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City Bar Fund Annual Report 2002-2003 A Letter from E. Leo Milonas, President, The Association of the Bar of the City of and The City Bar Fund

At the City Bar Fund, we try to ensure that justice is available to those who are in need and do not know where to turn for help. Often, we are the last resort for Pictured left to right: Barbara Berger Opotowsky, Vice-President, City Bar Fund; E. Leo Milonas, President, low-income people who are desperate for legal The Association of the Bar of the City of New York and City Bar Fund; and Maria L. Imperial, Executive Director, representation. For them, we provide the justice that they City Bar Fund. could not find anywhere else, and we actually transform people’s lives. They are not merely just “cases,” but our and flee for his life. He was granted asylum here after one “Just Causes.” of our volunteer lawyers represented him in immigration This year, more than 20,000 clients – immigrants, court. The second one is about a young woman from the homeless, the elderly, cancer survivors, domestic Honduras with an infant daughter who became homeless. violence victims, and others – benefited from legal Thanks to a volunteer attorney, she was able to obtain the assistance provided by the City Bar Fund. Our programs public assistance she was entitled to and to find her own include free legal information, referrals, advice, and direct apartment. The third one is about a middle-aged, disabled representation by staff and volunteer attorneys. Our woman who could not afford a divorce lawyer. Her volunteers contributed more than 30,000 pro bono hours husband had not supported her in six years. He hoped to with an estimated value of $4.5 million. Many of the obtain a default divorce, but the City Bar Fund has been attorneys were trained by our staff specifically to serve the successful in stopping it. needs of our clients. This is our Annual Report for 2002–2003. The As you will read, we are highlighting the stories of attorneys who work with us tell us that the legal counsel three very different people who have found their way to they provide is inspiring and worthwhile and it is vital to the City Bar Fund. They dramatically illustrate the range of those we serve. We hope you agree. services we provide. And they’re told from two points of view: the client in need, and the attorneys who responded. The first is an asylum case involving an older man who is a Liberian refugee. He was forced to leave his family

2 WN, Client: I am 60 years old, I come from Liberia and am a member of the Krahn tribe. I am married, and I have seven children. I worked for many years as a truck driver. One day in 1986, some young hoodlums burglarized my home. They were caught and sentenced to four months in prison.

Four years later, when Liberia was in the middle of a civil war, those burglars seized me and my family. They The CityBar had decided to exact revenge. Public Service My family then fled Liberia and took refuge in the Ivory Coast. When it appeared that the civil war was Network coming to an end, I returned to Liberia to see if I could bring back my family. The rebels had murdered my father The City Bar Fund’s Public Service and three of my brothers and sisters. My house had been Network matches attorneys seeking burned, and my mother had also died. All because we were Krahns. I began working as a truck driver for volunteer opportunities with nonprofits Doctors Without Borders. In early 2000, I was captured throughout , including the by Liberian government forces. I would have been City Bar Fund itself. The Network executed immediately, but they needed me to drive the truck. introduced Henri Gueron, a retiring

attorney who was seeking a full-time I finally escaped by driving the truck through the gate of a refugee camp where my captors had gone to volunteer placement, to the City Bar get food and supplies. The international peace-keeping Fund’s Refugee Assistance Project, forces guarding the camp routed my captors and rescued me. I was fortunate to make my way to the U.S. But my where he has been working ever since. family remains in the Ivory Coast. Following is the story of WN, one of When I first applied for asylum, the Immigration and Henri’s many clients who successfully Naturalization Service denied my application. I was told I gained asylum through the efforts of the needed an attorney. That's when I went to the Bar City Bar Fund: Association and found my lawyer, Mr. Gueron.

Mr. Gueron prepared an excellent case, and after I testified, asylum was granted. I have been working as a cook in a Kentucky Fried Chicken. I've been there for nearly two years, and I have been sending money home every month. I'm hoping my family can come to America soon.

3 Henri Gueron, volunteer lawyer for the City In court, Mr. N's sister came with her husband to Bar Fund: When I took Mr. N's case, I had just retired testify to Mr. N's arrival in the U.S. The court had and had started volunteering at the Bar Association. I appointed an interpreter, and the first thing that had been with Con Edison for many years and attended happened was that Mr. N's brother-in-law and the law school at night. I worked as in-house counsel from interpreter fell into each others' arms. They came from 1993 until I retired from Con Edison in 2001, focusing the same village in Liberia and hadn't seen each other mainly on administrative and contract law and also since they were school children. intellectual property. This case gave me a profound sense of This was my first court case. Immigration law is accomplishment. My client was very deserving, and certainly very different from corporate practice where the justice eventually prevailed. We are now working to goal is to never get into court. Here, you’re in court, and reunite Mr. N. with his wife and his children, to whom the stakes are extremely high. the law extends the benefits of his victory.

