2010 Annual Report Fiscal Year 2010 Expenditures

Salaries...... 6,498,362 Fringe Benefits...... 1,968,715 Contractors and Consultants ...... 477,840 Travel...... 55,332 Space Costs ...... 633,011 Consumable Supplies ...... 56,855 Furniture & Equipment ...... 94,426 Insurance & Bonding ...... 26,402 Printing Costs ...... 24,855 Dues to Professional Organizations ...... 20,140 Tuition/Seminar...... 28,176 Relocation Expense ...... 2,539 Library ...... 95,267 Telephone ...... 39,672 Postage ...... 27,406 Connectivity ...... 13,639 Court Costs...... 15,059 Miscellaneous ...... 34,022 Interest Expense ...... 1,433

Depreciation ...... 27,447

Acquisition of Property Land ...... 174,868 Equipment ...... 105,064 Construction in Progress ...... 20,125

Total Expenditures ...... 10,140,598

Support and Revenues

Access to Justice ...... 2,155,993 Attorneys Fees ...... 202,693 Foundation and Law Firm Contributions ...... 2,712,420 Individual Contributions ...... 73,636 Other ...... 388,359 IOLTA ...... 413,596 Local Government Funded Contracts ...... 3,031,552 State Government Funded Contracts ...... 2,480,226

Total Revenue ...... 11,458,475 People in color photographs that appear in this annual report are clients of Community Legal Services of Philadelphia.

Community Legal Services comprises nine legal units specializing in partic- ular areas of civil poverty law. Each unit represents individual clients, engages in advocacy concerning sys- temic issues identified through direct client work, and provides community education on relevant legal issues to clients, professionals, and advocates.

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Public Benefits Unit Counsels clients, provides education and outreach services, and advocates regionally and nationally on welfare, disability, and healthcare issues. The unit also includes the Advocating on Behalf of Children Project, which helps disabled children access medical care.

Employment Unit Represents clients with employment-related problems, including claims on fair wages, family and medical leave, discrimination, and barriers to employment. The unit advocates at the national and state levels on workers’ rights issues such as maintaining the protections of the unemployment compensation system.

Energy Unit Protects the rights of low-income utility custo- mers on service and payment issues, represents group clients on utility rate change cases and serves as the Public Advocate in representing all Philadelphia Gas Works residential customers.

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Community Legal Services thanks the following donors for their generous support of our 2010 Bar Campaign.

ADR Options, Inc. Kovler & Rush, PC Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Langer, Grogan & Diver, PC* Feldman & Smalley, PC Langsam Stevens & Silver LLP Anonymous Law Offices of Daniel J. Siegel, LLC Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP Law Offices of Judy Greenwood, PC Barrack, Rodos, & Bacine Law Offices of Maniaci, Ciccotta & Bazelon Less & Feldman, PC Schweizer The Beasley Firm LLC* Law Office of Michael LiPuma Berger & Montague, P.C. Law Offices of Arline Jolles Lotman Blank Rome LLP Leventhal Sutton & Gornstein* Boni & Zack LLC* Littler Mendelson Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC Margolis Edelstein Caesar, Rivise, Bernstein, Cohen & Marshall, Dennehey, Warner, Pokotilow, Ltd. Coleman & Goggin Chimicles & Tikellis LLP McCarter & English, LLP Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen & Young, PC McEldrew & Fullam, PC* Cohen, Fluhr & Gonzalez, P.C. Montgomery, McCracken, Walker Conrad O’Brien PC & Rhoads, LLP Cozen O’Connor Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Dashevsky, Horwitz, Kuhn & Novello, P.C. Ogletree Deakins Nash Smoak Dechert LLP & Stewart, P.C. Dilworth Paxson LLP Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP The Dispute Resolution Institute Pansini & Mezrow* Donovan Searles, LLC* Pepper Hamilton LLP Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Post & Schell, PC Duane Morris LLP Raynes McCarty* Duffy & Partners* Reed Smith LLP Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC Reliable Copy Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg Ross Feller Casey, LLP* & Jeck, P.C. Rust Consulting, Inc. Feldman & Pinto Saltz, Mongeluzzi, Barrett & Bendesky P.C. Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Sandals & Associates, PC* Weinstock & Dodig LLP Saul Ewing LLP The Ferrara Law Firm Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP Fox Rothschild LLP Seeger Weiss LLP Francis & Mailman, PC Spector Roseman Kodroff & Willis, P.C. Gay Chacker & Mittin* Stevens & Lee Gibbons P.C. Stradley Ronon Stevens & Young, LLP Goldbeck, McCafferty & McKeever Swartz Campbell LLC Golomb & Honik, PC Thorp Reed & Armstrong, LLP Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Brecher & Harper & Paul Miller, P.C. Hoyle, Fickler, Herschel & Mathes LLP Weber Gallagher Simpson Stapleton Fires Jeffrey S. Gross, Attorney at Law & Newby, LLP Josel, Feenane & Gaier, P.C. White and Williams LLP Kairys Rudovsky Messing & Feinberg Willig, Williams & Davidson Kinsella Media, LLC The Winston Law Firm* Klehr, Harrison, Harvey, Branzburg LLP Young Ricchiuti Caldwell Kline & Specter, PC & Heller LLC Kohn, Swift & Graf, PC * Donated at least $300 per Attorney Awards and Honors 2009–2010

Community Legal Services Louise E. Hayes, Esq. Philadelphia’s Top Work Senior Attorney Sabbatical Fellowship Places Recognition Presented by the Independence Foundation Presented by the Philadelphia Inquirer and the Daily News Carol Horne Penn, Esq. Community Design Award 2010 – Catherine C. Carr, Esq. Conceptual Design for a Dom Vetri “Champion of the Community Law Center Public Interest” Award Presented by the Community Design Collaborative Presented by the University of Oregon School of Law, Brenda L. Marrero, Esq. Public Interest/Public Service Program 2010 “Unsung Hero” Award Presented by the Legal Intelligencer Catherine C. Carr, Esq. 2009 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award Beth Shapiro, Esq. Presented by the Philadelphia Bar Foundation PennDot Advocacy Team Award Presented by HIAS and Council Katherine Gomez, Esq. 2010 Next Generation of Leadership: Kerry Smith, Esq. Rising Stars 2010 Next Generation of Leadership: Presented by Councilwoman Rising Stars Blondell Reynolds Brown, Presented by Councilwoman Blondell Philadelphia City Council Reynolds Brown, Philadelphia City Council Elizabeth Goodell, Esq. Richard P. Weishaupt, Esq. Housing Alliance Leadership Award Bernard White Community Service Award Presented by the Housing Presented by Planned Lifetime Assistance Alliance of Pennsylvania Network of Pennsylvania Louise E. Hayes, Esq. 2010 Excellence Award Presented by the Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network

4 / 5 In 1966, The Philadelphia Bar Association established CLS as an independent, 501(c)(3) organization to provide free legal services, in civil matters, to low-income Philadelphians.

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Housing Unit Represents private, public, and subsidized housing tenants in matters involving eviction, illegal lock- outs, and substandard housing. The unit also uses systems advocacy and litigation to address issues ranging from lead paint elimination, to federal housing policy changes, to tenant eviction laws. Family Advocacy Unit Advocates for parents to keep their children at home or have them returned from foster care to a safe home, and provides assistance and training to other family advocates. The unit monitors and advocates for improvements in dependency court and foster care. Consumer/Housing Unit Represents homeowners in disputes, residential mortgage foreclosures, fraudulent consumer prac- tices, and issues with banking or check-cashing agencies. The unit uses systems advocacy and litigation to address the predatory lending crisis and other fringe banking issues.

