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Davis Polk & Wardwell llP davispolk.com Brooklyn Legal Services BENEFIT COMMITTEE Corporation A annual partnership awards benefit

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WELCOME martin s. needelman Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

paul j. acinapura Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

POSTHUMOUSLY RECOGNIZING richard wagner Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A

WELCOME FROM MASTER OF CEREMONIES Daily News

REMARKS FROM KEYNOTE SPEAKER hon. judith s. kaye Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

7:20 pm award presentations

HONOREES john d. feerick School of Law THE DENIS BERGER MEMORIAL AWARD Presented by alice berger eileen auld Citi father john powis Bushwick Housing Independence Project

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PRO-BONO RECOGNITION valarie a. hing, Board Chair AND CLOSING REMARKS Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP

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1 Henry Baer UNDERWRITER $25,000 NON-PROFIT PARTNER $500 BENEFITBENEFIT COMMITTEE Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Citi Bedford Stuyvesant & Flom LLP & Affiliates COMMITTEE Skadden, Arps, Slate, Family Health Center Fran Barrett Community Resource Exchange Meagher & Flom LLP Brownsville Community & Affiliates Development Corporation Wayne Barrett Village Voice Cypress Hills Local

John M. Callagy PARTNER $15,000 Development Make the Kelley, Drye & Warren LLP Road NY Davis Polk & Peter A. Cross Trey Whitfield School Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan LLP Wardwell LLP Urban Health Plan Evan A. Davis Debevoise & Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Plimpton LLP Matthew E. Fishbein CONTRIBUTOR Debevoise & Plimpton LLP ASSOCIATE $10,000 Robert L. Begleiter Caroline Forte Pfizer Con Edison William Frank DIME Amy and Mike Caplan Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates Kelley, Drye & Steve Cohn Warren LLP Marilyn Gelber Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Brooklyn Community Foundation M&T Charitable Trust Colt & Mosle LLP Valarie A. Hing Pfizer Corporation Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP ELM Fundraising Robert M. Kaufman PATRON $5,000 Proskauer Rose LLP Douglas Giles Grace Lyu-Volckausen Cleary Gottlieb Steen Ruth Nathanson Tiger Baron Foundation & Hamilton LLP National Grid Kenneth J. Mahon Deutsche Bank Sara C. Norris Dime Community Bancshares Patterson Belknap Vincent Pitta Edward Odom Webb & Tyler LLP Citi Eric G. Poulos Bettina and Kenneth Vincent F. Pitta Rose-Belkin-García- Plevan Pitta & Giblin LLC Rosen family Bettina Plevan Proskauer Rose LLP Cye Ross ADVOCATE $3,500 Robert Safron Kennedy Rivera Jacob, Medinger & Bushwick Housing Independance Project Andrew Scherer Finnegan LLP Saul Shapiro Sidley Austin Brown & Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Wood LLP Robert Sheehan FRIEND $1,250 Tom Souther Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher Breger Bermel & Flom LLP & Affiliates Thomson Strategies Fordham University Thomas McC. Souther Joan Wexler Sidley Austen Brown & Wood LLP School of Law Mollie and David Zalman Terri Thomson Lankler, Siffert & Thomson Strategies Wohl, LLP Zalman and Schnurman Dean William Treanor Zwerling, Schachter & Fordham University School of Law Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A Zwerling LLP 2 list as of November 13th Valarie A. Hing, our mission BENEFIT COMMITTEE BOARD OF Chair DIRECTORS James H.R. Windels, Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation Vice Chair A’s purpose and goal is to provide high- Thomas McC. Souther, quality legal assistance to low-income Treasurer individuals and community groups in North and East Brooklyn. Robert E. Crotty, Secretary Our work prevents homelessness, helps Jane N. Barrett people-in-need receive the benefits Arthur V. Bates, they are entitled to, assures that families Emeritus remain whole, and helps communities Musa Abdul-Basser thrive and grow. This work, and our Robert L. Begleiter success with it, makes Brooklyn A unique Matthew Fishbein and exceptional in its ability to improve Harold Green the quality of life and promote empowerment within the many and Harvey Lawrence diverse communities we serve. Joseph Lipofsky Frances Lucerna Your generosity will allow Brooklyn A Rev. Peter A. Mahoney, and our grassroots partners to help many Emeritus more struggling Brooklyn residents build Moronke Oshin-Martin a brighter future. Thanks to your support, Anne Pilsbury Brooklyn families and organizations taking a stand for social and economic Saul B. Shapiro justice will have committed Brooklyn A A.B. Whitfield attorneys by their side.

