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Founded in 1932, Legal Aid is the oldest and largest general civil legal services program in the District of Columbia. For more than 80 years, Legal Aid lawyers have been making justice real – in individual and systemic ways – for persons living in poverty in D.C. Every year, our lawyers provide high-quality, zealous representation and engage in systemic advocacy in the areas of family law and domestic violence, affordable housing and eviction prevention, public benefits, and consumer law. We also have a nationally-recognized appellate program, the Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Project. The generous support of our donors enables us to make justice real for thousands of D.C. residents. On their behalf, we thank you for your support.
Making Justice
Real TH24Welcome to the
ANNUALSERVANT of JUSTICE
AWARDS DINNER
Thursday, April 18, 2013
JW Marriott Hotel1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C.
6:00 pm President’s Reception6:30 pm Opening Reception7:30 pm Dinner, Awards Program & Dessert Reception
Servant of Justice Award
John PaytonPosthumously
Accepted by Gay McDougall
Presented by Elaine R. Jones
rServant of Justice Award
Paul M. Smith Jenner & Block llP
Presented by The Honorable Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
rClosing Remarks
Deanne M. OttavianoArent Fox llP
ProgramProgram
President’s Welcome
Deanne M. OttavianoArent Fox llP
rExecutive Director’s Remarks
Eric Angel
rKlepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence
SkAdden, ArPS, SlAte, MeAgher & FloM llP
Presented by Arlene Fine Klepper
rDinner
Warren T. Allen, II Nicole L. GrimmLuke A. Meisner
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Steward of Justice
Each year since 1990, the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia has presented the Servant of Justice Award to individuals or organizations who have demonstrated faithful dedication and remarkable achievementin ensuring that all persons have equaland meaningful access to justice. In some instances, such as this evening, the Award has been given posthumously to recognize the contributions of individuals we were unable to honor during their lifetimes.
Tonight’s honorees made the struggle for equal justice a core part of their personal and professional identities.Please join us in expressing our gratitudefor their extraordinary contributions to the cause of access to justice in the District and beyond.
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Tangela S. RichterCapital One
Deborah B. BaumPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman llp
Alex BourellyBaker Botts llp
Steve BrodyO’Melveny & Myers llp
John T. ByrnesDow Lohnes pllc
Donna CooperBlack Entertainment Television, Inc.
Jack GockeMarsh & McLennan Companies
Rainey HoffmanCarlyle Group
Dennis M. KieferDeloitte llp
Dionne C. LomaxVinson & Elkins llp
Virginia M. MarraExxon Mobil Corporation
Michael E. NannesDickstein Shapiro llp
Deanne M. OttavianoArent Fox llp
Kevin L. PetrasicPaul Hastings llp
Kurt RichterCassidy Turley
Peter D. ShieldsWiley Rein llp
Leslie K. SmithChevy Chase Trust
Ronald J. TenpasMorgan, Lewis & Bockius llp
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John Payton was the President and Director-Counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), and a tireless advocate for justice, equality, and opportunity. Mr. Payton was the 6th leader of LDF, the nation’s first and preeminent civil rights law firm.During his tenure, he guided the organization to resounding legal victories, including Lewis v. City of Chicago, which vindicated the rights of over 6,000 applicants who sought to become firefighters in the City of Chicago, and Northwest Austin Municipal Utility District v. Holder, which turned back a challenge to the constitutionality of a core provision of the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
A native of Los Angeles and a graduate of Pomona College and Harvard Law School, Mr. Payton forged a career as a corporate attorney at the firm of Wilmer Hale, where he headed the firm’s Litigation Department. But he also always exercised a deep commitment to public service through his pro bono work at the firm. He took leave from Wilmer during the early 1990s to serve as the Corporation Counsel of the District of Columbia. He was president of the District of Columbia Bar from 2001 to 2002, a member of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and a Master in the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court. He also was affiliated with a number of civil rights and human rights organizations.
Mr. Payton was lead counsel for the University of Michigan, handling two high-profile casesin the trial court and in the court of appeals and arguing Gratz v. Bollinger in the Supreme Court. The landmark companion case, Grutter v. Bollinger, in which the Supreme Court upheld race-conscious admissions in higher education, represented the vindication of a strategy, devised and implemented over more than six years, to support the educational benefits of diversity. In 2010, the National Law Journal named Mr. Payton to its list of “The Decade’s Most Influential Lawyers.” The Washington (D.C.) Bar Association awarded him the Charles Hamilton Houston Medallion of Merit.
Mr. Payton’s early death was a profound loss for the equal access to justice movement. As President Obama noted at the time of his death, Mr. Payton was a “true champion of equality.”
Mr. Payton died on March 22, 2012 after a brief illness. He was 65.
The Servant of Justice Award
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor
John PaytonPosthumously
Gay McDougall served as the first United Nations Independent Expert on Minority Issues from 2005 through 2011. She was Executive Director of the international NGO Global Rights from 1994 through 2006.
Among her many international roles, from 1997 to 2001 she served as an Independent Experton the UN treaty body that oversees compliance with the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, during which time she negotiated the adoption of General Recommendation XXV on the Gender Dimensions of Racial Discrimination, which requires governments to report explicitly on the situation of women impacted by racial discrimination. She played a leadership role in the UN Third World Conference against Racism.