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45Providing quality legal services to more than one million clients. 1 Incorporators, Founding Trustees (May 4, 1966)

William R. Klaus Robert D. Abrahams Charles W. Bowser Herman I. Pollock Robert L. Trescher CLS Board Chairs William R. Klaus: 1966 to 1980 2 David C. Toomey: 1980 to 1982 Ronald J. Harper: 1983 to 1986 John U. Coates: 1987 to 1995 A. Michael Pratt: 1996 to 1999 Sharon M. Wilson: 1999 to 2004 Wendell E. Pritchett: 2004 to 2008 Barbara T. Sicalides: 2008 to present CLS Executive Directors Robert D. Abrahams: 1966 to 1967 Harvey N. Schmidt: 1967 to 1970 Laurence M. Lavin: 1971 to 1979 Ernest E. Jones: 1979 to 1983 Jonathan M. Stein: 1983 to 1986 Louis S. Rulli: 1986 to 1995 Catherine C. Carr: 1995 to present Deborah L. Freedman: 2008 to 2009 (Acting, 6 months)

1. CLS’ Law Center North Central at 3 3638 North Broad Street. 2. Andre Dennis, William Klaus, Amanda Coleman, and David Toomey. 3. Louis Rulli, executive director of CLS at the time, presents the Hon. Bruce Kauffman with the 1995 Champion of Justice Award.

Cover photos clockwise, from top left, by: Leandre Jackson, Harvey Finkle, Harvey Finkle, Leandre Jackson, Harvey Finkle, Harvey Finkle, Harvey Finkle

CLS Past Awardees The Champion of Justice and Equal Justice awards are given annually by Community Legal Services to recognize those who have made extraordinary efforts to ensure equal access to justice for all, regardless of income.

Champions of Justice Equal Justice Howard Lesnick Robert D. Abrahams Altman Weil Pensa, Inc. Roberta D. Liebenberg Irv Ackelsberg Esther Alvarez Charisse R. Lillie Mark A. Aronchick Alfred J. Azen Arline J. Lotman The Hon. Edward R. Becker Michael A. Bloom Priscilla Hamilton Munroe Edward F. Chacker Michael J. Boni Linda Wright Moore David L. Cohen Louise Brookins Gerald A. McHugh, Jr. Drew S. Days III Thomas Burke James F. Mundy The Hon. Chaka Fattah Judith Bernstein-Baker Patricia M. Patterson Lawrence J. Fox Lisa Brennan Pepper Hamilton LLP Rosetta Frank John U. Coates Philadelphia Trial Lawyers Robert C. Heim Johnie Mae Coles Association The Hon. Leon Higginbotham Doreen S. Davis A. Michael Pratt Independence Foundation Dechert LLP Gene E. K. Pratter The Hon. Bruce Kauffman Andre L. Dennis Cheryl Ransom-Garner William R. Klaus Francis P. Devine, III Renee Reese Leventhal Sutton & Gornstein Edward Diver Abraham C. Reich The Hon. Kathy M. Manderino Christopher C. Fallon, Jr. Thomas B. Roberts Leslie Anne Miller Alan Feldman Marcene W. Rogovin Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Stephen A. Feldman Michael Ruffin The Hon. Dennis M. O’Brien Fine, Kaplan & Black R.P.C. Anita Santos-Singh Wendell E. Pritchett Ethan Fogel and the Dechert LLP David A. Searles Henry T. Reath Landlord/Tenant Pro Bono Team Kenneth Shear Estelle Richman Jon D. Fox William A. Slaughter The Hon. Annette M. Rizzo Deborah L. Freedman Janet F. Stotland The Hon. Harvey N. Schmidt David E. Francis Dennis R. Suplee Jerome J. Shestack Nancy H. Fullam David T. Sykes Barbara T. Sicalides Sylvia J. Goldsmith Walter Taggart The Hon. Arlen Specter Jordana L. Greenwald Joseph A. Torregrossa The Hon. Mayor John Street Martin and Dianne Greitzer Suzanne E. Turner David C. Toomey John J. Grogan Pam Walz Kenneth I. Trujillo Clifford E. Haines Joyce Wilkerson Paul A. Tufano Ronald J. Harper Beverly A. Williams Deborah R. Willig Amy E. Hirsch David J. Wolfsohn Joanne Zack Vincent J. Hughes Suzanne J. Young Marjorie Jackson-Crowder Ernest E. Jones IOLTA Award Leon A. King II David Unkovic Eve Biskind Klothen Seth F. Kreimer Hall of Fame Award Howard I. Langer Carl “Tobey” Oxholm III Peter H. LeVan, Jr. Dotson v. Redevelopment Authority, 1962 1970 race discrimination litigation results in more low-income housing in American Bar Association Fox v. HUD, attempts to gain Society Hill. gives Award of Merit to the housing assistance for racial Philadelphia Bar Association minorities removed from their for its leadership in making former neighborhoods. 1973 legal services available to all regardless of their ability Gurmankin v. Costanzo, strikes Nicholson v. Pittenger, institutes to pay. down the Philadelphia School a federally-funded, free school District’s bar against employing breakfast program. blind teachers. 1965 City-wide Coalition Against Childhood Lead Paint Poisoning v. HUD and Philadelphia Bar Association 1971 City of Phila. v. Page, federal court publishes Law and the War requires de-leading of federally on Poverty in Philadelphia by CLS helps Congress to adopt owned properties and public William R. Klaus in response nation’s first Lead Paint housing units. to the growing and overwhelming Poisoning Prevention Act. need for legal services. Goosby v. Osser, Supreme Court Graham v. Richardson, Supreme overturns Election Code provisions Court holds citizenship require- denying unconvicted pretrial 1966 ments in welfare programs are detainees the right to vote. unconstitutional. Judge Raymond Pace Alexander, David v. Romney, Third Circuit of the Court of Common Pleas, Brown v. Phila. Housing Authority, holds that properties sold under grants CLS’ charter over objection. federal court order establishes FHA mortgage insurance programs The new organization places grievance procedure process for must comply with local housing codes. attorneys in existing anti-poverty public housing tenants. program offices in neighborhoods throughout Philadelphia. 1972

1969 Swarb v. Lennox and Fuentes v. Shevin, Supreme Court holds confession of CLS opens its own small judgment and replevin procedures neighborhood offices unconstitutional. around the city. 2 Shapiro v. Thompson, welfare residency laws declared unconstitutional because they deny an individual the right to travel. 1

1. CLS’ Law Center South. 2. Receptionists at CLS’ Law Center Girard. Law Center South and Law Center Girard were two of CLS’ five original neighborhood law centers. Photos by: Leandre Jackson. Liberty Alliance of the Blind v. Bolden v. PA State Police, one 1974 Califano, Third Circuit requires of the first ever race discrimina- payment of Social Security benefits tion suits against a state police Buckles v. Weinberger, at the to over 2,000 blind beneficiaries department. This long, bitterly outset of the SSI program CLS whose rights had been ignored by fought case led to a sweeping successfully protects 5,000 the Social Security Administration. victory and the integration of the disabled Pennsylvanians. police force by African Americans. CLS establishes the Energy Unit to address utility related needs of Cooper v. Califano, court holds 1975 low-income Philadelphia residents. portions of Social Security Act unconstitutional because of Washington Square East litigation, CLS reaches peak staffing of gender discrimination. CLS successfully concludes long 99 attorneys. litigation with the building of Willing v. Mazzocone, Pennsylvania low-income units in this urban Supreme Court protects the right renewal area. 1978 of indigents to picket.

CLS expands and reorganizes into Bankruptcy Reform Act is passed by Vecchione v. Wohlgemuth, five neighborhood law centers with Congress, CLS develops nationally federal court enjoins seizure a main office in Sylvania House. recognized practice in consumer of Social Security benefits bankruptcy. from institutionalized people.

1976 Davis v. Bucher, Federal Court holds that federally funded employers may 1979 Whitman Park public housing not refuse to hire or fire individuals project is ordered to be built in solely on the basis of past drug use. Pugh v. Holmes, CLS assists the southern tip of Philadelphia; in obtaining a Pennsylvania this will be an ongoing and very Griffin v. HUD, Third Circuit rules Supreme Court ruling establishing public project of CLS. that HUD violated the law in its an implied warranty of habitability operation of the rent supplement in residential leases. Resident Advisory Board v. Mayor program in subsidized housing. Rizzo, federal court finds racial Philadelphia Legal Services discrimination by the City of Finburg v. Sullivan, Third Circuit Union founded by CLS attorneys. Philadelphia, RDA, PHA, and HUD Court of Appeals strikes down Paralegals and support staff and orders Whitman Park public State rules that allowed creditors join District 1199C. housing to be built. to seize consumers bank accounts containing Social Security benefits Ferrell v. Pierce, Federal court CLS helps draft Pennsylvania without notifying them of any orders HUD to provide housing Protection from Abuse Act, rights they may have, or providing to homeowners whose mortgages a national model for state any procedures to promptly return had been improperly foreclosed domestic violence legislation. the seized goods. upon and to operate a national program providing foreclosure relief. Dawes v. Phila. Gas Commission and Koger v. Guarino, federal court holds due process protections apply to water and gas consumers, Right: George Gould, managing attorney of leading to the appointment of CLS the Housing Unit, with as the Public Advocate before the Judith Bernstein-Baker Gas Commission. and members of the Fairmount community. Photo by: Leandre 1977 Jackson.

