Welcome to the S 21T ANNUAL SERVANT of JUSTICE AWARDS DINNER 1331 H Street, NW Suite 350 Washington, D.C. 20005 202.628.1161 (voice) | 202.727.2132 (facsimile) www.legalaiddc.org Skadden congratulates Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia on its achievements and outstanding commitment to the community and is proud to support the 21st Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner COVINGTON PROUDLY SUPPORTS LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF DC AND THE Congratulations to the 2010 Award Recipients 2010 SERVANT OF JUSTICE Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. AWARDS DINNER Florence Wagman Roisman Randall A. Brater BEIJING We extend our congratulations to BRUSSELS Servant of Justice Award recipients, Fair Budget Coalition LONDON Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. and Florence NEW YORK Wagman Roisman, for their steadfast commitment to providing legal aid to SAN DIEGO those in need. 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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. 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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,