As Special Rapporteur on the issue of systematic rape and sexual slavery practices in armed conflict when she served on the UN Sub-Commission on Promotion and Protection of Human Rights (1995-1999), she led that body in calling for international legal standards for the prosecution of such acts.
She was one of five international members of the South African governmental body establishedthrough the multi-party negotiations to set policy and administer the country’s first democratic, non-racial elections in 1994, resulting in the election of President Nelson Mandela and the transition from apartheid. For 14 years prior to that appointment, she served as Director of the Southern Africa Project of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, where she workedwith South African lawyers to secure the release of thousands of political prisoners from jail.
Among her recent academic roles have been the Robert Drinan Visiting Professor in Human Rights at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C. (2011-2012); Distinguished Scholar in Residence at the American University Washington College of Law (2006-2008); and Professor in the annual Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at the American University.
In 1999 she was a recipient of the coveted MacArthur “Genius” Award. She also has received the Butcher Medal of the American Society of International Law for outstanding contributions to human rights law and the Thurgood Marshall Award of the District of Columbia Bar Association among numerous other national and international awards.
She received a J.D. from Yale Law School and an LL.M. from the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has Honorary Doctors of Law degrees from Georgetown University Law Center, the School of Law of the City University of New York and Agnes Scott College.
Accepting the Servant of Justice Awardon behalf of John Payton
Gay McDougall
Elaine Jones is President and Director-Counsel, Emeritus of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. (LDF), the nation’s oldest law firm fighting for equal rights and justice for people of color, women, and the poor. When Ms. Jones took the helm of the Legal Defense Fund in 1993, she became the first woman to head the organization. She brought vast experience as a litigator and civil rights activist, as well as a passion for fairness and equality that dates back to her childhood.
After graduating with honors in political science from Howard University, Ms. Jones joined the Peace Corps and became one of the first African Americans to serve in Turkey. Following hertwo-year Peace Corps stint, she became the first black woman to graduate from the University of Virginia School of Law, and subsequently the first African American to serve on the Board of Governors of the American Bar Association.
Ms. Jones turned down an offer from one of Wall Street’s most prestigious firms to pursue the goal she had chosen in her youth and instead joined the Legal Defense Fund. With the exception of two years as Special Assistant to the United States Secretary of Transportation, she has remained with LDF ever since.
In her early years at LDF, Ms. Jones continued to blaze trails, becoming one of the first African American women to defend death row inmates. Only two years out of law school, she was a counsel of record in Furman v. Georgia, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court case that abolished the death penaltyin 37 states for 12 years. During this period, she also argued numerous employment discrimination cases, including class actions against some of the nation’s largest employers.
Ms. Jones holds fifteen honorary degrees and the Jefferson Medal of Freedom, the highest honor awarded by the University of Virginia.
Among the many honors and recognitions she has received, Ms. Jones was the recipient of the JTBF (Just The Beginning Foundation) Trailblazer Legend Award in September 2012; the Thurgood Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award, American Bar Association, Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities, in August 2011; was inducted into The National Trial Lawyers Association Hall of Fame in April 2011; received the Public Service Award from the National Association of Women Lawyers in July 2010; was presented with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in April 2010; was inducted into the Washington Bar Association Hall of Fame in 2010; and in December 2000, President William Jefferson Clinton presented her with the Eleanor Roosevelt Human Rights Award.
After a 32-year tenure with LDF, Ms. Jones stepped down on May 1, 2004. Since that time, she has been lecturing, writing, teaching and publicly speaking on legal and related policy issues.
Servant of Justice Award Presenter
Elaine R. Jones
“Legal Aid is the best. We would never have gotten
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Paul M. Smith is a partner in Jenner & Block’s Washington, D.C. office, where he chairs the firm’s Appellate & Supreme Court Practice. Mr. Smith has argued fourteen Supreme Court cases, including most recently Brown v. Entertainment Merchants Ass’n, involving the First Amendment as applied to video games, and Lawrence v. Texas, the landmark gay rights case.He has had an active First Amendment practice for many years, going back to Reno v. ACLU, the challenge to the Communications Decency Act in the mid-1990s. And he was one of the lawyers who brought the first major challenge to the Defense of Marriage Act in Gill v. OPM.
Mr. Smith has also tried and argued many significant cases in the areas of voting rights and election law. The election law work has included Supreme Court arguments – the Pennsylvania partisan gerrymandering case (Vieth v. Jubelirer), the Texas redistricting case (LULAC v. Perry) and the challenges to Indiana’s voter ID law (Crawford v. Marion County Election Board).
Mr. Smith also works on a number of closely watched cases involving the application of copyright law to the Internet and other new methods of content distribution. These currently include Viacom v. YouTube, Columbia Pictures v. Fung, and WNET v. Aereo.
Mr. Smith graduated summa cum laude from Amherst College and then went to Yale Law School. He served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Law Journal. He clerked for Judge James L. Oakes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and for Supreme Court Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. He represents the D.C. Bar in the ABA House of Delegates and is a member of the board of directors of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights& Urban Affairs. He also is a member and former Chair of the Board of Directors of the American Constitution Society. He formerly served for six years on the D.C. Bar Board of Governors and for seven years on the Board of Directors of Lambda Legal, including two years as Co-chair of that board. Previously he was a board member and President of the Washington Council of Lawyers.
