfill the promise of our nation’s most treasured laws – advancing equal opportunity, leveling the playing field, and protecting the rights of all.
Mr. Perez has spent his entire career in public service. Prior to his nomination, he served as the Secretary of Maryland’s Department of Labor, Licensing and Regulation – an agency that safeguards critical consumer and worker protections – and was a principal architect of a sweeping reform package to address his state’s foreclosure crisis. In 2002, he became the first Latino elected to the Montgomery County Council, serving with distinction until 2006.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Perez spent 12 years in federal public service, mainly as a career attorney in the Civil Rights Division he now leads. In that role, he prosecuted, or supervised the prosecution of, some of the Division’s highest-profile civil rights cases, including a hate crimes case in Texas involving a group of white supremacists who went on a deadly, racially motivated crime spree. Mr. Perez later served as Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights under Attorney General Janet Reno, chairing the interagency Worker Exploitation Task Force, which oversaw a variety of initiatives designed to protect vulnerable workers. He also served as Special Counsel to the late Senator Edward Kennedy, acting as Senator Kennedy's principal adviser on civil rights, criminal justice, and constitutional issues. For the final two years of the Clinton administration, Mr. Perez served as the Director of the Office for Civil Rights at the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Mr. Perez, who has been a law professor at University of Maryland School of Law and a part-time professor at the George Washington School of Public Health, received a Bachelor's degree from Brown University in 1983, a Master's of Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government in 1987, and a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School in 1987. Mr. Perez is married to life-long poverty lawyer Anne Marie Staudenmaier, who has been advocating for persons living in poverty in the District of Columbia at the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless since 1996.
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor
The Honorable Thomas E. Perez CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
The Servant of Justice Award
Legal Aid’s Partnership Award
was created to recognize non-legal
organizations or individuals whose
work directly advances our ability
to serve our clients.
PartnershipThe
Award
The DC Fiscal Policy Institute (DCFPI) conducts research and public education on budget and tax issues in the District of Columbia, with a particular emphasis on issues that affect low-income and moderate-income residents. By preparing timely analyses that are used by policy makers, the media, and the public, DCFPI informs public debates on budget and tax issues and helps to ensure that the needs of lower-income residents are considered in those debates. DCFPI’s areas of work include: analyzing the impact of tax and other revenue policies on the District’s long-term fiscal health and on the equity of its tax system; working to ensure that programs serving low- and moderate-income residents are well designed, effective, and adequately funded; and conducting research on income and poverty trends in the District and on serious problems facing low-income residents, such as the growing shortage of affordable housing.
In addition, DCFPI is a leading partner in a local outreach campaign that informs low-income workers about the Earned Income Tax Credit and other tax benefits for which they may qualify and highlights opportunities to get free tax prepara-tion services. Among other initiatives, DCFPI manages the free tax preparation clinic in the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial Library.
DCFPI was established in 2001 by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, one of the nation’s premier policy organizations working on federal and state issues that affect low- and moderate-income residents. DCFPI is a member of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a network of state-level fiscal policy organizations.
DCFPI’s extraordinary, sustained commitment to providing accurate, detailed, practical, and effective policy analysis on issues affecting Legal Aid’s client community has been invaluable to Legal Aid’s efforts to serve its clients and better protect their rights. One of Legal Aid’s signature advocacy efforts— to preserve and enhance the workings of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program—is one of among many initiatives that has benefited from DCFPI’s work over the past several years.
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor
DC Fiscal Policy Institute
The Partnership Award
The Klepper Prize was created through
the generosity of Martin and Arlene Klepper
in order to recognize an attorney early in her
or his career who has made a significant
volunteer contribution to the Legal Aid
Society of the District of Columbia.
This evening we present the Prize to an
individual who has demonstrated a
commitment to the mission of Legal Aid
through his dedicated pro bono work and
leadership in family law cases on behalf
of Legal Aid’s client community.
