2011 PRO BONO ANNUAL REVIEW Serving Our Communities Around the World Contents

1 Letter from the Chair

2 Message from the Pro Bono Committee Chair

3 Report from the Public Service Counsel

4 Pro Bono Overview: The United States

8 Pro Bono Overview: Europe, the Middle East and Asia

12 Working to End Trafficking

16 Protecting Human Rights

22 Improving the Lives of Children

28 Investing in Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurs

32 Helping Holocaust Survivors

34 Empowering the Disabled

38 Supporting Women

42 Ensuring Fair Housing and Ending Homelessness

46 Assisting Nonprofits

50 Safeguarding Civil and Individual Rights

54 Congratulating Our Fellows

56 Pro Bono Challenge

59 Thank You to Our Wonderful Staff!

60 Pro Bono Committee Letter from the Chair

Dear Clients & Friends of the Firm:

I am delighted to present our 2011 Pro Bono Annual Review, which offers a sampling of the many diverse pro bono projects and community service initiatives undertaken by Latham & Watkins throughout the year.

Public service in various forms has always been an important part of Latham & Watkins’ culture, and our core values are reflected in our commitment to pro bono and the quality representation we provide on hundreds of pro bono matters each year. Our program spans the globe, touching upon nearly every area of public interest law. In 2011 alone, we provided more than 173,000 hours of pro bono legal services, valued at approximately $83 million. A majority of our pro bono clients are low-income individuals and families, as well as the charities and nonprofit organizations that serve them.

We are particularly proud of the depth and diversity of our pro bono program, including our continued growth in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. In many of these markets, we continue to play an active role in cultivating nascent pro bono cultures, and have experienced great success in developing new pro bono projects and partnerships in 2011.

This Pro Bono Annual Review provides a glimpse into the many ways in which our dedicated attorneys and professional staff have meaningfully improved the lives of people in need around the world. From battling human trafficking to assisting the homeless to representing domestic violence victims to helping create new families through the adoption process, we at Latham are committed to positively changing the many communities in which we live and work.

Sincerely,

Robert M. Dell Chair and Managing Partner

1 Message from the Pro Bono Committee Chair

“I am tremendously honored to be part of the pro bono program at Latham & Watkins. Thanks to the tireless dedication of our lawyers and professional staff, we continue to be a worldwide leader in providing free legal services. The scale and quality of our efforts never cease to impress and inspire me, and they illustrate the values we hold most important as  a firm. I hope you will read this report with  the same pride and admiration I feel.”

Charlie Crompton Pro Bono Committee Chair

2011 Highlights

173,000* Hours

1,482 Participating Attorneys

146 Participating Summer Associates

303 Participating Paralegals, Trainees and Professional Staff

$83,000,000* Value of Services

* Approximate figures. Includes pro bono services by attorneys, paralegals, 2 summer associates, trainees and professional staff. Report from the Public Service Counsel

At Latham & Watkins, we are privileged to be able to engage in what we do best on behalf of those most in need. The firm’s long-term, steadfast commitment makes this possible. In addition to significant and sustained funding to cover all program expenses, Latham provides its attorneys with full billable hour credit for pro bono matters.

In 2011, with more than 1,900 attorneys, paralegals, summer associates, trainees and professional staff in 28 offices across 13 countries participating in our program, Latham provided more than 173,000 hours of free legal services valued at approximately $83 million. Since 2001, Latham has provided almost 2 million hours of free legal services valued at more than $740 million.

In the face of unprecedented demand for pro bono legal services, we recognize our unique role as gatekeepers to justice and are committed to continue working to plug the gap between supply and demand. With almost 600 new pro bono matters in 2011, our pro bono practice currently comprises well over 1,000 active pro bono matters firm-wide.

While there are many ways to quantify our commitment to pro bono, we also seek to evaluate the impact and success of our efforts. One way we endeavor to do this is by considering the recipients of our pro bono services. Consistent with prior years, the vast majority of our pro bono work in 2011 was devoted to the direct representation of low-income individuals and families. We handled adoption, custody, education, landlord-tenant, predatory lending, medical and disability, domestic violence, death penalty, immigration, homelessness, tax and veterans’ matters, among others. Supporting those 2011 Highlights who might otherwise be denied access to justice has always been, and remains, at the heart of our practice. The balance of our efforts in 2011 primarily focused on larger-impact projects in the spheres of microfinance, anti-human trafficking and civil and human rights, as well as assisting nonprofits and charities around the world with their ongoing legal needs.