In an asylum case, generally, the applicant, having fled for his or her life, comes to the U.S. with little more than the clothes on his or her back, let alone a sheaf of evidence. As a result, the court attaches enormous importance to the credibility of the applicant. So the first thing we do is to get a detailed story.

Since credibility is so important, I had to find corroborating evidence. I used the Internet to confirm Mr. N.'s employment in Liberia. I had no luck with my original searches for the mining company, which apparently had gone out of business. Then, using the name of the mine itself, I hit “pay dirt.” Former mine employees had kept in touch with each other through a web page they had created. I e-mailed the site, and received two positive replies from retired executives confirming Mr. N’s employment. Doctors Without Borders also confirmed his employment.

Through Doctors of the World, we reached a doctor at City Bar Public Service Network and Refugee Assistance Staff (l to r): Katherine Neilson, Henri Gueron, Carol Bockner, Montefiore Hospital. Working pro bono, he examined Lauris Wren and Josh Franco. Mr. N and filed an affidavit confirming that Mr. N's injuries were consistent with the torture Mr. N described. A Liberian witness also attested to Mr. N's last name being identifiably Krahn.

4 Haidy Guity, Client: I am 21 years old, and I have a daughter, Brianne, who is nine months old. I’m from Honduras. Two years ago, I was living with my boyfriend in . He began beating me, every day, even when I became pregnant. When the beatings became worse, I was fearful that he would really harm me or the The baby. Legal Clinic I went to live with my mother when I was six Legal Clinic months pregnant, but this proved to be a problem, too. for the She had a household full of my siblings. Then I moved to a Bronx shelter run by the Red Cross where my Homeless daughter was born. At that point, my caseworker told me I was eligible for an increase in public assistance, to take For the past 12 years, the City Bar care of my baby. I was then transferred to the Latham Fund has been providing pro bono Hotel.

legal services to the homeless. My additional welfare benefits never came. Last July Through our Legal Clinic for the I met Sam Barkin at the shelter’s legal clinic. Mr. Barkin became my lawyer. He discovered that I had filled out Homeless, we operate monthly legal the right application, but when I moved, the City said it clinics at two shelters and one drop- did not know where I was. So they told us we had to file in center that provide legal another application.

assistance to homeless persons who Mr. Barkin said that I would get the additional are on public assistance and want to payments. Then I stopped getting food stamps. So I called the City agency. The worker who answered become independent. This year the screamed at me and said, “I don’t know anything.” So I law firm of Heller Ehrman White & told him I would call my lawyer. And he said, “Go ahead, call your lawyer.” Mr. Barkin wasn’t available, but I was McAuliffe “adopted” the Latham able to speak with his colleague, Ellen Lafferty. Ms. Hotel, a family shelter run by the Lafferty was very persistent and the next day, she got the Red Cross. Here is the story of one City to send me $324. I was very grateful for her help.

of the former residents and the Thank god, my situation is much better. I’m living in attorney who helped her: an apartment in the East Bronx. It’s big enough for my baby and me. And now I have some money to get some food and clothing for her.

I’ve taken a high school equivalency test, and I’m waiting for the results. I’m trying very hard to improve my situation. Right now, I want to work and am looking for a job. I don’t want to be on welfare.

5 Sam Barkin, volunteer lawyer for the We made an emergency application to have the money City Bar Fund: My day job is securities fraud and put into her account. In November, she received over professional liability litigation at Heller Ehrman White & $3,000 in retroactive benefits. Nevertheless, even though McAuliffe. Since taking on the Legal Clinic for the she won her case, she is still not getting the correct Homeless as a pro bono project, we’ve handled over 25 amount of benefits on a monthly basis. public assistance cases. The struggle continues… A lot of the young women we work with at the clinic have been abused by a boyfriend or a husband. They usually have young kids and are not getting any support. They despise welfare, and they want to get off it. But they don't have the education. I don't think most of the public knows this. They think these people are undeserving.

We spend most of the time coping with the City's bureaucracy. Ms. Guity's case is a prime example. When she came to the clinic, she and her daughter were living on $136 a month of public assistance. They were eligible for $452 because of her baby. The City had no record of her daughter’s birth. This was strange, because Ms. Guity had met with her caseworker with her daughter and had given the caseworker a copy of the birth certificate.

We went to the welfare center to file another copy of Ms. Guity’s daughter’s birth certificate. Still, the City took no action. The baby was still not being counted. We then brought a proceeding, called a Fair Hearing, to compel the City to correct the budget. Ms. Guity testified, and she also brought her daughter. At her hearing, the judge found for Ms. Guity. The City was Sam Barkin, volunteer lawyer for the City Bar Fund ordered to add the daughter to the budget and to give Ms. Guity retroactive benefits.