KlepperThe
Prize for Volunteer Excellence
Aryeh S. Portnoy is a counsel in the litigation group at Crowell & Moring LLP. He specializes in complex domestic and cross-border litigation in state and federal trial and appellate courts. He has counseled and represented corporate, non-profit, and individual clients as well as foreign and domestic government agencies and officials in all phases of litigation in a variety of areas including white collar and securities, health care, and false claims act and qui tam litigation. Mr. Portnoy has written and presented extensively on litigation involving foreign sovereigns in U.S. courts and has represented clients in such matters ranging from complex international commercial disputes to lawsuits on behalf of victims of terrorism.
Throughout his career, Mr. Portnoy has maintained an active pro bono practice, representing indigent parents and children in contested custody actions. To date, Mr. Portnoy has handled more than 25 contested custody cases, many of them referred by Legal Aid. Moreover, he has served as a mentor and supervisor on additional contested custody cases that Legal Aid has referred to Mr. Portnoy’s colleagues at Crowell. Mr. Portnoy’s expertise has allowed the firm as a whole to take on more custody cases from Legal Aid and to tackle more complex cases that are difficult to place with pro bono counsel. Mr. Portnoy also frequently has been appointed by District of Columbia Superior Court Judges to serve as Guardian ad Litem for children at the core of these disputes. Mr. Portnoy has written on the importance of taking on pro bono custody matters and, in 2009, spoke on this topic at the Washington Council of Lawyers’ Pro Bono Fair.
In 2008, Mr. Portnoy was recognized by the Washington DC Chapter of City Year as an “Idealist of the Year” for his pro bono custody work on behalf of children in the District of Columbia. In 2009, Mr. Portnoy also was honored by Congregation Beth El of Montgomery County with a Distinguished Service Award. He also has received Crowell & Moring’s George Bailey Pro Bono Award and is a recipient of the firm’s Firm Citizenship Award. Since 2006, Mr. Portnoy has led the firm’s weekly tutoring program with children from the Thurgood Marshall Academy.
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor
Aryeh S. Portnoy CROWELL & MORING LLP
The Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence
Described as "guiding the battles of the women's rights movement" by the New York Times, Marcia Greenberger is the founder and Co-President of the National Women's Law Center. She is a recognized expert on women and the law, particularly in education,
employment, health, and family economic security. She has been a leader in the passage of major legislation and counsel in landmark litigation. Examples include the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, restoration of Title IX, the remedies of the Civil Rights Act of 1991 for sexual harassment on the job, the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, and Supreme Court victories strengthening protections for students, teachers, and employees against sex discrimination. She has been recognized by Working Woman Magazine as one of the 25 heroines whose activities over 25 years have helped women in the workplace, by Washingtonian Magazine as one of Washington, D.C.'s most powerful women, by Legal Times and The National Law Journal as one of “Washington’s Most Influential Women Lawyers.” Among other professional awards, she has received the Woman Lawyer of the Year Award from the D.C. Women’s Bar Association, the National Association of Women Lawyers’ Arabella Babb Mansfield Award, and the William J. Brennan Award from the D.C. Bar. Ms. Greenberger received her B.A. and J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.
Marcia D. Greenberger NATIONAL WOMEN’S LAW CENTER
A life-long civil rights and anti-poverty advocate, Jonathan M. Smith currently serves as the Chief of the Special Litigation Section of the Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. In this position, he works on cases that address civil rights violations
in state run institutions and by police departments; that protect access to reproductive health facilities and to religious institutions; and that ensure religious exercise for institutionalized persons. Prior to joining the Department of Justice, Mr. Smith served for more than eight years as the Executive Director of the Legal Society of the District of Columbia. For his work at Legal Aid, Mr. Smith was selected as a 2009 recipient of the Meyer Foundation Exponent Award For Leadership and as the 2006 recipient of the Justice Potter Stewart Award from the Council for Court Excellence. Before joining Legal Aid, Mr. Smith served for four years as Executive Director of the Public Justice Center in Baltimore, Maryland. Prior to this, he worked for nine years at the D.C. Prisoners’ Legal Services Project, first as a staff attorney and then as Executive Director. Mr. Smith received his B.A. from the University of Maine at Orono and his Juris Doctorate from Antioch School of Law.