In 2003, the Human Rights Campaign gave Mr. Smith its Equality Award. In 2009, he received the Champion of Freedom Award from the Electronic Privacy Information Center. In 2010, the National Law Journal named him one of the 40 Most Influential Lawyers of the Past Decade. That same year, he received the Thurgood Marshall Award from the ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities in recognition of his work promoting civil rights and civil liberties. In 2012, he received the D.C. Bar’s own Thurgood Marshall Award in recognition of the same work.
The Servant of Justice Award
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor
Paul M. SmithJENNER & BLOCK LLP
Donald Verrilli, Jr. is the 46th Solicitor General of the United States. As Solicitor General, Mr. Verrilli has argued cases of historic significance, including successfully defending the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius as well as, in the current term, arguing in favor of striking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act in United States v. Windsor. Mr. Verrilli previously served as Deputy Counsel to President Obama and as an Associate Deputy Attorney General in the U.S. Department of Justice. Prior to his government service, he was a partner at Jenner & Block, and co-chaired the firm’s Supreme Court practice. He has participated or been involved with numerous cases in the Supreme Court, including MGM Studios, Inc. v. Grokster, which established that companies building businesses based on the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted works can be liable for inducing infringement; and Wiggins v. Smith, a pro bono case that established principles governing the right to effective assistance of counsel at capital sentencing.
Mr. Verrilli maintained an active pro bono practice throughout his career in private practice, and received several awards for his contributions to the equal justice community, including the Arthur von Briesen Award from the National Legal Aid and Defender Association in 2004 and the Equal Justice Award from the Southern Center for Human Rights in 2006. He also taught First Amendment law as an adjunct professor of constitutional law at Georgetown University Law School from 1992 through 2008.
Mr. Verrilli received his undergraduate degree from Yale University and his J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of the Columbia Law Review. He served as a law clerk to the Honorable J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to the Honorable William J. Brennan, Jr. of the United States Supreme Court.
On January 26, 2011, President Obama nominated Mr. Verrilli to succeed Elena Kagan as Solicitor General after she was sworn into the position of Associate Justice on the Supreme Court. Mr. Verrilli was sworn in as Solicitor General on June 9, 2011.
Servant of Justice Award Presenter
The Honorable Donald B. Verrilli, Jr.
The Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence
Nicole L. Grimm is a counsel in Skadden’s Litigation Section, where she represents companies and individuals in connection with government investigations and related matters. Ms. Grimm received her law degree from the American University Washington College of Law in 1999. Prior to joining Skadden, Ms. Grimm – who is fluent in Spanish – worked at a law firm in Santiago, Chile, where she focused on foreign investment and international transactional matters.
Luke A. Meisner is an associate in Skadden’s International Trade Section, where he represents U.S. manufacturers in a variety of trade remedy proceedings and policy matters. He received his law degree from the University of North Carolina in 2003 and clerked for the Honorable Eduardo C. Robreno of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Warren T. Allen, II is an associate in Skadden’s Litigation Section where he represents companies and individuals in civil matters and government investigations. He received his law degree from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2006 and clerked for the Honorable Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Prior to attending law school, Warren served six years as a police officer, including assignment to the detective bureau.
The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is delighted to honor Warren T. Allen II, Nicole L. Grimm, and Luke A. Meisner from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP for their extraordinary contributions in implementing the “Impact Project,” designed to provide desperately needed pro bono legal assistance on a broad scale to help low-income children and families in Washington, D.C. The Impact Project focuses Skadden’s resources on three areas of specific need: domestic violence, guardians ad litem for children, and housing. Mr. Allen, Ms. Grimm, and Mr. Meisner have taken the lead – under the expert guidance of Skadden partners Michele Roberts and Saul Pilchen – in implementing the domestic violence portion of the project in conjunction with Legal Aid.
Mr. Allen, Ms. Grimm, and Mr. Meisner have brought great energy and dedication to the project. They organized a comprehensive training for the firm’s attorneys and also recruited in-house lawyers from corporate clients such as Northrop Grumman to staff the project. In a short period of time, the three have built collaborative relationships with other domestic violence advocates to establish a regular presence for Skadden attorneys at the DomesticViolence Intake Center (DVIC) at the D.C. Superior Court. There, they meet with potential clients, often on the heels of an abusive incident, to help them secure Civil Protection Orders(CPOs) against their abusers. The Skadden team has committed to handling these cases soup to nuts, conducting the initial interview with the clients, drafting petitions for CPOs, and representing clients in both the Temporary Protection Order (TPO) hearings and the CPO hearings that follow in two weeks. Legal Aid domestic violence attorneys provide ongoing mentoring and support for the project.
Mr. Allen, Ms. Grimm, and Mr. Meisner handled the first several cases, orienting themselvesto the DVIC and learning the procedure, strategy, and dynamics involved in assisting victims of domestic violence navigating the TPO/CPO process. They also have accompanied other Skadden attorneys who have taken on a CPO matter in connection with this project and have quickly developed the knowledge and skills required to provide quality supervision and mentorship. The Skadden team already has spent hundreds of hours helping survivors of domestic violence through this project. The commitment to this project on the part of the firm and the individual attorneys involved is exceptional, making them truly deserving of this year’s Klepper Award for Volunteer Excellence.