CLS seeks an injunction to prevent a fare hike by SEPTA for the first time.

Alexander v. Polk, Third Circuit rules that cutoff of WIC benefits by the City violates due process; damages awarded. 1980

CLS’ Dependency Unit (now the Family Advocacy Unit) is formed to expand representation of parents fighting to preserve and reunite their families.

CLS’ Community Reinvestment Act challenges to bank mergers lead to community reinvestment agreements and lifeline bank accounts.

Hines v. Pettit, series of cases ends practice of entering judgments in amounts higher than originally sought without Above: Family Advocacy Unit attorneys Wesley Allen, notice or hearing. Katherine Gomez, Peter Schneider, Marjorie Janowski and William Gibbons. CEPA v. SEPTA, court enjoins Photo by: Harvey Finkle. SEPTA fare increase.

James v. O’Bannon, Third Circuit 1981 1982 requires the eligibility standard for welfare supplements for working Shadis v. Beal, federal court Youngberg v. Romeo, holds that a custodial parents to be based on reinstates Medical Assistance developmentally disabled individual net, not gross, income. benefits to elderly and disabled has liberty interests in receiving Social Security beneficiaries. Over minimally adequate treatment. Lease Purchase Class Actions, CLS $1 million in damages distributed. sues landlords who offer deceptive PA v. Local 452, federal court order lease/purchase or installment sales TAG v. Paulken, federal court ends racial discrimination against contracts for homes. Hundreds of vacates decision which denied minority engineers. tenants obtain titles and repairs to VISTA refunding for Tenants’ their homes. CLS suits continue Action Group. Kuehner v. Heckler, Third Circuit through 1996. enjoins illegal termination of Doe v. Colautti, class action disability benefits which leads leads to statewide regulations to passage of amended statute. 1984 protecting the confidentiality of mental health information. Henderson v. PHA, federal court Social Security Disability Benefits orders hearing prior to termination Reform Act passed in answer to Business Assoc. of University City of Section 8 housing benefits. massive litigation strategy, including v. HUD, Third Circuit upholds Kuehner v. Heckler, halting disability building of subsidized housing purges of the Reagan administration. in University City. 1983 McCloud v. Saks, federal court CLS and the Philadelphia Bar Court stays sheriff’s sales on all order ends landlord/tenant Association create Philadelphia Philadelphia mortgage foreclosures officers’ assessment of fees Volunteers for the Indigent for more than a year. CLS is instru- before judicial determination. Program (VIP) to coordinate mental in the establishment of state the private bar’s pro bono legal mortgage foreclosure assistance representation of low-income programs. 1985 Philadelphians. USA v. Catherine Street Close, federal Mayhew v. Cohen, federal court court enjoins sale of subsidized holds reduction of welfare benefits housing in Queen Village. to collect overpayments unconstitu- tional without adequate notice and hearing. O’Dell v. O’Bannon, District Court 1986 orders DHS to provide a range of 1990 services for families whose children Suong Phan v. DPW, administrative have been placed in foster care. CLS takes lead in confronting civil rights complaint leads to the scourge of fraudulent trade schools hiring of Vietnamese and Khmer- and obtains millions of dollars of speaking welfare caseworkers and 1988 student loan cancellations. translation of materials sent to welfare recipients. In re St. Mary’s Hospital, Elderly Law Project (now the Aging Bankruptcy Court prevents and Disabilities Unit) is launched. Harley v. Lyng, federal court closure of community hospital. CLS does pioneer work for rights requires state to properly issue of poor residents of nursing and expedited food stamps to poor CLS is instrumental in passage boarding homes to quality care. persons in exigent situations. of City ordinance making pro se evictions illegal. DPW v. Davenport, Supreme Court Warren v. Hascher, court holds upholds discharge of criminal that residents of personal care restitution orders as debts. boarding homes in Pennsylvania 1989 are entitled to the same legal Sullivan v. Zebley, Supreme protection as tenants. Whitaker v. Phila. Electric Co., Third Court holds that the method Circuit holds that bankruptcy of determining disability for Fifty Residents of Park Residence debtors are entitled to immediate children under the Supplemental Nursing Home v. DPW, Common- restoration of utility service without Security Income program is illegal wealth Court requires, for the first payment of deposit. and orders the Social Security time, that nursing home residents Administration to rewrite regula- must be given notice prior to West v. Brown, Third Circuit tions. The case is the largest class changes in their level of care. holds that public housing utility action ever won against the SSA. allowances cannot be used in the calculation of food stamps. CLS establishes the Advocating 1987 on Behalf of Children Project Robinson v. Dawes, Third Circuit to address the needs of Mass tax sale by the City of holds improper the rules which disabled children. Philadelphia is stopped; thousands reduce food stamp awards to of low-income homeowners get adult siblings who live together. Vance v. Sullivan, federal court individual payment agreements invalidates “Essential Persons” and save their homes. CLS successfully challenges a provision of the Social Security series of SEPTA fare hikes saving Act, resulting in increased Hendrickson v. PGW, federal court low-income riders millions of welfare awards. requires PGW to give notice and dollars; ongoing through 1991. a hearing in denials of service for Baksalary v. Smith, federal court reasons other than nonpayment. rules that worker’s compensation benefits can no longer be terminated Bennet v. White, successful litigation or reduced without prior notice and ensuing monitoring results in to recipients and a hearing. $6 million of improperly diverted 2 support payments returned to CLS and Philadelphia VIP collabo- former welfare recipients. rate to help form the Homeless Advocacy Project (HAP). Both organizations provide office space and support for the project.

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Hastings Constitutional Law Averly v. City of Phila., court order Welfare “reform” results in passage Quarterly, after national review reforms City of Philadelphia’s of Temporary Aid to Needy Families of legal services programs, psychological examination of police legislation; CLS leads advocacy concludes that CLS is the candidates. 250 African Americans improving implementation of most successful legal services are given new opportunities to Pennsylvania welfare policies and provider in the nation. become police officers. procedures, preserving benefits for entire groups of clients, such as Action Alliance v. Snider, federal cash and medical assistance for 1993 court orders sweeping revision to immigrants and food stamps for the administration of the Medicare single childless persons. Williams v. PHA, federal court Buy-In Program leading to 12,000 requires hearing procedure for ten- new beneficiaries and $6.2 million ants denied eligibility for Section 8. in refunds. 1997

Brooks v. PHA, federal court orders Success Against All Odds v. DPW, PHA to provide additional monies 1995 Court order prevents elimination for public housing tenants who of the Child Support Pass-Through, pay for utilities in common areas. CLS plays key role in passing City after CLS and the Women's Law ordinances requiring lead hazard Project convinces the state legisla- Rosetti v. Shalala, Third Circuit disclosure and prohibiting retaliatory ture that children in families getting decision leads to Social Security eviction of tenants after a lead welfare should receive at least Administration’s adoption of new hazard has been found. part of the child support paid for standards for assessing disability them. The legislature then amends caused by HIV and AIDS. CLS and the Philadelphia Bar the state statue to specifically Association create Philadelphia provide for it. Bonds v. White, federal court order Legal Assistance (PLA) in the improves child support collection wake of new regulations limiting and distribution in interstate and use of federal funding for legal intercounty cases. services. PLA accepts federal funding and works within its Bozzi v. Shalala, court orders restrictions, while CLS forgoes redeterminations of eligibility for federal funding to continue a hundreds of widows improperly broader range of activities. denied Social Security disability benefits.