The quality of our representation is a catalyst of our success, and the talent, commitment, compassion and dedication our lawyers bring to each matter is a tremendous source of pride. We are pleased to share with you a sampling of our efforts in our 2011 Pro Bono Annual Review.

Wendy Atrokhov Public Service Counsel

3 Pro Bono Overview: The United States In 2011, approximately 79% of Latham & Watkins’ US attorneys participated in our pro bono program. A majority of our efforts focused on facilitating access to justice and engendering hope among low-income, traditionally underserved constituencies. As reflected below, our pro bono efforts across the United States are as diverse as the cities in which we practice.

Boston Lazar, with assistance from several National Immigrant Justice Center; Since opening in March 2011, attorneys and staff members in the and our work with the Cook County our Boston office has become Boston office. To read more about Domestic Violence Court. Notably, involved in an array of pro bono our pro bono work and community our Chicago attorneys, working matters ranging from tenants’ service initiatives in Boston, see closely with conflict specialists and rights issues to advising charitable pages 24-25 and 37. support staff throughout the firm, organizations on corporate and developed a domestic violence legal tax law. For example, our Boston Chicago clinic that was eventually adopted attorneys have represented tenants Over the past year, our attorneys by the county as its model for a in housing court proceedings, in Chicago have done significant court-run clinic. In addition, the including eviction appeals and work in such areas as immigration work of our Chicago attorneys for lease modification negotiations, and asylum, prisoner rights, fair the Center for Economic Progress helping them to remain in their housing, tax advocacy, has been recognized on multiple homes. We have also worked representation of nonprofit occasions in that organization’s with Year Up, which provides organizations and representation regular “volunteer spotlight.” To professional development to of victims of domestic violence, read more about our pro bono work young adults, and have teamed up among others. Coordinated through and community service initiatives in with several local pro bono legal local Pro Bono Committee members Chicago, see pages 12-13, 18, 26, service organizations, including Douglas Freedman, Zachary Judd 31, 32, 35-36, 38-39, 40, 42-43, the Lawyers’ Clearinghouse, the and Kathleen Lally, the Chicago 44-45, 48, 50 and 51-52. Boston Bar Association Business office runs successful programs in Law Project and Volunteer Lawyers coordination with a variety of public Houston for the Arts, to help provide pro interest organizations, including our Our Houston office, which opened bono legal services across the work with the Midwest Tax Clinic at in January 2010, continues to Boston community. These efforts the Center for Economic Progress; expand its involvement and were coordinated by local Pro Bono our Violence Against Women Act, participation in pro bono and Committee member Alexander U-visa and asylum work with the community service matters, led by local Pro Bono Committee member Rebecca Brandt. This year, we welcomed several students as part of a work-study program to empower youth from low-income families to reach their full potential. On the pro bono front, our Houston attorneys partnered with lawyers across the firm to advise some of our global pro bono clients on international reform efforts. For example, in collaboration with our London and Hamburg offices, lawyers in Houston advised Landesa, an international nongovernmental organization, on eminent domain and related

