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on its achievements and outstanding commitment to the community and is proud to support the 21st Annual

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www.COV.COM Making Justice Real Legal Aid works to make justice real for persons living in poverty, providing counsel on matters related to domestic violence, family law, housing, public benefits and consumer law. Your support will ensure Tuesday, April 27, 2010 that we can continue providing 6:00 pm President’s Reception these much-needed services. 6:30 pm Opening Reception 7:30 pm Dinner, Awards Program and Dessert Reception

JW Marriott Hotel 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC program program

President’s Welcome Keynote Address Martin Klepper Gregory B. Craig Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP SKADDEN, ARPS, SLATE, MEAGHER & FLOM LLP

Executive Director’s Remarks Jonathan M. Smith Servant of Justice Award Presentation Honoring Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Partnership Award Presentation Honoring Fair Budget Coalition Servant of Justice Award Presentation Honoring Florence Wagman Roisman Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence Indiana University School of Law – INDIANAPOLIS Presentation Honoring Randall A. Brater Arent Fox LLP

Closing Remarks

Dinner Martin Klepper sponsors sponsors

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Crowell & Moring LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP O'Melveny & Myers LLP Exxon Mobil Corporation Pillsbury Winthrop Hogan & Hartson LLP Shaw Pittman LLP Advocates of Justice

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Arnold & Porter LLP Goodwin Procter LLP BET Networks Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Jenner & Block LLP Boston Properties, Inc. K&L Gates LLP Chadbourne & Parke LLP Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Chevy Chase Bank, A division Martin & Arlene Klepper of Capital One, N.A. McDermott Will & Emery Citi Private Bank Miller & Chevalier Chartered Clifford Chance US LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Patton Boggs LLP Defenders of Justice Dechert LLP rand* construction corporation Deloitte LLP Reed Smith LLP Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Akin Gump Strauss Mayer Brown LLP Ernst & Young LLP Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Hauer & Feld LLP McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Thompson, Loss & Judge, LLP Alston & Bird LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Fried, Frank, Harris, Venable LLP Arent Fox LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Shriver & Jacobson LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP Gilbert LLP Hale and Dorr LLP Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Williams & Connolly LLP Latham & Watkins LLP dinner c0-chairs

Deborah Brand Baum Anne Coffey Proctor The Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Covington & Burling LLP

David R. Berz Kurt Richter Servant Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Cassidy Turley of Justice Awards Each year since 1990, the Legal Aid Society has presented the Servant dinner steering committee of Justice Award to individuals and organizations who have demonstrated Donald B. Ayer Daniel G. Jarcho faithful dedication and remarkable Jones Day McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP achievement in ensuring that all persons have equal and meaningful Donna Cooper Barbara Kagan access to justice. Black Entertainment Television LLC Steptoe & Johnson LLP Tonight’s honorees and the past Robert M. Cooper Martin Klepper Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP recipients have made the struggle for equal justice part of their personal Lisa Duggan Timothy J. May and professional identities. They have Williams & Connolly LLP Patton Boggs LLP demonstrated on a daily basis their commitment to and concern for Steven G. Forsyth Leslie Smith Exxon Mobil Corporation Chevy Chase Trust the community of which they are a part. Please join us in expressing Joyce Trimble Gwadz Mary Lou Soller our gratitude for their life-long Dow Lohnes PLLC Miller & Chevalier Chartered commitment to community service.

Rhonda Cunningham Holmes Chevy Chase Bank, A division of Capital One, N.A. The Servant of Justice Award The Servant of Justice Award

The Legal Aid Society of the District The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor of Columbia is proud to honor Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. Florence Wagman Roisman Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Indiana University School of Law – INDIANAPOLIS