CLS and Philadelphia VIP collabo- rate again to form the Consumer 5 Bankruptcy Assistance Project (CBAP) to address economic issues plaguing low-income Philadelphians.

1. Law Center North Central reception desk. Photo by: Leandre Jackson 2. Alma Davis, community representative member of CLS’ first board of trustees. Photo by: Harvey Finkle 3. Members of CLS’ Leadership Council: 4 Gerald McHugh, Allan Feldman, Joseph Sullivan, Joseph Tate, Edward Chacker, Catherine Carr (CLS Executive Director), Joanne Zack, Michael Boni, and Dennis Suplee. 4. Paralegal Nathalie Emam speaks with a client during intake. 5. Housing Unit Attorney Linda Ware Johnson poses with staff and crew during production of “The CLS Review,” a public access TV show that educated viewers on topical legal issues. Photo by: Leandre Jackson 1998 2000 2003

Challenge to merger of CoreStates CLS’ challenge to PECO/Unicom After seven years of work by CLS and First Union leads to agreement Corporation merger leads to a and the Women’s Law Project, benefiting low-income banking settlement agreement, which Act 44 is signed into law, helping consumers. further upgrades PECO’s low- Pennsylvania women in recovery income customer assistance from addictions rebuild their lives CLS wins significant rate reductions programs to focus on the by removing the lifetime ban on wel- and concessions from PECO, and poorest of the poor. fare and Food Stamps for individuals strengthens low-income customer with felony drug convictions. assistance programs mitigating the CLS makes “predatory lending” deregulation of electric service. a household word and develops Nixon v. Commonwealth, Pennsylvania nationally recognized practice Supreme Court rules unconstitutional Farley v. PHA, Third Circuit holds that saves hundreds of homes the Older Adults Protective Services PHA grievance hearing awards can from foreclosure. Act which barred thousands of ex- be enforced in federal court. offenders from working in nursing CLS files 11 civil rights complaints homes and other long-term care Pleasant v. Evers, federal court against the state DPW, alleging facilities. holds unconstitutional court rule discrimination against people requiring tenants to pay three-months with limited English proficiency rent to stay in their dwellings during at welfare offices and in welfare-to- 2004 an appeal of an eviction order and work programs. provides money damages. CLS advocacy leads to $900 million in Blue Cross charitable CLS launches Community Economic 2001 contributions over six years to Development Unit to assist nonprofit fund the adultBasic health insurance organizations and micro-businesses Salter v. PHA, federal court order program for 57,000 low-income in low-income neighborhoods. prohibits the termination of Section uninsured adults in Pennsylvania. 8 housing benefits during eviction 1999 proceedings. 2005

CLS creates the Language Access 2002 CLS prevents cuts to adultBasic and Project to advocate on behalf of results in an additional $17 million immigrants and communities with As a result of complaints filed by in funding. limited English proficiency. CLS under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the federal government Turner v. Cash Today, CLS CLS works with state officials to requires Pennsylvania to provide files a lawsuit alleging violations improve implementation of welfare language access to non-English of Pennsylvania’s consumer reform work requirements, prevent- speakers receiving social services. credit laws by Cash Today, a ing massive cut-offs, preserving storefront payday loan company, access to education, enforcing which filed for bankruptcy shortly employment rights, and creating thereafter and ceased storefront public jobs programs. payday lending in Pennsylvania.

Maldonado v. Houstoun and Warrick v. Snider, Third Circuit affirms 1 unconstitutionality of residency requirements in two public benefit 2 programs because they deny an individual the right to travel.

1. A CLS client. Photo by: Harvey Finkle 2. Former Housing Unit attorney and current Energy Unit attorney Philip Bertocci. Photo by: Leandre Jackson 3. CLS Executive Director Catherine C. Carr with Mayor Michael Nutter after receiving the 2009 Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award. CLS is instrumental in the creation 2006 2008 of a City of Philadelphia protocol to improve access for vulnerable CLS represents a coalition of Torres v. DPW, Commonwealth Court children and families who are community groups opposing lawsuit permits individuals on house deaf or hard of hearing when neighborhood bank closings in arrest to receive cash assistance. they interact with DHS. North Philadelphia, resulting in an agreement to turn a Wachovia CLS helps establish the Common CLS advocacy results in the branch over to a community- Pleas Court Residential Mortgage Pennsylvania Banking Department owned credit union. Foreclosure Diversion Program, prohibiting predatory internet a national model, which helps payday lending to Pennsylvanians. CLS works to create the Rent a substantial number of home- The Pennsylvania Supreme Court Suitability Certificate Ordinance owners save their homes by unanimously confirms this pro- requiring Philadelphia landlords to preventing foreclosure. consumer interpretation in 2010. obtain a certificate stating that each rental property has no code CLS negotiates a settlement to pro- Pennsylvania enacts a package violations, is free from defects, and vide low-income electric customers of CLS-backed laws to reform will be maintained in the future. with up to an additional 30 percent the residential mortgage industry, of discounts, resulting in $11 million including a ban on prepayment CLS advocacy leads to new state in benefits annually. penalties for some loans and law requiring the appointment of improvements to HEMAP, which interpreters for limited English Kaplan v. Chertoff—CLS success- provides mortgage assistance to proficient persons in Pennsylvania fully negotiates settlement of homeowners in financial distress. courts and administrative hearings. case challenging the denial of SSI benefits for refugees, asylees and other humanitarian immigrants 2007 due to delay in processing citizenship applications. Erb v. McClellan, class action challenging federal government’s CLS advocacy removes asset passive enrollment of 110,000 test requirement allowing more low-income Medicare recipients low-income people to receive in HMOs which did not serve their Food Stamps. medical needs is settled and achieves extensive protections. CLS and the Pennsylvania Health Law Project successfully advocate for a CLS plays a major role in passing waiver program that allows disabled the Inclusionary Housing Ordinance people to receive care in their homes which requires developers of instead of a nursing home. Above: Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Judge Annette Rizzo gives CLS’ new residential construction in work on the Mortgage Forclosure Philadelphia to set aside 10 percent CLS, the Women’s Law Project, Diversion Project “two thumbs up” at of units as affordable housing and the Community Justice Project the 2009 CLS Breakfast of Champions. or contribute to the Housing successfully advocate to give child Photo by: Stuart Goldenberg Trust fund. support directly to families receiving welfare, who are now able to keep up CLS assists the City of Philadelphia to $200 per month in child support. 2009 in developing a landmark directive to improve access to programs and CLS’ advocacy results in $7 million services for people with limited over four years in utility assistance English proficiency. for low-income clients, with an additional $27.6 million energy efficiency and conservation assis- 3 tance through 2012.

After years of CLS advocacy, Pennsylvania mortgage regulations require mortgage brokers and lenders to document that a bor- rower has the ability to repay any offered mortgage loans. 2010 The mission of Community Legal CLS advocacy creates Way to Services (CLS) of Philadelphia is Work Pennsylvania, a six-month subsidized jobs program that to help low-income Philadelphia provides work for 28,000 adults and youth statewide. residents obtain equal access to CLS purchases land at 1402-1412 justice by providing them with W. Erie Avenue for construction of a new, permanent office at advice and representation in civil the intersection of Broad and Erie Avenues. legal matters; advocating for Garcia v. Sebelius, settlement of their legal rights; and conducting federal class action results in faster exchange of data between community education about the DPW and the federal government, speeding up access to Medicare for legal issues that affect them. tens of thousands of low-income disabled and elderly individuals in Pennsylvania.

CLS is instrumental in creating the Emergency Homeowners Loan 1 Program. Pennsylvania gets over $100 million to assist homeowners facing foreclosure due to unemploy- 2 ment, underemployment or medical problems.

CLS helps create the “Heat and Eat” plan to increase food stamp benefits for hundreds of thousands of Pennsylvanians while streamlining paperwork.

CLS advocacy leads to ban on the shackling of pregnant incarcerated women in Pennsylvania’s county jails and correctional facilities.

After more than a decade of work by CLS, Women’s Law Project, and the Community Justice Project, DPW adopts regulations protecting survivors of domestic violence who need help from the welfare system.

