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Annual Partnership Awards Benefit

thursday, november 19,

2009

Davis Polkis proud to support Brooklyn Legal ServicesCorporation A in its vital efforts to improve the quality of life in the neighborhoods it serves.

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6:00 pm cocktails & dinner

7:00 pm

WELCOME martin s. needelman Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

paul j. acinapura Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

POSTHUMOUSLY RECOGNIZING

richard wagner Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

WELCOME FROM MASTER OF CEREMONIES errol louis New York Daily News

REMARKS FROM KEYNOTE SPEAKER hon. judith s. kaye Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

7:20 pm award presentations

HONOREES john d. feerick Fordham University School of Law THE DENIS BERGER MEMORIAL AWARD

Presented by alice berger

eileen auld Citi

father john powis Bushwick Housing Independence Project 7:40 pm

PRO-BONO RECOGNITION valarie a. hing, Board Chair AND CLOSING REMARKS Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

PRO-BONO RECOGNITION OF

cleary, gottlieb, steen & hamilton llp

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

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benefit

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Henry Baer Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

Fran Barrett Community Resource Exchange

Wayne Barrett Village Voice

John M. Callagy Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP

Peter A. Cross Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan LLP

Evan A. Davis Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Matthew E. Fishbein Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Caroline Forte Pfizer

William Frank Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

Marilyn Gelber Brooklyn Community Foundation

Valarie A. Hing Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

Robert M. Kaufman Proskauer Rose LLP

Grace Lyu-Volckausen Tiger Baron Foundation

Kenneth J. Mahon Dime Community Bancshares

Edward Odom Citi

Vincent F. Pitta Pitta & Giblin LLC

Bettina Plevan Proskauer Rose LLP

Kennedy Rivera Bushwick Housing Independance Project

Saul Shapiro Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Robert Sheehan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

Thomas McC. Souther Sidley Austen Brown & Wood LLP

Terri Thomson Thomson Strategies

Dean William Treanor Fordham University School of Law

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UNDERWRITER $25,000

CitiSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

PARTNER $15,000

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLPDebevoise & Plimpton LLP

ASSOCIATE $10,000

Con EdisonDIMEKelley, Drye & Warren LLPM&T Charitable TrustPfizer

PATRON $5,000

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLPDeutsche BankPatterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLPBettina and Kenneth Plevan

ADVOCATE $3,500

Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan LLP

FRIEND $1,250

Breger BermelFordham University School of LawLankler, Siffert & Wohl, LLP

NON-PROFIT PARTNER $500

Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health CenterBrownsville Community Development CorporationCypress Hills Local Development Make the Road NYTrey Whitfield School Urban Health Plan

CONTRIBUTOR

Robert L. Begleiter Brooklyn Law School Amy and Mike CaplanSteve CohnCurtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLPCorporationELM Fundraising Douglas Giles Ruth NathansonNational Grid Sara C. Norris Vincent Pitta Eric G. PoulosRose-Belkin-García-Rosen family Cye RossRobert SafronAndrew SchererSidley Austin Brown & Wood LLPTom SoutherThomson StrategiesJoan WexlerMollie and David ZalmanZalman and Schnurman Zwerling, Schachter & Zwerling LLP

list as of November 13th

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BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Valarie A. Hing, Chair

James H.R. Windels, Vice Chair

Thomas McC. Souther, Treasurer

Robert E. Crotty, Secretary

Jane N. Barrett

Arthur V. Bates, Emeritus

Musa Abdul-Basser

Robert L. Begleiter

Matthew Fishbein

Harold Green

Harvey Lawrence

Joseph Lipofsky

Frances Lucerna

Rev. Peter A. Mahoney, Emeritus

Moronke Oshin-Martin

Anne Pilsbury

Saul B. Shapiro

A.B. Whitfield

Martin S. Needelman Project Director & Chief CounselPaul J. Acinapura General Counsel

our mission

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A’s purpose and goal is to provide high-quality legal assistance to low-income individuals and community groups in North and East Brooklyn.

Our work prevents homelessness, helps people-in-need receive the benefits they are entitled to, assures that families remain whole, and helps communities thrive and grow. This work, and our success with it, makes Brooklyn A unique and exceptional in its ability to improve the quality of life and promote empowerment within the many and diverse communities we serve.

Your generosity will allow Brooklyn A and our grassroots partners to help many more struggling Brooklyn residents build a brighter future. Thanks to your support, Brooklyn families and organizations taking a stand for social and economic justice will have committed Brooklyn A attorneys by their side.