Still, the City failed to comply. The caseworker told me that Ms.Guity would be getting the money soon. Several weeks later, when the money still hadn’t arrived, we called again and her caseworker told me, “Well, we're very busy here.” The money had been authorized a month ago, but the supervisor hadn't signed off.

Ultimately, we had to start enforcement proceedings.

6 Mavis Ansemsro, Client: I am from Ghana, in West Africa, and I came to the U.S. about 30 years ago. I am 59 and live in Brooklyn. I have been married for 32 years. My husband works for the NYC Transit Authority. One morning, about six years ago, I noticed he was packing his clothing. He said he was moving out.

My husband hasn’t supported me. Not a dime. I’ve had no help from him in six years - nothing at all. It’s The Shield really hard if you haven’t worked in a very long time, and you get just a little income and have bills to pay. Program It’s not easy at all. I’ve gone through a lot. I used to pick up cans from the street. It was really hard for me. The City Bar Fund’s Center for Self-Help, All I’m getting is disability now. I’m trying to Information, Education and Legal manage, but still it’s very hard. When I need to pay Defense (SHIELD) program operates a bills, I borrow. I will have to keep borrowing. I hope to city-wide telephone hotline, providing pay back all that I’ve borrowed.

legal information, referrals and brief My husband filed for divorce last July, I didn’t know services to indigent and low-income what to do. I couldn’t afford to hire a lawyer. When I went to the court, they gave me the number of the City New Yorkers who have nowhere else to Bar Fund. A lawyer there, Judith Flamenbaum, turn for legal assistance. SHIELD also informed me that I should come to their legal clinic. She called me the night before to remind me. She likes offers matrimonial clinics where staff and to help people; she really loves her job. I appreciated it volunteers assist clients who are very much. She keeps in touch to see how everything is proceeding without representation in going.

divorce actions. Here is a typical story of At the clinic, the staff of the City Bar Fund helped a New Yorker who received help through me to prepare an answer and a counterclaim to my husband’s divorce complaint. Oh, my goodness. This is the SHIELD matrimonial clinics. the most help I’ve ever had in my whole life. In fact, the City Bar Fund has been wonderful.

7 Judith Flamenbaum, Director of SHIELD Mavis is disabled. She walks with a cane, and it’s Matrimonial Program: Mavis Ansemsro has such a very difficult for her to get around. It was hard enough sad story. It was nice to be able to help her because for her to walk down the long hallway just to come to there is something that is so good about her. She’s a the office. She cannot work. It’s hand-to-mouth living. jolly, wonderful woman who is making lemonade out of She doesn’t complain, and does what she has to, but her lemon. She just wants her fair share. She took care of husband has assets. There are properties, and hopefully, this man, waited on him hand and foot, “buttered his Mavis will have a claim on them. bread,” as she often puts it. She’s okay now; she’ll get her fair share. We’re She had been served with divorce papers, and we hoping that eventually there will be a settlement. Her prepared a response so her husband couldn’t get a husband will be retiring soon, and she will be entitled by default divorce. She got a copy of the complaint, and one law to some of his pension. of our volunteer attorneys prepared an answer.

Judith Flamenbaum and Mavis Ansemsro

8 Immigrant Women and Children’s Project The threat of deportation is often an immigrant’s greatest fear. This tactic is frequently used by men who abuse their wives. Few women know that they can seek relief under the federal Violence Against Women Act (“VAWA”). Our staff and volunteers help immigrant victims of domestic violence legalize their immigration status without the cooperation of their batterers. We also provide advice and legal representation to immigrants seeking relief under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000. Last year, we helped 489 women and children, 150 of whom obtained work authorizations, adjustment of legal status or green cards. OtherOther Cancer Advocacy Project CityCity BarBar FundFund Cancer patients and survivors face extraordinary demands as a result of their illness. These difficulties ProgramsPrograms are compounded when insurance companies refuse to pay for treatment, when employers discriminate, or when cancer patients and survivors have difficulty In addition to the City Bar Public navigating the public benefits system and are worried Service Network, the Refugee about who will take care of their minor children should they become unable. The Cancer Advocacy Project Assistance Project, the Legal Clinic for provides cancer patients with legal assistance on issues relating to discrimination in the workplace, health law, the Homeless and the SHIELD insurance coverage, and wills. Last year, we helped matrimonial clinics, the City Bar Fund 232 cancer patients and their families. transforms lives through the following

projects: Elderlaw Project As they age, poor New Yorkers face bewildering legal problems that relate to such basic needs as housing, healthcare, and finances. The Elderlaw Project reaches out to senior citizens through legal clinics and community forums held at senior centers, residences and single room occupancy hotels. Our services also include the Senior Housing Protection Project that provides free legal assistance to low-income senior homeowners and renters who need to commence eviction proceedings against abusive tenants or roommates. Last year, we helped 403 seniors.