1. Receptionist Claudia Bell at Philadelphia VIP, when CLS and VIP shared office space in Sylvania House. Photo by: Leandre Jackson 1424 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19102-2505 2. CLS clients. Photo by: Harvey Finkle. 215.981.3700 www.clsphila.org

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2010 Donors

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Anonymous Ms. Christine Boylan Mr. John E. Cruz Mr. Jay R. Franke and Mr. David F. Abernethy and Ms. Barbara F. Boyle Mr. Kell M. Damsgaard and Ms. Pamela Baker Ms. Phyllis K. Simon Richard P. Brown, Esq. Ms. Katherine S. Ms. Ann Frankel Ronald B. Abrams, Esq. Wilson M. Brown, III, Esq. Damsgaard Eric D. Freed, Esq. Mr. Irv Ackelsberg, Esq. and Stephen D. Brown, Esq. Ms. Donna M. Darby Mrs. Bathsheba A. Freedman Ms. Patricia A. Urevick Sharon Browning, Esq. Ms. Marian Darmstadter Deborah L. Freedman, Esq. Mr. M. R. Ackelsberg and Ms. Carolyn Budzinski Lawrence Deutsch, Esq. Ms. Carolyn Freeman Mrs. Marilyn K. Ackelsberg Reverend Valeria C. Bullock Mark S. Dichter, Esq. and Ms. Adrienne L. Fricke Mr. Joel Ackelsberg and Leonard A. Busby, Esq. Tobey G. Dichter,TTEE Carl H. Fridy, Esq. Ms. Betsy Tessler Mr. Joseph J. Buvel and Sharon Dietrich, Esq. Isla Ann Fruchter, Esq. Enid H. Adler, Esq. Mrs. Shirley E. Buvel Ms. Kim K. Do Ms. Edith H. Furstenberg Ms. C. Gloria Akers Stephen J. Buvel, Esq. and Michael T. Donahue, Esq. Ms. Diane Galeone Dr. Monisha C. Akhtar Stacey Philpot Diana S. Donaldson, Esq. Mr. Shawn Gardiner Ms. Laura Allen Jay H. Calvert, Jr., Esq. Mr. Daniel C. Drecksage and Ms. Sally Gilbert Mr. Ernest Allen and Mr. Gary E. Cantor, Esq. and Ms. Leslie A. Sudock Ms. Teresa Gillen Mrs. Lavida Allen Mrs. Gail C. S. Cantor Mrs. Marian H. Duffey Mary-Jo B. Gilsdorf, Esq. Ms. Sarah Alobo Ms. Kristine Carolan Ms. Kelly A. Durand Ms. Helen Gindele Stephen W. Armstrong, Esq. Ms. Catherine C. Carr and Ms. Anna M. Durbin and Jay H. Ginsburg, Esq. Jonathan Auerbach, Esq. Mr. Louis Tannen Mr. Peter Goldberger Ms. Roberta Ginsburg Regina Austin, Esq. Ms. Esther K. Carr James Eiseman, Jr., Esq. and Shirley and David Ginzberg Mr. Sidney Axinn Honorable Matthew D. Mrs. Cynthia J. Eiseman Vincent J. Giusini, Esq. Alfred J. Azen, Esq. Carrafiello Karl E. Emerson, Esq. Ms. Eva Gladstein and Alice W. Ballard, Esq. and Charles B. Casper, Esq. James D. Epstein, Esq. Mr. Ben Burenstein Mr. Joshua Mitteldorf Mrs. Susan Catherwood and Mr. Leonard Evelev and Ms. Carrie E. Glasby and Mr. David Bannister Mr. Cummins Catherwood, Jr. Mrs. Helen Evelev Ms. Kathleen M. Karhnak Robert J. Barr, Esq. Edward F. Chacker, Esq. William H. Ewing, Esq. and Bernard Glassman, Esq. Professor Robert Bartow Mr. John Chaney Mrs. Anne Ewing Laura Gleason, Esq. and Mrs. Susan Bartow Professor Fernando Ms. Stephanie Fedoroff Professor Theresa Glennon Ms. Aisha Baruni Chang-Muy, Esq. and William P. Fedullo, Esq. and Professor Jeffrey Mr. Stuart R. Bass and Mr. Leonard Rieser Professor Eric A. Feldman and Dunoff Ms. Elisabeth Bass Mr. Alfred L. Chapman Mrs. Stephanie C. Feldman Stephen H. Gold, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Joe F. Beene Mr. Stephen P. Chawaga and Stephen A. Feldman, Esq. Bruce H. Goldman and Ms. Mr. Martin Beilin Ms. Laura Novo Mr. Robert A. Feldmeier Linda M. Goldman Mr. Richard L. Berkman and Andrew A. Chirls, Esq. and Marc A. Feller, Esq. Ms. Sylvia J. Goldsmith Ms. Toni Seidl Lawrence E. Frankel, Esq. Adelaide M. Ferguson, Esq. Dr. Jeremiah Goldstein and Judy F. Berkman, Esq. Drs. Melvin J. and Nan Feyler, Esq. Ms. Varley S. Paul David J. Berney, Esq. Gloria T. Chisum Ms. Debra F. Fickler, Esq. and Katherine Gomez, Esq. Judith Bernstein-Baker, Esq. Douglas Y. Christian, Esq. Mr. G. S. Russell Elizabeth C. Goodell, Esq. Philip A. Bertocci, Esq. Joy Clairmont, Esq. Mr. Daniel Fife and Mrs. Harold I. Goodman, Esq. Nathaniel A. Bessey, Esq. Theodore T. Clattenburg, Jr., Elizabeth Rappaport Fife Ms. Ruthanne Gordon and Edward G. Biester, Esq. Esq. Mr. Aaron C. Finestone, Esq. Mr. John C. Burroughs Dr. Andrew M. Stone and Mr. John U. Coates and Ms. Patricia J. Wright Professor Robert A. Gorman Dr. Gene B. Bishop Ms. Tamara Cobb Audrey B. Fingerhood, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. John D. Graham Allen D. Black, Esq. David L. Cohen, Esq. and Paul J. Fink, M.D. Ellen T. Greenlee, Esq. Jonathan Blazer, Esq. Ms. Rhonda R. Cohen Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Esq. Mr. Paul R. Greenwald and Dr. Bonita Blazer, Ph.D. Ms. Ana Colon John W. Fischer, Esq. Mrs. Sandra G. Greenwald Michael A. Bloom, Esq. Mr. Willam B. Connor Brian P. Flaherty, Esq. Martin Greitzer, Esq. and Michael S. Blume, Esq. Ms. Frances E. Convill Nancy Fogg-Johnson Dianne Greitzer, Esq. Michael J. Boni, Esq. J. Gordon Cooney, Jr., Esq. Karen L. Forman, Esq. and Ms. Gloria M. Guard Paul Boni, Esq. Mr. Harold S. Coppinger Mr. Walter J. Fox, Jr. and Ms. Karen R. Guss and Mr. Adam C. Bonin Julia D. Corelli, Esq. and Mrs. Francine Fox Mr. Lewis Rosman Ms. Jeanne M. Boone Mr. Craig A. Corelli Elizabeth W. Fox, Esq. Richard P. Haaz, Esq. Mrs. Margaret K. Bowen and Maria Corpora, Esq. Lawrence J. Fox, Esq. and Mr. Dennis D. Hager Mr. David Bowen Harold Cramer, Esq. Mrs. Mary P. Fox Clifford E. Haines, Esq. Michael T. Bowen, Esq. Mr. David L. Crawford and Stephen M. Foxman, Esq. Warren Martin Harrell, Esq. Mr. Isaac F. Bowman, Jr. Ms. Kathleen M. Duffy Mr. David E. Francis Judith E. Harris, Esq. Ms. Judith Hartl and Mr. Richard Kessler, Esq. and Mrs. Lilyan Maitin Samuel H. Pond, Esq. Mr. Palmer Hartl Mrs. Doris H. Kessler Arthur Makadon, Esq. Carol L. Press, Esq. and