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STAFF LIST

williamsburg office

Jennifer Ahn Volunteer Attorney

Susan BarrieSenior Staff Attorney

Antonia CepedaMaintenance Worker

Julie R. ChartoffSenior Staff Attorney

Zamara EdwardsIntake Officer/Receptionist

Robyn D. FisherSenior Staff Attorney

Joshua D. Hoffman*Director, Finance & Administration

Joanne KoslofskySenior Staff Attorney

Shekar KrishnanDeferred Associate, Weil Gotshal and Manges LLP

Farns LafaiteySenior Legal Assistant

Liz MacNeill*Senior Development Consultant

Roberto MarreroSenior Staff Attorney

Batya Miller*Pro Bono Coordinator

Patricia MurraySenior Staff Attorney

Martin S. Needelman*Project Director & Chief Counsel

Maria M. Posner*Office Manager

Roberto ReyesInvestigator/Process Server

Ester SchwartzIntake Officer/Receptionist

Eric SieskelAdministrative Assistant

Victor M. Torres*Unit Director

Mollie Zalman*Director of Development

Deborah DiamantJosh MabrayKahlil WinslowExterns

east brooklyn office

Paul J. Acinapura*General Counsel

Alma BrownSenior Legal Assistant

Milta CalderonIntake Officer/Process Server

Djinsad DesirExtern

Sarah EscobarExecutive Secretary

Lauren T. FoudaStaff Attorney

Mike HaberSenior Staff Attorney

Terry HermanSenior Staff Attorney

Rose M. MorganSenior Staff Attorney

Leander E. McRae*Unit Director

Rafael MartinezSenior Staff Attorney

Nicole PrenoveauStaff Attorney

Jessica RoseUnit Director

Myrna SanabriaSenior Legal Assistant

Joseph SandersStaff Attorney

Robert SheehanLegal Assistant

Gustavo Benchimol William Freiberg Rafael VasquezExterns

bushwick office

David J. BryanManaging Attorney

Vance GathingStaff Attorney

Joe PachecoSenior Legal Assistant

Migdalia Ruiz

Executive Secretary

benefit staff

Mollie ZalmanDirector of Development

Liz MacNeillSenior Development Consultant

Gertrude HoustonFilm Procution

Ingrid Bromberg KennedyJournal and Invitation Design

Todd PlittPhotogaphy

* program wide

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ADVISORY COMMITTEE

honorary co-chairs

Barry H. Garfinkel Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Henry L. King Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP

Robert MacCrate Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Sargent Shriver Special Olympics, Inc.

Haywood Burns 1940-1996

Paul J. Curran 1933-2008

Charles E. Inniss 1935-1997

Hon. Harold R. Tyler, Jr. 1921-2005

William A. Volckhausen 1937-2001

Peter A. Cross, Co-Chair Jacob Medinger & Finnegan LLP

Nelson Perez, Co-Chair Con Edison

Alvin Adelman Cullen and Dykman LLP

Henry P. Baer Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Maureen Bateman Manhattanville College

Eileen Berkman JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Carlos Cabrales Bank Leumi

Evan A. Davis Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Thomas Early Health Plus

Randy Estrada TD Bank

Steven Flax M & T Bank

Caroline E. Forte Pfizer Global Manufacturing

Joseph E. Geoghan

Stephen L. Gordo Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Michael Gugig Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Gary S. Hattem Deutsche Bank

Jean G. Leon Kings County Hospitals Corporation

Brendan J. Dugan St. Francis College

Kenneth J. Mahon Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh

Sam Marks Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation

William Mastro Emblem Health

Edward Odom Citi

Jason Otano Brooklyn Borough President’s Office

Vincent F. Pitta Pitta & Giblin LLP

Bettina B. Plevan Proskauer Rose LLP

Mariadele Priest Capital One Bank

Patricia Ricketts

Robert Sheehan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Leslie B. Samuels Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP

Terri Thomson Thomson Strategies

Dean William Treanor Fordham University School of Law

Grace Lyu Volckhausen Tiger Baron Foundation

Joseph Wayland Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

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HONOREE

John D. Feerick is currently the Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Pub-

lic Service at Fordham University School of Law and is the Director

and Founder of the Feerick Center for Federal Justice at the law school.

Mr. Feerick previously served as the Dean of the law school from 1982

to 2002. Before coming to Fordham, Mr. Feerick was a partner at the

firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (1961-1982), where

he headed the labor and employment practice. He was the chair of

the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association from

1998 to 2001. Mr. Feerick has served as both an arbitrator and media-

tor of difficult disputes in both the public and private sectors.

Throughout his career, Mr. Feerick has remained committed to public

service and has served in a number of public capacities. He served as a

member of the New York State Law Revision Commission (1982-1987)

and as one of New York City’s two representatives to the New York City Office of Collective

Bargaining (1980-1987). From 1987 to 1990, he chaired the New York State Commission

on Government Integrity, a commission whose task is to investigate systemic corruption

and make recommendations for reform.

That role carried the additional title of

State Special Deputy Attorney General.

Mr. Feerick also served as President of

the Association of the Bar of the City of

New York (1992-1994), Chair of the New York State Committee to Review Audio-Visual

Coverage of Court Proceedings (1996-1997), President of the Citizen’s Union Foundation

(1987-1999), Chair of the Fund for Modern Courts (1995-1999), Chair of the New York

State Commission to Promote Public Confidence in the Judiciary (2003-2004), Chair of

the New York State Ethics Commission (2007), and Chair of the New York State Commis-

sion on Public Integrity (2007-2009). He was a member of the New York State Committee

to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System and he served as a member of

the New York State Continuing Legal Education Board (1998-2002). He served as a mem-

john d. feerick

Throughout his career, Mr. Feerick has remained committed to public service and has served in a number of public capacities.

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ber of the Special Master Panel on Family Homelessness in New York City and as a referee

in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v The State of New York school-funding case.

Mr. Feerick’s publications include: “From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential

Succession” (1965), “The Twenty Fifth Amendment,” which was nominated for the

Pulitzer Prize (1976 & 1992 ed.), “The Vice Presidents of the United States,” (co-au-

thored with Emalie P. Feerick, 1967), and “NLRB Representation Elections-Law, Prac-

tice & Procedure,” (co-authored with Henry P. Baer and Jonathan P. Arfa, 1979-1980).

