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Annual Report 2014 of Philadelphia | Community Legal Services Annual Report 2014 of Philadelphia | PAGE 6 PAGE 8 PAGE 10 PAGE 12 Board of Trustees | 2013 – 2014 C OMMUNITY L EGAL SERVICES OF PHILADELPHIA Officers Michael D. LiPuma, President Thoai Nguyen Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Arlene Rivera Finkelstein, Vice President Coalition, Inc. (SEAMAAC) Robin Blumenfeld Switzenbaum, Secretary Louis S. Rulli Dear Friends, Michael S. Bomstein, Treasurer University of Pennsylvania Law School When writing to you, I can’t Mark S. Schwartz help but think of gratitude. Regional Housing Legal Services Board Members As Executive Director of Dolores Shaw This year, veterans received the benefits Michael S. Bomstein they deserved. Philadelphia’s oldest and largest Pinnola & Bomstein Barbara T. Sicalides public interest law firm, I have Pepper Hamilton LLP had the privilege of witnessing Ruth Blair tens of thousands of clients helped CLS Executive Director Catherine C. Carr with Capital Bernard W. Smalley, Sr. Campaign Co-Chair Ed Chacker, Merck CEO Edward F. Chacker by our caring, expert staff at Tucker Law Group Ken Frazier, and former PA Governor Ed Rendell Gay Chacker & Mittin, PC Community Legal Services (CLS). Erica Smith-Klocek Arlene Rivera Finkelstein Every day, our clients express gratitude to our attorneys for helping them to keep Covance Toll Public Interest Center, their homes, obtain basic necessities, and take steps towards independence. University of Pennsylvania Law School Joseph A. Sullivan They express gratitude to us, and now I pass on gratitude to you. I know that Pepper Hamilton LLP Brian P. Flaherty these individuals have been helped because of your support. Please accept our Cozen O’Connor Robin Blumenfeld Switzenbaum thanks for giving us the resources to make justice possible for some of the most Berger & Montague, PC Karen Forman vulnerable people in Philadelphia and beyond. David A. Clarke School of Law, Kimberly Takacs Our littlest clients got the care they needed. My gratitude is abundant. On behalf of CLS, I am grateful for the financial University of the District of Columbia ACE Group support that has allowed us to provide free civil legal services for 48 years and for Aquisha Harris Joseph A. Tate the friends and community partners who help us in our mission. I am grateful Dechert LLP to the staff members who fight tirelessly for justice, and to our clients, whose Wayne Jacobs strength and determination inspire us all. I am grateful that each day we are able Ex-Offenders for Community Empowerment Thane C. J. Trotman TABLE OF CONTENTS to help our clients enforce their legal rights, and that we are part of a strong CNA Insurance Shubha Jaganath collaborative community, committed to justice for all. Tiffany Watkins Carlton L. Johnson Letter from the Director ........1 In this report, you will read the highlights of our last fiscal year. Between the Archer & Greiner, PC Rainie Williams clients we have served directly and the systemic changes we have helped to enact, The Cheyney Foundation John P. Lavelle, Jr. Legal Units .............................2 we have many great things to tell you. In addition to reading our clients’ stories, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Kay Kyungsun Yu you will hear from some of the people who have helped to make justice possible. Ahmad, Zaffarese & Smyler, LLC Jason Leckerman Awards ....................................3 I hope that this report gives you both a sense of what CLS has accomplished, and Ballard Spahr LLP a deeper understanding of how our supporters have made CLS a stronger Bar Campaign ........................4 organization. Michael D. LiPuma Two CLS Board members left the Board in FY14. We wish Law Offices of Michael LiPuma Alan Feldman well in his new role on the Pennsylvania As we approach our 50th anniversary in 2016, I look forward to continuing IOLTA Board, and all the best to The Hon. Marilyn Heffley , Getting Paid for His Work .....6 to communicate with you, not just about what we have accomplished for the Yvette Long who was sworn in as a federal magistrate in May. thousands of clients we serve, but where we are going as an organization. Welfare Rights Organization Safe from Abuse .....................8 We are grateful to have you come with us on this journey of community. Jacquelyn Moncrief Advocacy Victories ...............10 Yours very truly, Continuity of Care ...............12 Donors ..................................14 Catherine C. Carr Executive Director Financials .....inside back cover Center City Office: 1424 Chestnut St. | Philadelphia, PA 19102-2505 | Telephone: 215-981-3700 clsphila.org North Philadelphia Law Center: 1410 West Erie Ave. | Philadelphia, PA 19140-4136 | Telephone: 215-227-2400 1 Our Legal Units Awards: July 1, 2013 – June 30, 