Proskauer Rose LLP

Eleven Times Square THE STATS New York, NY 10036-8299 Phone: (212) 969-3000 No. of Attorneys: 700 www.proskauer.com No. of Offices: 13 Chairman: Joseph M. Leccese locations EMPLOYMENT CONTACT Boca Raton, FL • Boston, MA • Chicago, IL • Los Angeles, CA • New Orleans, LA • New York, NY • Newark, NJ • Washington, Caroline K. Menes DC • Beijing • Hong Kong • London • Paris • São Paulo Director of Legal Recruiting Phone: (212) 969-5072 Email: [email protected] MAJOR DEPARTMENTS & PRACTICES

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Who’s Who organizations with which the firm has a relationship or they may suggest a pro bono matter of their own design, subject to Does the firm have one or more pro bono coordinators and/or firm conflict procedures and policies. partners? If so, how many? 2 Has the firm signed on to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge? Yes For each of your pro bono coordinators and/or partners, please specify how much of his/her time is spent on pro bono work and/ or administering the firm’s pro bono program. What are some of the areas of law in which your firm has performed pro bono legal work since 2010? Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 1 All of his/her time Arts and historic preservation, Asylum, Bankruptcy, Civil rights, Community economic development, Death penalty Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 2 defense, Disability benefits, Domestic violence, Education, Elder All of his/her time law, Employment, Environment, Fair housing/tenants rights, Family law, First Amendment and constitutional issues, HIV/ AIDS advocacy, Homeless advocacy, Immigration, Indigent Please provide the primary pro bono contact(s)’s information criminal defense, International human rights, Juvenile justice below. reform/children’s rights, Nonprofit corporate law, Nonprofit Stacey O’Haire Fahey incorporation/tax exemptions, Nonprofit intellectual property, Firmwide Pro Bono Counsel Prisoners’ rights, Probate law, Public benefits, Real estate Phone: (212) 969-3952 transactions, Social Security law, Veterans’ benefits/appeals, Email: [email protected] Voting rights

Lauren McGlockton Are there areas of law in which, as a matter of policy or practice, Pro Bono Coordinator your firm does not perform pro bono work? Phone: (212) 969-5119 Email: [email protected] We do not handle employee-side employment matters.

Does the firm have a pro bono committee? List up to 10 of your firm’s pro bono clients or partners since 2010, including legal service providers or clearinghouses. Yes • Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law How often does the committee meet? • The Legal Aid Society Quarterly • New York Legal Assistance Group • inMotion Please describe the composition of the committee. • New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Proskauer’s pro bono committee is made up of designees from • Public Counsel each office and department and includes partners, senior counsel, and associates as well as representatives from Diversity, • Greater Boston Legal Services Client Communications, Professional Resources, and Business • Immigration Equality Development departments. The committee is chaired by Scott Harshbarger, Esq. • Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence • Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund

THE SCOOP List up to three representative examples of your firm’s pro bono matters since 2010. Please limit your answer to a short Does your firm have a written pro bono policy? paragraph per matter. Yes • Our Los Angeles office has recently partnered with the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (LAFLA) on the Unlawful Can associates bring pro bono matters of interest to the firm? Detainer Pro Bono Project to represent clients facing unlawful eviction. Since the launch of this collaboration, Yes Proskauer attorneys have already taken on five unlawful detainer cases with generous outcomes for our clients. Most How does the firm decide whether to take on a pro bono matter? recently, a Proskauer partner represented a low-income client who had lived in his unit for more than 39 years. The Each potential matter is evaluated on a case-by-case basis. client recently fell on tough times and paid his rent one day Lawyers may select a matter offered by any of the referral