KlepperThe
Prizefor Volunteer Excellence
The Klepper Prize was created through the generosity of Martin and Arlene Klepper in order to recognize attorneys early in their careers who have made significant volunteer contributions to the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
Previous Award RecipientsServant of Justice Award
2012James vanR. Springer Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia
Susan M. HoffmanCrowell & Moring LLP
2011 Brooksley E. BornArnold & Porter LLP
The Honorable Thomas E. PerezCivil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice
2010Vernon E. Jordan, Jr.Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Florence Wagman RoismanIndiana University School of Law – Indianapolis
2009Anthony HermanCovington & Burling LLP
Kurt L. SchmokeHoward University School of Law
2008Richard L. RoeGeorgetown University Law Center
Seth P. WaxmanWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
2007E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.Hogan & Hartson LLP
Sidney White Rhyne
2006Theodore A. HowardWiley Rein LLP
David A. ReiserZuckerman Spaeder LLP
2005Katherine S. BroderickUniversity of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law
2005Andrew H. MarksCrowell & Moring LLP
2004Lois G. WilliamsR. Sargent ShriverE. Clinton Bamberger, Jr.Edgar S. CahnJean Camper Cahn, posthumously
2003Peter J. NicklesCovington & Burling LLP
The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia
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. Ruff, posthumouslyCovington & Burling LLP
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 & Priest
Stephen J. PollakShea & Gardner
Janet RenoAttorney General of the United States
1993Justice Thurgood Marshall, posthumouslySupreme 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
1992D.C. Legal Service Providers
1991Augustus L. PalmerHoward University
Barbara M. RossottiPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
1990Earl W. KintnerArent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC
Charles A. HorskyCovington & Burling LLP
Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence
2012Jonathan G. LinSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
2011Aryeh S. PortnoyCrowell & Moring LLP
2010Randall A. BraterArent Fox LLP
2009Julia JudishPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
2008Melissa K. BianchiHogan & Hartson LLP
Previous Award Recipients
CuRRENT PROJECTS
The Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Project, named after the first Director of this program, renowned Supreme Court litigator Barbara McDowell, litigates important cases affecting persons living in poverty before the District of Columbia Court of Appeals every year. This nationally-recognized project was recently described by the National Legal Aid & Defender Association as a “model of excellence.”
Legal Aid has several court-based projects which locate lawyers at the courthouse in order to provide same-day legal services, including temporary representation, to some of the District’s most vulnerable residents.
These projects include:
• theLandlordTenantCourt-BasedProject,whichaddressestheoverwhelmingneedfor legal representation of tenants in D.C. Superior Court’s Landlord and Tenant Branch;
• theChildSupportCommunityLegalServicesProject,whichservessomeofD.C.’smost vulnerable families in the D.C. Superior Court’s Paternity and Child Support Branch;
• theConsumerCourt-BasedLegalServicesProject,createdin2012withsupportfromthe Skadden Foundation to help low-income consumers in debt collection cases; and
• anofficeattheDomesticViolenceIntakeCenteratthecourthouseinNorthwest,D.C., established in 2012 with funding from the D.C. Bar Foundation’s Access to Justice Grant Program to expand our domestic violence work.
Legal Aid remains committed to ensuring that our services are accessible to our client community. In addition to our Northwest office, we have a critically-important partnership at the Domestic Violence Intake Center at the United Medical Center Hospital in Southeast, D.C., and a stand-alone office located at the “Big Chair” building in Anacostia.
NEW PROJECTS
Legal Aid maintains strong ties to our client communities and continually strives to respond to their changing needs. This year, Legal Aid is proud to announce several exciting new projects:
• Thisyear,wewillbereceivingnewfundingfromtheU.S.DepartmentofJustice’sOfficeon Violence Against Women, which will allow us to expand the provision of holistic legal services to domestic violence survivors. While Legal Aid already provides legal services in each of our four practice areas to domestic violence clients, we will now, for the first time, also be able to provide much-needed immigration services to domestic violence survivors.
• Inthecomingmonths,aSkaddenFellowwillbestartinganewprojectwhichbuildsupon Legal Aid’s current work with the D.C. Superior Court Housing Conditions Calendar, to assist low-income tenants in the District to obtain meaningful relief and repairs for poor housing conditions that threaten their health and safety and deprive them of housing stability.
The District of Columbia continues to face an access to justice crisis 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, almost one in every five D.C. residents lives below the poverty line. East of the Anacostia River, one in three residents lives in poverty. Moreover, the percentage of residents of all ages living in deep poverty, or below half of the poverty line, has risen by more than 20 percent since the recession hit. Compounding this issue is the dearth of free or affordable legal services for civil matters. 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 ability to obtain protection from an abuser – low-income D.C. residents find themselves facing the challenges and intricacies of the court system on their own.
At Legal Aid, our lawyers 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 hundreds of matters in the areas of family/domestic violence, 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 persons living in poverty. In 2012, Legal Aid attorneys were able to provide legal representation and assistance in more than 2,800 matters, directly benefitting more than 7,000 individuals. Although so much of our work is unquantifiable – you cannot put a price tag on obtaining custody of your child – we were able to provide full representation to more clients than ever in Legal Aid’s history – in 875 matters; our quantifiable individual cases alone resulted in more than $4.2 million in financial benefits to our clients.
In a city with one of the greatest income differences between rich and poor in the nation, Legal Aid is working to make justice real for D.C.’s most vulnerable residents.