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. started his career as a lawyer at the height of the civil Florence Wagman Roisman is the William F. Harvey Professor of Law at the rights movement. After graduating from Howard Law School in 1960, he Indiana University School of Law - Indianapolis. Most of her career has been joined the legal team that desegregated the University of Georgia. He went devoted to legal services advocacy and teaching, both focused on low-income on to leadership positions in many of the key civil rights and racial justice housing, homelessness, and racial discrimination and segregation. From 1967 organizations. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the to 1970, she worked in the Law Reform Unit of the D.C. Neighborhood Legal National Urban League, Inc.; Executive Director of the United Negro College Services Project and co-counseled Javins v. First National Realty and Edwards Fund, Inc.; Director of the Voter Education Project of the Southern Regional v. Habib, among other cases. Thereafter, with the National Housing Law Council; Attorney-Consultant, U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity; Assistant Project, she co-counseled cases involving the public housing lease and to the Executive Director of the Southern Regional Council; and Georgia Field grievance procedures, the impoundment of funds for federal housing Director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. programs, and the use of civil forfeiture laws against public housing residents, among other issues. On several occasions, she helped to represent Mitch He has been a leader in creating diversity throughout the corporate world and, Snyder and other members of the Community for Creative Non-Violence in significantly, has pushed for greater opportunities for minorities in the legal pro- their anti-homelessness advocacy. She often has trained legal aid lawyers, fession. Mr. Jordan is a Senior Managing Director of Lazard Frères & Co. LLC in both federal litigation and housing, and spoken at legal services meetings, in New York. He works with a diverse group of clients across a broad range of including two NLADA Litigation and Advocacy Directors’ Conferences. She industries. Prior to joining Lazard, Mr. Jordan was a Senior Executive Partner helped write and edit the federal practice manual for legal aid lawyers. She with the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, where he remains has taught at the Antioch School of Law and the law schools of Catholic, Senior Counsel. Georgetown, George Washington, Maryland, Widener, and Yale Universities.

Mr. Jordan’s presidential appointments include: the President’s Advisory Com- Professor Roisman was the first recipient (in 1989) of the Kutak-Dodds mittee for the Points of Light Initiative Foundation; the Secretary of State’s Ad- Memorial Prize, the first recipient (in 2004) of the national Equal Justice visory Committee on South Africa; the Advisory Council on Social Security; the Works Outstanding Faculty/Staff Award, and the first recipient (in 1994) of Presidential Clemency Board; the American Revolution Bicentennial Commis- the Georgetown University Law Center Equal Justice Foundation Award for sion; the National Advisory Committee on Selective Service; and the Council Outstanding Faculty Commitment to Public Interest Law. She received the of the White House Conference “To Fulfill These Rights.” In 1992, Mr. Jordan D.C. Bar's Thurgood Marshall Award in 2000, and was honored by the served as the Chairman of the Clinton Presidential Transition Team. Alliance for Justice in 1991. She has served on the D.C. Bar’s Board of Governors (1972-78) and the boards of the Washington Legal Clinic for Mr. Jordan is a graduate of DePauw University and the Howard University the Homeless, Poverty and Race Research Action Council, Society of Law School. He holds honorary degrees from more than 60 colleges and American Law Teachers, and national ACLU. She now is on the boards universities in America. He is a member of the Bars of Arkansas, the District of the ACLU of Indiana and the Inclusive Communities Project (Dallas, TX). of Columbia, Georgia and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the She graduated from Harvard Law School cum laude and earned her B.A., American Bar Association, the National Bar Association, the Council on with High Honors and Distinction, from the University of Connecticut, Foreign Relations and The Bilderberg Meetings. Mr. Jordan is the author where she was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. of Vernon Can Read! A Memoir (Public Affairs, 2001) and Make It Plain, Standing Up and Speaking Out (Public Affairs, 2008). The Partnership Award

The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor Fair Budget Coalition

The Fair Budget Coalition (FBC) fights for a just and inclusive District of Columbia through advocacy and organizing and through the advancement of budget and public policy initiatives that reflect the interdependency of the District’s community and economic development systems.