Houston associate Rebecca Brandt (left) welcomes Anne Chandler, Houston Director of 4 the Tahirih Justice Center, to Latham & Watkins to speak about pro bono opportunities. issues in the United States, the Watts neighborhood of South New Jersey England and Germany to help the Los Angeles. Our transactional Lawyers in our New Jersey office organization’s China office prepare attorneys were busy on a number handle a variety of cases that come legislative recommendations of fronts, assisting nonprofit through attorney contacts within the for revising that country’s Land organizations in negotiations for community, referral agencies or the Management Law. In addition, our lease and expansion projects, in New Jersey court system. Under Houston lawyers, working with corporate governance and in other the leadership of local Pro Bono Latham colleagues in Frankfurt matters. The Los Angeles office Committee member Kegan Brown, and London, undertook research also continued to work closely with our New Jersey lawyers have broad on judicial administration issues the Alliance for Children’s Rights, experience handling pro bono for the Legal Resources Centre, including advocating for special immigration matters, particularly a nongovernmental organization education rights and benefits for in helping unaccompanied based in Moldova, to support the children from low-income families abused, abandoned or neglected organization’s lobbying for judicial and assisting with foster care youth secure lawful immigration reform before the Ministry of Justice adoptions. Over the past 10 years, status. Attorneys, paralegals and of Moldova. Our Houston office has our Los Angeles attorneys have professional staff from our New also begun working with the Tahirih represented families in the adoption Jersey office also collaborate with Justice Center in Houston on pro of approximately 800 children, colleagues across the firm in our bono immigration matters. To read including 40 children in 2011. To extensive Holocaust reparations more about our pro bono work and read more about our pro bono work program. In addition, our New community service initiatives in and community service initiatives in Jersey office provides counsel to Houston, see pages 18 and 44-45. Los Angeles, see pages 15, 19, 23, and obtains restraining orders for 24, 25, 32, 33, 36, 37, 39, 43, 44, victims of domestic violence through Los Angeles 46, 49 and 50. Partners for Women and Justice. Under the leadership of local Pro Bono Committee members Ursula Hyman, Kim Posin, Amjad Khan, Paul Fricke and “As a tax attorney, I take great pride in  Mimi Chao, as well as our many pro bono community partners, our helping set up public interest organizations Los Angeles lawyers worked on a like A Better Chicago. By providing them wide variety of pro bono matters in 2011, ranging from litigation with the necessary support to get started, to transactional to land use. The office remains deeply involved whether that be in the transactional, corporate in the firm’s human rights and refugee practice, and obtained governance, or benefits and compensation asylum relief for numerous individuals this year. Our land use areas, I can help these organizations focus on attorneys secured camp space for the Junior Blind of America and what they do best—serving the community.” resolved land use issues related to the development of the first Robin Struve theater in 42 years to be built in Chicago tax partner