9 Small Business Initiative SHIELD Legal Hotline Through the Small Business Initiative, the City Bar Fund Now in its sixth year, SHIELD serves as an entry point promotes entrepreneurship by conducting legal to legal assistance for low-income New Yorkers. Five seminars and clinics for small businesses throughout mornings a week, staff and volunteers offer low-income New York City. Last year, we helped 800 small New Yorkers free information, advice and referrals to businesses affected by the September 11th tragedy. other legal services through the hotline. Last year, nearly 12,000 calls were answered. SHIELD also provides uncontested and contested divorce clinics, Law-RRelated Education Project/Lawyers in where clients can receive help filing court forms, and get advice on property and child visitation rights. the Classroom This critical four-year-old education program provides a basic primer for city students about how our justice system works. The students learn about courtroom LAWHELP procedures and the law from volunteer attorneys and LAWHELP.ORG is a website designed to improve judges. Last year, 50 lawyers and judges made access to legal resources for low-income people in New presentations in junior high schools and afterschool York City. The site combines a comprehensive database programs, reaching over 1,500 children. of legal services providers with customized search engines for quick, accurate referrals. The website also provides legal information to clients. LAWHELP is a collaborative project of the City Bar Fund, Pro Bono Net, Legal Services for New York City, The Legal Aid Society of New York and Volunteers of Legal Service.

September 11th Legal Initiative With its September 11th Legal Initiative, the City Bar Fund offers free legal assistance to individuals and small businesses directly affected by the tragic events of September 11th. Since the initiative began, we have trained approximately 3,000 volunteers and have Chief Judge Judith S. Kaye with students from the assisted about 1,760 individuals and families and 800 Law-Related Education Project. small businesses.

Housing Court Summer Assistance Project The project provides law students with a volunteer experience in Housing Court where they advise unrepresented parties about their legal rights in housing disputes. Last year, nearly 700 people were helped.

10 Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives In 2002, the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives was established within the City Bar Fund. Cyrus R. Vance was President of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York from 1974 to 1976. PublicPublic InterestInterest andand As President, he led the New York bar in expanding pro bono legal services to enhance access to justice. CommitteeCommittee ProjectsProjects The Vance Center seeks to promote internationally an ethic of societal responsibility in the legal profession; Committees are the backbone of access to justice; legal reforms to strengthen democratic institutions and the rule of law; access to opportunity in the Association. Approximately the legal profession through the use of the resources 180 committees, comprised of and expertise of the Association, its committees and membership; and the development of partnerships attorneys with specific expertise, across borders to support social justice. address various areas of the law, The Vance Center’s current initiatives include: the courts and the legal South African Visiting Lawyer Program profession. Development support The Vance Center is coordinating an intensive one-year fellowship program in corporate law for provided by the City Bar Fund South African lawyers from previously enables Association committees to disadvantaged communities to assist in developing the next generation of lawyers in South Africa. An undertake studies that affect policy inaugural class of seven fellows are working in at all levels of government and New York through the support of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton; Clifford Chance; Cravath, activities that advance the public Swaine & Moore; Credit Suisse First Boston; JP Morgan Chase; Morgan Stanley & Co.; Salomon interest. Because it would be Smith Barney; Shearman & Sterling; Simpson impossible to list all of the projects Thacher & Bartlett; and Weil Gotshal & Manges.

being carried out by committees Latin American Pro Bono Initiative as well as the special public Together with the Inter-American Affairs Committee of the Association, the Vance Center is interest projects being carried out collaborating with lawyers in Latin America to by the City Bar Fund, the following promote and institutionalize pro bono legal services in the leading law firms and law societies. These are representative projects: efforts have included the organization of a conference in Buenos Aires in 2001 and Santiago in December 2002.

11 Thurgood Marshall Fellowship Program The Thurgood Marshall Fellowship Program was created in memory of the life and work of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Created by the Orison S. Marden Lectures Committee, this paid fellowship is open to three minority law students from New York City metropolitan area law schools who work with the City Bar Fund or the Association’s Civil Rights Committee. The 2002 recipients are Andrea Anderson, a student at ; Sarah Lazare, a student at CUNY Law School; and Rebecca Velez, a student at the Fordham University School of Law.