Jonathan M. Smith CIVIL RIGHTS DIVISION OF THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE
Servant of Justice Award
presenters
Servant of Justice Award
2010Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Florence Wagman RoismanIndiana University School of Law – Indianapolis
2009 Anthony Herman Covington & Burling LLP
Dean Kurt L. Schmoke Howard University School of Law
2008 Professor Richard L. RoeGeorgetown University Law Center
Seth P. Waxman Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
2007E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.Hogan & Hartson LLP
Sidney White Rhyne
2006Theodore A. HowardWiley Rein LLP
2006 continued
David A. ReiserZuckerman Spaeder LLP
2005Katherine S. BroderickDean, University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law
Andrew H. MarksCrowell & Moring LLP
2004Lois G. Williams
R. Sargent Shriver
E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr.
Edgar S. Cahn
Jean Camper Cahn posthumously
2003Peter J. NicklesCovington & Burling LLP
The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
previous award recipients
continued on next page
Servant of Justice Award continued
2002Samuel F. HarahanCouncil for Court Excellence
Douglas G. RobinsonSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
2001Lynn E. CunninghamGeorge Washington University Law School
John E. NolanSteptoe & Johnson LLP
Charles F.C. RuffCovington & Burling LLP
posthumously
2000Patty Mullahy FugereWashington Legal Clinic for the Homeless
Robert N. WeinerArnold & Porter LLP
1999Blossom AtheyCovington & Burling LLP
Eldon H. CrowellCrowell & Moring LLP
1998Eric H. Holder, Jr.United States Department of Justice
Francine Salzman TemkoLegal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
1997Peter B. EdelmanGeorgetown University Law Center
Timothy J. MayPatton Boggs LLP
1996R. Kenneth Mundy
Robert L. WeinbergWilliams & Connolly LLP
1995Willie E. Cook, Jr.Neighborhood Legal Services Program
David B. IsbellCovington & Burling LLP
1994Charles T. DuncanReid and Priest
Stephen J. PollakShea & Gardner
previous award recipients previous award recipients
1994 continued
Janet RenoAttorney General of the United States
1993Justice Thurgood MarshallSupreme Court of the United States
Zona F. HostetlerO’Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach
John H. PickeringWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
1992Howard C. WestwoodCovington & Burling LLP
D.C. Legal Service Providers
1991Augustus L. PalmerHoward University
Barbara M. RossottiPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
1990Earl W. KintnerArent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, LLP
Charles A. HorskyCovington & Burling LLP
Partnership Award
2010Fair Budget Coalition
2009 Housing Counseling Services
2008Rhonique Shields-Harris, MD, MHAChildren’s National Medical Center
Gloria WilderBrathwaite, MD, MPHCORE HEALTH
Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence
2010Randall A. BraterArent Fox LLP
2009Julia Judish Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
2008 Melissa K. BianchiHogan & Hartson LLP
practice areas
Housing lawWe represent tenants who need help to avoid eviction or correct serious housing code violations. Our housing lawyers also assist public housing tenants to preserve subsidies, fight illegal rent increases, and work to prevent displacement by development.
Family lawWe work with victims of domestic violence to ensure their safety and work to achieve family stability through child support and custody cases.
Public benefits law We work to ensure that the necessary “safety net” benefits and services (including health insurance, Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income, and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) are available to all who qualify.
Consumer law
Our attorneys provide much-needed representation to help poor and low-income homeowners avoid foreclosure and fight foreclosure fraud and assist clients with a variety of small claims and other consumer matters.
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about us
The District of Columbia is facing a crisis in access to justice for persons living in poverty. Poor persons are far more likely than persons of means to encounter the legal system in cases where the stakes are high. Currently, one in every five D.C. residents lives at or below the poverty line. Compounding this issue is the dearth of free or affordable legal services for civil matters. Thus, in case after case about the most fundamental of things – the ability to remain in one’s home, the right to medical care, the capacity to keep a family together, the right to protection from an abuser – low-income D.C. residents find themselves facing the challenges and intricacies of the court system on their own.