The Organized in 1994, FBC is a coalition of more than 60 organizations and individuals, including grassroots community groups, human services providers, Partnership advocates, faith organizations, and concerned community members. Through FBC, these diverse parties come together to work collaboratively and strategically to advance a public policy agenda that responds Award compassionately and effectively to the needs of those living in poverty. FBC was born out of, and embraces still, the idea that human needs must be Legal Aid’s Partnership Award addressed in a strategic and comprehensive way. FBC strives to ensure that was created to recognize significant budget makers and policy setters not be allowed to “divide and conquer” or pit collaborations between Legal Aid one vulnerable population or special need against another. By representing a and non-legal organizations or variety of interests and perspectives, FBC brings this message and the voices individuals that directly increase of District residents in need into the local public decision-making processes. our ability to serve our clients. One of the foundations of FBC’s work is its annual budget recommendation report. Developed through an intensive community input process, the budget This year we are excited report reviews the Mayor’s proposed budget and puts forth an alternate version to present the award to of the budget that addresses the human needs of D.C. residents. In addition Fair Budget Coalition. to this annual undertaking, the Coalition facilitates communication among organizations and the public and coordinates local advocacy strategies. Over the years, FBC has testified before the D.C. Council, Congress and various agencies; has analyzed the budget and prepared budget briefings; and has held numerous trainings and forums to strengthen the advocacy work of local organizations and individuals.

Legal Aid is honored to be a member of FBC and to work side by side with FBC members to advocate on behalf of communities living in poverty in D.C. Among other initiatives, Legal Aid worked closely with FBC last summer to oppose changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program that would have hurt families living in poverty. Every year, FBC is a powerful voice at the City Council focusing on issues of economic justice. The Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence

The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor Randall A. Brater The Arent Fox LLP

Klepper Randy Brater is a partner in the commercial and intellectual property litigation groups at Arent Fox LLP. His practice involves litigating matters in both state for Volunteer and federal courts, from preliminary injunctions to motions practice to jury Excellence and bench trials as well as arbitrations and mediation. He has experience with Prize trademark and copyright litigation, commercial, real estate and environmental The Klepper Prize was created through litigation, trade secret and competition law, and health care and civil False the generosity of Martin and Arlene Claims Act matters. Mr. Brater also serves as part of the team that services the intellectual property portfolios for a number of media and entertainment Klepper in order to recognize an clients, providing litigation expertise in trademark, copyright and publicity attorney early in her or his career rights matters. who has made a significant volunteer Mr. Brater is an active participant in firm activities. He is a member of the firm’s contribution to the Legal Aid Society Employment Committee that is responsible for the hiring of summer associ- of the District of Columbia. ates, oversight of the firm’s summer program and hiring of new associates.