What It’s Really Like to Practice Law Thurgood Marshall Fellows Rebecca Velez and Andrea Anderson in New York City as a Woman Co-sponsored by the Association’s Committees on Women in the Profession and Law Student Perspectives, and the New York Women’s Bar Association, this The New York City annual event, begun in 1992, features a panel Lawyers Assistance Program discussion concerning issues that significantly affect The New York City Lawyers Assistance Program (NYC women lawyers. Designed for women summer LAP) recognizes that alcohol and substance abuse can associates to address the challenges they will face as impair an attorney’s ability to perform, resulting in practicing attorneys, the symposium helps establish ties personal and professional devastation. NYC LAP between women law students and women lawyers who assists members of the legal profession and their can act as mentors and advisors. families who are experiencing problems with alcohol and/or drugs. Through its dedicated director, Eileen Travis, free confidential help is offered to attorneys, Environmental Law Committee: judges, law students and their families in order to Minority Fellowship Program address the problem, identify the appropriate resources in Environmental Law and begin the recovery process. While minority groups are disproportionately affected by many environmental hazards such as occupational The Library exposure and the proximity of their communities to The Association's collection of legal materials is the hazardous waste sites, few minority lawyers practice most comprehensive of any bar association library in environmental law. The Association’s Committee on the country. The more than 600,000 volumes include Environmental Law and the Environmental Law Section primary source materials comprising case law, statutes of the New York State Bar Association established a and regulations from all federal and state jurisdictions Minority Fellowship in Environmental Law Program in as well as many foreign countries. The Library has the 1992 to encourage minority lawyers to enter the field. nation's most complete collection of New York and The 2002 recipients of the Minority Fellowship in Federal appellate court records and briefs. The Library Environmental Law are LaVonda Collins, a student at also features electronic and on-line services. Albany Law School; Christine Cyriac, a student at Pace University School of Law; Tara Torno, a student at Cardozo Law School; and Daniel Yohannes, a student at Pace University School of Law. 12 LECTURES

The Leslie H. Arps Memorial Lectures focus on The Milton Handler Annual Antitrust Review, that was developments in the legal profession and are dedicated established by Professor Milton Handler, who was a to the memory of Mr. Arps, a founder of Skadden Arps leading authority in antitrust law, is devoted to Slate Meagher & Flom. The most recent Arps Lecture, in developments in this area of law. The most recent 2000, was presented by Hon. Patricia Wald, Judge of Handler Review was delivered in December 2002 by the Court of Appeals for the District of Stephen M. Axinn, Hon. Frank H. Easterbrook, Hon. Columbia Circuit. Timothy J. Muris, R. Hewitt Pate, and moderated by William H. Rooney.

The Benjamin N. Cardozo Lecture was established in 1941 to honor the memory of the jurist Benjamin The Mortimer H. Hess Memorial Lecture focuses on the Cardozo, whose compassionate leadership and law of trusts, estates and taxation, areas in which Mr. commitment to high professional standards have Hess was an acknowledged authority. enhanced the practice of law. The subject areas of the lectures vary from year to year. In 2002, the lecture was presented by the former Chief Justice of India and The Orison S. Marden Memorial Lecture alternately former Chair of the United Nations Human Rights focuses on professional and ethical responsibility in the Committee, P. N. Bhagwati. legal profession and increasing the availability of free legal services to the indigent. The lectures honor Mr. Marden, President of the Association from 1960-62. The Alexis C. Coudert Lecture highlights topics of The most recent Marden Lecture, in 2002, was international law which are of interest to both presented by the Chief Judge of the New York Court of practitioners and scholars. The lectures pay tribute to Appeals, Judith S. Kaye. the late Alexis C. Coudert, who was a partner of Coudert Brothers. The Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women and the Law was created in 2000 to recognize Justice Ginsburg's ground-breaking The Herman Goldman Memorial Lecture deals with the contributions to the advancement of women's rights and development and improvement of the law relating to her achievements as a lawyer, professor and judge. trusts, estates and taxation, subjects in which Mr. The most recent Ginsburg Lecture, in 2002, was Goldman, a member of the Bar for over 60 years, was presented by Lani Guinier, Professor of Law, Harvard keenly interested. The most recent Goldman Lecture, in Law School. May 2000, featured Professors Charles Davenport and Edward McCaffery and was moderated by Hon. James S. Halpern.