Mr. Feerick is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Fordham College (B.S.), and he received

his LL.B. from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the

law review. Mr. Feerick has been the recipient of various awards and honorary degrees.

This year’s Attorney Honoree, John Feerick, will receive the Denis Berger Memorial Award. Denis was our long term Director of Development and played a critical role in expanding and sustaining Brooklyn A’s capacity to fulfill its Mission. He was also a pillar of the labor and progressive community.

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HONOREE

Eileen A. Auld joined Citi in October 2003. In July 2007, Eileen as-

sumed the position of New York State Director for Community Re-

lations for Citi’s Global Consumer Group serving as the point person

for all franchise wide community relations activity within the State of

New York. In this position, Eileen works closely with Citi’s businesses

to leverage Citi’s financial and human capital in addressing communi-

ty needs. Presently, Eileen serves as the Vice Chair of the Long Island

City Business Improvement District, Treasurer of the New York City

Police Department’s Police Management Institute, a board member

of the Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC, the Neighborhood Op-

portunities Fund and the New York City Department of Youth and

Community Development Community Action Board. Eileen was

appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to the New York City Department

of Consumer Affairs’ Office of Financial Empowerment Advisory Council.

Prior to this position, Eileen served as Citibank’s Director of National Initiatives

and Community Programs. In this capacity, she formulated strategies and executed

national community programs for Citibank.

Eileen began her career at Citibank as the

Director of Community Relations for Queens.

She was responsible for working with local

and national staff to establish Citibank’s lead-

ership role in the community. She worked closely with many non-profit organizations

in the Borough of Queens serving on the boards of the Queens Library Foundation,

the L.I.C. Business Development Corporation, the L.I.C. Business Improvement Dis-

trict, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Ocean Bay Community Develop-

ment Corporation and a member of the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation

Prior to joining Citibank, Eileen was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Commu-

nity Affairs of the New York City Police Department in January 1998. Serving under

Commissioners Safir, Kerik and Kelly, Eileen managed Police Department resources

eileen a. auld

Eileen works closely with Citi’s businesses to leverage Citi’s financial and human capital in addressing community needs

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and personnel to oversee programs to meet community needs. After the events of 9/11,

Eileen assisted in the Police Department’s coordination of service delivery at the Family

Assistance Center and the Javits Center after Flight 587.

Eileen began her career in government at Community Board 2 as the Assistant

District Manager before accepting a position at the Queens Borough President’s Office

in 1990. Eileen was an assistant to Borough President Claire Shulman and the Chair-

person of the Queens Task Force to Eliminate Graffiti. As the borough’s Deputy Direc-

tor of Economic Development she implemented programs to retain, attract and grow

businesses in the borough.

Eileen is a life long resident of Queens. She graduated with Honors from Queens

College with a B.A. in Urban Studies. She is a graduate of Columbia University

Business School, Police Management Institute. Eileen and her husband Tom reside in

Forest Hills, have four daughters; Eileen Anne, Therese, Danielle, and Jacqueline, three

sons through marriage, Deeran, Sean, and Lenny, and six grandchildren, Andrew,

Alanna, Arden, Alyse, Ellery, and Gwendolyn.

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HONOREE

On the last day of May, Pentecost Sunday, 300 people filling the pews of Our

Lady of Presentation Church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, rose to applaud one

of their own.

Father John Powis, 75, is a monsignor and, as such, rates deep respect.

But the applause had nothing to do with rank, and everything to do with

honoring his 50 years of creative and Christly troublemaking since taking his

vows in 1959.

Powis, wearing a bright red vestment, nodded and smiled in response.

It was the same smile he wears in Housing Court when he hopes that the

sight of a clerical collar under his flannel shirt might induce a judge to grant

someone a stay of eviction. It was the same smile he turns on city inspectors

when asking them to please just climb one more flight to see the really ter-

rible conditions endured by the tenant on the top floor. He uses the smile as

well to great effect on the foundations asked to fund his tiny advocacy group in the rectory

at St. Barbara’s Church in Bushwick, where the poorest of the poor walk in unannounced all

day with tangled tales of woe.

That has been his idea of retirement

since he stepped down five years ago as

pastor of St. Barbara’s, the majestic twin-

spired church on Central Avenue. He

spent 16 years there, presiding over one of

the city’s poorest parishes. So many were eager to attend Mass that they spilled out into the

street on Sundays. Before that, he put in a couple of years at St. Sylvester’s in the City Line

neighborhood on Brooklyn’s eastern border, where he was raised, one of 10 brothers and sis-

ters. And before that, he spent 25 years—a full career for most—presiding at Presentation,

nestled at the junction of Rockaway and St. Marks avenues, where the trees stop on Eastern

Parkway and pure inner city reality begins.

“This will always be my spiritual home,” he told the congregation on Sunday. He first

walked these streets as a teenage altar boy, dispatched on Saturday afternoons to nearby

father john powis

He spent 16 years at St. Barbara’s, presiding over one of the city’s poorest parishes. So many were eager to attend Mass that they spilled out into the street on Sundays

Rebel With a Cause: Brooklyn Priest Father John PowisBy Tom Robbins

Reprinted from the Village Voice,

June 9, 2009

Thank you Tom Robbins

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Hopkinson Avenue to pick up bread for the Eucharist. “It struck me how I was the only

white person around and yet people treated me very nicely.” Later, when he decided to

become a priest, his idea was to head South, where the civil rights movement was stirring.