2014 Awards presented to AGING AND EMPLOYMENT UNIT ENERGY UNIT FAMILY ADVOCACY UNIT Community Legal Services and staff DISABILITIES UNIT Employment Unit represents Energy Unit works to keep the Family Advocacy Unit (FAU) Community Legal Services Aging and Disabilities Unit clients with employment- utilities on for families by represents individual parents, Recognition of work with immigrants specializes in representing related problems, including protecting the rights of low- involved with the Department Presented by Pennsylvania Immigration seniors and people with tackling barriers to income utility customers on of Human Services (DHS), and Citizenship Coalition disabilities in a wide range of employment, seeking unpaid service and payment issues, who are seeking to keep their public benefits and consumer wages, and preserving jobs. representing group clients on children at home or to have CLS' North Philadelphia Law Center matters, including challenges The unit advocates at the utility rate change cases and them returned from foster to denials of Medicaid, national and state levels on serving as the Public Advocate care to a safe home. The FAU and Clemens Construction Company Medicare, or disability low-income workers’ rights in representing all provides assistance and Construction Excellence Award benefits, decisions by managed issues such as preventing Philadelphia Gas Works trainings to community Presented by General Building Contractors Association care organizations to deny overbroad disqualifications of residential customers. groups, organizations and Cathy Carr is honored as a Woman of the Year care, and violations of workers with criminal records. lawyers. The FAU also Catherine C. Carr, Esq. residents’ rights and quality- advocates on the national, by The Legal Intelligencer. of-care requirements in state, and local levels for Woman of the Year nursing homes and personal improvements in child welfare Presented by The Legal Intelligencer care homes. practices, services to families, and the dependency court Louise Hayes, Esq. system. Recognition of Service Presented by Lutheran Settlement House Nadia Hewka, Esq. Crystal Eastman Award Presented by PhilaPOSH Awards presented by Community Legal Services at our 25th Annual Breakfast of Champions Carol Horne Penn, Esq. Woman of Distinction Award Equal Justice Awards Presented by Barristers' Association of Philadelphia Dennisse Bones, Community Legal Services HOMEOWNERSHIP AND HOUSING UNIT LANGUAGE ACCESS PUBLIC BENEFITS UNIT CONSUMER LAW UNIT PROJECT Kerry Smith, Esq. Housing Unit represents Public Benefits Unit James A. Francis, Esq., Francis & Mailman, PC Homeownership and private, public, and subsidized Language Access Project represents clients seeking or Legislative Advocate of the Year Consumer Law Unit housing tenants in matters works to ensure CLS services facing termination of public Presented by National Association of Consumer Advocates The Honorable Marilyn Heffley, United States Magistrate represents homeowners in involving eviction, illegal are available to Philadelphia benefits such as cash Judge, United States District Court for the Eastern District of disputes, residential mortgage lockouts, and substandard communities with limited assistance, SSI disability, food Rebecca Vallas, Esq.* Pennsylvania foreclosures, fraudulent housing. The unit also uses ability to speak, read, write, or stamps, or health insurance. New Leaders in Advocacy Award consumer practices, and systems advocacy and understand English. The unit The unit provides education Champion of Justice Award issues with banking or check- litigation to address issues addresses legal issues specific and outreach services and Presented by National Legal Aid & Defender Association cashing agencies. The unit ranging from lead paint to this population and advocates for improvements to Alan M. Feldman, Esq., uses advocacy and litigation to elimination, to federal housing collaborates with other units the programs that provide John S. Whitelaw, Esq. address the predatory lending policy changes, to tenant to represent individuals and these benefits at the federal, Suzanne H. Kaye Advocacy Award Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock crisis, abusive mortgage eviction laws. families in challenging state, and local levels. Presented by Linda Creed Breast Cancer Foundation & Dodig LLP practices, and other banking language barriers to benefits, issues affecting low-income services, and access to justice. PLAN Excellence Award families. Presented by Pennsylvania Legal Aid Network *Employed by CLS at time of nomination 2 3 2014 Leadership Saul Ewing LLP INDIVIDUAL DONORS Council Members Bar Campaign Donors Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP CLS’ Leadership Council raised more than $360,000 from 109 law firms
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