At the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, the District’s oldest and largest general civil legal services program, we work each and every day to combat this injustice and ensure that as many people as possible have access to a lawyer. Every year, Legal Aid lawyers assist clients in thousands of matters in the areas of family, housing, public benefits, and consumer law. Legal Aid attorneys also help hundreds of others with legal rights education or referrals and seek systemic and appellate change to better protect the rights of people living in poverty.
In a city with one of the greatest income differences between rich and poor in the nation, the Legal Aid Society is working to make justice real for D.C.’s most vulnerable residents.
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current projects
Community Offices Through the Southeast Neighborhood Access Project and the Landlord Tenant Court Based Legal Services Project, we endeavor to reduce barriers to access by collaborating with other legal or social services providers in locations already frequented by potential clients. Clients can receive services in at least one, if not all, of our practice areas at each of these locations. Beginning in May 2011, we will be providing same day representation in child support cases through an office at the Paternity and Child Support Branch of the D.C. Superior Court.
Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Project Legal Aid has established a highly-respected program of appellate advocacy. Through this initiative, we pursue appellate litigation that will improve the decisional law across the spectrum of our practice areas and better protect the rights of persons living in poverty.
Systemic Advocacy and Reform Projects The integration of systemic advocacy and reform projects with our individual representation and direct client services is a cornerstone of our work on behalf of persons living in poverty.
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Pro Bono Referral Program
Legal Aid’s Pro Bono Referral Program refers cases to attorneys working in private law firms and government agencies. Pro bono attorneys expand Legal Aid’s capacity to help individuals and families who we otherwise would have to turn away because of limited in-house resources. Legal Aid refers cases in the areas of housing law, child custody, child support, public benefits, and consumer law, as well as a limited number of appellate matters. The matters are screened by Legal Aid staff prior to referral. For each matter referred, an experienced Legal Aid staff attorney is assigned as a mentor to answer any questions the pro bono attorney may have, provide sample pleadings, discuss relevant case law and strategy, and offer ongoing guidance as the case moves forward.
If you would like more information about pro bono opportunities with Legal Aid, please contact:
Jodi FeldmanDirector of Pro Bono and Intake Programs
Phone: (202) 661-5965 Email: [email protected]
pro bono
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District of Columbia Bar Foundation
The Legal Aid Society created the Leadership Cabinet in order to recognize those donors each year that support the organization in significant ways. We are proud to recognize our Leadership Cabinet members as of April 5, 2011 for their generous support.
Annual Gift Recognition ProgramCabinet
LeadershipThe 2011
Silver Patron $30,000 – $49,999
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship program
Jerry Hartman in Memory of Barbara McDowell
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
The Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
Covington & Burling LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Gold Patron $50,000 – $74,999
Platinum Patron $75,000 & up
In addition to their generous financial contributions, the following firms loan an associate to Legal Aid on a full-time basis for 6-month rotations:
Arnold & Porter LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Legal Aid would also like to thank the District of Columbia's Office of Victim Services and the Office of the Tenant Advocate for their support of our Family Law and Housing Programs.
Arent Fox LLP
Consumer Health Foundation
Gilbert LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Bronze Patron $20,000 – $29,999
Patron $10,000 – $19,999
Arnold & Porter LLP
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Dow Lohnes PLLC
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Hogan Lovells
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
LexisNexis
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Patton Boggs LLP
Sidley Austin LLP and The Sidley Austin Foundation
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
The Neighbors in Need Fund of The Community Foundation for the National Capital Region
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Amer AhmedWilliams & Connolly LLP
Thomas G. AllenPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Kavitha BabuArent Fox LLP
Joanna GiasafakisArent Fox LLP
Thomas M. Henry, IIIJones Day
Daniel Z. Herbst Reed Smith LLP
Amanda MajorWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Reginald B. McKnightWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Vadim SchickPost & Schell, P.C.