Mr. Brater has been a volunteer and supporter of Legal Aid since 2002, shortly This evening we present the Prize to after he joined his firm. As a new associate, he wanted to find a way to “give an individual who has demonstrated back.” Mr. Brater learned that Arent Fox participates in Legal Aid’s Volunteer a commitment to the mission of Intake Program and he was attracted to the opportunity to come to Legal Aid’s Legal Aid and has given substantial office and meet with potential clients. Through the intake program, volunteer support to Legal Aid during the last lawyers are able to help clients with their legal problems, which often involve critical decisions about their home, children, health care or public benefits. several years. He has not only Over the past eight years, Mr. Brater has taken on a leadership role in the provided direct client services but program. In addition to volunteering directly with clients, Mr. Brater recruits and has been actively engaged on the organizes his firm colleagues to participate. Moreover, he has provided critical leadership committee for our annual assistance and feedback to improve the training materials for volunteers. Generous Associates Campaign, Additionally, Mr. Brater became Arent Fox’s firm coordinator for Legal Aid’s contributing to record-breaking annual Generous Associates fundraising campaign and the following year fundraising for this campaign both at became a Campaign Co-Chair, helping to organize the campaign citywide. In his firm and citywide year after year. 2009, after being elected partner at his firm, he was no longer eligible to serve officially as a Campaign Co-Chair, but he remained involved and rallied his fellow partners to support the effort. Mr. Brater’s leadership has contributed to record-breaking fundraising for this campaign both at his firm and citywide year after year. In 2006, Mr. Brater was awarded his firm’s Albert E. Arent Pro Bono Award for his work with Legal Aid. Mr. Brater is a 1997 graduate of Cornell University, and a 2000 graduate of Vanderbilt University Law School. 1999 John H. Pickering previous award recipients Eldon H. Crowell Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Crowell & Moring LLP 1992 1998 Howard C. Westwood Servant of Justice 2004 Eric H. Holder, Jr. Covington & Burling LLP Award E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr. United States Department of Justice D.C. Legal Service Providers Edgar S. Cahn Francine Salzman Temko The Legal Aid Society of the 1991 2009 Jean Camper Cahn District of Columbia posthumously Augustus L. Palmer Anthony Herman 1997 Howard University Covington & Burling LLP 2003 Barbara M. Rossotti Dean Kurt L. Schmoke Peter B. Edelman Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Howard University School of Law Peter J. Nickles Georgetown University Covington & Burling LLP Law Center 1990 The Public Defender Service Timothy J. May 2008 Earl W. Kintner for the District of Columbia Patton Boggs LLP Professor Richard L. Roe Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, LLP Georgetown University Law Center 2002 1996 Charles A. Horsky Seth P. Waxman Covington & Burling LLP R. Kenneth Mundy Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Samuel F. Harahan Council for Court Excellence Robert L. Weinberg Partnership Award 2007 Douglas G. Robinson Williams & Connolly LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. Meagher & Flom LLP Hogan & Hartson LLP 1995 2009 Sidney White Rhyne Willie E. Cook, Jr. Housing Counseling Services 2001 Neighborhood Legal 2006 Lynn E. Cunningham Services Program 2008 George Washington University David B. Isbell Theodore A. Howard Law School Rhonique Shields-Harris, MD, MHA Covington & Burling LLP Children’s National Medical Center Wiley Rein LLP John E. Nolan David A. Reiser Steptoe & Johnson LLP Gloria WilderBrathwaite, MD, MPH 1994 CORE HEALTH Zuckerman Spaeder LLP Charles F.C. Ruff, posthumously Charles T. Duncan Covington & Burling LLP 2005 Reid and Priest Klepper Prize for Stephen J. Pollak Volunteer Excellence Katherine S. Broderick 2000 Shea & Gardner Dean, University of the Patty Mullahy Fugere Janet Reno District of Columbia, Washington Legal Clinic for Attorney General of the United States David A. Clarke School of Law the Homeless 2009 Andrew H. Marks Robert N. Weiner Julia Judish LLP 1993 Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Crowell & Moring Arnold & Porter LLP Justice Thurgood Marshall 2004 1999 Supreme Court of the United States 2008 Lois G. Williams Blossom Athey Zona F. Hostetler Melissa K. Bianchi O’Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach Hogan & Hartson LLP R. Sargent Shriver Covington & Burling LLP about us practice areas

At Legal Aid the idea of equal justice is not Housing law: We help tenants avoid eviction or an abstraction. It is real and it is concrete have serious housing conditions corrected. Our and it is about matters that are critical to the housing lawyers also assist public housing tenants to preserve subsidies, fight illegal rent increases and health, safety and dignity of the clients we work to prevent displacement by development. serve. Legal Aid staff members have the Family law: We ensure safety for victims of great honor of doing work that is essential domestic violence and their children and work to to equal justice for all. achieve family stability through child support and custody cases. Every year, Legal Aid attorneys provide Public benefits law: We work to ensure that representation and assistance to, and the necessary “safety net” benefits and services advocate on behalf of, thousands of (including health care, food stamps, Supplemental individuals and families living in poverty. Security Income and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) are available to all who qualify. We have four substantive practice areas: domestic violence and family law, public Consumer law: Among other issues we provide much-needed representation to help poor and low- benefits, housing law, and consumer law. income homeowners avoid foreclosure (which is often precipitated by foreclosure fraud). Recognizing that clients need a continuum of services, in addition to representation, we Current projects include: engage in outreach and education, assist Community Offices: Through the Southeast clients to resolve their own disputes with Neighborhood Access Project and the Court Based advice and other brief assistance and pursue Legal Services Project we endeavor to reduce strategies to make changes in decisional law, barriers to access by collaborating with other legal agency practice, regulations or statutes. or social services providers in locations already frequented by potential clients. Clients can receive services in at least one if not all of our practice During 2009, we assisted clients in more areas at each of these locations. than 2,000 matters, including extended Appellate Advocacy Program: Legal Aid has representation in nearly 700 cases. Hundreds established a highly-respected program of appellate of other clients attended legal rights educa- advocacy. Through this initiative we pursue tion sessions or received a referral to another appellate litigation that will improve the decisional organization for services. law across the spectrum of our practice areas. Systemic Advocacy and Reform Projects: The integration of systemic advocacy and reform projects with our individual representation and direct client services is a cornerstone of our work on behalf of persons living in poverty. pro bono give to legal aid