Martin S. Needelman Project Director & Chief Counsel Paul J. Acinapura General Counsel

williamsburg office Eric Sieskel Joseph Sanders Administrative Assistant Staff Attorney Jennifer Ahn BENEFIT COMMITTEE STAFF LIST Volunteer Attorney Victor M. Torres* Robert Sheehan Unit Director Legal Assistant Susan Barrie Senior Staff Attorney Mollie Zalman* Gustavo Benchimol Director of Development William Freiberg Antonia Cepeda Rafael Vasquez Maintenance Worker Deborah Diamant Externs Josh Mabray Julie R. Chartoff Kahlil Winslow Senior Staff Attorney Externs bushwick office Zamara Edwards Intake Officer/Receptionist east brooklyn office David J. Bryan Managing Attorney Robyn D. Fisher Paul J. Acinapura* Vance Gathing Senior Staff Attorney General Counsel Staff Attorney Joshua D. Hoffman* Alma Brown Joe Pacheco Director, Finance & Senior Legal Assistant Administration Senior Legal Assistant Milta Calderon Migdalia Ruiz Joanne Koslofsky Intake Officer/Process Server Senior Staff Attorney Executive Secretary Djinsad Desir Shekar Krishnan Extern Deferred Associate, Weil Gotshal and Manges LLP Sarah Escobar Executive Secretary benefit staff Farns Lafaitey Mollie Zalman Senior Legal Assistant Lauren T. Fouda Staff Attorney Director of Development Liz MacNeill* Liz MacNeill Senior Development Consultant Mike Haber Senior Staff Attorney Senior Development Consultant Roberto Marrero Gertrude Houston Senior Staff Attorney Terry Herman Senior Staff Attorney Film Procution Batya Miller* Ingrid Bromberg Kennedy Pro Bono Coordinator Rose M. Morgan Senior Staff Attorney Journal and Invitation Design Patricia Murray Todd Plitt Senior Staff Attorney Leander E. McRae* Unit Director Photogaphy Martin S. Needelman* Project Director & Chief Counsel Rafael Martinez Senior Staff Attorney * program wide Maria M. Posner* Office Manager Nicole Prenoveau Staff Attorney Roberto Reyes Investigator/Process Server Jessica Rose Unit Director Ester Schwartz Intake Officer/Receptionist Myrna Sanabria Senior Legal Assistant

brooklyn legal services corporation a 4 honorary co-chairs Steven Flax Barry H. Garfinkel M & T Bank BENEFITADVISORY COMMITTEE Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Caroline E. Forte COMMITTEE Henry L. King Pfizer Global Manufacturing Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Joseph E. Geoghan Robert MacCrate Stephen L. Gordo Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP Sargent Shriver Michael Gugig Special Olympics, Inc. Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP Gary S. Hattem Haywood Burns Deutsche Bank 1940-1996 Jean G. Leon Kings County Hospitals Corporation Paul J. Curran 1933-2008 Brendan J. Dugan St. Francis College Charles E. Inniss Kenneth J. Mahon 1935-1997 Dime Savings Bank of Williamsburgh Hon. Harold R. Tyler, Jr. Sam Marks 1921-2005 Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation William A. Volckhausen William Mastro 1937-2001 Emblem Health Edward Odom Citi Jason Otano Peter A. Cross, Co-Chair Brooklyn Borough President’s Office Jacob Medinger & Finnegan LLP Vincent F. Pitta Nelson Perez, Co-Chair Pitta & Giblin LLP Con Edison Bettina B. Plevan Alvin Adelman Proskauer Rose LLP Cullen and Dykman LLP Mariadele Priest Henry P. Baer Capital One Bank Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Patricia Ricketts Maureen Bateman Robert Sheehan Manhattanville College Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Eileen Berkman Leslie B. Samuels JP Morgan Chase & Co. Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP Carlos Cabrales Terri Thomson Bank Leumi Thomson Strategies Evan A. Davis Dean William Treanor Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Fordham University School of Law Thomas Early Grace Lyu Volckhausen Health Plus Tiger Baron Foundation Randy Estrada Joseph Wayland TD Bank Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

annual partnership awards benefit 5 BENEFITHONOREE COMMITTEE john d. feerick

John D. Feerick is currently the Sidney C. Norris Chair of Law in Pub- lic Service at Fordham University School of Law and is the Director and Founder of the Feerick Center for Federal Justice at the law school. Mr. Feerick previously served as the Dean of the law school from 1982 to 2002. Before coming to Fordham, Mr. Feerick was a partner at the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom (1961-1982), where he headed the labor and employment practice. He was the chair of the Board of Directors of the American Arbitration Association from 1998 to 2001. Mr. Feerick has served as both an arbitrator and media- tor of difficult disputes in both the public and private sectors. Throughout his career, Mr. Feerick has remained committed to public service and has served in a number of public capacities. He served as a member of the New York State Law Revision Commission (1982-1987) and as one of ’s two representatives to the New York City Office of Collective Bargaining (1980-1987). From 1987 to 1990, he chaired the New York State Commission on Government Integrity, a commission whose task is to investigate systemic corruption and make recommendations for reform. Throughout his career, Mr. Feerick That role carried the additional title of has remained committed to public State Special Deputy Attorney General. service and has served in a number Mr. Feerick also served as President of of public capacities. the Association of the Bar of of New York (1992-1994), Chair of the New York State Committee to Review Audio-Visual Coverage of Court Proceedings (1996-1997), President of the Citizen’s Union Foundation (1987-1999), Chair of the Fund for Modern Courts (1995-1999), Chair of the New York State Commission to Promote Public Confidence in the Judiciary (2003-2004), Chair of the New York State Ethics Commission (2007), and Chair of the New York State Commis- sion on Public Integrity (2007-2009). He was a member of the New York State Committee to Promote Public Trust and Confidence in the Legal System and he served as a member of the New York State Continuing Board (1998-2002). He served as a mem-