late. The landlord served him with a 3-day notice-to-pay- List up to three pro bono matters that are highlights (e.g., or-quit and also admitted that he wanted to evict the tenant a Supreme Court case). Please limit your answer to a short because he wanted to rehabilitate the unit and rent it out for paragraph per matter. significantly more money. The partner was able to negotiate • We helped as many as 140,000 Americans nationwide get an excellent settlement for the client: a $12,000 relocation their Social Security or Supplemental Security Income payment and 120 days to move out at a reduced rental rate. benefits restored as a result of an order issued by Judge • An associate in our Boca Raton office won a complete Sidney H. Stein in a federal class action lawsuit in which we victory for her pro bono asylum client who fled Venezuela represented the plaintiffs pro bono along with the Mental after being repeatedly harassed and abused by Venezuelan Health Project of the Urban Justice Center and the National police officers because of his sexual orientation. Facing the Senior Citizens Law Center. The benefits in question date scorn of his family and society, the client chose to keep back to October 2006 and may total as much as $1 billion. his sexual orientation hidden and become a productive The order is the culmination of more than five years of member of society through a college education. On three litigation in Clark v. Astrue, a case brought against the separate occasions, however, corrupt police officers harassed U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA) challenging its and mistreated the client solely because he was a gay man practice of relying exclusively on outstanding probation and who dared to express his sexuality in public. Finally, after parole warrants as evidence that individuals are violating a week of being followed around by men in an SUV and a condition of probation or parole as a basis for denying realizing that the government was unwilling to provide him benefits. Rather than check the facts of a case, SSA matched any protection, the client escaped Venezuela and arrived in warrant databases against its records. When it found a Miami on a visitor’s visa. Having been recently diagnosed as probation or parole warrant in the name of someone who HIV-positive, the client knew that going back to Venezuela was receiving benefits, SSA checked with law enforcement meant certain death. With the associate’s help, the client filed and, if the law enforcement agency was not actively pursuing for affirmative asylum on account of his past persecution and the individual, SSA would cut off that individual’s benefits. fear of future persecution because he was a gay, HIV-positive In March 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Venezuelan man. To support his application for asylum, our Circuit ruled that the agency’s practice of relying solely on associate filed a detailed declaration by the client and nearly outstanding probation or parole violation arrest warrants to 50 country conditions reports, news articles, photographs suspend or deny benefits conflicted with the plain meaning and sworn affidavits from friends in Venezuela. At the asylum of the Social Security Act. Following certification of a interview in Miami, with the help of a translator, the client nationwide class, Judge Stein entered a final order enjoining described in great detail each incident with the police, his the SSA from denying or suspending benefits in this manner failed efforts to get help and his continuing nightmares of what and requiring the reinstatement of all previously suspended would happen to him if he were forced to return to Venezuela. benefits retroactive to the date the benefits were suspended. Two weeks after the initial interview, the client picked up his • We obtained a favorable settlement in a pro bono matter on decision letter at the Miami asylum office, and was thrilled to behalf of members of the Swartzentruber Amish community learn that his application for asylum had been approved. in Morristown, New York, that will allow them to continue • An associate in our New York office successfully represented building their houses and classrooms in accordance with a client afflicted with several severe psychological and their religious beliefs. The case, Yoder, et al. v. Town of physical impairments in an appeal for disability benefits Morristown, was filed in the U.S. District Court for the before the Social Security Administration’s Office of Northern District of New York on January 6, 2009 to address Disability Adjudication and Review. The client, who was religious discrimination by the Town of Morristown, which is forty-seven years old and had not worked since 2008, suffered situated near the St. Lawrence River on the Canadian border, from bipolar disorder, morbid obesity, Type II diabetes, liver based on the selective enforcement of Local Law 4 of 2006, disorder, and hypertension. He lived alone in a New York an ordinance which purported to implement the New York City Housing Authority apartment and received assistance State building code. Pursuant to this local law, the Town of nearly every day from a friend who handles almost all Morristown denied members of the Swartzentruber Amish routine household tasks. His bipolar disorder caused severe community building permits and criminally prosecuted them anxiety, depression, and social phobia, and his physical for building their residences and classrooms in accordance impairments prevented him from performing even basic with their religious teachings because their traditional tasks like cooking, cleaning, and bathing. Through the firm’s methods were allegedly not in compliance with the local law. partnership with the Legal Aid Society, our associate began Prior to Morristown’s adoption of this enforcement strategy, representing the client. Based on interviews, medical records, the Swartzentruber Amish had been living in and near and relevant federal disability law, our associate wrote Morristown, and building their homes in accordance with and submitted a brief advocating that the Social Security their religious traditions, for decades without interference Administration overturn its denial of our client’s benefits. from the local authorities. The criminal prosecutions At a hearing in Lower Manhattan, he argued these points threatened the ability of the Swartzentruber Amish to before the administrative law judge and conducted a direct continue living in Morristown. Under the Settlement examination of the client. Several weeks later, he received Agreement, the Town of Morristown dismissed the criminal word that the judge granted our client a fully favorable complaints and issued certificates of occupancy for previously decision, overturning the earlier denial and reinstating built Swartzentruber Amish houses and classrooms. The disability benefits. Settlement Agreement also allows for the Swartzentruber