Ms. Sharon Harzenski Ms. Helen Kim and Joseph G. Maniaci, Esq. and Mr. Edward G. Biester Ms. Katherine K. Hastings Mr. Noah Leavitt Mrs. Carol W. Maniaci Carl S. Primavera, Esq. Louise E. Hayes, Esq. Ms. Susan J. Kirby Mr. Donald Marritz and Wendell E. Pritchett, Esq. Mrs. Florence C. Hayes Barry D. Kleban, Esq. Ms. Harriet B. Marritz and Anne E. Kringel, Esq. Leslie A. Hayes, Esq. Alan F. Klein, Esq. Allan K. Marshall, Esq. Honorable Nitza I. Quinones Mr. Bruce P. Hayes and Marlene E. Kline, Esq. Mr. Steven D. Masters and Kyle and Michael Rabkin Ms. Pat Keating Eve Biskind Klothen, Esq. Ms. Beulah Trey Mr. and Mrs. Francis Radano Marilyn Heffley, Esq. Ms. Lauren A. Kobylarz Ms. Mary T. Mc Nichol Abraham C. Reich, Esq. Robert C. Heim, Esq. Ms. Anne Kobylarz Mr. and Mrs. William J. Ms. Victoria A. Reider Jean C. Hemphill, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph D. McDevitt Curtis R. Reitz, Esq. and Dorothy Alicia Hickok, Esq. Kobylarz Gerald A. McHugh, Jr., Esq. Ms. Judith Nichols Renzulli Ms. Glenda D. Hicks Joseph C. Kohn, Esq. and Ms. Maureen E. Tate Mrs. Dina L. Relles Amy E. Hirsch, Esq. and Ms. Deborah Kooperman Charles McNabb, Esq. Stephanie Resnick, Esq. Ms. Jessica Robbins Ms. Kathleen Kozeniewski Ms. Mary T. McNichol Mr. Nicolas P. Retsinas Alison E. Hirschel, Esq. Ms. Janet Kraegel and John S. McVeigh, Esq. Ms. Jodi Reynhout Jennifer L. Hoagland, Esq. and Mr. Wilfred Kraegel Mr. and Mrs. James R. Meyer Mary and Patrick Mr. Steven H. Weissman Donald A. Krain, Esq. Jeffrey Meyers, Esq. Richardson Graham Ms. Madeline Hoch David Kraut, Esq. and Samuel W. Milkes, Esq. David Richman, Esq. and Ms. Kathleen E. Hohenadel Mrs. Marilyn K. Kraut Ms. Regina M. Miller Ms. Janet G. Perry Ronald Hollander and Anne E. Kringel, Esq. and Laval Miller-Wilson, Esq. and Mr. Christopher Ritchie Ms. Maureen Martel Wendell E. Pritchett, Esq. Ms. Cathryn Miller-Wison Mr. Stephen F. Ritner and Mr. Larry Hood Ms. Judith A. Kruger Marilyn Monaco, Esq. Ms. Cathryn J. Rosen Dr. and Mrs. Edwin C. Horne Ms. Muriel B. Kudera Thomas P. Monteverde, Esq. Edward D. Rogers, Esq. Carol Horne Penn, Esq. and Ms. Rebecca J. Lamb Mrs. Suzann L. Morris Professor Florence W. Mr. Kenneth Penn Rue Landau, Esq. Beth E. Moskow-Schnoll, Esq. Roisman David M. Howard, Esq. Mr. Myron Landau and Ms. Jeanne Mueller Carmen John Romano, Esq. Mrs. Dawn B. Howard Ms. Dorothy Landau Mr. Alan S. Nadel, Esq. and Mr. Joshua H. Romirowsky Ms. Medha Narvekar and Ms. Winnie Lanoix and Mrs. M. R. Nadel Ms. Lori J. Rosenkopf Mr. Mark A. Hughes Mr. David Kannerstein Mrs. Shiela C. Neibauer Dan Rosin, Esq. Mary P. Hugues, Esq. Mr. Timothy W. Lau Arthur E. Newbold, IV, Esq. Harry M. Roth, Esq. Ms. Mary Hurtig John P. Lavelle, Jr., Esq. Ms. Lisa J. Nicholson and Mr. Professor Lou Rulli and Ms. Leslie M. Hurtig Mr. Lance E. Laver and Stephen E. Greulich Mrs. Carolyn C. Rulli Mr. Thomas R. Hutt Ms. Mary Laver Mary Noland, Esq. and Daniel Safer, Ph.D. Ms. Joann M. Hyle and Laurence M. Lavin, Esq. Mr. John Conlow Marilynn Sager, Esq. Ms. Kathryn Kolbert Tsiwen M. Law, Esq. Ms. Patricia Normile Mr. and Mrs. George Salkin Ms. Mariko Ingram Jason A. Leckerman, Esq. Mr. Sean O’Callaghan, Esq. Roberta Sampson, Esq. Ms. Joanne Isaac Mr. James G. Leipold and Mrs. Anne O’Callaghan Beth and Andrew Samuelson Ms. Theresa M. Italiano Judy L. Leone, Esq. Ms. Richelle K. Ogle Karen W. Sanders Ms. Sara Jacobson The Honorable Michael P. O’Hare, Esq. Ms. Juliet Sarkessian John Jamieson, Jr., Esq. and Benjamin Lerner Maureen Olives, Esq. Honorable M. Teresa Sarmina Mr. Dariel I. Jamieson Professor Howard Lesnick and Nicholas E. Orlyk, Esq. Mr. Drew and Mrs. Nina Carlton L. Johnson, Esq. Ms. Carolyn M. Schodt Alyson M. Oswald, Esq. Saunders Mr. William H. Johnson Christine C. Levin, Esq. Carl “Tobey” Oxholm, III, Esq. Sarah D. Schlossberg, Esq. Donald K. Joseph, Esq. Dalia R. Levine and and Ms. Kimberly Oxholm Bella Schnall, Esq. Honorable Babette Josephs Mr. Mike Weiss Ms. Yolanda F. Pagano Jill Schneider, M.D. Cary Joshi, Esq. and Mr. Theodore M. Lieverman, Esq. Ms. Abigail B. Pancoast Mr. Daniel Schneider and Geoffrey E. Campen Charisse R. Lillie, Esq. Dr. and Mrs. Raymond S. Ms. Leslie J. Reagan Jerome Kaplan, Esq. and S. Gerald Litvin, Esq. Parker, III Dr. and Mrs. Irving Schneider Mr. Howard Solomon Gail K. Lopez-Henriquez, Ms. Janet Parrish Mr. Norman G. Schneider and Kenneth M. Kapner, Esq. Esq. and Theodore M. Mr. Jan T. Pasek Ms. Linda G. Kanefield Jennifer Kates, Esq. Lieverman, Esq. Ms. Neeta Patel Peter D. Schneider, Esq. and Dr. Richard and Linda Katz Arline Jolles Lotman, Esq. Ms. Patricia M. Patterson Susan L. DeJarnatt, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Katz Ms. Mary Anne Lucey and Luke Pazicky, Esq. Howard Schneider, Esq. and Mr. Elkan M. Katz, Esq. and Ms. Patricia Warner Ms. Anna Perng Mrs. Anne E. Schneider Ms. Lori Katz Ms. Betty Lui Mr. Kevin A. Peter and Barry and Myrna Schwartz Mr. Daniel Katzenberg and Ms. Irma S. Lustig Ms. Nancy Peter Mark S. Schwartz, Esq. Ms. Paula R. Barvin Denise and Kevin Lynch Sanford L. Pfeffer, Esq. William W. Schwarze, Esq. Kirsten Keefe, Esq. Brendan P. Lynch, Esq. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph S. Pinkus and Mrs. Sharon C. Schwarze David Kenty, Esq. Michael D. Mabry, Esq. Peter Pinnola, Esq. Mr. William C. Schweizer John A. Macoretta, Esq. Jacob Polakoff, Esq. Continued on page 12

8 /9 Since its founding in 1966, CLS has served more than one million clients who could not afford to pay for legal representation, and who would have faced a variety of devastating ends without dedicated, knowledgeable attorneys on their side.

