Linklaters LLP

1345 Avenue of the Americas THE STATS New York, New York 10105 Phone: (212) 903-9000 No. of Attorneys: 2,000 www.linklaters.com No. of Offices: 27 Senior Partner (Firmwide): Robert Elliot Managing Partner: Simon Davies locations U.S. Managing Partners: Jeff Norton C conrado Tenaglia New York Hiring Partner(s): Paul Alfieri Abu Dhabi • Amsterdam • Antwerp • Bangkok • Beijing • Berlin Danelle LeCren • Brussels • Dubai • Düsseldorf • Frankfurt • Hong Kong • Lisbon • London • Luxembourg • Madrid • Milan • Moscow • Munich • Paris • Rome • São Paulo • Shanghai • Singapore • EMPLOYMENT CONTACT Stockholm • Tokyo • Warsaw Jennifer Katz-Hickman Legal Recruitment Manager Phone: (212) 830-9502 MAJOR DEPARTMENTS & PRACTICES Email: [email protected] Antitrust/Competition* • Banking* • Capital Markets* • Corporate/M&A* • Employment and Incentives* • Environment and Climate Change* • Financial Regulation* • Insurance • Intellectual Property • Investment Management* • Litigation and Arbitration* • Pensions • Private Equity* • Projects* • Public and Administrative Law • Real Estate and Construction • Regulatory • Restructuring and Insolvency* • Structured Finance and Derivatives* • Tax* • Technology, Media and Telecommunications • Trusts

*Practice areas covered by U.S. practice

Who’s Who How does the firm decide whether to take on a pro bono matter? Does the firm have one or more pro bono coordinators and/or The community investment partners and manager evaluate the partners? If so, how many? proposed client organization/individual and proposed services to be provided, and accept matters which meet the firm’s 3 community investment strategy.

For each of your pro bono coordinators and/or partners, please Has the firm signed on to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge? specify how much of his/her time is spent on pro bono work and/ or administering the firm’s pro bono program. Yes Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 1 Less than half of his/her time What are some of the areas of law in which your firm has performed pro bono legal work since 2010? Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 2 Asylum, Civil rights, Community economic development, Less than half of his/her time Consumer law and small claims court, Elder law, Employment, Environment, Family law, First Amendment and constitutional Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 3 issues, Immigration, Indigent criminal defense, International More than half of his/her time human rights, Nonprofit corporate law, Nonprofit incorporation/ tax exemptions, Veterans’ benefits/appeals Please provide the primary pro bono contact(s)’s information below. Are there areas of law in which, as a matter of policy or practice, Lance Croffoot-Suede your firm does not perform pro bono work? Partner Nonprofit intellectual property, Real estate transactions Phone: (212) 903-9261 Email: [email protected] List up to 10 of your firm’s pro bono clients or partners since Sabrena Silver 2010, including legal service providers or clearinghouses. Partner • City Bar Justice Center Phone: (212) 903-9123 Email: [email protected] • Immigration Equality • Lambda Legal Karen Carbonell Pro Bono & Community Investment Manager • Lawyers Alliance for New York Phone: (212) 830-9519 • New York Office of the Appellate Defender Email: [email protected] • New York Lawyers for the Public Interest

Does the firm have a pro bono committee? • Sanctuary for Families Yes • Southern District of New York, Criminal Justice Act Panel • Urban Justice Center How often does the committee meet? • Volunteers of Legal Service Monthly List up to three representative examples of your firm’s pro bono matters since 2010. Please limit your answer to a short Please describe the composition of the committee. paragraph per matter. The committee is made up of two partners who head the • We represent a local community development credit union Community Investment program and the Pro Bono & on a variety of matters including: evaluating and providing Community Investment Manager. advice on documentation, policies and procedures supporting their business loan programme, particularly collateral security documentation and underwriting and approval THE SCOOP procedures; ensuring compliance with New York State Energy Research and Development Authority requirements; Does your firm have a written pro bono policy? providing guidance on the National Credit Union Yes Association CAMEL rating appeal process; developing new lending products to service the needs of members. Can associates bring pro bono matters of interest to the firm? • We represent gay and lesbian clients seeking to escape persecution in their home countries. Our clients have come to Yes us from countries including Jamaica, Uzbekistan, Trinidad,