PRACTICE AREAS
Housing law: We represent tenants who need help to avoid eviction or have serious housing code violations corrected. Our housing lawyers also assist public housing tenants to preserve subsidies, fight illegal rent increases, and work to prevent displacement by development.
Family/Domestic violence law: We 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 ensure that the necessary “safety net” benefits and services (including health care, Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and Unemployment Insurance) are available to all who qualify.
Consumer law: We 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 cases.
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51- 100 ATTORNEYSMiller & Chevalier Chartered $25,274
1 - 50 ATTORNEYSGilbert LLP $14,210
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:
Generous associates throughout Washington D.C.’s legal community raised a record-shattering $901,000 from their colleagues and firms! Congratulations to all of our participants.
Legal Aid would like to recognize last year’s Honorary Co-Chair:
Patricia MillettAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
We would also like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all of our 2012 Campaign Co-Chairs:
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SPECIAL COLLABORATION WITH KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
Just in time for this year’s Servant of Justice Dinner, Legal Aid is delighted to announce it will receive an extraordinary, multi-year donation from the law firm of Kirkland & Ellis LLP which will enable it to establish a new intake center located in Southwest D.C. at Friendship Baptist Church. This exciting partnership further expands Legal Aid’s presence in underserved communities, reaching low-income residents in Southwest D.C. who may not otherwise have access to legal services.
In addition to providing financial support to Legal Aid, Kirkland attorneys will be conducting initial applicant interviews at the new intake location and providing pro bono representation to clients referred to the firm through Legal Aid’s Pro Bono Program. The Reverend J. Michael Little, Pastor of Friendship Baptist Church, was instrumental in the creation of the project and will serve as the Director of Community Relations for the new intake center.
PRO BONO PROGRAM
Legal Aid’s Pro Bono Referral Program refers cases to attorneys working in private law firms and government agencies. We have been able to cultivate an incredible base of support for ourstrong and well-respected Pro Bono Program. Our current figures indicate that Legal Aid volunteers devoted more than 34,000 hours – worth more than $16 million – to support makingjustice real for our client community in 2012. 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, child custody and child support, public benefits, and consumer law, as well as a limited number of appellate matters. The matters initially vare screened by Legal Aid staff prior to referral. For each matter referred, an experienced Legal Aid 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 mentoring as the case moves forward.
For more information about pro bono opportunities with Legal Aid, please contact Jodi Feldman, Director of Pro Bono and Intake Programs, by phone at (202) 661-5965 or by email at [email protected].
PLATINuM PATRON $75,000 & up
District of Columbia Bar FoundationOffice of Victim Services of the District of Columbia
GOLD PATRON $50,000 - $74,999
Covington & Burling LLP*Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP *Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP*
SILVER PATRON $30,000 - $49,999
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP* Alston & Bird LLP Arent Fox LLP *Arnold & Porter LLP *Crowell & Moring LLP * Hogan Lovells US LLPMayer Brown LLP *McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP *Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation
* Represents firms participating in the D.C. Access to Justice Commission’s Raising the Bar in D.C. Campaign. The Campaign’s goal is to substantially increase financial support to the District’s legal services community by establishing benchmarks for law firm giving and annually recognizing and celebrating those firms that have donated at benchmark levels.
Legal Aid created the Leadership Cabinet in order to recognize organizational donors each year that support Legal Aid in significant ways. We are proud to recognize our 2012 Leadership Cabinet members for their generous support.
Annual Law Firm, Corporation, and Foundation Gift Recognition Program
CabinetLeadership2012
BRONZE PATRON $20,000 - $29,999
Consumer Health FoundationDickstein Shapiro LLP Dow Lohnes PLLCGilbert LLPLatham & Watkins LLP Sidley Austin LLP * The Sidley Austin Foundation Ujala FoundationUnited WayVenable LLPWiley Rein LLPWilliams & Connolly LLP
PATRON $10,000 - $19,999
Bingham McCutchen LLPBNABoies, Schiller & Flexner LLPBuckleySandler LLP *Capital Research Global InvestorsCassidy Turley
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Davis & Harman LLPDebevoise & Plimpton LLPDLA Piper LLP *Exxon Mobil CorporationFitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & ScintoFreshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLPGoodwin Proctor LLPIvins, Phillips & Barker CharteredJones Day *Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP*Miller & Chevalier Chartered* Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP The Morrison & Foerster Foundation *O’Melveny & Myers LLP The Patriot FundPatton Boggs LLP Skadden Fellowship FoundationThe Steptoe Foundation * Sullivan & Cromwell LLPSutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP * Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLPZuckerman Spaeder LLP *
In addition to their generous financial contributions, the following firms loan an associate to Legal Aid on a full-time basis for four- or six-month rotations:
Arnold & Porter LLPCrowell & Moring LLPSidley Austin LLPSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPSteptoe & Johnson LLP
Legal Aid would also like to thank the District of Columbia Council for its support of the Access to Justice Grant Program and the District of Columbia Poverty Lawyer Loan Assistance Repayment Program.
Legal Aid created the Making Justice Real Giving Circle in order to recognize donors that support Legal Aid in significant ways.