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Community Economic Development Unit Represents small and start-up community associations, faith-based institutions, social service organizations, nonprofits, and businesses to improve the quality of life and the economic viability of Philadelphia’s low-income neighbor- hoods. The Child Care Law Project (CLLP), a special project of the CED Unit, is devoted to representing child care providers. Aging and Disabilities Unit Specializes in representing seniors and people with disabilities in a wide range of public benefits and consumer matters, including challenges to denials of Medicaid benefits, decisions by managed care organizations to deny care, and violations of residents’ right and quality-of-care requirements in nursing homes and personal care homes Language Access Project Works to ensure that Community Legal Services is accessible to Philadelphia communities with limit- ed or no English speaking ability, and that legal issues specific to this population are addressed. The illegal failure to provide interpretation and translation services necessary for these communi- ties to access public services is an important focus of the project’s work.

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2010 Donors Mr. and Mrs. Richard K. Taylor In Memoriam Kerry Smith, Esq. Continued from page 9 Michael L. Temin, Esq. Laura Smith Prince Altee Thomas, Esq. Professor C. Edwin Baker Jonathan M. Stein, Esq. Ms. Carol Thomson John W. Carr, III Dennis Suplee, Esq Elizabeth S. Scott, Esq. and Mr. Eric A. Tilles, Esq. and James O. Freedman Robin B. Switzenbaum, Esq. Mr. Robert E. Scott Ms. Catherine Herbert Dianne Greitzer, Esq. Edward C. Tompsett, Esq. Michael T. Scott, Esq. David C. Toomey, Esq. Sam Maitin Issac Torchinsky-Field Nexus Sea, Esq. Joseph A. Torregrossa, Esq. Ezra Malik Katz-Love Thu B. Tran, Esq. Edwin Seave, Esq. and Ms. Ann S. Torregrossa William R. Klaus Richard Weishaupt, Esq. Dveera Segal, Esq. and Mr. Raymond J. Torrey Jim Lafferty Montgomery Wilson, Esq. Mr. Bradley Bridge Ms. Louise Y. Tukey Gary Langer Suzanne J. Young, Esq. Nina Segre, Esq. Stephen P. Ulan, Esq. Alan Lerner Stefanie Seldin, Esq. David Unkovic, Esq. Paul Lodico Ms. Doris K. Seldin Paul M. Uyehara, Esq. Marvin Nadel Ms. Joanna Settle Ellen Josephson Vargyas, Esq. Shirley Seave 5+ Years Elizabeth Shapiro, Esq. Jo-Ann M. Verrier, Esq. and Judith A. Torrey Consecutive Giving Honorable Norma L. Shapiro Mr. Mark C. McGuire Marie Walz Ms. Corey Shdaimah Ted Walkenhorst, Esq. Robert J. Barr, Esq. Ms. Madeline Shikomba Ms. Kathleen L. Wallace Mr. Richard L. Berkman and Patricia A. Shipman, Esq. Sharon K. Wallis, Esq. Ms. Toni Seidl Morris and Lorna Shuster Jonathan Walters, Esq. In Honor of Michael S. Blume, Esq. Barbara T. Sicalides, Esq. Travis W. Wanner Michael J. Boni, Esq. Samuel W. Silver, Esq. Ms. Gloria Watts Philip A. Bertocci, Esq. Ms. Jeanne M. Boone Meyer Silver, Esq. Mr. Thomas L. Webber and Michael T. Bowen, Esq. Stephen D. Brown, Esq. Doug Simon, Esq. Ms. Andrea B. Webber Catherine C. Carr, Esq. Wilson M. Brown, III, Esq. Ms. Kathryn T. Sipp and Mr. David B. Webster John W. Carr, III Reverend Valeria C. Bullock Mr. Nicholas C. Alpers Karen Kress Weisbord, Esq. Michael Carroll, Esq. Ms. Esther K. Carr Mr. Ralph Smith and Mr. Jonathan A. Weiss and Edward F. Chacker, Esq. Drs. Melvin J. and Mrs. Cookie Smith Ms. Abigail Wolf CLS Family Advocacy Unit Gloria T. Chisum Mr. Jeffrey Smith Ms. Cynthia E. White CLS Staff Mr. Daniel C. Drecksage and Mr. Ward Smith Alan M. White, Esq. Sharon M. Dietrich, Esq. Ms. Leslie A. Sudock Ms. Paula Smith Daniel Jeffery W. Whitt, Esq. Elizabeth Feldmeier James Eiseman, Jr., Esq. and Erica J. Smith-Klocek, Esq. Dr. Richard Whittington and David Francis Mrs. Cynthia J. Eiseman Ms. Leah Snyder Batchis Dr. Jane L. Coleman Deborah L. Freedman, Esq. Marc A. Feller, Esq. and Mr. Wayne Batchis Mr. David H. Wilderman Jean Gantz Nan Feyler, Esq. Mr. Javier Sola Mr. Franklin H. Williams, Jr. Jordana L. Greenwald, Esq. Ms. Debra F. Fickler, Esq. Mr. Henry J. Sommer and and Mrs. Denise Williams George D. Gould, Esq. and Mr. G. S. Russell Mrs. Beth F. Sommer Ms. Freida A. Williams Louise E. Hayes, Esq. Mr. Aaron C. Finestone, Esq. The Honorable Ms. Rose M. Williams Amy E. Hirsch, Esq. and Ms. Patricia J. Wright Edmund B. Spaeth Rhonda H. Wilson, Esq. Michael Hollander, Esq. Karen L. Forman, Esq. Mr. John Sperger Nia M. Wilson, Esq. Marjorie Janoski, Esq. Ms. Edith H. Furstenberg Mr. Jeremy Spiegel and Nancy Winkelman, Esq. Sarah Katz and David Love Ms. Helen Gindele Ms. Maia Jachimowicz Daryl W. Winston, Esq. and Lauren Kobylarz Jay H. Ginsburg, Esq. Mr. Craig Eisendrath and Mrs. Jo R. Winston Rachel Labush, Esq. Ms. Eva Gladstein and Ms. Roberta Spivek Mr. and Mrs. Carl Witonsky Jessica T. Long Mr. Ben Burenstein Mr. Michael B. Steinberg Honorable Flora Barth Wolf Brendan P. Lynch, Esq. Professor Theresa Glennon John Stember, Esq. David J. Wolfsohn, Esq. Patricia McGlone and Professor Jeffrey Dunoff Mr. Peter L. Stevens Sara Woods, Esq. Mary Noland, Esq. Dr. Jeremiah Goldstein and Mark S. Stewart, Esq. Professor William J. Colleen Normile Ms. Varley S. Paul Mr. Seymour Stotland and Woodward, Jr. Orlyk, Hammer, Rakay, Parker, Ms. Ruthanne Gordon and Ms. Janet F. Stotland Mr. Richard Worley Watters, Fedyk, Casselton Mr. John C. Burroughs Mr. Carl B. Strehlke Shelly D. Yanoff, Esq. and and Walton families Professor Robert A. Gorman Mr. Dennis R. Suplee and Jerry Kauffman Carol Horne Penn, Esq. Ellen T. Greenlee, Esq. Mrs. Patricia H. Suplee Kay Kyungsun Yu, Esq. Kevin A. Peter Warren Martin Harrell, Esq. Ms. Lauren D. Sustersic and Reverend Marek P. Zabriskie Amy Retsinas Dorothy Alicia Hickok, Esq. Mr. Frank L. Sustersic and Mrs. Mims M. Zabriskie Mary Richardson Graham Alison E. Hirschel, Esq. Mr. Todd Swanstrom Joanne E. Zack, Esq. and Professor Louis Rulli Ms. Leslie M. Hurtig Robin B. Switzenbaum, Esq. Mr. Michael N. Hartung Devon Sanders, Esq. Ms. Mary Hurtig Walter J. Taggart, Esq. and Thomas E. Zemaitis, Esq. Hunter Saunders Honorable Babette Josephs Joell Taggart Ms. Sydelle Zove Rebecca L. Santoro Cary Joshi, Esq. and Joseph A. Tate, Esq. Peter D. Schneider, Esq. Mr. Geoffrey E. Campen Beth Shapiro, Esq. Kenneth M. Kapner, Esq. Joseph C. Kohn, Esq. 10+ Years Foundation Donors Ms. Muriel B. Kudera Consecutive Giving 2010 CLS Mr. Myron Landau and 2004 Carita Foundation Ms. Dorothy Landau Harold Cramer, Esq. The Bay Foundation Champion of Mr. Lance E. Laver and Diana S. Donaldson, Esq. Citizens Bank Ms. Mary Laver Lawrence J. Fox, Esq. and Foundation Laurence M. Lavin, Esq. Mrs. Mary P. Fox Claneil Foundation, Inc. Justice and Judy L. Leone, Esq. Ms. Glenda D. Hicks Dolfinger-McMahon The Honorable Mary P. Hugues, Esq. Foundation Equal Justice Benjamin Lerner Gail K. Lopez-Henriquez, Esq. Equal Justice America Professor Howard Lesnick and Theodore M. Equal Justice Works Awards and Ms. Carolyn M. Lieverman, Esq. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Schodt Carmen John Romano, Esq. Green Tree Community Health Christine C. Levin, Esq. John W. Fischer, Esq. Foundation The Champion of Justice Derek Miller and Sunmee Jo Mr. Bruce P. Hayes and Harry and Esther Brown and Equal Justice awards are Arthur E. Newbold, IV, Esq. Ms. Pat Keating Charitable Foundation given annually by Community Carol L. Press, Esq. and The Horace W. Goldsmith Legal Services to recognize Mr. Edward G. Biester Foundation Professor Lou Rulli and Independence Foundation those who have made Mrs. Carolyn C. Rulli Arbitration Donors Jewish Funds for Justice extraordinary efforts to ensure Dr. and Mrs. Irving Schneider MAZON: A Jewish equal access to justice for all, Mr. Norman G. Schneider Janis Brodie, Esq. Response to Hunger regardless of income. and Ms. Linda G. Kanefield Edward F. Chacker, Esq. Nonprofit Finance Fund Peter D. Schneider, Esq. and Francis P. Devine, Esq. The November Fund Susan L. DeJarnatt, Esq. Stewart J. Eisenberg, Esq. Oak Foundation The Honorable Barry and Myrna Schwartz Nancy H. Fullam, Esq. The Patricia Kind Family Morris and Lorna Shuster Gregory J. Hannon, Esq. Foundation Kathy M. Manderino, John Stember, Esq. Emmanuel O. The Peggy Browning Fund Mark S. Stewart, Esq. Iheukwumere, Esq. Pennsylvania Interest on Pennsylvania Walter J. Taggart, Esq. and Samuel H. Israel, Esq. Lawyers Trust Account State House of Joell Taggart Miriam N. Jacobson, Esq. Board Joseph A. Tate, Esq. Kenneth M. Kapner, Esq. Philadelphia Bar Foundation Representatives Ms. Louise Y. Tukey Mary Ann Knight, Esq. Public Welfare Foundation Champion of Ellen Josephson Vargyas, Esq. Stuart Leon, Esq. The Reinvestment Fund Dr. Richard Whittington and Jerry Lyons, Esq. Schwab Charitable Fund Justice Award Dr. Jane L. Coleman Charles O’Connell, III, Esq. Skadden Fellowship Daryl W. Winston, Esq. and James Radmore, Esq. Foundation Mrs. Jo R. Winston Dion G. Rassias, Esq. Stoneleigh Center Michael J. Boni, Esq., Mr. and Mrs. Carl Witonsky Robert L. Sachs, Esq. The Pew Charitable Trusts Boni & Zack LLC Shelly D. Yanoff, Esq. and Peter D. Schneider, Esq. The Philadelphia Foundation Jerry Kauffman David E. Sternberg, Esq. United Way of Southeastern Equal Justice Award Joanne E. Zack, Esq. and Michelle L. Skalsky, Esq. Pennsylvania Mr. Michael N. Hartung Valentine Foundation Thomas E. Zemaitis, Esq. Verizon Foundation Anita Santos-Singh, Esq., Ms. Sydelle Zove The William Penn Foundation Executive Director Cy Pres of Philadelphia Boni & Zack LLC Christie, Pabarue, Mortensen Legal Assistance & Young, PC Equal Justice Award Donovan Searles, LLC Fine, Kaplan & Black, RPC Francis & Mailman, PC Johnie Mae Coles, Pepper Hamilton LLP Spector Gadon & Rosen, P.C. Intake Paralegal for CLS’ Law Center North Central Equal Justice Award