BJ ShannonAlston & Bird LLP
Derek Y. SugimuraGilbert LLP
Briana ThibeauDow Lohnes PLLC
Ryan C. TischCrowell & Moring LLP
Daniel WendtMiller & Chevalier Chartered
Howard A. Wolf-RoddaBrown Rudnick LLP
We would also like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all of our 2010 Campaign Co-Chairs:
251+ attorneysWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
$66,573
201–250 attorneysWilliams & Connolly LLP $34,210
151–200 attorneysMayer Brown LLP $26,540
A spirit of friendly competition has long been the hallmark of the Generous Associates Campaign. The following are the top-contributing firms in each size category:
101–150 attorneysDow Lohnes PLLC $22,304
51–100 attorneysMiller & Chevalier Chartered $20,172
1–50 attorneysGilbert LLP $27,000
Generous associates throughout Washington, D.C.’s legal community raised a remarkable $678,000 from their colleagues and firms during last year. Congratulations to all our participants.
Legal Aid would like to recognize last year’s Honorary Co-Chair: Michele A. RobertsAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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WilmerHale salutes Brooksley E. Born of Arnold & Porter LLP; Thomas E. Perez of the US Department of Justice; DC Fiscal Policy Institute; and Aryeh S. Portnoy of Crowell & Moring LLP, honorees of the 22nd Annual Servant of Justice Dinner.
We are proud to support the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
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Arnold & Porter LLP is proud to sponsor the
22nd Annual Servant of Justice Dinner
The firm extends a special honor to
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Hogan Lovells is proud to support the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, and we congratulate Brooksley Born and Thomas Perez, the 2011 Servant of Justice Award honorees.
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for its commitment to justice for all D.C. residents
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Support Legal Aid Legal Aid raises the majority of its budget through private sources including law firms, attorneys, corporations, legal support professionals, and foundations. We depend heavily on the D.C. legal community’s generosity. There are many ways to support Legal Aid’s effort to make justice real:
• Give through the Generous Associates Campaign this summer.
• Contribute to the Annual Appeal at the end of the year.
• Sponsor the 23rd Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner on the 80th anniversary year on April 26, 2012.
• Designate 8140 in the United Way Campaign or 81566 in the Combined Federal Campaign.
•Secure a match for your donation. Many employers will match the charitable contributions of their employees. Contact your Human Resources Department to learn more.
•Consider adding a bequest to your will that contributes to the sustainable future of Legal Aid. In the alternative, designate Legal Aid as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy or charitable trust.
For more information about these opportunities, please visit our website at www.legalaiddc.org or contact Gregg A. Kelley, Director of Development, by phone at (202) 661-5964 or email at [email protected].
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Tonight’s Servant of Justice Awards Dinner has been made possible by
the generosity of Washington, D.C.’s legal and business communities.
