Dickstein Shapiro Llp

DICKSTEIN SHAPIRO LLP

1825 Eye Street NW THE STATS Washington, D.C. 20006 Phone: (202) 420 2200 No. of attorneys: 366 www.dicksteinshapiro.com No. of offices: 6 Chairman: Michael Nannes Hiring Partners: Jeffrey Rhodes LOCATIONS Jeffrey Schulman Los Angeles, CA • 2049 Century Park East, Suite 700 • Los Lawrence LaPorte Angeles, California • 90067-3109 New York, NY • 1633 Broadway • New York, New York • EMPLOYMENT CONTACT 10019-6708 Carrie Milliken Orange County, CA • 2030 Main Street, Suite 1300 • Irvine, Attorney Recruiting Manager California • 92614-7220 Phone: (202) 420 2770 Silicon Valley, CA • 303 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 600 • Email address: [email protected] Redwood City, California • 94065 Careers website (if different from main website): Stamford, CT • 201 Broad Street, Suite 1200 • Stamford, www.dicksteinshapiro.com/careers Connecticut • 06901-2004 Washington, D.C. • 1825 Eye Street NW • Washington, District of Columbia • 20006-5403

MAJOR DEPARTMENTS & PRACTICES

Antitrust • Bankruptcy/Creditors’ Rights • Clean Technology/ Renewable Energy • Corporate • Energy • Intellectual Property • Labor & Employment • Litigation • Real Estate • Tax • Technology • Government Law & Strategy

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WHO’S WHO What are some of the areas of law in which your firm performed pro bono legal work in 2009 and 2010? Please provide the primary pro bono contact(s)’s information below. Civil rights, Community economic development, Consumer law and small claims court, Death penalty defense, Disability Elaine Arabatzis benefits, Domestic violence, Employment, Environment, Pro Bono and Diversity Counsel Fair housing/tenants rights, Family law, First Amendment Phone: (202) 420 4851 and constitutional issues, HIV/AIDS advocacy, Immigration, Email: [email protected] Nonprofit corporate law, Nonprofit incorporation/tax Jim Murray exemptions, Nonprofit intellectual property, Parole hearings, Partner, Pro Bono Committee Chair Prisoners’ rights, Social security law, Probate law, Public Phone: (202) 420 3409 benefits, Real estate transactions, Veterans’ benefits/appeals, Email: [email protected] Voting rights

Does the firm have a pro bono coordinator(s) and/or partner(s)? Are there areas of law in which, as a matter of policy or practice, If so, how many? your firm does not perform pro bono work? If so, please indicate 1 the specific areas below. If not, please select “None.” Indigent criminal defense For each of your pro bono coordinator(s) and/or partner(s), please specify how much of his/her time is spent on pro bono List up to 10 of your firm’s pro bono clients or partners in 2009 work and/or administering the firm’s pro bono program. and 2010, including legal service providers or clearinghouses. Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 1 • Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights More than half of his/her time • Legal Counsel for the Elderly • The Landlord Tenant Resource Center at the District of Does the firm have a pro bono committee? Columbia Superior Court Yes • Bread for the City • The Alliance for Children’s Rights How often does the committee meet? • Human Rights Watch As required • American Civil Liberties Union of Maryland

Please describe the composition of the committee. • The News Literacy Project Dickstein Shapiro’s Pro Bono Committee includes the firm’s • The Montgomery County Family Justice Center diversity and pro bono counsel, Elaine Arabatzis and is chaired • Legal Aid Society of Washington, DC by Partner Jim Murray. It also includes members from across the firm’s offices. List up to three representative examples of your firm’s pro bono matters. Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. THE SCOOP • In 2011, a group of Dickstein Shapiro Attorneys won asylum Does your firm have a written pro bono policy? for a gay client who had suffered horrific prosecution in his native El Salvador. The client had fled to the United Yes States at age 21 after years of enduring rapes, beatings, and hospitalizations. But due to a number of government delays, Can associates bring pro bono matters of interest to the firm? his asylum proceeding lasted for five years. Once the case reached trial, the judge ultimately ruled in our client’s favor Yes and the government waived its right to appeal. • After local Washington, DC charity Bread for the City became How does the firm decide whether to take on a pro bono matter? the victim of a vicious scam, Dickstein Shapiro helped the The firm will accept any matter that fits within our pro bono organization recover an additional $50,000 in funds to spend guidelines. on food, clothing, and legal, medical, and social services for the District’s disadvantaged residents. In May 2003, Bread for the City discovered that its payroll company, FirstPay Inc., had Has the firm signed on to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge? misappropriated approximately $137,000 from its bank account Yes that should have been used to cover taxes, as well as, according