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Amish to use their traditional methods of building their Do partner supervisors or, if applicable, senior associates provide homes and classrooms without future fear of prosecution. written evaluations of associates’ work on pro bono matters? • We won an important victory before the U.S. Supreme Yes Court in a ruling that the Fair Sentencing Act of 2010, which reduced the disparity in federal sentencing between crack Are those evaluations taken into account in determining salary or and powder cocaine offenses, applies to defendants who bonuses? were sentenced after its passage even though their offenses pre-dated the law. In the consolidated cases of Hill v. United • Yes, they are taken into account when determining salary States and Dorsey v. United States a team of Proskauer • Yes, they are taken into account when determining bonuses lawyers served as co-counsel to petitioner Corey Hill. Hill was arrested in 2007 for selling crack cocaine and given a Are those evaluations taken into account in determining mandatory 10-year sentence under a harsher law that had advancement within the firm? been repealed by the time of his sentencing. While the FSA would have required Hill to receive a mandatory minimum Yes sentence of only 5 years, the courts below applied the repealed law and doubled his sentence, holding that Congress intended Is there a pro bono requirement at your firm? the FSA to apply only to defendants who committed their offenses after its passage. In a 5-4 decision vacating the Seventh No Circuit’s judgment, the Supreme Court held that the FSA applies to all defendants who were sentenced after its passage, Does the firm give billable hour credit for pro bono work? including those, like Hill, whose conduct pre-dated the law. Yes

BY THE NUMBERS Does the firm have a maximum number of pro bono hours that can be applied toward the billable hour target? What is the total number of hours that lawyers at your U.S. office(s) spent performing pro bono legal services, as defined by the Law No Firm Pro Bono Challenge, in 2010 and 2011? Do not include summer associate or non-lawyer pro bono hours in your answers. Does the firm consider pro bono hours when determining Total number of pro bono hours in 2010: 39,718 bonuses? Total number of pro bono hours in 2011: 39,789 Yes

What was the attorney headcount in your firm’s U.S. offices? Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2010: 663 PRO BONO POINTS Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2011: 700 What training opportunities are open to associates working on pro bono matters? Using the number of attorneys listed above, what is the average The firm invites various pro bono organizations to conduct number of pro bono hours per attorney in your firm’s U.S. office(s) training in its offices. Associates are also encouraged to attend during the following years? outside trainings that may be relevant to current pro bono Average number of hours per attorney in 2010: 60 projects, or projects they are interested in pursuing. In addition, associates may use a training allowance to register for outside Average number of hours per attorney in 2011: 57 pro bono training programs for which there is a registration fee. What percentage of attorneys employed during 2010 and 2011 in your firm’s U.S. office(s) did at least 20 hours of pro bono during Does the firm offer the use of support staff in handling pro bono that calendar year? matters? Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2010: 31–40% Yes Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2011: 41–50% Please indicate how many total hours and average hours per person your summer associates spent performing pro bono in SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONS 2010 and 2011. Is there partner supervision on all pro bono matters? Total hours summer associates spent on pro bono work Yes 2010: 1,891 2011: 2,057