Justice Ginsburg and Lani Guinier

13 AWARDS

The Bernard Botein Medal is awarded annually to The Municipal Affairs Awards were established to employees of the courts of the First Judicial Department recognize outstanding achievement as an Assistant “for outstanding contributions to the administration of Corporation Counsel in the New York City Law the courts.” The award is in memory of Bernard Department. The 2002 award winners are: Botein, a former Presiding Justice of the Appellate Division and a former President of the Association. The Lisa Black, General Litigation Division awards are made possible by a grant from the Ruth Lisa Grumet, General Litigation Division and Seymour Klein Foundation, Inc. The 2002 award Matthew Maiorana, Special Litigation Unit, winners are: Tort Division Alexandra Pinilla, Tort Division Noel D. Adler, Director of the Division of Eric Proshansky, Affirmative Litigation Division Information Technology Colleen Bolger, Principal Court Clerk, Supreme Court, New York County The Henry L. Stimson Medal is presented annually to Major Raymond Diaz, Commanding Officer, outstanding Assistant U.S. Attorneys in the Southern Supreme Court, Bronx County District and in the Eastern District of New York. The Daniel J. McDevitt, Senior Administrative Assistant, medal is awarded in honor of Henry L. Stimson, who Appellate Division, First Department served as U.S. Attorney for the Southern District from Frank Pollina, County Clerk Specialist, Supreme 1906-1909 and as President of the Association from Court, New York County 1937-1939. The awards are made possible by the generosity of the firm of Pillsbury Winthrop LLP. The 2002 medal winners are: The Legal Services Awards were established to recognize the efforts of attorneys who are providing Linda A. Lacewell, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern critical civil legal assistance to poor people in New District, Criminal Division York City. The awards are made possible by a grant Charles P. Kelly, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Eastern from the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation. The 2002 District, Civil Division award winners are: David N. Kelley, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern District, Criminal Division Matthew Chachère, Staff Attorney, Northern Neil M. Corwin, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Southern Improvement Corporation District, Civil Division Marshall Green, Attorney-in-Charge,Bronx Neighborhood Office,The Legal Aid Society Lisa Pearlstein, Staff Attorney, Brooklyn Legal The Kathryn McDonald Award is presented annually to Services, Corporation A two lawyers or judges for excellence in service to the Cynthia Schneider, Director, HIV Project,South New York City Family Court. The award is in memory Brooklyn Legal Services of Kathryn McDonald, the former Administrative Judge Jill Zuccardy, Director,Child Protection Project, of the Court. The 2002 award winners are: Sanctuary For Families Kevin C. Fogarty, Professor of Law, St. John's University School of Law and retired Family Court Judge Thomas Curtis, Staff Attorney, The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Division 14 The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc.

Board Officers Board of Directors

President William P. Bowden, Jr. E. Leo Milonas David M. Brodsky Zachary W. Carter Vice Presidents Paul A. Crotty Barbara Berger Opotowsky William J. Dean Carlos Morales George W. Evans Elizabeth S. Stong Jose W. Fernandez Secretary Fern Fisher Frances Milberg Allan L. Gropper L. Priscilla Hall Treasurer Kenneth V. Handal Helaine Barnett Robert M. Kaufman John S. Kiernan Cyrus D. Mehta Abby S. Milstein Jennifer Mone Bettina B. Plevan Barbara Paul Robinson Steven B. Rosenfeld Samuel W. Seymour Warren J. Sinsheimer Pamela M. Sloan George Bundy Smith Jane R. Stern Madeline C. Stoller David W. Weschler

15 City Bar Fund Staff

Maria Imperial, Executive Director CENTER FOR SELF-HELP, INFORMATION, EDUCATION Alice Morey, Managing Attorney AND LEGAL DEFENSE Carol Bockner, Director of Pro Bono Initiatives David Gaffner, Director of SHIELD Hotline Rosemary Griffin, Development Director Judith Flamenbaum, Director of Matrimonial Programs Sunera Taikaram, Development Coordinator Beth Seligman, Staff Attorney Chrissy Okereke, Program Coordinator Rachel Spearman, Paralegal Molly Thomas, Program Coordinator COMMUNITY OUTREACH LAW PROGRAM Andrea Anderson, Thurgood Marshall Fellow Vivienne Duncan, Program Director Laila Maher, Program Director CITYBAR PUBLIC SERVICE NETWORK Suzanne Tomatore, Program Director Katie Neilson, Director Lauris Wren, Program Director TH Henri Gueron, Volunteer Attorney SEPTEMBER 11 LEGAL INITIATIVES Josh Franco, Program Coordinator Akira Arroyo, Equal Justice Works Fellow Magdalena Barbosa, Program Coordinator Kwanza Butler, Staff Attorney Katy Herrmann, Program Coordinator Don Fried, Volunteer Attorney Charlotte Smith, Program Coordinator Yveline Alexis, Program Coordinator Rebecca Velez, Thurgood Marshall Fellow Laura Campbell, Program Coordinator

LAWHELP Anne O'Grady, LawHelp Coordinator

Thanks to Our Volunteers Last year, City Bar Fund volunteers contributed over 30,000 hours of pro bono work to our clients. Their legal expertise and good will help New Yorkers in need transform their lives. The City Bar Fund is deeply grateful for the commitment of our volunteers. We could not do the work we do without their generosity and dedication.