We are proud to recognize our 2012 Making Justice Real Giving Circle participants for their generous support.Annual Gift Recognition Program
RealGiving Circle
Making Justice
PHILANTHROPIST$25,000 & above
Jerry Hartman in Memory of Barbara McDowell
BENEFACTOR $10,000 to $24,999
Philip & Roberta HortonMartin and Arlene KlepperAnthony Pierce and Karen Stevens PierceEric S. Richter
PARTNER $5,000 to $9,999
Donald B. AyerMark Colley and Deborah HarschDavid and Martha DantzicEileen GleimerJohn Heintz and Lynn OhmanRicki T. Helfer and Michael S. HelferKenneth KleinPatricia MillettRobert NovickAbid R. QureshiJames and Carol Springer
FRIEND $2,500 to $4,999
Anonymous (3)James and Michelle AlbergRichard and Emily AlexanderJames H. BarkerCharlene Barshefsky and Edward B. CohenDeborah B. Baum
Leonard and Joy BaxtDavid and Sherry BerzWesley D. BizzellA. Scott BoldenDavid I. BrownBarbara B. BrownRussell BruemmerPeter Buscemi and Judith MillerGraeme Bush and Wendy RudolphJohn and Kathleen ByrnesMary G. Clark and Craig R. SchafferFrank M. (Rusty) ConnerDonna CooperForrest Deegan and Ryan RichardsonJoe Figini and Jason DenbyAlice S. FisherSteven G. ForsythScott and Lauren GilbertJack GockeJamie S. GorelickPat and Mary GrantJoyce and Robert GwadzPatrick Harvey Emily C. Helms WilliamsTed and Judy HowardDaniel and Wendy JarchoDennis and Ilene KieferStephen E. KitchenJoel Kleinman and Mary Patrice BrownDionne C. LomaxMark H. LynchVirginia M. MarraJoan E. McKown and James A. BrigaglianoThomas H. Milch Steven R. MilesJames R. MurrayMichael and Cheryl Naeve
John and Carole NannesMichael E. Nannes and Nancy E. EverettEdward J. NewberryMark and Jo Ann NewellDeanne M. OttavianoThomas Papson and Toby SingerAnthony and Lee PartridgeWilliam and Teresa PerlsteinWoody N. PetersonCarter Phillips and Sue HenryDorthula Powell-WoodsonMichael and Mary RaibmanJohn P. RelmanKurt RichterTangela RichterJames E. Rocap, IIIRichard L RosenBarbara M. RossottiJames Rowe and Lisa AdamsHoward M. ShapiroPeter D. ShieldsLeslie K. SmithPeter SpivackMark A. Srere and Jayne JerkinsTheodore B. StoneThomas StricklandRonald J. TenpasSteuart H. Thomsen and Linda Chatman ThomsenJennifer S. Van DriesenG. Duane ViethDaniel VolchokMichael E. WardSeth P. WaxmanHarry J. WeissSarah L. WilsonScott L. WinkelmanAlan WisemanJoseph and Lynda Zengerle
COLLEAGuE $1,000 to $2,499
James Edward AnklamKavitha J. BabuJames A. Baker, IVWilliam R. BakerJ. Scott BallengerJudith N. BattyBruce M. BermanKenneth and Sheila BermanBenjamin BermanEric L. BernthalDonna A. BoswellAlex BourellyLance and Catherine BrasherRandall A. BraterMatt BrillKaren Brinkmann and Fred JohnsenStephen D. BrodyBlair Brown and Susan GeroneWilliam and Heidi BumpersDavid L. CavanaughAnn ClaassenBarton ClarkCarol Clayton and Jeffrey WatkissCheryl M. CoeChristopher DaviesDouglas DavisonDavid DekkerDavid T. Della RoccaMark and Shari DirectorJohn M. DowdDebra A. DrakeJohn DruvaJessica L. EllsworthCraig Everly and Chris SpitaleriLinda R. FanninJonathan and Joan FeeDenise FeeMichael and Julie FeltyJennifer A. FischerMiriam L. FisherMarc L. FleischakerBradley GansNora E. GarroteNatasha N. GianvecchioNathalie GilfoyleCraig T. GoldblattLeon B. GreenfieldSandra HallmarkThomas A. HanusikKevin HenleyChristopher J. Herrling
Todd HettenbachSusan M. HoffmanRainey HoffmanJacqueline M. HolmesRichard Ifft and Beth GreenfeldJoel JankowskyWilliam and Judith JeffressEverett JohnsonBarbara K. KaganJoseph KakeshDonald A. KaplanTheodore KassingerChristine N. KearnsThomas KnoxTrevor LainJohn Andre LeducSusie LeeYoon-Young Lee and Matthew ReganJason LichtKathryne LoveClaire M. MaddoxAmanda L. MajorMeredith ManningMarc and Nicole MartinThomas J. McCarthyWalter and Mary McCormickKathleen McDermottWilliam G. McElwainWilliam McGloneChristopher Clark McIsaacJack and Kathleen McKayBill R. McLucasKelsey McPhersonJennifer Mezey and Jonathan LevyPJ ModeThomas and Kathryn MorganRandolph D. MossThomas MuellerJonathan NuechterleinScott ParvenDavid PennaKristina PisanelliRuth and Stephen PollakDonald R. PongraceKami QuinnAmy ReichMelissa G. ReinbergDavid Reiser and Irene HuntoonS. White RhyneMark J. RochonMichael Rogan and Susan SchafferAnita RomeroJessica RosenbaumDouglas and
Erica RosenthalJames M. RosenthalJohn L. SachsSteven M. SalkyRonald A. Schechter and Susan D. GilbertPeter J. SchildkrautKaren A. SchoenSteven H. SchulmanGary P. SeligmanPat ShannonWilliam ShermanBarry SimonMatthew Slater and Faith RoesselD. Joe SmithMary Lou SollerKathleen SooyDanielle SpinelliSri SrinivasanSteven A. and Marcia J. StoneJames StuartWilliam J. Sweet and Geraldine MullanJeffrey TaftEdward TakashimaJohn Martin TaladayNina S. TallonKevin ThurmRyan C. TischRebekah TotonRandall J. TurkAdam van AlstyneCharles F. WalkerRoger E. WarinAmy WigmoreMark C. WilliamsB. John WilliamsBrian Wolfman and Shereen ArentJoseph and Susan WyderkoMichelle A. ZamarinRichard R. ZaragozaAnthony J. Zelano
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for January – December 2012In 2012, the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia celebrated its 80th Anniversary – 80 years of Making Justice Real in the District of Columbia.