Average hours per summer associate spent on pro bono work in the integration of the California prison system. Thanks to 2010: 45 Proskauer’s seed money, and the substantial involvement of various of its LA partners, the Pro Se Clinic opened its doors 2011: 44 in February 2009, and is now the largest federal pro se clinic in the country—staffed by a full-time supervising attorney, a Percentage of summer associates in your firm’s U.S. office(s) Proskauer Fellow, and a full-time paralegal. It is operated by engaged in pro bono work Public Counsel, the nation’s largest pro bono public interest 2010: 79% law firm, which has 40 years of experience providing free legal services to low-income communities. 2011: 79% Proskauer also participates in the Homeless Experience Legal Please provide any additional information about pro bono Protection Program (HELP). For almost 10 years, attorneys in opportunities available to summer associates. our New Orleans office have been involved with HELP since Summer associates have many opportunities to work on a wide- its creation in the city of New Orleans in 2004. Through the range of existing pro bono matters alongside senior attorneys program, spear-headed by Judge Jay Zainey, a network of at the firm. We also offer several projects that are specific to lawyers, law firms, government agencies, and bar associations summer associates, such as the Courtroom Advocates Project comes together to provide legal services for the homeless at in New York. In our Los Angeles office, summer associates several locations throughout the metropolitan area. Every participated in the Anti-Defamation League Research Project, Monday in October our attorneys provide notary services to conducting research on topics ranging from an appeal of homeless individuals in local shelters. In our New York office, conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist to the once a week during April and May, Proskauer paralegals and constitutional policy perspective of religiously affiliated attorneys staff a three-hour clinic at the Center for Employment institutions to pay for birth control. Opportunities in downtown Manhattan, which provides job training to individuals who were recently released from incarceration for non-violent offenses. Does the firm have established programs, such as externships, that enable its associates to work in a public interest setting? In late 2011, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors No created the Citizens’ Commission on Jail Violence in response to concerns about the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department’s use of force against detainees in county jails. The Commission What other law-related public interest and community service was tasked with reviewing the nature, depth, and cause programs (that are not “pro bono” as defined by the Law Firm of inappropriate deputy violence in the jails, as well as Pro Bono Challenge) do you offer and manage? For example, list recommending reformative measures. One of our partners was any law school collaborations and public interest scholarships, selected to serve as the Commission’s Deputy General Counsel. auctions at law schools, monetary support, or fellowships. Additionally, a Proskauer associate was selected to represent Proskauer has a long history of supporting public interest and the Commission as counsel. Both Proskauer attorneys along community service programs. Provided is a sampling of the with attorneys from firms throughout the city of Los Angeles, many public interest and community service activities that conducted a sweeping investigation into the policies, practices, Proskauer offers. and history of the use of force in the county jails, including a review of substantial documentary evidence and the interview Across the nation, individuals involved in civil matters often of over one hundred witnesses and correctional experts. will forego professional legal representation and advocate Counsel for the Commission presented their findings and for themselves. For most of these individuals, called “pro se recommendations in a public hearing in September 2012. litigants,” facing the courtroom alone is a matter of necessity: there is no Constitutional right to counsel in civil cases, so In March 2012, after more than four years of litigation in they must pay for a lawyer themselves—and they simply don’t the Belovic v. Doar case, a team of Proskauer litigators was have the money. Since early 2009, however, those litigants victorious in the civil suit that charged New York Adult representing themselves in federal civil cases in Los Angeles Protective Services with failing to provide needed protective have been able to get free legal counsel, advice, and technical services in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, assistance. At the Federal Pro Se Clinic at the U.S. Courthouse New York Social Services Law, and the federal and state in Los Angeles, people who cannot afford legal representation constitutions. As part of the settlement, Proskauer was awarded can meet with pro bono lawyers and get invaluable information fees which we then donated to longtime partner on the case, on handling their civil matters, from business disputes to New York Legal Assistance Group (NYLAG). A portion of discrimination cases to a wide range of other matters. In the donation was used to create a Proskauer Special Litigation appropriate situations, the Clinic staff will also find pro bono Attorney position at NYLAG. The Special Litigation Attorney attorneys to provide full representation to litigants with serves as a staff member to the NYLAG Special Litigation Unit meritorious cases. To help the Pro Se Clinic get started and and works on active matters in the Unit. This donation and the fulfill its mission, Proskauer donated the significant award creation of this fellowship celebrates our unique relationship generated by its involvement in the landmark U.S. Supreme with NYLAG and is part of an ongoing effort to strengthen our Court civil rights case, Johnson v. California, which resulted relationship with this dynamic organization.

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Every year, we partner with NYU Law’s AnBryce Summer What non-law related volunteer opportunities does your firm Associate Program (ASAP) to host an AnBryce Scholar at the offer? For example, list any work with high school students firm. ASAP provides the opportunity for first-year AnBryce and non-legal volunteerism for organizations like Habitat for Scholars at NYU Law School to obtain paid summer associate Humanity. positions or legal internships with law firms and corporations The firm has established relationships with several local schools that are usually available only to second-year students. To on mentoring and mock trial programs. We have partnered be eligible for consideration, candidates for the AnBryce with the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice (LGJ) Scholarship must have already attained admission to NYU Law on a variety of programs designed to mentor high school and be among the first in their immediate family to pursue an students through the college application process and expose advanced degree in higher education. them to professional careers. Proskauer began a relationship with LGJ through the PENCIL Partnership Program, which Proskauer also partners with the Boston Lawyers Group (BLG), works to inspire the advancement of learning and broaden a consortium of law firms and corporations dedicated to the scope of education by connecting schools and business developing initiatives with law schools, student organizations leaders. Our initiatives with LGJ include a mentoring program, and bar associations in order to promote diverse legal talent in shadowing opportunities and a Career Day hosted at Proskauer. the Boston community. The firm participates in the BLG Career Fair and supports other events throughout the year. Proskauer also began participating in the PENCIL Fellows Program this year, which provides motivated, career-minded Proskauer is a proud supporter of the Sponsors for Educational juniors and seniors in New York City public high schools with Opportunities (SEO) program, which recruits talented college dynamic experiential learning opportunities through full-time students of color and prepares them for careers in law by paid summer internships. The PENCIL Fellows are a select providing them with high-level internships and a demanding group of high-achieving students who are eager to bring the pre-law school prep course to acclimate them to the law school skills they have learned in the classroom to the real workplace. learning environment. We host interns from the program each This summer, we had two PENCIL Fellows working in our New summer in our New York office. York office.