16 Contributions from May 1, 2001 to March 31, 2003

Benefactors ($25,000 +) Peter DeLuca Advocates ($1,000 - $4,999) Dreitzer Foundation Altria Group, Inc. FJC Donor Advised Fund Arthur Abbey Altria Group, Inc. Mary J. Hutchins Foundation M. Bernard Aidinoff Doors of Hope Program New York City Board of Education ABCNY’s Alternative Dispute Equal Justice Works New York Law Journal Resolution Committee Ford Foundation E. John Noble Foundation ABCNY’s Matrimonial Law Committee IOLA S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer JAMS Foundation Family Foundation Animal League Defense Fund Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Spingold Foundation Helaine Barnett Foundation Isaac H. Tuttle Fund Georgette Bennett New York City Department of Youth Donald S. Bernstein and Community Development William P. Bowden, Jr. New York Community Trust Patrick A. Bradford Pfizer Inc. Garth W. Bray David Rockefeller Partners ($5,000 – $9,999) John W. Carr Rhodebeck Charitable Trust Merrell E. Clark, Jr. September 11th Fund David M. Brodsky Cortland County Bar Association Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Michael A. Cardozo Nancy Burnell Coughlin Sullivan & Cromwell Foundation Chase Manhattan Bank Courtroom Television Network LLC USAID Evan A. Davis Paul A. Crotty Diamondston Foundation Mark G. Cunha Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation John D. Feerick ECPAT-USA, Inc. Beatrice S. and Lloyd Frank Goldie-Anna Charitable Trust Margaret M. Grieve Conrad Harper Bryanne A. Hamill Champions ($10,000 - Robert M. Kaufman Wade S. Hooker, Jr. $24,999) Sidney & Judith Kranes Humane Society of the United States Charitable Trust Iowa Defense Counsel Association ABCNY’s Committee on Network of Trial Law Firms, Inc. Iowa State Bar Volunteer Condemnation & Tax Certiorari North Carolina Bar Association Lawyers Project Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Lyn R. Oliensis Katten Muchin Zavis Rosenman Michael A. Cooper Isak & Rose Weinman Robert J. Katz William Nelson Cromwell Stephen R. Kaye Foundation

17 Kaye Scholer LLP Associates ($500 - $999) Robert Todd Lang John S. Kiernan Carmen Lawrence Ruth & Seymour Klein Foundation Teresa M. Andresen Alisa F. Levin Daniel F. Kolb Anonymous Carol & Lance Liebman W. Loeber Landau Reina Barcan Robinson Markel David A. Langner Samuel L. Barkin Harold A. Mayerson James and Nancy Lipscomb John E. Baumgardner, Jr. Thomas A. McGrath George T. Lowy Jeffrey H. Becker Michael H. Margullis Metzger-Price Fund Charles W. Bradley D. Stuart Meiklejohn Frances Milberg Zachary W. Carter Michael Mills Abby Milstein Ernest J. Collazo E. Leo Milonas Carlos M. Morales Stephen D. Cooke Daphna H. Mitchell New York Bar Foundation Richard B. Cooper Thomas H. Moreland Nixon Peabody LLP Ruth Cove Jenny Morgenthau & Office Depot Dammann Fund Eugene Anderson Parsons Family Foundation Alan S. Dunning Robert G. Morvillo Basil Paterson The Eshe Fund Ellen R. Nadler Richard G. Powell Halburton Fales, II New York Women’s Bar Association Richman Group, Inc. Bonnie J. French Orisha Foundation Barbara Paul Robinson Michael & Barbara Gerrard Eric Osterweil Sidney S. Rosdeitcher Harvey J. Goldschmid Gregory M. Owens Scott County Bar Association Michael J. Granoff Laura Palma Felice K. Shea Allan L. Gropper Mark H. Palermo Warren J. Sinsheimer Peter & Helen Haje William B. Pollard, III Elizabeth Snow Stong Kenneth V. Handal Mary Jean Potenzone Aidan Synnott John D. Harkrider Yvonne S. Quinn Patricia H. Trainor Jack S. Hoffinger Quinnipiac University School of Law’s Criminal Law Society Verizon Foundation Robert Hubbard Marc Rauch White & Case Morton L. Janklow Kathy H. Rocklen Eric Cooke Woglom Akimitsu Kamori Timothy G. Rogers Charlotte & Arthur Zitrin Foundation Curtis B. Kellar Susan F. Scharf & Steve Larry Ross Nancy Kilson William J. Schrenk, Jr. Susan J. Kohlmann David A. Schulz Thomas E. Kruger