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Paraguay and Botswana, all seeking a better (and safer) life in What percentage of attorneys employed during 2010 and 2011 in the U.S. your firm’s U.S. office(s) did at least 20 hours of pro bono during that calendar year? • We represent indigent federal criminal defendants assigned to us for representation under the Southern District of New Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2010: 61–70% York Criminal Justice Act, where the Federal Defender’s Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2011: 51–60% Office is unable to provide representation. List up to three pro bono matters that are highlights (e.g., SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONS a Supreme Court case). Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. Is there partner supervision on all pro bono matters? • The Firm is providing representation for an inmate on Yes death row in Texas in his fight for an appeal, and is briefing the issue of ineffective assistance of counsel and other Do partner supervisors or, if applicable, senior associates provide constitutional concerns. written evaluations of associates’ work on pro bono matters? • We have been representing an Iraqi woman now living in Yes Amman in connection with her application for refugee status from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The client is a widow with three children who Are those evaluations taken into account in determining salary or suffers from breast cancer. The client was initially denied bonuses? refugee status by UNHCR under Article 1 of the 1951 N/A - Salary and bonuses are determined by seniority Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. This client’s case was unique in that we were assisting with expediting the client’s review for refugee status with UNHCR due to the Are those evaluations taken into account in determining medical urgency of the individual case. advancement within the firm? • A New York team led over 170 Linklaters lawyers across Yes eight offices on a rule of law project with Lawyers Without Borders to digest the entire jurisprudence of Liberia. Judges Is there a pro bono requirement at your firm? in Liberia are required to take into account previous judicial decisions, but many have only limited access to these, thereby Yes increasing the potential for inconsistent determinations. As a result of our efforts, hard copy digests were distributed to What is the requirement and to whom does it apply? every judge throughout the cities and rural areas of Liberia. A supplement to the digest is in progress. We encourage associates to perform a minimim of 50 hours a year of pro bono work.

BY THE NUMBERS Does the firm give billable hour credit for pro bono work? What is the total number of hours that lawyers at your U.S. office(s) Yes spent performing pro bono legal services, as defined by the Law 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 have a maximum number of pro bono hours that can be applied toward the billable hour target? Total number of pro bono hours in 2010: 12,216 No Total number of pro bono hours in 2011: 8,572

What was the attorney headcount in your firm’s U.S. offices? Does the firm consider pro bono hours when determining bonuses? Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2010: 145 No Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2011: 141

Using the number of attorneys listed above, what is the average number of pro bono hours per attorney in your firm’s U.S. office(s) PRO BONO POINTS during the following years? What training opportunities are open to associates working on Average number of hours per attorney in 2010: 84 pro bono matters? Average number of hours per attorney in 2011: 61 Linklaters invites organizations to our office to deliver training seminars for attorneys interested in or already working on pro bono matters. In addition, we encourage attorneys to attend training sessions outside the office relating to their areas of interest.