to media reports, a total $11 million from more than 250 injunction against the town directing officials to reconsider organizations. Because the money was taken instead of paid the church’s application. Following that order, the town to the government, the theft saddled Bread for the City with reclassified Meeting Ground’s proposed uses as those of a a sizeable back tax bill. Over several years, Bread for the City church, permitted renovations, and ultimately issued an paid more than $90,000 to the U.S. Internal Revenue Service occupancy permit. Meeting Ground later obtained a financial in an effort to repay the debt. But after two years of hard work award in a Dec. 2009 settlement. by members of Dickstein Shapiro, the IRS Office of Appeals reversed course and required Bread for the City to pay only $50 of the $50,000 balance it owed the IRS. BY THE NUMBERS • Recently, Dickstein Shapiro helped an elderly pro bono What is the total number of hours that lawyers at your U.S. office(s) client win a multiyear struggle for compensation from his spent performing pro bono legal services, as defined by the Law former landlord. The client was a tenant for many years in an Firm Pro Bono Challenge, in 2008, 2009 and 2010? Do not include uninhabitable apartment in Washington, DC that had bed summer associate or non-lawyer pro bono hours in your answers. bugs, broken windows, exposed electrical wires, no working Total number of pro bono hours in 2008: 25,809 shower, and no smoke detectors, among other problems. Because the landlord was not a registered rental provider, Total number of pro bono hours in 2009: 16,317 they were able to freely skirt DC residential tenant laws. They Total number of pro bono hours in 2010: 14,732 also overcharged the client and his disabled wife for rent. Represented by the DC Counsel for the Elderly, in April 2010 the client won an order from the Office of Administrative What was your attorney headcount in your firm’s U.S. offices: Hearings in his favor in the amount more than $6,000. The Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2008: 401 landlord refused to comply and the matter was referred to Dickstein Shapiro. After fruitless negotiations with the Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2009: 382 landlord, followed by enforcement proceedings in DC Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2010: 366 Superior Court, the firm’s lawyers issued writs of attachment on area banks, one of which eventually released the full funds to our client on an expedited basis. Using the number of attorneys listed above, what is the average number of pro bono hours per attorney in your firm’s U.S. office(s) List up to three pro bono matters that are highlights (e.g., during the following years? a Supreme Court case). Please limit your answer to a short Average number of hours per attorney in 2008: 64 paragraph per matter. Average number of hours per attorney in 2009: 42 • Dickstein Shapiro represents Abdelhakim Ghalib Ahmad Alhaj, a detainee imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay. Average number of hours per attorney in 2010: 40 • In North Port Wentworth Citizens Council v. City of Port Wentworth, Ga., Dickstein Shapiro represented a What percentage of attorneys employed during that calendar year group of plaintiffs who successfully challenged the alleged in your firm’s U.S. office(s) did at least 20 hours of pro bono work discriminatory practices of the municipality of Port in 2009 and 2010? Wentworth, Georgia against its African American residents. Percentage who did 20+ hours of pro bono work in 2009: 41-50% Dickstein Shapiro attorneys worked closely with The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the late Fletcher Percentage who did 20+ hours of pro bono work in 2010: 41-50% Farrington to help their clients challenge the city’s failure to provide the same municipal water, sewer, and drainage service to the predominantly African American community SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONS as enjoyed by the white communities residing directly across the highway and in the rest of the City of Port Wentworth. Is there partner supervision on all pro bono matters? The challenge was resolved successfully in favor of the Yes plaintiffs. • Dickstein Shapiro represented the ACLU of Maryland and Do partner supervisors or, if applicable, senior associates provide its client, Meeting Ground, a Maryland church assisting the written evaluations of associates’ work on pro bono matters? homeless in a zoning and religious freedom case against the Yes town of Elkton. The matter centered on the church’s right to operate a homeless day center as part of its religious mission. Meeting Ground filed suit in July 2008, contending that by Are those evaluations taken into account in determining salary or rejecting the proposed center, the town discriminated against bonuses? the church and deprived its members of their right to freely • Yes, they are taken into account when determining salary exercise religious faith as guaranteed by the constitution and federal statute. A federal judge entered a preliminary • Yes, they are taken into account when determining bonuses