An influential seminary teacher persuaded him that he could serve the same people right in

Brooklyn. “They are coming up here in droves,” he was told.

He took his initial training in the Fort Greene housing projects, assisting an order

of nuns devoted to the poor. “It was the best school you could ever go to,” he said. “We

knocked on every door, Catholic and otherwise. Everyone knew us.” The training was

supplemented by visits to Puerto Rico and Mexico, where he studied Spanish under Ivan

Illich, the brilliant Catholic philosopher. “He refused to teach us the language unless we

also learned the culture,” said Powis.

To earn pocket money, and because he loved the game, he worked the stands at Ebbets

Field, selling hot dogs and beer as the Dodgers played their final Brooklyn seasons. In his

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sermon, he offered a small confession: “Sometimes the hot dogs were in the water so long

they changed color. They told us to put a lot of mustard on them, which I did.”

He arrived at Presentation in 1963, a time when many whites, fearful of the blacks

and Hispanics moving in, decided they

would rather be someplace else. Powis

led his own small reverse migration.

He never learned to drive a car.

Who needed one? He walked or rode

the bus. “In the middle of the night, the

police stopped me. They said, ‘Father,

are you crazy? Why are you wandering around out here alone?’ I told them I had to visit

a sick parishioner. They wanted to give me a ride home. I said, ‘No thank you.’ “

His thinking was that the church should nourish body as well as spirit. Parishioners

complained of few jobs, bad housing, and overcrowded schools, and he

sought to bring his pulpit into the streets. He helped persuade the city to let

some of Brownsville’s children ride buses to attend under-utilized schools in

white neighborhoods. “It was a disaster,” he said. “They threw eggs and to-

matoes at us. They crowded all our kids into one room on a separate floor.”

He and others urged an alternative on city officials. “We said, ‘Let us run

our own schools.’ We wanted African-American and Hispanic principals.

They would always pass the written test and then fail the oral interviews.

We needed some people who understood the children. Well, we got Afri-

can-American and Hispanic principals.” Here, the congregation at Presenta-

tion interrupted him with applause.

This became the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district, a hopeful

opportunity that quickly devolved into a bitter teachers’ union strike and

a white-black split that echoes to this day. “It could have been something

wonderful,” he says of it now. “But the teachers fought us from the moment

it started. Once they turned on us, some of the parents also became too

radical in response.”

Among the radicals was a trio who arrived at Presentation one evening

asking Powis to write a letter for a job-seeking relative just out of jail. “I look

up and they have three .45 automatics pointed at me.” He was ordered to

His thinking was that the church should nourish body as well as spirit. Parishioners complained of few jobs, bad housing, and overcrowded schools, and he sought to bring his pulpit into the streets.

father john powis continued

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open the church safe with its $1,800 in bingo money. “Twice I couldn’t open it. One of

them says, ‘We usually just blow the heads off white men.’ “ The safe finally complied.

Powis was gagged, hooded, and locked in a bathroom. When the police arrived, they

showed him pictures of likely suspects. He recognized one of the robbers. It was Black

Liberation Army leader JoAnne Chesimard, a/k/a Assata Shakur. “I didn’t know her,

but I had heard that a few weeks before she and others had robbed and killed a white

real estate broker on Howard Avenue. I guess I was lucky.”

The priest whose life the radicals spared continued his mission. When federal job

training funds arrived in the mid-’70s, he helped local residents renovate five buildings

on Pacific Street. A few years later, organizers from the Saul Alinsky–inspired Indus-

trial Areas Foundation were invited into the neighborhood. Powis helped found what

eventually became East Brooklyn Congregations. Leaders hatched plans for hundreds of

one-family, low-cost homes to be built on East Brooklyn’s vacant, rubble-strewn tracts.

They would be sold to those trapped

in public housing, unable to afford

homes of their own. Through con-

frontation and cajoling, the group won

over Mayor Ed Koch to the program,

dubbed Nehemiah, after the prophet who rebuilt Jerusalem.

“We have 4,000 beautiful little homes now, right here in Brooklyn and the South

Bronx,” Powis told the congregation. “We have five foreclosures. People all over are being

foreclosed because they paid too high a price. We have five. Nehemiah could work all

over this country.”

He finished his sermon the way he had begun it. “This will always be my home,” he

said as the wheezing of bus brakes was heard through the open windows. “I ride that 60

Wilson Avenue bus every day. I always think as I go by here that people should know

that this is a place that is interested in my life, not just in my spirit.

“They say that I was what they call an activist priest. Well, maybe I was. I don’t

complain and I’ve had a wonderful 50 years.” He closed with a prayer, asking to make

the world a place of peace and justice. Then he walked slowly up the aisle in his red vest-

ment, smiling and with his head bent forward.

“They say that I was what they call an activist priest. Well, maybe I was. I don’t complain and I’ve had a wonderful 50 years.”

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POSTHUMOUSLY RECOGNIZING

richard wagner

Rick Wagner came to Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

(Brooklyn A) as the Director of Litigation in 1985. He came fully

formed as the Rick Wagner that everyone at BKA knew, and some-

times, loved, with a quick wit, a liberal fire in his belly, a sharp legal

mind and an undying love for the Brooklyn Dodgers.