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Legal Aid’s Pro Bono Referral Program refers Legal Aid raises the majority of its budget through cases to attorneys working in private law firms private sources including law firms, attorneys, and government agencies. Pro bono attorneys corporations, legal support professionals, and expand Legal Aid’s capacity to help individuals foundations. Although not limited to Washington’s and families who we otherwise would have to legal community, we depend heavily on its turn away because of limited in-house resources. generosity. There are many ways to support Legal Aid refers cases in the areas of housing Legal Aid’s efforts to make justice real: law, child custody, child support, public benefits, • Generous Associates Campaign this summer and consumer law, as well as a limited number of appellate matters. The matters initially are • Annual Appeal at the end of the year screened by Legal Aid staff prior to referral. For • Servant of Justice Awards Dinner each matter referred, an experienced Legal Aid on April 28, 2011 staff attorney is assigned as a mentor to answer any questions the pro bono attorney may have, • Designate 8140 in the United Way Campaign provide sample pleadings, discuss relevant case or 81566 in the Combined Federal Campaign law and strategy, and offer ongoing guidance as • Many employers will match the charitable the case moves forward. contributions of their employees. Contact your Human Resources Department to learn more. If you would like more information about pro bono opportunities with Legal Aid, please • Consider adding a bequest to your will that contributes to the sustainable future of Legal Aid. contact Jodi Feldman, Director of Pro Bono In the alternative, designate Legal Aid as a and Intake Programs, by phone at (202) 661-5965 beneficiary of your life insurance policy or or email at [email protected]. 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 email at [email protected]. The 2010 Leadership Bronze Patron $20,000 – $29,999

Arent Fox LLP The Neighbors in Need Fund of Cabinet The Community Foundation Consumer Health Foundation Annual Gift Recognition Program for the National Capital Region Gilbert LLP Skadden Fellowship Foundation Latham & Watkins LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP The Legal Aid Society created the Mayer Brown LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Leadership Cabinet in order to recognize Hale and Dorr LLP those donors each year that support the organization in significant ways. We are proud to recognize our 2010 Leadership Patron Cabinet members as of April 12 for $10,000 – $19,999 their generous support. Bingham McCutchen LLP Miller & Chevalier Chartered Cassidy Turley The Morrison & Foerster Platinum Patron Foundation $75,000 & up Crowell & Moring LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP O'Melveny & Myers LLP District of Columbia Bar Foundation Dow Lohnes PLLC Patton Boggs LLP Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Equal Justice Works Paul, Hastings, Janofsky AmeriCorps & Walker LLP Gold Patron Legal Fellowship Program Pillsbury Winthrop $50,000 – $74,999 2009-2010 Shaw Pittman LLP Covington & Burling LLP Exxon Mobil Corporation Sidley Austin LLP and The Sidley Austin Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Hogan & Hartson LLP Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Howrey LLP Silver Patron Jones Day Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Zuckerman Spaeder LLP $30,000 – $49,999 Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP LexisNexis Alston & Bird LLP Jerry Hartman in Memory of Barbara McDowell The Estate of Barbara McDowell McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP We would also like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all of our 2009 Campaign Co-Chairs:

Amer Ahmed Amanda Major Williams & Connolly LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Thomas G. Allen Vadim Schick Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Post & Schell, P.C. 2009 Kavitha Babu Derek Y. Sugimura Arent Fox LLP Gilbert LLP Generous Wesley D. Bizzell Briana Thibeau Altria Corporate Services, Inc. Dow Lohnes PLLC Justin Fairfax Ryan C. Tisch Associates Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Crowell & Moring LLP Joanna Giasafakis Daniel Wendt Campaign Arent Fox LLP Miller & Chevalier Chartered Giving for Justice Thomas M. Henry, III Kevin S. Willen Jones Day Hogan & Hartson LLP Kristin Keeling Howard A. Wolf-Rodda Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Brown Rudnick LLP In the summer of 2009, generous associates throughout Washington, D.C.’s legal community raised a remarkable $675,000 from their A spirit of friendly competition has long been the hallmark of colleagues and firms during a very the Generous Associates Campaign. The following are the top difficult year. Congratulations contributing firms in each size category for 2009: to all our participants. 251+ attorneys 101–150 attorneys Wilmer Cutler Pickering Baker Botts L.L.P. Legal Aid would like to recognize Hale and Dorr LLP $20,507 last year’s Honorary Co-Chair: $61,700 51–100 attorneys 201–250 attorneys Reed Smith LLP Melvin White Williams & Connolly LLP $10,759 Law Office of Melvin White $32,111