5 To read more about our pro bono Status program with Legal Aid; our cases, landlord-tenant matters, work and community service Holocaust reparations program; conservatorship cases and initiatives in New Jersey, see and our cancer advocacy, asylum guardianship matters. To read pages 26, 32, 37 and 39. and Krimstock automobile seizure more about our pro bono work programs, among others. Our and community service initiatives New York transactional attorneys have in Orange County, see pages Our New York office has built a participated in the Neighborhood 12, 13, 15, 31, 32, 36, 40, large practice across the public Entrepreneur Law Project through 41, 43, 44-45 and 48. interest spectrum, undertaking the City Bar Justice Center, significant work in such areas engaged in microfinance work San Diego as First Amendment law, death through longtime partner ACCIÓN In San Diego, our office continues penalty litigation, human rights and continued their legal support of to work closely with referral and asylum matters, civil rights, Ashoka. Our litigators have battled organizations such as Casa microfinance and domestic housing discrimination alongside Cornelia Law Center, the American violence. Our New York attorneys the Fair Housing Justice Center, Bar Association’s Immigration participate in pro bono matters co-counseled on matters with Bronx Justice Project and the San Diego spanning almost every area of Defenders and represented clients Volunteer Lawyer Program. Through public interest law, coordinated referred by the US District Court for these partnerships, our attorneys through local Pro Bono Committee the Eastern District of New York. To have successfully represented members Tony Del Pino, John read more about our pro bono work indigent clients seeking asylum and Giouroukakis, Lilly Gutwein, and community service initiatives in withholding of removal, as well as Kevin McDonough, Nate Yale New York, see pages 14-15, 16, 18, relief under the Violence Against and Joanne Lee. While our 19, 26, 27, 28, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, Women Act and the United Nations lawyers are encouraged to bring 36, 39, 46, 49, 50-51, 52 and 53. Convention Against Torture. In in appropriate pro bono matters addition to immigration matters, of interest to them, the office Orange County and under the coordination of local also runs several successful “in- The pro bono program in our Pro Bono Committee members house” programs in coordination Orange County office primarily Valerie Torres and John Wehrli, with various New York-based focuses on providing assistance our San Diego office has provided public interest organizations and to domestic violence victims and pro bono legal services across courts, including our VAWA and immigrants who have been the a wide spectrum, advocating for U-visa programs with Sanctuary victims of serious crimes. We have victims of domestic violence in for Families to assist immigrant long-standing relationships with restraining order proceedings and victims of domestic violence; several local domestic violence advising organizations such as our Special Immigrant Juvenile shelters, including Human Options Ashoka, Big Brothers Big Sisters and Interval House, and in and United Through Reading on recent years we have partnered corporate governance, real estate with students from two local and intellectual property matters. law schools—the University of Our attorneys also provide counsel California at Irvine and Chapman to CleanTECH San Diego on University—to provide valuable governance issues and partnership learning opportunities in restraining opportunities to facilitate clean order matters. Another major technology innovation, work with part of our Orange County pro the California Innocence Project in bono work involves immigration reviewing capital appeals for the and asylum matters, and for wrongfully convicted, assist the years the office has played a Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights leading role in the community by Under Law on civil rights litigation, working on immigration matters and engage in pro bono appellate and human trafficking cases. work before the Ninth Circuit and Under the leadership of local Pro the Board of Immigration Appeals. Bono Committee members Paul Our San Diego office was recently , and honored by the ABA Immigration Los Angeles associate Kee-Min Ngiam Konovalov Charity Gilbreth accepts a 2011 Latham & Watkins Rob Dickson, we work closely Justice Project as the “2011 Law Pro Bono Star Award for his work on with the Public Law Center and Firm of the Year.” To read more several successful asylum matters. the Legal Aid Foundation of Los about our pro bono work and Angeles to provide counsel in many community service initiatives in areas, including assisting nonprofit San Diego, see pages 19, 27, organizations with corporate 32, 40, 44-45, 50, 52 and 59. formation and governance, as well as representing individuals in employment discrimination 6 and wrongful termination San Francisco Coordinated by local Pro Bono Committee members Megan Bouchier, Sadik Huseny, Kathy Lee and Jason Daniels, our San Francisco office maintains a vibrant pro bono program. We have long-standing relationships with several Bay Area public interest organizations, including the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, Asian Pacific Islander Legal Outreach, Legal Services for Children, Legal Services for Entrepreneurs and the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, and we recently began working with Napa Valley Legal Aid, the East Bay Community Law Center’s Neighborhood Justice Washington, D.C. Pro Bono Committee members, including (from left to right) associate Sarah Clinic and Stanford Law School’s Greenfield, manager of attorney development and programs CJ Bickley, and associates Stacey VanBelleghem and Scott Forchheimer, discuss pro bono matters at one of their monthly meetings. Three Strikes Project. This year, we also forged a strong relationship with Not For Sale, a Bay Area organization devoted to ending Silicon Valley Urban Affairs. Coordinated through human trafficking and slavery, Local Pro Bono Committee local Pro Bono Committee members and signed on to participate in members Peter Chen, Lisa Scott Forchheimer, Roger Motion to Vacate, a pilot program Nguyen and Adam Regoli oversee Goldman, Sarah Greenfield, by the Bar Association of San the pro bono program in our Silicon Stacey VanBelleghem and CJ Francisco’s Volunteer Legal Valley office, which includes Bickley, pro bono work in our Services Program to provide limited domestic violence, U-visa, asylum, Washington, D.C. office includes scope representation to low-income civil rights and corporate matters. obtaining reparations for Holocaust clients facing immediate eviction In particular, for the past several survivors, assisting asylum seekers, and imminent homelessness. We years we have collaborated with representing prisoners in parole continue to participate in the Ninth local nonprofit organizations and hearings, challenging municipal Circuit Court of Appeals Pro Bono developed strong programs to ordinances affecting the homeless Program and various California help domestic violence survivors and resolving complex guardianship District Court referral panels and obtain permanent restraining orders issues. In recent years, our have taken on significant matters through the Domestic Violence litigators have worked on horse- involving a range of issues, Limited Scope Representation soring and penning petitions for such as civil rights violations, Project and assist immigrant victims the Humane Society of the United housing, debt collection and the with applying for immigration States, advised organizations on formation of business entities relief independent of their abusive export control considerations in the in economically depressed and spouses. Our transactional context of fighting global poverty disadvantaged communities. The attorneys have assisted community and developed research databases office has a strong immigration and public service organizations for the Anti-Defamation League. pro bono practice, representing such as Big Brothers Big Sisters Our transactional attorneys have clients on such matters as asylum of the Bay Area, the Yellow Moon advised nonprofit corporations on applications, Special Immigrant Foundation, the Mississippi Center matters including board formation Juvenile Status claims, U-visa for Justice and Not For Sale. To and governance standards for and T-visa applications, Violence read more about our pro bono work citywide charter schools; financial Against Women Act petitions and and community service initiatives regulations affecting nonprofit claims of unlawful detention. We in Silicon Valley, see pages 13, operations; development and were recently recognized by Bay 14-15, 16, 19, 22, 25, 27, 37, implementation of strategic Area Legal Aid as an “Outstanding 40, 44-45 and 47. corporate initiatives; and corporate New Pro Bono Partner.” To read governance, compliance standards more about our pro bono work and Washington, D.C. and advisory work with respect to community service initiatives in Our Washington, D.C. office various compensation plans and San Francisco, see pages 13, works with many local referral arrangements. To read more about 14-15, 17, 19, 22, 26, 34, 36, organizations, including the our pro bono work and community 40, 47, 50, 51 and 52. Children’s Law Center, the Legal Aid service initiatives in Washington, Society of the District of Columbia D.C., see pages 13, 14-15, 16, and the Washington Lawyers’ 17-18, 24, 27, 31, 32, 33, 35-36, Committee for Civil Rights and 38, 42, 44-45, 46, 47, 50 and 51. n 7 Pro Bono Overview: Europe, the Middle East and Asia While the culture of pro bono and the infrastructure supporting it are relatively new in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, Latham & Watkins has been at the forefront of efforts to develop pro bono activity in these regions. As we continue to grow our pro bono practice worldwide, our efforts extend to both local and international matters. Our unique global platform helps us provide pro bono clients with a wide range of perspectives, experience and solutions.