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Are those evaluations taken into account in determining • For more than 10 years, the firm has partnered with the advancement within the firm? District of Columbia’s renowned Duke Ellington School of Yes the Arts, which instructs aspiring young artists through a rigorous academic and artistic curriculum. The firm mentors Duke Ellington students through Street Law, a Georgetown Is there a pro bono requirement at your firm? University Law Center program that teaches high school No students practical legal knowledge • from constitutional law, criminal law, and civil rights to Does the firm give billable hour credit for pro bono work? family and consumer law. The year-long program culminates with many weeks of preparation for a citywide mock trial Yes competition before judges in the DC Superior Court. In conjunction with the Georgetown program, several attorneys Does the firm have a maximum number of pro bono hours that can took turns acting as course instructors throughout the year be applied toward the billable hour target? and then helped teams prepare for their mock trials. No • As part of its commitment to law firm diversity, Dickstein Shapiro awards scholarships to second-year minority law students in order to defray the cost of law school tuition and Does the firm consider pro bono hours when determining related expenses. bonuses? Yes What non-law related volunteer opportunities does your firm offer? For example, list any work with high school students and non-legal volunteerism for organizations like Habitat for PRO BONO POINTS Humanity. What training opportunities are open to associates working on Dickstein Shapiro is a leading financial supporter of pro bono matters? Washington, DC nonprofit Bread for the City. In 2008, for instance, the firm and individual firm contributors donated Regular training opportunities are made available both within more than $158,000 to Bread for the City’s Holiday Helpings and outside of the firm. These training opportunities are Campaign. utilized by many who wish to practice in an area of the law with which they may not be familiar. The combination of training, Founded in 1987, Doing Small Miracles for Others is a not- internal oversight by a partner, and the external guidance for-profit 501(c)(3) corporation run entirely by Dickstein provided by many of the pro bono organizations with which we Shapiro employees that has provided service and raised more have relationships allows attorneys to practice in new areas of than half a million dollars for organizations and individuals the law with a sturdy underlying support network. in Washington, DC, New York, and Los Angeles. Every year, hundreds of firm volunteers assist in efforts to raise Does the firm offer the use of support staff in handling pro bono internal funds, purchase holiday gifts, and deliver them matters? to disadvantaged children and families throughout the metropolitan areas in which Dickstein Shapiro operates. Yes As part of Dickstein Shapiro’s partnership with the Duke What pro bono opportunities are available for summer Ellington School of the Arts, the firm sponsors an annual associates? holiday card contest, in which Duke Ellington students submit designs for the firm’s holiday card. Each year, the entire firm Summer associates can participate in any open pro bono votes on the student design that will grace holiday cards sent to matter. Pro bono matters are made available through the firm friends and clients. summer associate assignment database. Summer associates are encouraged to sit in on firm-sponsored days at various DC Bar- In addition, the firm sponsors select Duke Ellington students sponsored legal clinics that the firm regularly staffs. and faculty to attend the Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Snowmass Village, Colorado for intensive summer arts courses. Does the firm have established programs, such as externships, that enable its associates to work in a public interest setting? Please list any special recognition or awards your firm won in No 2009 and 2010 for its pro bono work. • In 2010, nonprofit educational group The Kingsbury Center What other law-related public interest and community service recognized the firm for its pro bono legal work by renaming programs (that are not “pro bono” as defined by the Law Firm its primary meeting space as the Dickstein Shapiro Board Pro Bono Challenge) do you offer and manage? For example, list Room. Dickstein Shapiro provides the center with legal any law school collaborations and public interest scholarships, services ranging from contracts and employment matters, to auctions at law schools, monetary support, or fellowships. government and financial counsel.

• In 2011, Dickstein Shapiro was selected by Washington and mentor students at local high schools. We also take on hot Business Journal as one of the Washington, DC metro button national issues: fighting for the rights of gay parents area’s top corporate philanthropists. The award honors the with Lamda Legal; challenging wrongful convictions with region’s most active and inspirational companies making an The Innocence Project; and representing Guantanamo Bay impact in their communities through financial and volunteer detainees. philanthropic work. Some of our most important partnerships involve much more Please add any additional information about your firm’s pro bono than legal work. Since 1997, Dickstein Shapiro has worked program. with Washington, DC’s Bread for the City, raising hundreds of thousands of dollars for the group while also donating At Dickstein Shapiro, we think community counts both inside our services to the low income families it supports. In Los and outside the firm. That’s why we challenge every one of our Angeles, we have a long-standing relationship with the Alliance attorneys to donate at least 50 hours of pro bono service each for Children’s Rights, a charity that protects abused and year. It’s why the firm gives recognition for time spent on pro impoverished youths. And for 20 years, the firm has run its own bono projects. And it’s why we’ve spent decades building lasting 501(c)(3) nonprofit, Doing Small Miracles for Others, which pro bono relationships in the cities where we practice. offers every one of our employees a chance to work side by side in giving back to the community. It’s one of the things that makes us tick. And yes, we think partners and associates alike should be able Dickstein Shapiro’s attorneys and staff work with dozens to bring their own passions to the firm. Therefore, we welcome of nonprofit organizations across the United States devoted new pro bono projects. In the end, it makes Dickstein Shapiro a to helping families and building stronger neighborhoods. better place to practice. We staff free legal clinics at local courts and aid renters in trouble. We represent battered women against their abusers

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