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Michael Coe, an associate at Crowell & Moring LLP, died on January 18, 2010. He was 38.

Throughout his tenure at Crowell & Moring, Michael was committed to giving back to the community through active and consistent participation in the ﬁrm’s pro bono program. Many of the matters he handled were landlord tenant matters referred by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.

Michael was trained as a patent lawyer, and fairly early in his career decided to focus his practice on patent infringement litigation. He was an extremely intelligent, dedicated and hard-working litigator who was adept at developing creative solutions to complex legal issues. Michael was thoroughly devoted to the ﬁrm’s pro bono practice, always representing his clients with uncommon vigor, enthusiasm and sensitivity.

In his quiet way, Michael earned the respect, admiration and affection of those with whom he worked and the clients he represented. This was particularly true of his pro bono clients, for whom he felt a special sense of responsibility and compassion. He will always be remembered for his gentle spirit, his genuine acts of kindness extended to others, and his goodness of person.

The Crowell & Moring community was deeply saddened by Michael’s passing and they will miss him dearly. Justice for All

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Yaida Ford, Staff Attorney Michael S. Helfer Valerie Grab, Senior Staff Attorney Citigroup Beth Mellen Harrison, Project Director/Senior Staff Attorney

Michael J. Henke Jennifer Hatton, Staff Attorney Katherine Hays, Chief Operations Officer Vinson & Elkins LLP Jeannette Henderson, Administrative Assistant

Stephen S. Hill Deborah Cuevas Hill, Senior Staff Attorney Howrey LLP Shirley Horng, Staff Attorney Joseph Kakesh, Arnold & Porter LLP Loaned Associate Caswell O. Hobbs Gregg A. Kelley, Director of Development Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Diana Krevor, DLA Piper LLP Law Firm Fellow Julianna Lee, Staff Attorney G. Philip Nowak Jennifer Mezey, Supervising Attorney Sidley Austin LLP Trisha Monroe, Project Director/Senior Staff Attorney Robin C. Murphy, Supervising Attorney Thomas C. Papson Lucy Newton, Project Director/Senior Staff Attorney McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Jennifer W. Ngai, Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Recovery Fellow Andrew Patterson, Staff Attorney S. White Rhyne Albinas Prizgintas, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Law Firm Fellow Sandra Read-Brown, Development Associate Barbara M. Rossotti Lucia Rich, Legal Administrative Assistant Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Bonnie Robin-Vergeer, Director, Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Program Patricia Roulhac, Legal Secretary Robert N. Sayler Henry Smith, Steptoe & Johnson Law Firm Fellow Covington & Burling LLP Jonathan M. Smith, Executive Director James van R. Springer, Volunteer Staff Attorney Thomas Schattenfield David Steib, Skadden Fellow Arent Fox LLP Alessandro N. Terenzoni, Staff Attorney

Daniel W. Toohey Tianna Terry, Yale Law School Arthur Liman Public Interest Fellow Wendy Weinberg, Supervising Attorney Elizabeth Yates, Legal Administrative Assistant thank you

Tonight’s Servant of Justice Awards Dinner has been made possible by the generosity of Washington, D.C.’s legal and business communities. Legal Aid join us again is extremely grateful for their support. In addition, Legal Aid would like to Please plan to join thank those who contributed significant Legal Aid again for the time, energy and services in-kind to Servant of Justice Awards make this evening such a success: Dinner on April 28, 2011 Rohith Roy at the Graphic Designer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP JW Marriott Hotel.

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