12/13 Board of Trustees Stephen A. Madva, Esq. Leadership Council Montgomery, McCracken, Officers Joseph A. Tate, Esq., Co-chair Walker & Rhoads, LLP Dechert LLP Barbara T. Sicalides, Esq. Thoai Nguyen Marilyn Heffley, Esq., Co-chair President Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Sunoco, Inc. Michael D. LiPuma, Esq. Association Coalition, Inc. (SEAMAAC) Gerald A. McHugh, Jr., Esq, Co-chair Vice President Professor Louis S. Rulli Raynes McCarty Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Esq. University of Pennsylvania Law School Michael J. Boni, Esq. Secretary Mark S. Schwartz, Esq. Boni and Zack LLC Jason Leckerman, Esq. Regional Housing Legal Services Edward F. Chacker, Esq. Treasurer Delores Shaw Gay, Chacker & Mittin, PC Community Representative Stephen J. Driscoll, Esq. The Honorable Barbara T. Sicalides, Esq. Saul Ewing LLP Nitza I. Quiñones Alejandro Pepper Hamilton LLP Alan M. Feldman, Esq. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Bernard W. Smalley, Sr., Esq. Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Court of Common Pleas Anapol, Schwartz, Weiss, Cohan, Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP Ruth Blair Feldman & Smalley, PC Laura A. Feldman, Esq. Community Representative Erica Smith-Klocek, Esq. Feldman & Pinto Michael S. Bomstein, Esq. Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Nancy J. Gellman, Esq. Pinnola & Bomstein Joseph A. Sullivan, Esq. Conrad O’Brien PC Alan M. Feldman, Esq. Pepper Hamilton LLP William T. Hangley, Esq. Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Robin Blumenfeld Hangley Aronchick Segal & Pudlin Tanner Weinstock & Dodig LLP Switzenbaum, Esq. Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Esq. Berger & Montague, P.C. Joanne C. Lewers, Esq. Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Toll Public Interest Center Daryl Winston, Esq. University of Pennsylvania The Winston Law Firm Roberta D. Liebenberg, Esq. Law School Fine, Kaplan, & Black R.P.C. Brian P. Flaherty, Esq. Legal Management Team Barbara T. Sicalides, Esq. Cozen O’Connor Pepper Hamilton LLP Karen L. Forman, Esq. Catherine C. Carr, Esq. Joseph A. Sullivan, Esq. University of the District of Columbia Executive Director Pepper Hamilton LLP David A. Clark School of Law Carol Horne Penn, Esq. Dennis R. Suplee, Esq. Wayne Jacobs Deputy Director of Operations Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP Ex-Offenders for Community Deborah L. Freedman, Esq. Joanne Zack, Esq. Empowerment Deputy Director of Legal Practice Boni and Zack LLC Pamela A. James Amy E. Hirsch, Esq. Community Representative Managing Attorney, Carlton L. Johnson, Esq. Law Center North Central Archer & Greiner, P.C. Sharon M. Dietrich, Esq. Arnold Joseph, Esq. Employment & Public Benefits Units Arnold Joseph & Associates Katherine Gomez, Esq. John P. Lavelle, Jr., Esq. Family Advocacy Unit Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Beth Goodell, Esq. Jason Leckerman, Esq. Consumer/Housing Unit 1424 Chestnut Street Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP George D. Gould, Esq. Philadelphia, PA 19102-2505 Michael D. LiPuma, Esq. Energy & Housing Units 215.981.3700 Law Offices of Michael LiPuma David E. Francis www.clsphila.org Yvette Long Finance Director Welfare Rights Organization Kevin A. Peter, CFRE, CAP Law Center North Central: Philadelphia, PA Director of Development 3638 N. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19140 215.277.2400

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