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ber of the Special Master Panel on Family Homelessness in New York City and as a referee in the Campaign for Fiscal Equity, Inc. v The State of New York school-funding case. Mr. Feerick’s publications include: “From Failing Hands: The Story of Presidential Succession” (1965), “The Twenty Fifth Amendment,” which was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize (1976 & 1992 ed.), “The Vice Presidents of the United States,” (co-au- thored with Emalie P. Feerick, 1967), and “NLRB Representation Elections-Law, Prac- tice & Procedure,” (co-authored with Henry P. Baer and Jonathan P. Arfa, 1979-1980). Mr. Feerick is a graduate of Fordham College (B.S.), and he received his LL.B. from the Fordham University School of Law, where he was Editor-in-Chief of the law review. Mr. Feerick has been the recipient of various awards and honorary degrees.

This year’s Attorney Honoree, John Feerick, will receive the Denis Berger Memorial Award. Denis was our long term Director of Development and played a critical role in expanding and sustaining Brooklyn A’s capacity to fulfill its Mission. He was also a pillar of the labor and progressive community.

annual partnership awards benefit 7 BENEFITHONOREE COMMITTEE eileen a. auld

Eileen A. Auld joined Citi in October 2003. In July 2007, Eileen as- sumed the position of New York State Director for Community Re- lations for Citi’s Global Consumer Group serving as the point person for all franchise wide community relations activity within the State of New York. In this position, Eileen works closely with Citi’s businesses to leverage Citi’s financial and human capital in addressing communi- ty needs. Presently, Eileen serves as the Vice Chair of the Long Island City Business Improvement District, Treasurer of the New York City Police Department’s Police Management Institute, a board member of the Flushing Willets Point Corona LDC, the Neighborhood Op- portunities Fund and the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development Community Action Board. Eileen was appointed by Mayor Bloomberg to the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs’ Office of Financial Empowerment Advisory Council. Prior to this position, Eileen served as Citibank’s Director of National Initiatives and Community Programs. In this capacity, she formulated strategies and executed national community programs for Citibank. Eileen works closely with Citi’s Eileen began her career at Citibank as the businesses to leverage Citi’s Director of Community Relations for . financial and human capital in She was responsible for working with local addressing community needs and national staff to establish Citibank’s lead- ership role in the community. She worked closely with many non-profit organizations in the Borough of Queens serving on the boards of the Queens Library Foundation, the L.I.C. Business Development Corporation, the L.I.C. Business Improvement Dis- trict, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Ocean Bay Community Develop- ment Corporation and a member of the Greater Jamaica Development Corporation Prior to joining Citibank, Eileen was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Commu- nity Affairs of the New York City Police Department in January 1998. Serving under Commissioners Safir, Kerik and Kelly, Eileen managed Police Department resources

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and personnel to oversee programs to meet community needs. After the events of 9/11, Eileen assisted in the Police Department’s coordination of service delivery at the Family Assistance Center and the Javits Center after Flight 587. Eileen began her career in government at Community Board 2 as the Assistant District Manager before accepting a position at the Queens Borough President’s Office in 1990. Eileen was an assistant to Borough President Claire Shulman and the Chair- person of the Queens Task Force to Eliminate Graffiti. As the borough’s Deputy Direc- tor of Economic Development she implemented programs to retain, attract and grow businesses in the borough. Eileen is a life long resident of Queens. She graduated with Honors from Queens College with a B.A. in Urban Studies. She is a graduate of Business School, Police Management Institute. Eileen and her husband Tom reside in Forest Hills, have four daughters; Eileen Anne, Therese, Danielle, and Jacqueline, three sons through marriage, Deeran, Sean, and Lenny, and six grandchildren, Andrew, Alanna, Arden, Alyse, Ellery, and Gwendolyn.