Brussels for the reform of EU legislation Humboldt University Legal Clinic In Brussels, our attorneys on microfinance, and helping Not in Berlin. Our Frankfurt office has participate in pro bono matters For Sale develop an immigration/ a particularly strong track record spanning numerous areas visa regime that assists trafficking supporting inclusive education for of European Union law and victims in the red-light district in children with disabilities, including international law, coordinated Amsterdam. To read more about assisting the German Institute by local Pro Bono Committee our pro bono work and community for Human Rights and working member Gianni De Stefano. We service initiatives in Brussels, to develop legislation to ensure provide human rights support to see pages 14-15, 21, 24, 28, the State of Hesse’s compliance nongovernmental organizations 29, 38 and 41. with international human rights such as Save the Children in its obligations in this regard. The office advocacy efforts to ensure that Germany is also working with the Refugee EU legislation prioritizes children’s Under the leadership of local Pro Law Clinic at the University of rights, and to Montenegro MANS Bono Committee members Jörn Giessen, the first clinic of its kind in to help guarantee the freedom of Kowalewski in Hamburg and Germany, on international refugee information under the European Mathias Fischer in Frankfurt, our matters. In Hamburg, our attorneys Convention for Human Rights. In German offices have developed one have participated extensively addition, our Brussels attorneys of the leading pro bono practices in our Holocaust reparations provide advice concerning EU in the country, setting an example program, as well as in counseling regulatory issues to a variety in terms of quantity as well as both established and prospective of nonprofit and public interest quality. To that end, Latham & charitable organizations focused groups, such as advising the World Watkins has co-founded Pro Bono on the education and support of Wide Fund for Nature on public Deutschland e.V., an association children. Highlights of this work procurement law in the European that aims to promote the culture include providing ongoing legal Union, advising ADIE (Association of pro bono and its regulatory advice to an expanding children’s pour le droit à l’initiative framework in Germany, and has hospital, counseling a charitable économique) on advocating provided financial support to the association dedicated to assisting

The Latham & Watkins delegation to the 2011 PILnet European Pro Bono Forum included (from left to right) Moscow associate Marina Babanskaya, Paris associate Laure Valance, Milan associate Emanuela Basso Petrino, Frankfurt counsel Mathias Fischer, Paris partner François Mary, Brussels 8 associate Gianni De Stefano, Public Service Counsel Wendy Atrokhov, Hamburg associate Jörn Kowalewski, London associate Graham Samuel- Gibbon and London partner Andy Kolacki. Over the past decade, our pro bono work in Europe, the Middle East and Asia has grown tremendously, from approximately 1,200 hours in 2002 to 22,000 hours in 2011.