18 Samuel W. Seymour Jeffrey B. Gracer Alan Rothstein Steven Eric Shiffman Huyler C. Held Seth Rubenstein Carina Sinclair Alice H. Henkin Catherine Samuels Milton D. Solomon Margaret M. Hill Brian L. Schorr Eric J. Stapper Judith Jacobson & Daniel Lavin Mark J. Shapiro Jane Stern Barbara Kapnick David V. Smalley Solon E. Summerfield Foundation Rhoda Karpatkin Lynn H. Strudler Lucia D. Swanson Robert & Luise Kleinberg John W. Sullivan Governor Tipton Boris Kostelanetz Avrom S. Waxman Judith P.Vladeck Victor A. Kovner William Weisner Ira T. Wender Joan F. Krey Robert C. Weisz William F. Kuntz Steven White Susan B. Lindenauer James H. R. Windels Nancy M. Louden Merrie Faye Witkin Lawrence A. Mandelker Christopher L. Mann Friends ($250 – $499) Cyrus D. Mehta Robert H. Mundheim Roland R. Acevedo National Employee Rights Institute Gerald Aksen National Employment Lawyers’ Mark H. Alcott Association Jeffrey A. Barist Barbara Berger Opotowsky Alan G. Brenner Barbara E. Otten Debra Buell Peter L. Parcher Patricia Crown Robert M. Pennoyer William J. Dean Kenneth & Bettina Plevan Robert J. Egan Sara S. Portnoy The Feinberg Group, LLP Bruce J. Prager Jose Fernandez Steven Ramsey Hart Fessenden Stanley R. Resor Eric M. Freedman R. Bruce & Melissa Saxe Rich Laly & George Gallantz David W. Rivkin Helene G. Goldberger Edmund P. Rogers, III Elizabeth K. Goldman Orin Root Bill & Emily Gottleib Steven B. Rosenfeld

19 Law Firms Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Pillsbury Winthrop LLP Anderson Kill & Olick, P.C. Proskauer Rose LLP Arnold & Porter Shearman & Sterling Baker & McKenzie Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Chadbourne & Parke LLP Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Clifford Chance US LLP Torys LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz Davis & Gilbert LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Davis Polk & Wardwell Willkie Farr & Gallagher Debevoise & Plimpton Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. Goodwin Procter LLP

Hogan & Hartson L.L.P. Corporations Holland & Knight LLP Hunton & Williams LLP Altria Group, Inc. Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan, LLP Credit Suisse First Boston Kasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLP GE Foundation Kaye Scholer LLP JAMS Foundation Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Merrill Lynch & Co., Inc. Kirkland & Ellis Morgan Stanley Kirkpatrick & Lockhart LLP New York Law Journal Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Pfizer Inc. Kronish Lieb Weiner & Hellman LLP The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Latham & Watkins LLP Mendes & Mount, LLP Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Lerach LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason & Silberberg, P.C. O’Melveny & Myers LLP Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP

20 Income Expenses

Government 6%

Law Firms & Corporations Committee Projects 33% & Library Association & 29% Membership Support 35% Fundraising 9% Administrative 8%

Community Outreach, SHIELD, Public Service Network & Foundations & Trusts September 11 Legal Initiative 26% 63%

The Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. is a tax-exempt corporation organized under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All contributions to the City Bar Fund are tax-deductible to the fullest extent allowed by law. The City Bar Fund relies on contributions from individuals, foundations, corporations, and law firms to carry out its public service work. To learn more about giving opportunities at the City Bar Fund, please contact Rosemary Griffin at (212) 382-6754.

21 Statement of Activities Year Ended April 30, 2002

Temporarily Permanently Total Unrestricted Restricted Restricted All Funds Funds Funds Funds

Revenues and other support: Contributions and grants $ 279,421 $ 1,612,339 $ - $ 1,891,760 Investment losses (571,385) (210,747) - (782,132) Other income 164 51,250 - 51,414

Total revenues and other support before net assets released from restrictions (291,800) 1,452,842 - 1,161,042

Net assets released from restrictions: Satisfaction of program restrictions: Education and research 558,834 (558,834) - - Community outreach and services 891,019 (891,019) - -

Total net assets released from restrictions 1,449,853 (1,449,853) - -

Total revenues and other support 1,158,053 2,989 - 1,161,042

Expenses: Program activities: Education and research 558,834 - - 558,834 Community outreach and services 1,227,132 - - 1,227,132 Fund-raising 94,139 - - 94,139 General and administrative 77,919 - - 77,919

Total expenses 1,958,024 - - 1,958,024

Change in net assets (799,971) 2,989 - (796,982) Net assets - beginning of year 4,121,133 1,436,863 702,101 6,260,097

Net assets - end of year $ 3,321,162 $ 1,439,852 $ 702,101 $ 5,463,115

22 Balance Sheet as of April 30, 2002

Assets Cash and cash equivalents $ 816,743 Investments 4,513,745 Accounts receivable and other current assets 172,024 Property and equipment 64,763

Total assets $ 5,567,275

Liabilities and Net Assets Liabilities: Accounts payable and accrued expenses $ 104,160

Net assets: Unrestricted $ 3,321,162 Temporarily restricted 1,439,852 Permanently restricted 702,101

Total net assets 5,463,115

Total Liabilities and Net Assets $ 5,567,275

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