annual partnership awards benefit 9 BENEFITHONOREE COMMITTEE father john powis

Rebel With a Cause: Brooklyn Priest Father John Powis By Tom Robbins On the last day of May, Pentecost Sunday, 300 people filling the pews of Our Lady of Presentation Church in Brownsville, Brooklyn, rose to applaud one of their own. Father John Powis, 75, is a monsignor and, as such, rates deep respect. But the applause had nothing to do with rank, and everything to do with honoring his 50 years of creative and Christly troublemaking since taking his vows in 1959. Powis, wearing a bright red vestment, nodded and smiled in response. It was the same smile he wears in Housing Court when he hopes that the sight of a clerical collar under his flannel shirt might induce a judge to grant someone a stay of eviction. It was the same smile he turns on city inspectors when asking them to please just climb one more flight to see the really ter- rible conditions endured by the tenant on the top floor. He uses the smile as Reprinted from well to great effect on the foundations asked to fund his tiny advocacy group in the rectory the Village Voice, at St. Barbara’s Church in Bushwick, where the poorest of the poor walk in unannounced all day with tangled tales of woe. June 9, 2009 He spent 16 years at St. Barbara’s, That has been his idea of retirement presiding over one of the city’s since he stepped down five years ago as Thank you poorest parishes. So many were eager pastor of St. Barbara’s, the majestic twin- Tom Robbins to attend Mass that they spilled out spired church on Central Avenue. He into the street on Sundays spent 16 years there, presiding over one of the city’s poorest parishes. So many were eager to attend Mass that they spilled out into the street on Sundays. Before that, he put in a couple of years at St. Sylvester’s in the City Line neighborhood on Brooklyn’s eastern border, where he was raised, one of 10 brothers and sis- ters. And before that, he spent 25 years—a full career for most—presiding at Presentation, nestled at the junction of Rockaway and St. Marks avenues, where the trees stop on Eastern Parkway and pure inner city reality begins. “This will always be my spiritual home,” he told the congregation on Sunday. He first walked these streets as a teenage altar boy, dispatched on Saturday afternoons to nearby

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Hopkinson Avenue to pick up bread for the Eucharist. “It struck me how I was the only white person around and yet people treated me very nicely.” Later, when he decided to become a priest, his idea was to head South, where the civil rights movement was stirring. An influential seminary teacher persuaded him that he could serve the same people right in Brooklyn. “They are coming up here in droves,” he was told. He took his initial training in the Fort Greene housing projects, assisting an order of nuns devoted to the poor. “It was the best school you could ever go to,” he said. “We knocked on every door, Catholic and otherwise. Everyone knew us.” The training was supplemented by visits to Puerto Rico and Mexico, where he studied Spanish under Ivan Illich, the brilliant Catholic philosopher. “He refused to teach us the language unless we also learned the culture,” said Powis. To earn pocket money, and because he loved the game, he worked the stands at Ebbets Field, selling hot dogs and beer as the Dodgers played their final Brooklyn seasons. In his

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sermon, he offered a small confession: “Sometimes the hot dogs were in the water so long they changed color. They told us to put a lot of mustard on them, which I did.” He arrived at Presentation in 1963, a time when many whites, fearful of the blacks and Hispanics moving in, decided they His thinking was that the church would rather be someplace else. Powis should nourish body as well as spirit. led his own small reverse migration. Parishioners complained of few He never learned to drive a car. jobs, bad housing, and overcrowded Who needed one? He walked or rode schools, and he sought to bring his the bus. “In the middle of the night, the pulpit into the streets. police stopped me. They said, ‘Father, are you crazy? Why are you wandering around out here alone?’ I told them I had to visit a sick parishioner. They wanted to give me a ride home. I said, ‘No thank you.’ “ His thinking was that the church should nourish body as well as spirit. Parishioners complained of few jobs, bad housing, and overcrowded schools, and he sought to bring his pulpit into the streets. He helped persuade the city to let some of Brownsville’s children ride buses to attend under-utilized schools in white neighborhoods. “It was a disaster,” he said. “They threw eggs and to- matoes at us. They crowded all our kids into one room on a separate floor.” He and others urged an alternative on city officials. “We said, ‘Let us run our own schools.’ We wanted African-American and Hispanic principals. They would always pass the written test and then fail the oral interviews. We needed some people who understood the children. Well, we got Afri- can-American and Hispanic principals.” Here, the congregation at Presenta- tion interrupted him with applause. This became the Ocean Hill-Brownsville school district, a hopeful opportunity that quickly devolved into a bitter teachers’ union strike and a white-black split that echoes to this day. “It could have been something wonderful,” he says of it now. “But the teachers fought us from the moment it started. Once they turned on us, some of the parents also became too radical in response.” Among the radicals was a trio who arrived at Presentation one evening asking Powis to write a letter for a job-seeking relative just out of jail. “I look up and they have three .45 automatics pointed at me.” He was ordered to