Rick Wagner was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the Five

Towns region of Long Island. After graduating from college, he

worked as a New York City cab driver and a journalist for NBC

before finding his career in the law at William M. Kunstler’s Center

for Constitutional Rights, where he worked on a successful appeal in

the Chicago 8 trial. After choosing a career in the law, he graduated

from New York Law School and was a partner at Stolar, Alterman,

Wagner & Boop before coming to Brooklyn A in 1985.

His career at Brooklyn A was marked by groundbreaking legal work in the areas of

housing and foreclosure. He pioneered the use of civil RICO against landlords who

transmitted false representations of repairs to the federal government. These cases

resulted in excellent outcomes for tenants, including some who came to own their

buildings. He was an early pioneer in the area of foreclosure, bringing affirmative cases

against lenders, mortgage brokers and property flippers years before foreclosure was on

the national radar. As a result of his work, state courts in Brooklyn recently recognized

(reluctantly) the age old legal truth that mortgages based on deeds procured by fraud

are in fact void.

Rick’s death on September 20, 2009 was a shock to everyone at BKA. His death

leaves a wound in our hearts and our organization that can only be healed by

carrying on the groundbreaking legal work for the economically underprivileged that

is Rick’s legacy. – Joe Sanders

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BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A’S RICK WAGNER DIED AT AGE 65.

Rick Wagner, a legal services lawyer, died at home Monday, apparently of a heart attack, bringing to a sudden end a lifetime of service to the poorest New Yorkers.

Mr. Wagner’s passing represents a loss for those who live in the precincts of East New York and Brownsville, Brooklyn, and faint hope for the goniffs — Yiddish for scoundrels and Mr. Wagner’s favorite insult — whom he pursued to the end of the world or the New York City line, whichever came first.

Round-bellied and bearded, Mr. Wagner, who was 65, grew up in the Five Towns region of Long Island and served as litigation director for Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A in East New York. Settling in an abandoned bank branch, he commandeered the former president’s office as his lair, and his legal files piled as high as floodwater sandbags around his desk. He rescued a portrait of George Washington from a garbage pile and gave it an honored place on the wall, explain-ing that the bewigged fellow was “the first revolutionary.”

An inventive lawyer who took himself not too seriously, he possessed a Ph.D. in sardonic insult and aphorism. Confronting a dim-witted prosecutor, he inquired if the lawyer needed a GPS device to find his backside. Of a particularly exotic form of mortgage fraud, he noted with just a touch of admiration that “larceny is the mother of invention.”

Alas, much of Mr. Wagner’s most inventive, not to mention joyful, verbal handiwork remains unprintable in The New York Times.

Except to take a breath, he rarely stopped talking. He once asked this reporter to quote one of his younger colleagues, who had labored hard on a particular case. His request was difficult to honor as Mr. Wagner rattled on for most of the inter-view and kept everyone, including his client, laughing.

Mr. Wagner was of a generation that viewed radical social change as challenge and obligation, not to mention worth a chuckle. After graduating from New York Law School, he found a home in William M. Kunstler’s radical nest, the Center for Constitutional Rights, before founding his own left-wing firm. “We were go-ing to be a progressive legal collective, but our political standards lowered as our fees increased,” he told City Limits magazine a decade back. “It’s hard to say no to a heroin dealer who drops 75 grand on your desk.”

Nonetheless, Mr. Wagner took a pay cut and left to work for legal services in

A Voice for the Poor Is SilencedBy Michael Powell

Reprinted from the New York

Times, September 22, 2009

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1985. With a colleague, Jim Provost, he pioneered the use of civil racketeering laws in East New York. Their first targets were the landlords of a large develop-ment who certified every month to HUD that their decrepit federally subsidized apartments were in decent and sanitary condition. Because the owners sent these transparently fraudulent certifications more than once through the mail, and de-posited the federal subsidies into their bank accounts, the legal services lawyers argued that the landlords fit the federal definition of racketeers. That meant the owners could be sued for triple damages.

The landlords experienced a come to God moment and turned the deed over to the tenants in 1995.

Of late, Mr. Wagner reasoned that the Federal Reserve and Treasury were do-ing a splendid job of looking out for the bankers, so he took up the legal cudgel to protect impoverished homeowners from foreclosure. He and a colleague con-vinced the F.D.I.C. to substantially write down a mortgage for an elderly client, he waged a decade-long civil battle against a particularly unrepentant house flipper, and grew so frustrated with the inaction of the Brooklyn district attorney in com-bating mortgage fraud that he took to traveling around Brooklyn on weekends, showing up at forums to challenge prosecutors.

One Saturday last winter, he cornered a wincing deputy prosecutor before a crowd in a church basement in Flatlands. “Most of the con artists perpetrating frauds continue to have a better chance of being kidnapped by Somali pirates than of being prosecuted by your office,” Mr. Wagner noted to hoots of applause.

Weeks later, the district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, announced with some fan-fare the arrest of a low-level ring of swindlers, not least a man who had imperson-ated his own mother. Mr. Wagner was not overly impressed.

“Here’s your headline,” Mr. Wagner said. “ ‘D.A. Accuses Man of Not Being His Own Mother: Charles Hynes is guardedly optimistic that the gynecological evidence will sustain his accusation.’ ”

We reporters are not supposed to draw too close to our sources, which is a good rule of thumb. But that cannot inoculate against respect, or a good laugh. Mr. Wagner summoned both. He probably could have made a golden pile in criminal or corporate law.