99 PARTICIPANTSAnonymous (3)James and Michelle AlbergRichard AlexanderDonald B. AyerJames H. BarkerCharlene Barshefsky and Edward B. CohenDeborah B. BaumLeonard and Joy BaxtDavid and Sherry BerzWesley D. BizzellA. Scott BoldenBarbara B. BrownDavid I. BrownRussell BruemmerPeter Buscemi and Judith MillerGraeme Bush and Wendy RudolphJohn and Kathleen ByrnesMary G. Clark and Craig R. SchafferMark Colley and Deborah HarschFrank M. (Rusty) ConnerDonna CooperDavid and Martha DantzicForrest Deegan and Ryan RichardsonJoe Figini and Jason DenbyAlice S. FisherSteven G. ForsythScott and Lauren GilbertEileen GleimerJack GockeJamie S. GorelickPat and Mary GrantJoyce and Robert Gwadz
Jerry Hartman in memory of Barbara McDowellPatrick HarveyJohn Heintz and Lynn OhmanRicki T. and Michael S. HelferEmily C. Helms WilliamsPhilip and Roberta HortonTed and Judy HowardDaniel and Wendy JarchoDennis and Ilene KieferStephen E. KitchenKenneth KleinJoel B. Kleinman and Mary Patrice BrownMartin and Arlene KlepperDionne C. LomaxMark. H. LynchVirginia M. MarraJoan E. McKown and James A. BrigaglianoThomas H. MilchSteven R. MilesPatricia MillettJames R. MurrayMike and Cheryl NaeveJohn and Carole NannesMichael E. Nannes and Nancy E. EverettEdward J. NewberryMark and Jo Ann NewellRobert NovickDeanne M. OttavianoThomas Papson and Toby SingerAnthony and Lee PartridgeWilliam and Teresa PerlsteinWoody N. Peterson
Carter Phillips and Sue HenryAnthony Pierce and Karen Stevens PierceDorthula H. Powell-WoodsonAbid R. QureshiMichael and Mary RaibmanJohn P. RelmanEric S. RichterKurt RichterTangela RichterJames E. Rocap, IIIRichard L. RosenBarbara M. RossottiJames Rowe and Lisa AdamsHoward M. ShapiroPeter D. ShieldsLeslie K. SmithPeter SpivackJames and Carol SpringerMark A. Srere and Jayne JerkinsTheodore B. StoneThomas StricklandRonald J. TenpasSteuart H. Thomsen and Linda Chatman ThomsenJennifer S. Van DriesenG. Duane ViethDaniel VolchokMichael E. WardSeth P. WaxmanHarry J. WeissSarah L. WilsonScott L. WinkelmanAlan WisemanJoseph and Lynda Zengerle
In honor of this significant milestone, Legal Aid launched the 80 for 80 Campaign to complement the Making Justice Real Giving Circle annual gift recognition program. Whereas the Giving Circle recognizes those individuals who give each year at levels of $1,000 and above, the goal of the 80 for 80 Campaign was to seek the support of at least 80 individuals/couples to give an anniversary gift of $2,500 or more during calendar year 2012. In 2012, we surpassed this goal – ending the year with a remarkable 99 participants.
Support Legal AidLegal 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 for persons living in poverty in D.C.:
• Give through the Generous Associates Campaign this summer.• Contribute to the Annual Appeal at the end of the year.• Sponsor the 25th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner on April 29, 2014.• 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.
• Give the gift of stock or securities. It is usually beneficial to give appreciated securities since you bypass any capital gains tax due had you sold them – and you receive a charitable deduction for their fair market value.
• Consider adding a bequest to your will that contributes to the sustainable future of Legal Aid. In the alternative, consider designating Legal Aid as a beneficiary of your life insurance policy or charitable trust.
For more information about these options, please visit our website at www.LegalAidDC.org or contact Gregg A. Kelley, Director of Development, by phone at (202) 661-5964 or by email at [email protected].