We also participate in the Legal Outreach Program, which We are in our second year of participating in the Everybody prepares middle school students from underserved New York Wins Power Lunch program. Power Lunch is a lunchtime City communities to compete at high academic levels by literacy and mentoring program that brings groups of adult implementing educational programming and offering legal volunteers into low-income elementary schools for one-on-one summer internships to the students. Every summer, we host read aloud sessions with students. Each week a number of our four middle school students at our firm for a week, where attorneys travel to a nearby elementary school during their they are exposed to legal workshops and coaching from our lunch break to read to students. attorneys to put together a mock trial in four days. Since 2006, we have participated in an internship program In addition to these initiatives, the firm sends lawyers to with Cristo Rey New York High School. Interns from Cristo participate in law school career preparation programs including Rey New York High School work in our office year-round in interview and resume panels. The firm also actively supports our Professional Resources, Human Resources and Records the Constitutional Rights Foundation (CRF) in Los Angeles, departments. Cristo Rey New York High School is a Catholic, which is dedicated to educating middle and high school co-ed, college-prep school, part of the national Cristo Rey students about the importance of civic participation in society. Network. Cristo Rey serves students from all five boroughs Our partners are active in several of CRF’s programs, including a of New York City and lower Westchester County. Most live mock trial program, an internship program, and in-class lessons in the South Bronx, Washington Heights and Harlem. The and demonstrations that bring various legal topics to life. program provides students with real world job experiences while allowing them to earn a large portion of the cost of their Proskauer has also created the Silver Scholar Program, an education. award initiative designed to increase diversity within our firm and the legal profession. The recipients will receive a summer We also run a program with Francis Lewis High School, where associate position at Proskauer and be eligible for a cash award students spend time at Proskauer working with our lawyers of up to $30,000. The award is eligible to second-year law to prepare for two yearly mentor moot court competitions. students. This has been a highly successful program with Francis Lewis students placing in some of the top spots in the competition We lend sponsorship and support to numerous organizations over the last several years. This year, in the group competition and events throughout the year that embrace diversity and at Fordham Law School, the Francis Lewis team placed 6th in pro bono as a core value of the profession, including: Asian a field of more than 60 schools. In the individual competition, American Legal Defense and Education Fund; Corporate which takes place in Washington, DC in the spring, a Francis Counsel Women of Color; Lambda Legal; LeGaL (Lesbian, Gay, Lewis student came in second place out of more than 100 Bisexual and Transgender Law Association of Greater New children from schools across the country. Each spring, we also York); Metropolitan Black Bar Association; and South Asian take at least two classes of Francis Lewis students to the District Bar Association of New York. Court for the Southern District of New York to witness a