He chose a different path.

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MASTER OF CEREMONIES

errol louis

Errol T. Louis has been a columnist of the New York Daily News since June 2004, writing on a

wide range of political and social affairs. Mr. Louis

is a member of the Daily News editorial board.

Mr. Louis is also host of the Morning Show on

radio station AM 1600 WWRL, one of the city’s

liveliest political talk shows, from 6 am to 9 am

every weekday. He was recently named one of the

“Heavy 100,” the top talk show hosts in America,

by Talkers Magazine, the bible of the news/talk

radio industry. A wide variety of authors,

intellectuals, experts and public officials regularly appear on the show, which is fast

becoming required listening for New York’s political, cultural and business leaders.

Recent guests include Gov. David Paterson, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former

President Jimmy Carter, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, filmmaker Michael Moore,

TV personalities Tavis Smiley, Bryant Gumbel and Phil Donahue, and author

Cornel West.

In addition to his newspaper and

radio work, Mr. Louis made more than

100 appearances as a CNN

Contributor during the 2008 election

season, providing expert commentary at

key points throughout the presidential

elections, including the Iowa Caucuses, South Carolina primaries, Election Night and

the Inauguration. He also appears frequently on local CBS and ABC news, and has

served as moderator for televised debates for New York City Mayor, New York State

Attorney General, Congress and City Council.

Mr. Louis holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and Brooklyn Law School. He lives in

Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett and their son, Noah Louis.

Host of the Morning Show, one of the city’s liveliest political talk shows. He was recently named one of the “Heavy 100,” the top talk show hosts in America.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKER

hon. judith s. kaye

Judge Kaye was born and raised in Monticello, New York.

She received her B.A. from Barnard College and her LL.B.

degree from New York University School of Law in 1962,

graduating cum laude.

Immediately following law school, she entered private

commercial practice at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York

City (1962 – 1964). From 1965 to 1969 (“the pregnancy

years”) she was part-time assistant to Dean Russell Niles

of New York University School of Law. In 1969, she

joined Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher as a

Litigation Associate (beginning on a part-time basis, with

three young children), and was later named a Partner, in

this mid-size New York city commercial law firm, where

she remained until 1983.

That year, she was appointed by Governor Mario M.

Cuomo to the high court of the State of New York, the Court of Appeals, becoming

the first women to occupy that post. In 1993, Governor Cuomo appointed her

Chief Judge of the State of New York, the first woman to occupy that post, which

added administrative/executive responsibility for the state courts to her judicial

role. The only New York Chief Judge ever to complete a full 14-year term, Judge

Kaye was re-appointed by Governor Elliot Spitzer in 2007, to a term that ended

December 31, 2008, because of the state’s mandatory retirement provisions. She is

New York’s longest serving Chief Judge.

Judge Kaye has led countless projects to make the New York court system more

efficient and responsive to the needs of all residents. Noteworthy initiatives include

reform of the jury system; creating problem-solving courts (such as drug and family

treatment courts, domestic violence courts, mental health courts and community

courts); implementing a Commercial Division of specialized commercial courts

for cost-effective resolution of business disputes; establishing a statewide network

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of child-care centers for litigants in courthouses; and streamlining procedures for

children in foster care and their families.

She has lectured widely throughout New York State as well as the country, and

is the author of numerous publications. Her most noted articles deal particularly

with legal process, women in the law, state constitutional law, professional ethics

and problem-solving courts. She has also received many honors and awards.

Today, Judge Kaye is Of Counsel to the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate,

Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City. She chairs the Permanent Judicial

Commission on Justice for

Children. She is a Board Member

of Lincoln Center, the American

Arbitration Association, the

Dwight D. Opperman Institute

of Judicial Administration at New

York University Law School, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the

Museum of Jewish Heritage and Volunteers of Legal Services. She is a member

of the National Jury Center Advisory Committee, as well as the Children At

Risk Commission, of the American Bar Association; and a member of the

American Law Institute, American College of Trial Lawyers, New York State Bar

Association, New York City Bar Association, Women’s Bar Association of the

State of New York and National Association of Women Judges.

Judge Kaye has led countless projects to make the New York court system more efficient and responsive to the needs of all residents.


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WHO WEARE

a brief history:Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

(“Brooklyn A”) was established in 1968

in response to a national campaign during

President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty to

make legal services readily available to those who

cannot afford to represent themselves. Brooklyn

A has maintained its mission of offering civil

legal services from within the community it

serves, which encompasses the North and East

Brooklyn area. We are one of the few legal services organizations in the country to

develop and sustain a program to represent community-based organizations in low-

income neighborhoods

who do we serve?The neighborhoods we serve have a combined population of over 800,0000 people and

are some of the most disadvantaged in the nation with roughly 42% of the households

living below the federal poverty level. This past year alone, Brooklyn A represented over

17,000 individuals and 1,114 families.

Our staff, Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, and community partners

work together to make sure that our

representation helps dramatically

enhance the quality of life for our clients.

We do this through the representation

of low-income individuals and families in a multitude of legal venues and through

rehabilitated housing, the empowerment of tenants, the expansion of health and dental

care, the provision of childcare services, the development of community centers and

nursing homes, and the creation of minority and community–owned businesses and

jobs within the diverse communities we serve.