Legal Aid is extremely grateful for their support. In addition, Legal Aid
would like to thank those who contributed significant time, energy,
and services in-kind to make this evening such a success:
thank you
S T A F F
Eric Angel Executive Director
Rosanne Avilés Senior Staff Attorney
Julie Becker Supervising Attorney
Gary Cunningham Intake Coordinator/Investigator
Maggie Donahue Staff Attorney
Jodi Feldman Director of Pro Bono and Intake Programs
Beth Mellen Harrison Supervising Attorney and Project Director
Jennifer Hatton Staff Attorney
Katherine L. Hays Chief Operations Officer
Jeannette Henderson Administrative Assistant
Shirley HorngStaff Attorney
Negar Katirai Staff Attorney
Jack Keeney Director, The Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Project
Gregg A. Kelley Director of Development
Jennifer Klein Legal Administrative Assistant
Julianna Lee Senior Staff Attorney
Trisha Monroe Supervising Attorney and Project Director
Rachel Nadas Legal Administrative Assistant
Lucy Newton Supervising Attorney and Project Director
Andrew Patterson Staff Attorney
Anna Purinton Staff Attorney
Sandra Read-Brown Development Associate
Rachel Rintelmann Staff Attorney
Patricia Roulhac Legal Secretary
James van R. Springer Volunteer Staff Attorney
David Steib Staff Attorney
our staff
F E L L O W S
Monica Bell Yale Law School Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow
Jennifer Yi Man Cheung Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Legal Fellow
Alana Genderson Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Law Firm Fellow
Savannah Marion Steptoe & Johnson LLP Law Firm Fellow
Jennifer Ngai Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Recovery Fellow
David Young Ropes & Gray LLP Law Firm Fellow
S T A F F continued
Jeremy Strauss Legal Administrative Assistant
Tianna Terry Staff Attorney
Stephanie Troyer Supervising Attorney
Wendy Weinberg Supervising Attorney
Alfonso Wright Controller
Andrea Zumbrum Intake Coordinator/Investigator
L O A N E D A S S O C I A T E S
Sue Atkins Steptoe & Johnson LLP Loaned Associate
Kevin Henley Arnold & Porter LLP Loaned Associate
Amy Lee Crowell & Moring LLP Loaned Associate
Vijay Singh Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Loaned Associate
our staff
David S. DantzicLatham & Watkins LLP
Jonathan M. FeeAlston & Bird LLP
Steven G. ForsythExxon Mobil Corporation
Brenda P. FullerSodexo, Inc.
Scott D. GilbertGilbert LLP
David C. GoldbergSerco, Inc.
Gerald S. HartmanDrinker Biddle & Reath LLP
John E. HeintzDickstein Shapiro LLP
Christopher J. HerrlingWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Donald B. AyerJones Day
David R. BerzWeil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Stephen D. BrodyO'Melveny & Myers LLP
Barbara B. BrownPaul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Graeme W. Bush Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
H. Guy Collier McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Frank M. (Rusty) ConnerDLA Piper LLP
Donna CooperBlack Entertainment Television, LLC
Robert CooperBoies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Deborah B. BaumPresident Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Deanne M. OttavianoVice President Arent Fox LLP
Joyce Trimble GwadzSecretaryDow Lohnes PLLC
Theodore B. StoneTreasurer Ernst & Young LLP
O F F I C E R S
M E M B E R S
board of trustees
Michael RaibmanReed Smith LLP
John P. RelmanRelman, Dane & Colfax, PLLC
Kurt RichterCassidy Turley
Tangela RichterCapital One
Henry M. RiveraWiley Rein LLP
Leslie K. SmithChevy Chase Trust
Mary Lou SollerMiller & Chevalier Chartered
Peter S. SpivackHogan Lovells
Rebecca K. TrothSidley Austin LLP
Alon VogelLexisNexis
Scott L. Winkelman Crowell & Moring LLP
Alan M. Wiseman Covington & Burling LLP
Philip W. HortonArnold & Porter LLP
Daniel G. JarchoMcKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Barbara K. KaganSteptoe & Johnson LLP
Dennis M. KieferDeloitte LLP
Kenneth Klein Mayer Brown LLP
Martin KlepperSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Dionne C. LomaxVinson & Elkins LLP
Marc S. MartinK&L Gates LLP
Timothy J. MayPatton Boggs LLP
John M. NannesSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Michael E. NannesDickstein Shapiro LLP
Anthony T. PierceAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Karl A. Racine Venable LLP
M E M B E R S continued
board of trustees
join us againPlease plan to join
Legal Aid next year for the
23rd Servant of Justice
Awards Dinner,
during which we will
be celebrating our
80th Anniversary, on
April 26, 2012
at the JW Marriott Hotel.
C. Stanley Dees
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Michael S. HelferCitigroup
Michael J. HenkeSpace Adventures Ltd.
Stephen S. Hill
Caswell O. Hobbs
G. Philip Nowak Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Thomas C. PapsonMcKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
S. White Rhyne
Barbara M. RossottiPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Robert N. SaylerCovington & Burling LLP
Thomas Schattenfield
Daniel W. Toohey
the presidents council