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open the church safe with its $1,800 in bingo money. “Twice I couldn’t open it. One of them says, ‘We usually just blow the heads off white men.’ “ The safe finally complied. Powis was gagged, hooded, and locked in a bathroom. When the police arrived, they showed him pictures of likely suspects. He recognized one of the robbers. It was Black Liberation Army leader JoAnne Chesimard, a/k/a Assata Shakur. “I didn’t know her, but I had heard that a few weeks before she and others had robbed and killed a white real estate broker on Howard Avenue. I guess I was lucky.” The priest whose life the radicals spared continued his mission. When federal job training funds arrived in the mid-’70s, he helped local residents renovate five buildings on Pacific Street. A few years later, organizers from the Saul Alinsky–inspired Indus- trial Areas Foundation were invited into the neighborhood. Powis helped found what eventually became East Brooklyn Congregations. Leaders hatched plans for hundreds of one-family, low-cost homes to be built on East Brooklyn’s vacant, rubble-strewn tracts. They would be sold to those trapped “They say that I was what they call in public housing, unable to afford an activist priest. Well, maybe I was. homes of their own. Through con- I don’t complain and I’ve had a frontation and cajoling, the group won wonderful 50 years.” over Mayor Ed Koch to the program, dubbed Nehemiah, after the prophet who rebuilt Jerusalem. “We have 4,000 beautiful little homes now, right here in Brooklyn and the South Bronx,” Powis told the congregation. “We have five foreclosures. People all over are being foreclosed because they paid too high a price. We have five. Nehemiah could work all over this country.” He finished his sermon the way he had begun it. “This will always be my home,” he said as the wheezing of bus brakes was heard through the open windows. “I ride that 60 Wilson Avenue bus every day. I always think as I go by here that people should know that this is a place that is interested in my life, not just in my spirit. “They say that I was what they call an activist priest. Well, maybe I was. I don’t complain and I’ve had a wonderful 50 years.” He closed with a prayer, asking to make the world a place of peace and justice. Then he walked slowly up the aisle in his red vest- ment, smiling and with his head bent forward.

annual partnership awards benefit 13 POSTHUMOUSLYBENEFIT COMMITTEE RECOGNIZING richard wagner

Rick Wagner came to Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (Brooklyn A) as the Director of Litigation in 1985. He came fully formed as the Rick Wagner that everyone at BKA knew, and some- times, loved, with a quick wit, a liberal fire in his belly, a sharp legal mind and an undying love for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Rick Wagner was born in Brooklyn and grew up in the Five Towns region of Long Island. After graduating from college, he worked as a New York City cab driver and a journalist for NBC before finding his career in the law at William M. Kunstler’s Center for Constitutional Rights, where he worked on a successful appeal in the Chicago 8 trial. After choosing a career in the law, he graduated from New York Law School and was a partner at Stolar, Alterman, Wagner & Boop before coming to Brooklyn A in 1985. His career at Brooklyn A was marked by groundbreaking legal work in the areas of housing and foreclosure. He pioneered the use of civil RICO against landlords who transmitted false representations of repairs to the federal government. These cases resulted in excellent outcomes for tenants, including some who came to own their buildings. He was an early pioneer in the area of foreclosure, bringing affirmative cases against lenders, mortgage brokers and flippers years before foreclosure was on the national radar. As a result of his work, state courts in Brooklyn recently recognized (reluctantly) the age old legal truth that mortgages based on deeds procured by fraud are in fact void. Rick’s death on September 20, 2009 was a shock to everyone at BKA. His death leaves a wound in our hearts and our organization that can only be healed by carrying on the groundbreaking legal work for the economically underprivileged that is Rick’s legacy. – Joe Sanders

brooklyn legal services corporation a 14 BENEFIT COMMITTEE A Voice for the Poor Is Silenced By Michael Powell

BROOKLYN LEGAL SERVICES CORPORATION A’S RICK WAGNER DIED AT AGE 65. Rick Wagner, a legal services lawyer, died at home Monday, apparently of a heart attack, bringing to a sudden end a lifetime of service to the poorest New Yorkers. Mr. Wagner’s passing represents a loss for those who live in the precincts of East New York and Brownsville, Brooklyn, and faint hope for the goniffs — Yiddish for scoundrels and Mr. Wagner’s favorite insult — whom he pursued to the end of the world or the New York City line, whichever came first. Round-bellied and bearded, Mr. Wagner, who was 65, grew up in the Five Towns region of Long Island and served as litigation director for Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A in East New York. Settling in an abandoned bank branch, he commandeered the former president’s office as his lair, and his legal files piled as high as floodwater sandbags around his desk. He rescued a portrait of George Washington from a garbage pile and gave it an honored place on the , explain- ing that the bewigged fellow was “the first revolutionary.” An inventive lawyer who took himself not too seriously, he possessed a Ph.D. in sardonic insult and aphorism. Confronting a dim-witted prosecutor, he inquired if the lawyer needed a GPS device to find his backside. Of a particularly exotic form of mortgage fraud, he noted with just a touch of admiration that “larceny is the mother of invention.” Alas, much of Mr. Wagner’s most inventive, not to mention joyful, verbal handiwork remains unprintable in . Except to take a breath, he rarely stopped talking. He once asked this reporter to quote one of his younger colleagues, who had labored hard on a particular case. His request was difficult to honor as Mr. Wagner rattled on for most of the inter- Reprinted from view and kept everyone, including his client, laughing. the New York Mr. Wagner was of a generation that viewed radical social change as challenge Times, September and obligation, not to mention worth a chuckle. After graduating from New York 22, 2009 Law School, he found a home in William M. Kunstler’s radical nest, the Center for Constitutional Rights, before founding his own left-wing firm. “We were go- ing to be a progressive legal collective, but our political standards lowered as our fees increased,” he told City Limits magazine a decade back. “It’s hard to say no to a heroin dealer who drops 75 grand on your desk.” Nonetheless, Mr. Wagner took a pay cut and left to work for legal services in