This past year alone, Brooklyn A represented over 17,000 individuals and 1,114 families.

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WHO WE ARE

what are our practice areas?We focus on the following practice areas: Anti-Predatory Lending/Foreclosure

Defense, Community and Economic Development, Preservation of Low-Income

Housing/Tenant Anti-Displacement, Landlord Tenant, Comprehensive Rights

for People Affected by HIV/Aids, Disability Advocacy Project, and the Domestic

Violence/Victims Support Program.

anti-predatory lending/foreclosure defenseThe Anti-Predatory Lending and Foreclosure Defense Unit defends homeowners facing foreclosure

and files affirmative cases for homeowners and other consumers who have been the victim of predatory

lending. The unit’s years of litigation and transactional

experience combine to provide comprehensive legal counseling

and representation for local homeowners and consumers.

This past year Brooklyn A has helped over 200 families

facing foreclosure.

community and economic developmentBrooklyn A has made community and economic development (CED) a major program priority since

1976. Through its CED Unit, Brooklyn A is one of the only not-for-profit, neighborhood-based, public

interest legal services programs in the country to develop a sustained, substantial practice providing

community-based organizations (CBOs) and community development corporations (CDCs) in

low-income communities transactional representation. This work results in the creation of new and

rehabilitated housing, the empowerment of tenants, the expansion of healthcare, childcare services, the

development of community centers and nursing homes, and the creation of minority- and community-

owned businesses and jobs. A primary tenet of this work has been a community’s ownership of the

process and assets themselves once they are created. From ’08 and thus far in ’09 Brooklyn A has worked

on projects that will create homes for 149

families and spaces for 9 businesses.

preservation of low-income housing/tenant anti-displacementWe defend the rights of tenants, work with

groups building and operating tenant run cooperatives, and help ensure that senior citizens have access to

safe, affordable housing. Brooklyn A represents individuals and tenants associations in housing court facing

eviction and more than 100 local tenant owned cooperatives, assisting the coops in sustaining themselves

as affordable housing for low-income tenants. This unit also partners with local community organizations

and coalitions in struggles for justice and fair housing for low-income North Brooklyn residents.

This past year Brooklyn A has helped over 200 families facing foreclosure.

From ’08 and thus far in ‘09 Brooklyn A has worked on projects that will create homes for 149 families and spaces for 9 businesses.

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comprehensive rights for people affected by hiv/aidsThe Comprehensive Rights Unit (CRU) represents clients at hearings addressing HIV/AIDS Services

Administration and Supplemental Security Income benefits, challenges discrimination in housing and

employment based on HIV/AIDS status, negotiates with landlords to secure the provision of basic housing

needs and to stop harassment. The CRU helps protect clients against domestic violence, developing healthcare

proxies and living wills, and creating guardianship

and custody plans for clients’ children.

disability advocacy projectThe Disability Advocacy Project assists disabled

people living in our service area obtain the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to which they

were entitled and had been denied, through negotiations with the Social Security Administration and

representation at Social Security administrative hearings. In the past year, Brooklyn A helped over 2,000

disabled people receive the income to which they are entitled.

domestic violence/victims support programBrooklyn A provided legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence in ways that promote

empowerment, self sufficiency, and economic independence. We also provide a variety of civil legal

services to survivors of domestic violence so that they can obtain orders of protection, spousal and/or

child support, child custody, housing and public assistance grants and funds from community groups to

help pay rent, avoid foster care, and obtain emergency government benefits to which they are eligible.

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In the past year, BKA helped over 2,000 disabled people receive the income to which they are entitled.

1 & 2. The construction of the new Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (BSFHC): With the assistance of Brooklyn A, BSFHC has been able to build a larger health care facility to expand its health care services to low income individuals and families in the community. The new facility is expected to open in early 2010. 3. Thanks to the perse-verance of Father Powis and BHIP and the work of David Bryan, Managing Attorney of the Bushwick Office and Director, Com-prehensive Rights Unit (pictured here), the living conditions for the tenants of 1328 Gates Avenue were dramatically improved. 4. left to right: Jessie Rose and Paul Aci-napura (BKA), Kennedy Rivera (Bushwick Housing Independent Project) and Shekar Krishnan (BKA). Mr. Rivera explains a recent example of a tenant being displaced in Bushwick, and how many tenants in Bushwick tend not to have the knowledge of how to challenge landlord harassment. 5. The tenants of 210 Roebling Street. Together with the non-profit, Los Sures (a multi-faceted non-profit organization that is effective at creating and managing low-income housing, and aiding tenants in the purchase and maintenance of their buildings) BKA has helped with the process of renovating the building into low-income co-ops. 6. Honoree John D. Feerick and Marty Needelman on this year’s Honoree Tour of Brooklyn A.

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BROOKLYN A GALA

2008Bettina B. Plevan,

Proskauer Rose LLPVincent F. Palagiano,

Dime Community Bancshares, Inc.

Luis Garden Acosta, El Puente

2007Paul J. Curran,

Kaye Scholer LLPBrendan J. Dugan,

Sovereign BankMaria Contreras-Collier,

Cypress Hills Child Care Center

2006Robert C. Sheehan,

Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP & Associates

Terri Thomson, Citigroup Inc.