Does the firm offer the use of support staff in handling pro bono and non-legal volunteerism for organizations like Habitat for matters? Humanity. Yes Linklaters encourages all legal and non-legal staff to volunteer. We partner with community organizations to organize monthly office wide volunteer activities such as building backpacks for Please indicate how many total hours and average hours per inner city school students, preparing sandwiches for local food person your summer associates spent performing pro bono in pantries, packaging food at the local food warehouse, creating 2010 and 2011. gift bags for children in need, and preparing herb pots for the Total hours summer associates spent on pro bono work elderly. Linklaters has sponsored the production of anthologies for several inner city schools. The Firm compliments this 2010: 648 support by donating books and having our lawyers and staff 2011: 719 speak with students about the legal profession. Volunteers from Linklaters organize and support office-wide clothing drives for Average hours per summer associate spent on pro bono work Dress for Success and Career Gear, which are organizations that provide business attire and job-training assistance to low- 2010: 28 income men and women nationwide. Linklaters volunteers also 2011: 29 donate and distribute holiday toys to local day care centers for children of low-income families. Percentage of summer associates in your firm’s U.S. office(s) engaged in pro bono work Please list any special recognition or awards your firm has won 2010: 100% since 2010 for its pro bono work. 2011: 84% • Immigration Equality Safe Haven Awards 2010 • Lawyers Alliance for New York, Cornerstone Awards 2010 Please provide any additional information about pro bono opportunities available to summer associates. • City Bar Justice Award, 2011 Summer associates are generally afforded the same Please add any additional information about your firm’s pro bono opportunities to participate in pro bono matters as are all program. associates. As part of the summer program, our pro bono manager works with the recruitment team to identify a few Community investment is a part of our firmwide culture. We short-term assignments which ideally the summer associates aim to share with community partners the skills and expertise could see through from start to finish. In 2010 and 2011, of all our staff through pro bono work, employee volunteering our summer associates in New York spent time working and awarding funding. We focus a great deal of our on various types of pro bono matters including criminal community support on programs that fall within two global appeals, immigration matters, asylum matters, and provided themes: Venture Catalysts, using of our skills and experience transactional support to non-profits. Some of our summer to grow the skills of non profits; and Learn for Work, which associates participated in the Sanctuary for Families, Courtoom involves growing the skills and experiences of young people Advocates Program advocating for domestic violence victims around our offices. We also remain committed to access to seeking protective orders in family court. justice.

Does the firm have established programs, such as externships, Through our pro bono program, we aim to provide a high that enable its associates to work in a public interest setting? level of service to our pro bono clients in disadvantaged communities in the vicinity of our offices and around No the world. We believe that the most powerful way in which individuals can make a difference to disadvantaged What other law-related public interest and community service communities is by contributing the skills and expertise programs (that are not “pro bono” as defined by the Law Firm that they have developed through their own education and Pro Bono Challenge) do you offer and manage? For example, list professional experience. any law school collaborations and public interest scholarships, auctions at law schools, monetary support, or fellowships. We use our unique multi-jurisdictional and cross-practice legal capability to help support organizations seeking to Linklaters is committed to a worldwide legal pro bono solve complex social and economic problems. Our offices and community investment program. Linklaters supports are continuously seeking innovative pro bono work which organizations through financial contributions to, and annual provides our partner organizations with high-quality legal participation in, their fundraising events. The New York office advice and our own lawyers with unparalleled professional also participates in mentoring programs designed to introduce development and the opportunity to be a change agent within young students to the legal profession. the community.

What non-law related volunteer opportunities does your firm The firm has a global Time to Volunteer program where in offer? For example, list any work with high school students addition to regular pro bono and office wide volunteering

Visit www.vault.com for company rankings, ratings and reviews to learn what it’s 369 really like to work in an industry or company—and how to position yourself to land that job. Vault Guide to Law Firm Pro Bono Programs, 2013 Edition Linklaters LLP activities, all staff are encouraged to take a minimum of one day Our involvement in the community fosters talent by helping per year to volunteer on their own in the community. with recruitment, motivation and personal and professional development of our people. All lawyers and staff are Globally we are committed to contributing 1% of pre-tax profits encouraged to become involved with community investment to the community via our Charitable Donation Fund. The firm work. Our program is a highlight as we are increasingly also has a Matched Giving program through which volunteer aiming to show that we are acting responsibly in relation time or funds raised by employees for community organizations to the community, the environment, the workplace and the in which they are actively involved are matched by the firm. marketplace.