516 © 2012 Vault.com Inc. Vault Guide to Law Firm Pro Bono Programs, 2013 Edition Proskauer Rose LLP proceeding and meet a District Court Judge. Before the hearing, • Thirteen DC attorneys were named to the Capital Pro Bono the judge meets with the students to explain the way the courts Honor Roll, for providing 50+ hours of pro bono work during work generally and talk about the case they will observe that day. 2011. Eight of these attorneys were recognized on the “High Honor Roll” for providing at least 100 hours of pro bono We are actively involved in numerous national and regional service. organizations committed to enhancing diversity in the legal • Proskauer received the S. Jeanne Hall Pro Bono Service profession. We recently assisted the Black Student Fund in Award 2011 from Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts. drafting their employee handbook, contracts and separation agreements. We also provide day-to-day employment advice for • Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF) awarded Proskauer Rose the organization which offers scholarships and support to low- LLP with the 2011 Advancement in Animal Law Pro Bono income African-American children at participating schools, Achievement Award. grades K-12, in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Other • Proskauer’s Boston office was recognized by the Middlesex organizations we work closely with to provide pro bono legal District Attorney for their support of the 209A Domestic services include: ACLU of Massachusetts, California Women’s Violence Initiative. Law Center, Center for Urban and Community Services, the Disability Rights Center, Essex-Newark Legal Services, Gay 2010 Awards Men’s Health Crisis, Human Rights Watch, and many others. • Proskauer was presented with a 2010 Pro Bono Publico Award Giving back to the community is very important at Proskauer, for outstanding service to The Legal Aid Society and its which is why we actively participate in New York Cares Day clients. and will be continuing our support this year as well. New York • The New York State Bar Association presented Proskauer Cares Day is a volunteer opportunity involving revitalizing New with a Gold Award at the tenth annual “Justice for All” York City public schools. It is New York City’s largest hands-on luncheon in recognition of our commitment to pro bono volunteer day with more than 6,000 volunteers painting a service. brighter future for New York City public school students. This year, volunteers will create murals, paint classrooms, plant • Proskauer received the Law Firm Pro Bono Award at the school gardens, and engage students and families in service. William O. Douglas Award Dinner in Los Angeles, sponsored by Public Counsel. For the past four years, our Washington DC office has sponsored the Legal Times Outlaw Hunger Campaign and Please add any additional information about your firm’s pro bono organized a food drive to benefit the Capital Area Food Bank program. (CAFB). The CAFB partners with nearly 700 agencies to distribute 30 million pounds of food annually. The Outlaw Proskauer, founded in 1875, is an international law firm Hunger campaign provides an opportunity for the firm to assist providing a wide variety of legal services to clients worldwide the CAFB in alleviating hunger throughout the Washington DC from offices in Beijing, Boca Raton, Boston, Chicago, Hong Metropolitan area. We will be participating in the campaign Kong, London, Los Angeles, New Orleans, New York, Newark, again this year. Paris, São Paulo, and Washington, DC.

The firm has wide experience in all areas of practice important Please list any special recognition or awards your firm has won to businesses, including corporate finance, mergers and since 2010 for its pro bono work. acquisitions, private equity, real estate transactions, bankruptcy 2012 Awards and reorganizations, taxation, litigation, trusts and estates, intellectual property, and labor and employment law. Its clients • Proskauer was honored by the Mental Health Project of the include participants in many industries, including chemicals, Urban Justice Center for its work in Clark v. Astrue. entertainment, financial services, health care, hospitality, • Interise honored Proskauer with the newly established information technology, insurance, internet, manufacturing, Exceptional Ally award. The award was given in recognition media and communications, pharmaceuticals, real estate of the Firm’s significant contribution to the advancement of investment, sports, and transportation. the company’s mission to stimulate revitalization in lower income communities. Proskauer is proud of its robust pro bono program offering significant opportunities to lawyers at every level of experience • Proskauer was honored with the Pro Bono Service Award by in each of our offices and practice departments. The clients the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles. we help include community groups, refugees seeking asylum, domestic violence victims, artists and musicians, veterans, and 2011 Awards lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender individuals among many • The New York State Bar Association honored the Firm with a others. Our lawyers have also played a crucial role in shaping Gold Supporter Award and recognized a record 139 Proskauer important issues such as gender rights, voting rights, prisoner lawyers as Empire State Counsel at the eleventh annual rights and religious freedoms. “Justice for All” luncheon. Our motto is “Doing well, by doing good.” We believe that introducing associates to pro bono work early in their careers

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A significant number of our lawyers participate in the program, Our international offices are also significantly involved in the including more than 75 percent of Proskauer associates, pro bono program. The PBIC includes lawyers from our Hong dedicating thousands of hours to pro bono clients each year. Kong, London, and Paris offices, who are driving the initiative Lawyers take on pro bono matters according to their individual forward in those cities. By developing relationships with interests and can choose a case from any of the referral agencies organizations such as LawWorks and PILnet, which are similar with which the firm partners or they can suggest a matter of to those we have with referral organizations in the United their own design. Each of the firm’s lawyers is expected to States, our overseas offices have expanded our reach and impact perform a minimum of 50 hours of pro bono service a year. to include those most in need around the world. There is no cap on the number of pro bono hours a lawyer may perform in a given year.