Barbara Schliff, Southside United Housing De-velopment Fund Corporation

2005John Callagy,

Kelly Drye & Warren LLPThomas Early,

Health PlusDr. Claude Offord,

Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center

2004Evan Davis,

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Maureen Bateman, Bank of America

Michael Rochford, St. Nicholas Preservation Development Corp.

2003James F. Gill,

Bryan Cave LLPFrederick W. Hill,

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.Jeffrey E. Dunston,

Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corp.

2002Zachary W. Carter,

Dorsey & Whitney LLPMacDara Lynch,

Pfizer Global ManufacturingSister Peggy Walsh,

Southside Community Mission

2001Barbara Paul Robinson,

Debevoise & Plimpton LLPMarilyn G. Gelber,

Independence Community Foundation

Maurice A. Reid, Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center

2000Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr.,

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLPJohn M. Imperiale,

J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.David D. Pagan,

Southside United HDFC (Los Sures)

1999Patricia M. Hynes,

Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach, LLP

Frances A. Resheske, Con Edison

Adbur Rahman Farrakhan, Oceanhill-Brownsville Tenants Association

1998Barry H. Garfinkel,

Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP & Associates

Magda N. Yrizarry, Bell Atlantic

John F. Mulhern, Nuestros Ninos Child Development School

1997Conrad Harper,

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

Michelle Neugebauer, Cypress Hills Local Development Corporation

1996Henry L. King,

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLPAngela M. Battaglia,

Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Citizens Council, Inc.

1995Judge Harold T. Tyler, Jr.,

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Joseph K. Francois, Brownsville Multi-Service Family Health Center

1993Sargent Shriver,

Special Olympics InternationalSally Hernandez-Piñero,

New York City Housing Authority

Vito J. Lopez, New York State Assemblyman

Philip A. Wheeler, United Auto Workers, Region 9A

1993Robert MacCrate,

Sullivan & Cromwell LLPCharles J. Hynes,

New York State Medicaid Fraud Prosecutor

David Trager, Brooklyn Law School

past honorees

Citi is proud to support Brooklyn

Legal Services Corporation A on

their Annual Partnership Awards

Benefit. We congratulate this

year’s honorees and commend

their efforts on making

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Strengthen communities

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With a focused strategy of support for community development, the arts andeducation, Deutsche Bank partners with local organizations to build a brighter future.

Our commitment to a better tomorrow starts today.

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A brighterfuture.

2009 HONOREES:

JOHN D. FEERICK

EILEEN AULD

FATHER JOHN POWIS

Like many of us, Dime Savings Bank

knows what it means to serve the

community. We bring 145 years of

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EmblemHealth Proudly Salutes


on the occasion of its

Annual Partnership Awards Benefit

We join you in congratulating tonight’s distinguished honorees

John D. FeerickFordham University School of Law &

valued member of the Board of Directors of EmblemHealth

Eileen AuldCiti

Father John PowisBushwick Housing Independence Project

We also join in posthumously recognizing

Richard WagnerBrooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

www.emblemhealth.com

Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan LLP Salutes Brooklyn A and Honorees

John D. FeerickEileen Auld

Father John Powis

Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP

1270 Avenue of the Americas Rockefeller Center New York, New York 10020 212-525-5000

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A community bank at heart.

M&T Bank has a long tradition of being involved in the cities, towns and neighborhoods in which we operate. As a community bank, we understand that the well-being of our company is connected to the well-being of the communities we serve. We offer both our time and our resources to make our communities better places to live, work and grow.

See the difference our personal, local and long-term commitment can make. After all, we live here too. Call us today at 212-350-2523, or visit us at www.mtb.com.

Pfizer is proud to support:

Brooklyn Legal ServicesCorporation Aand this year’s Annual PartnershipAwards honorees

Betsy and Ken Plevan salute the important initiatives of

Brooklyn Legal Servicesand join in honoring

John D. Feerick,Fordham University School of Law

Eileen AuldCiti

Father John PowisBushwick Housing Independence Project

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Congratulates


for its more than 40 years of service

to the Brooklyn community!

We join Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

in saluting this year’s honorees

for their service to our community

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BMS is honored to salute the honorees of

Brooklyn Legal Services’ 2009 Partnership Awards Benefit.

We are encouraged that your dedicated work will

continue ensuring justice and growth in

the community.

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On its Annual Partnership Awards Benefit

And Congratulate the 2009 Honorees

John D. Feerick, Eileen Auld and Father John Powis

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November 19, 2009

Congratulationsto

all of the deserving honoreesand to

Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation Afor

four decades of commitment to the community

Cye E. RossAttorney At Law

30 Vesey Street, Suite 1800New York, N.Y. 10007

(212) 732-0843

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Father John Powis

Congratulates


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CONGRATULATIONSJohn D. Feerick

Eileen AuldFather John Powis

and our loyal and supportive team at Brooklyn Legal A

...continue your good works!

The Board & StaffCypress Hills Local

Development Corporation

Sidley Austin

Dean William Michael Treanor andFordham Law School

congratulate

John D. Feerickand this evening’s other honorees.

John has dedicated his life to public service and his careerto the advancement of social and economic justice.Fordham Law commends all the honorees for their selflesswork and supports Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation Aas they continue to provide high-quality legal service tothose most in need.

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In loving Memory

of our dear friendRick Wagner

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Thank you!


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Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A Staff

Would Like to Thank Our 2009 Honorees


Father John Powis

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