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1985. With a colleague, Jim Provost, he pioneered the use of civil racketeering laws in East New York. Their first targets were the landlords of a large develop- ment who certified every month to HUD that their decrepit federally subsidized apartments were in decent and sanitary condition. Because the owners sent these transparently fraudulent certifications more than once through the mail, and de- posited the federal subsidies into their bank accounts, the legal services lawyers argued that the landlords fit the federal definition of racketeers. That meant the owners could be sued for triple damages. The landlords experienced a come to God moment and turned the deed over to the tenants in 1995. Of late, Mr. Wagner reasoned that the Federal Reserve and Treasury were do- ing a splendid job of looking out for the bankers, so he took up the legal cudgel to protect impoverished homeowners from foreclosure. He and a colleague con- vinced the F.D.I.C. to substantially write down a mortgage for an elderly client, he waged a decade-long civil battle against a particularly unrepentant house flipper, and grew so frustrated with the inaction of the Brooklyn district attorney in com- bating mortgage fraud that he took to traveling around Brooklyn on weekends, showing up at forums to challenge prosecutors. One Saturday last winter, he cornered a wincing deputy prosecutor before a crowd in a church basement in Flatlands. “Most of the con artists perpetrating frauds continue to have a better chance of being kidnapped by Somali pirates than of being prosecuted by your office,” Mr. Wagner noted to hoots of applause. Weeks later, the district attorney, Charles J. Hynes, announced with some fan- fare the arrest of a low-level ring of swindlers, not least a man who had imperson- ated his own mother. Mr. Wagner was not overly impressed. “Here’s your headline,” Mr. Wagner said. “ ‘D.A. Accuses Man of Not Being His Own Mother: Charles Hynes is guardedly optimistic that the gynecological evidence will sustain his accusation.’ ” We reporters are not supposed to draw too close to our sources, which is a good rule of thumb. But that cannot inoculate against respect, or a good laugh. Mr. Wagner summoned both. He probably could have made a golden pile in criminal or corporate law. He chose a different path.

brooklyn legal services corporation a 16 BENEFITMASTER COMMITTEE OF CEREMONIES errol louis

Errol T. Louis has been a columnist of the since June 2004, writing on a wide range of political and social affairs. Mr. Louis is a member of the Daily News editorial board. Mr. Louis is also host of the Morning Show on radio station AM 1600 WWRL, one of the city’s liveliest political talk shows, from 6 am to 9 am every weekday. He was recently named one of the “Heavy 100,” the top talk show hosts in America, by Talkers Magazine, the bible of the news/ industry. A wide variety of authors, intellectuals, experts and public officials regularly appear on the show, which is fast becoming required listening for New York’s political, cultural and business leaders. Recent guests include Gov. David Paterson, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, former President Jimmy Carter, Schools Chancellor Joel Klein, filmmaker Michael Moore, TV personalities Tavis Smiley, Bryant Gumbel and Phil Donahue, and author Cornel West. In addition to his newspaper and Host of the Morning Show, one of radio work, Mr. Louis made more than the city’s liveliest political talk shows. 100 appearances as a CNN He was recently named one of the Contributor during the 2008 election “Heavy 100,” the top talk show hosts season, providing expert commentary at in America. key points throughout the presidential elections, including the Iowa Caucuses, South Carolina primaries, Election Night and the Inauguration. He also appears frequently on local CBS and ABC news, and has served as moderator for televised debates for New York City Mayor, New York State Attorney General, Congress and City Council. Mr. Louis holds degrees from Harvard, Yale and Brooklyn Law School. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Juanita Scarlett and their son, Noah Louis.

annual partnership awards benefit 17 BENEFITKEYNOTE COMMITTEE SPEAKER hon. judith s. kaye

Judge Kaye was born and raised in Monticello, New York. She received her B.A. from Barnard College and her LL.B. degree from School of Law in 1962, graduating cum laude. Immediately following law school, she entered private commercial practice at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York City (1962 – 1964). From 1965 to 1969 (“the pregnancy years”) she was part-time assistant to Dean Russell Niles of New York University School of Law. In 1969, she joined Olwine, Connelly, Chase, O’Donnell & Weyher as a Litigation Associate (beginning on a part-time basis, with three young children), and was later named a Partner, in this mid-size New York city commercial law firm, where she remained until 1983. That year, she was appointed by Governor Mario M. Cuomo to the high court of the State of New York, the Court of Appeals, becoming the first women to occupy that post. In 1993, Governor Cuomo appointed her Chief Judge of the State of New York, the first woman to occupy that post, which added administrative/executive responsibility for the state courts to her judicial role. The only New York Chief Judge ever to complete a full 14-year term, Judge Kaye was re-appointed by Governor Elliot Spitzer in 2007, to a term that ended December 31, 2008, because of the state’s mandatory retirement provisions. She is New York’s longest serving Chief Judge. Judge Kaye has led countless projects to make the New York court system more efficient and responsive to the needs of all residents. Noteworthy initiatives include reform of the jury system; creating problem-solving courts (such as drug and family treatment courts, domestic violence courts, mental health courts and community courts); implementing a Commercial Division of specialized commercial courts for cost-effective resolution of business disputes; establishing a statewide network