Thank YouTonight’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:
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Michael E. Nannes Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Ed Newberry Patton Boggs LLP
Deanne M. OttavianoArent Fox LLP
Kevin L. Petrasic Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Anthony T. Pierce Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Michael Raibman Reed Smith LLP
Michael Paul ReedDLA Piper LLP
John P. Relman Relman, Dane & Colfax PLLC
Kurt Richter Cassidy Turley
Tangela S. Richter Capital One
Peter D. Shields Wiley Rein LLP
Mary Lou Soller Miller & Chevalier Chartered
Peter S. Spivack Hogan Lovells US LLP
Theodore B. StoneErnst & Young
Ronald J. Tenpas Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Rebecca K. Troth Sidley Austin LLP
Alon Vogel LexisNexis
Sarah L. Wilson Covington & Burling LLP
Scott L. Winkelman Crowell & Moring LLP
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Board of TrusteesBoard of Trustees
OfficersDeanne M. OttavianoPresidentArent Fox LLP
Daniel G. JarchoVice President McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Theodore B. StoneTreasurer Ernst & Young
Donna CooperSecretary Black Entertainment Television, Inc.
MembersDeborah B. Baum Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
David R. Berz Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Alex BourellyBaker Botts LLP
Steve D. Brody O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Barbara B. Brown Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Graeme W. Bush Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
John T. Byrnes Dow Lohnes PLLC
Donna Cooper Black Entertainment Television, Inc.
Robert Cooper Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
David S. Dantzic Latham & Watkins LLP
Jonathan M. Fee Alston & Bird LLP
Nora E. Garrote Venable LLP
Scott D. Gilbert Gilbert LLP
Jack Gocke Wells Fargo
Gerald S. Hartman Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
John E. Heintz Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Christopher J. Herrling Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Rainey Hoffman The Carlyle Group
Philip W. Horton Arnold & Porter LLP
Daniel G. JarchoMcKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Barbara K. Kagan Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Dennis M. Kiefer Deloitte LLP
Kenneth Klein Mayer Brown LLP
Martin Klepper Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Jennifer G. Levy Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Dionne C. Lomax Vinson & Elkins LLP
Virginia M. Marra Exxon Mobil Corporation
Marc S. Martin K&L Gates LLP
Joan E. McKown Jones Day
John M. NannesSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Deborah BaumPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
C. Stanley DeesMcKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Michael S. HelferCitigroup
Michael J. Henke
Stephen S. HillThe Law Office of Stephen S. Hill
Caswell O. Hobbs
Philip W. Horton Arnold & Porter LLP
Martin Klepper Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
G. Philip NowakAkin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Thomas C. PapsonMcKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
Anthony T. Pierce Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
S. White Rhyne
Barbara M. RossottiPillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Robert N. SaylerCovington & Burling LLP
Thomas Schattenfield
Daniel W. Toohey
Presidents Council The Presidents Council consists of all living former presidents of Legal Aid.
Eric AngelExecutive Director
Gillian AveryDevelopment Assistant
Rosanne AvilésSupervising Attorney
Laura BaileyOperations Associate
Julie BeckerSupervising Attorney
Meridel Bulle-VuStaff Attorney
Gary CunninghamIntake Coordinator
Paul Sebastían Di BlasiStaff Attorney
Maggie DonahueStaff Attorney
Jodi FeldmanDirector of Pro Bono and Intake Programs
Lauren GodlesLegal Administrative Assistant
Beth Mellen HarrisonSupervising Attorney
Katherine HaysChief Operations Officer
Jeannette HendersonAdministrative Assistant
Shirley HorngSenior Staff Attorney
Anjela JenkinsStaff Attorney
Jack KeeneyDirector, Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Project
Gregg A. KelleyDirector of Development
Heather LatinoSupervising Attorney
Jennifer Ngai LavalleeSenior Staff Attorney
Chinh Q. LeLegal Director
Julianna LeeSupervising Attorney
Jennifer MezeySupervising Attorney
Ashley McDowellStaff Attorney
Westra MillerStaff Attorney
Christina MoehrleLegal Administrative Assistant
Trisha MonroeSupervising Attorney
Lucy NewtonSupervising Attorney
Andrew PattersonSenior Staff Attorney
Oluwemimo (Wemi) T. PetersStaff Attorney
Julia Eve PrestonStaff Attorney
Anna PurintonStaff Attorney
Rachel RintelmannStaff Attorney
Patricia RoulhacLegal Secretary
James vanR. SpringerVolunteer Staff Attorney
Tianna TerryStaff Attorney
Alice ToppingIntake Coordinator
Thuy-Tu TranSenior Development Associate
Stephanie TroyerSupervising Attorney
Clair WeatherbyLegal Administrative Assistant
Jeannine WinchStaff Attorney
Alfonso WrightController
LOANED ASSOCIATES
Stephen Blank Sidley & Austin LLP
Valarie NeySkadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Kate RiggsSteptoe & Johnson LLP
Sionne Rosenfeld Arnold & Porter LLP
Carolyn Wagner Crowell & Moring LLP
FELLOWS
Stephanie O. AkpaEqual Justice Works Fellow
Drake HagnerEqual Justice Works Fellow
Ashley Waddell TingstadSkadden Fellow
Nina WuEqual Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow
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On April 1, 2013, the NonProfitTimes, a national publication, named Legal Aid as one of the top 50 “Best NonProfitsto Work for 2013.”
Legal Aid was ranked 14th in the nation overall and 6th amongorganizations of similar size around the country.
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25th Servant of Justice Awards Dinner onApril 29, 2014 at the JW Marriott Hotel.
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