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of child-care centers for litigants in courthouses; and streamlining procedures for children in foster care and their families. She has lectured widely throughout New York State as well as the country, and is the author of numerous publications. Her most noted articles deal particularly with legal process, women in the law, state constitutional law, professional ethics and problem-solving courts. She has also received many honors and awards. Today, Judge Kaye is Of Counsel to the firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP in New York City. She chairs the Permanent Judicial Commission on Justice for Judge Kaye has led countless projects Children. She is a Board Member to make the New York court system of Lincoln Center, the American more efficient and responsive to the Arbitration Association, the needs of all residents. Dwight D. Opperman Institute of Judicial Administration at New York University Law School, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, the Museum of Jewish Heritage and Volunteers of Legal Services. She is a member of the National Jury Center Advisory Committee, as well as the Children At Risk Commission, of the American Bar Association; and a member of the American Law Institute, American College of Trial Lawyers, New York State Bar Association, New York City Bar Association, Women’s Bar Association of the State of New York and National Association of Women Judges.

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a brief history: Brooklyn Legal Services Corporation A (“Brooklyn A”) was established in 1968 in response to a national campaign during President Lyndon Johnson’s War on Poverty to make legal services readily available to those who cannot afford to represent themselves. Brooklyn A has maintained its mission of offering civil legal services from within the community it serves, which encompasses the North and East Brooklyn area. We are one of the few legal services organizations in the country to develop and sustain a program to represent community-based organizations in low- income neighborhoods who do we serve? The neighborhoods we serve have a combined population of over 800,0000 people and are some of the most disadvantaged in the nation with roughly 42% of the households living below the federal poverty level. This past year alone, Brooklyn A represented over 17,000 individuals and 1,114 families. Our staff, Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, and community partners work together to make sure that our This past year alone, Brooklyn A representation helps dramatically represented over 17,000 individuals enhance the quality of life for our clients. and 1,114 families. We do this through the representation of low-income individuals and families in a multitude of legal venues and through rehabilitated housing, the empowerment of tenants, the expansion of health and dental care, the provision of childcare services, the development of community centers and nursing homes, and the creation of minority and community–owned businesses and jobs within the diverse communities we serve.

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what are our practice areas? We focus on the following practice areas: Anti-Predatory Lending/Foreclosure Defense, Community and Economic Development, Preservation of Low-Income Housing/Tenant Anti-Displacement, Landlord Tenant, Comprehensive Rights for People Affected by HIV/Aids, Disability Advocacy Project, and the Domestic Violence/Victims Support Program. anti-predatory lending/foreclosure defense The Anti-Predatory Lending and Foreclosure Defense Unit defends homeowners facing foreclosure and files affirmative cases for homeowners and other consumers who haveen be the victim of predatory lending. The unit’s years of litigation and transactional This past year Brooklyn experience combine to provide comprehensive legal counseling A has helped over 200 and representation for local homeowners and consumers. families facing foreclosure. This past year Brooklyn A has helped over 200 families facing foreclosure. community and economic development Brooklyn A has made community and economic development (CED) a major program priority since 1976. Through its CED Unit, Brooklyn A is one of the only not-for-profit, neighborhood-based, public interest legal services programs in the country to develop a sustained, substantial practice providing community-based organizations (CBOs) and community development corporations (CDCs) in low-income communities transactional representation. This work results in the creation of new and rehabilitated housing, the empowerment of tenants, the expansion of healthcare, childcare services, the development of community centers and nursing homes, and the creation of minority- and community- owned businesses and jobs. A primary tenet of this work has been a community’s ownership of the process and assets themselves once they are created. From ’08 and thus far in ’09 Brooklyn A has worked on projects that will create homes for 149 From ’08 and thus far in ‘09 families and spaces for 9 businesses. Brooklyn A has worked on projects preservation of low-income that will create homes for 149 housing/tenant anti- families and spaces for 9 businesses. displacement We defend the rights of tenants, work with groups building and operating tenant run cooperatives, and help ensure that senior citizens have access to safe, affordable housing. Brooklyn A represents individuals and tenants associations in housing court facing eviction and more than 100 local tenant owned cooperatives, assisting the coops in sustaining themselves as affordable housing for low-income tenants. This unit also partners with local community organizations and coalitions in struggles for justice and fair housing for low-income North Brooklyn residents.

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1 & 2. The construction of the new Bedford Stuyvesant Family Health Center (BSFHC): comprehensive rights for people affected by hiv/aids With the assistance of Brooklyn A, BSFHC has been able to build a larger health care The Comprehensive Rights Unit (CRU) represents clients at hearings addressing HIV/AIDS Services facility to expand its health care services to low income individuals and families in the Administration and Supplemental Security Income benefits, challenges discrimination in housing and community. The new facility is expected to employment based on HIV/AIDS status, negotiates with landlords to secure the provision of basic housing open in early 2010. 3. Thanks to the perse- verance of Father Powis and BHIP and the needs and to stop harassment. The CRU helps protect clients against domestic violence, developing healthcare work of David Bryan, Managing Attorney of the Bushwick Office and Director, Com- proxies and living wills, and creating guardianship prehensive Rights Unit (pictured here), the In the past year, BKA helped over living conditions for the tenants of 1328 and custody plans for clients’ children. Gates Avenue were dramatically improved. 4. left to right: Jessie Rose and Paul Aci- 2,000 disabled people receive the napura (BKA), Kennedy Rivera (Bushwick disability advocacy project Housing Independent Project) and Shekar income to which they are entitled. Krishnan (BKA). Mr. Rivera explains a The Disability Advocacy Project assists disabled recent example of a tenant being displaced in Bushwick, and how many tenants in people living in our service area obtain the federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) to which they Bushwick tend not to have the knowledge of how to challenge landlord harassment. were entitled and had been denied, through negotiations with the Social Security Administration and 5. The tenants of 210 Roebling Street. Together with the non-profit, Los Sures representation at Social Security administrative hearings. In the past year, Brooklyn A helped over 2,000 (a multi-faceted non-profit organization that is effective at creating and managing disabled people receive the income to which they are entitled. low-income housing, and aiding tenants in the purchase and maintenance of their buildings) BKA has helped with the process domestic violence/victims support program of renovating the building into low-income co-ops. 6. Honoree John D. Feerick and Brooklyn A provided legal assistance to survivors of domestic violence in ways that promote Marty Needelman on this year’s Honoree Tour of Brooklyn A. empowerment, self sufficiency, and economic independence. We also provide a variety of civil legal services to survivors of domestic violence so that they can obtain orders of protection, spousal and/or child support, child custody, housing and public assistance grants and funds from community groups to help pay rent, avoid foster care, and obtain emergency government benefits to which they are eligible.

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2008 2003 1997 Bettina B. Plevan, James F. Gill, Conrad Harper, Proskauer Rose LLP Bryan Cave LLP Simpson Thacher & Vincent F. Palagiano, Frederick W. Hill, Bartlett LLP Dime Community J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. Michelle Neugebauer, Bancshares, Inc. Jeffrey E. Dunston, Cypress Hills Local Luis Garden Acosta, Northeast Brooklyn Housing Development Corporation El Puente Development Corp. 1996 2002 2007 Henry L. King, Zachary W. Carter, Paul J. Curran, Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP Dorsey & Whitney LLP Angela M. Battaglia, Kaye Scholer LLP MacDara Lynch, Brendan J. Dugan, Ridgewood Bushwick Senior Pfizer Global Manufacturing Citizens Council, Inc. Sovereign Bank Sister Peggy Walsh, Maria Contreras-Collier, 1995 Southside Community Mission Cypress Hills Child Judge Harold T. Tyler, Jr., Care Center 2001 Patterson Belknap Webb 2006 Barbara Paul Robinson, & Tyler LLP Joseph K. Francois, Robert C. Sheehan, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Marilyn G. Gelber, Brownsville Multi-Service Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Independence Community Family Health Center Flom LLP & Associates Terri Thomson, Foundation 1993 Maurice A. Reid, Citigroup Inc. Sargent Shriver, Brownsville Multi-Service Barbara Schliff, Special Olympics International Family Health Center Southside United Housing De- Sally Hernandez-Piñero, velopment Fund Corporation 2000 New York City 2005 Frederick A. O. Schwarz, Jr., Housing Authority Vito J. Lopez, John Callagy, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP John M. Imperiale, New York State Assemblyman Kelly Drye & Warren LLP Philip A. Wheeler, Thomas Early, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. David D. Pagan, United Auto Workers, Health Plus Dr. Claude Offord, Southside United HDFC Region 9A Brownsville Multi-Service (Los Sures) 1993 Family Health Center 1999 Robert MacCrate, 2004 Patricia M. Hynes, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Charles J. Hynes, Evan Davis, Milberg Weiss Bershad New York State Medicaid Cleary Gottlieb Steen Hynes & Lerach, LLP Frances A. Resheske, Fraud Prosecutor & Hamilton LLP David Trager, Maureen Bateman, Con Edison Adbur Rahman Farrakhan, Brooklyn Law School Bank of America Michael Rochford, Oceanhill-Brownsville St. Nicholas Preservation Tenants Association Development Corp. 1998 Barry H. Garfinkel, Skadden, Arps, Meagher & Flom LLP & Associates Magda N. Yrizarry, Bell Atlantic John F. Mulhern, Nuestros Ninos Child Development School

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