parents of newborns and for Refugees, matters pertaining Committee member Emanuela providing pro bono assistance to to domestic helper employment Basso Petrino as well as lawyers an organization that aids children disputes and work with Tongzhi and staff from our Milan and abducted from Eastern Europe. Community Joint Meeting, an Rome offices continue to focus on In addition, our Hamburg attorneys organization supporting Hong expanding our pro bono practice in advised on the founding of a Kong’s LGBT community. To Italy. To read more about our pro charitable organization that helps read more about our pro bono bono work and community service women who have fallen victim to work and community service initiatives in Italy, see pages 18, the slave trade and have been initiatives in Hong Kong, see 21, 22-23, 24, 28, 29 and 48. forced into prostitution. To read pages 17, 31 and 59. more about our pro bono work London and community service initiatives Italy Lawyers and professional staff in Germany, see pages 12, 14-15, Our Milan and Rome offices in our London office have been 16, 18, 21, 22, 24, 31, 32, 34, 36, have developed an active pro increasingly active in pro bono 37, 46, 49 and 59. bono practice over the past three over the past decade, maintaining years. Our work has primarily close ties with key public interest Hong Kong centered around the provision of organizations such as LawWorks The concept of pro bono legal legal assistance to foundations, and Business in the Community services is nascent but rapidly associations and nonprofit and bringing in pro bono matters expanding in Hong Kong. Under organizations focused on social of particular interest. Our London the direction of local Pro Bono and international assistance. office also works on a number of Committee member Brian Pong, We represent, among others, matters for firm-wide pro bono attorneys from our Hong Kong Fondazione Theodora Onlus, a clients, such as Ashoka and Not office are active in the Hong Kong foundation that provides assistance For Sale, and our overall efforts are Pro Bono Roundtable. Initially to children in public hospitals, coordinated through local Pro Bono chartered in 2008, the Roundtable aiming to bring joy to their lives Committee members Andy Kolacki comprises attorneys from more through fun and artistic activities; and Graham Samuel-Gibbon. than 30 international law firms Emergency, an independent We advise a variety of local, with operations in the city and organization established to provide national and international charities, meets on a bimonthly basis to high-quality, free healthcare nongovernmental organizations and discuss pro bono opportunities to victims of war and poverty; other nonprofits on a broad range available in Asia. Areas of pro bono and Fondazione Dr. Ambrosoli of matters covering corporate, involvement for our Hong Kong Memorial Hospital, created to finance (including a developing office include an active practice support the medical care of the microfinance practice), employment, representing refugees before the Kalongo Hospital and the Midwifery intellectual property, information United Nations High Commissioner School in Uganda. Local Pro Bono technology and charity law advice.

9 Recent matters of particular practice still contends with Paris note include advising the BLUE the historic lack of a pro bono Our Paris office has been actively Marine Foundation, a charity culture among the region’s legal involved in pro bono throughout promoting marine conservation, community, the efforts of Latham the past several years, with and assisting the Center for Justice attorneys, coordinated by local Pro much of our work focused on and Accountability in a case filed Bono Committee member Christian providing legal assistance to on behalf of a victim of torture in Adams, have ensured that the national and international charities, Somalia. To read more about our firm remains at the forefront of the nonprofits and nongovernmental pro bono work and community regional pro bono community. To organizations. We have also service initiatives in London, read more about our pro bono work continued working closely with see pages 13, 14-15, 16, 18, and community service initiatives Ashoka France, assisting a number 20-21, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31, in the Middle East, see pages of its fellows with matters involving 32, 37, 42, 46 and 48. 21, 29-30 and 45. physical training for the elderly and disabled through S.I.E.L. The Middle East Moscow BLEU (Sport, Initiative Et Loisirs) In 2011, lawyers from our Abu While Moscow-based attorneys and after-school care for young Dhabi, Doha, Dubai and Riyadh from several international law firms children from families with limited offices continued to strengthen formed an informal roundtable in means through Réseau Môm’Artre, relationships with existing pro the early 2000s, seeking ways among other projects. We have bono clients such as Grameen- to develop the type of pro bono been involved in various matters Jameel Pan-Arab Microfinance culture to which they had become coordinated through local Pro Bono Limited and the Emirates Wildlife accustomed in their firms’ US and Committee members François Society, and Latham & Watkins UK offices, it was not until the Mary and Laure Valance, such again participated in the Dubai entry of the PILnet Moscow Pro as microfinance projects through International Financial Centre Bono Clearinghouse in 2007 that ADIE (Association pour le droit Courts’ pro bono program. We also the pro bono movement began in à l’initiative économique) and began work with new pro bono earnest. Working with PILnet and renewable energy matters through clients such as Balthazar Capital, under the direction of local Pro Sun Impact Investing (SUNII), an Arab world-focused microfinance Bono Committee member Marina as well as projects involving institution, on the development of its Babanskaya, our Moscow office education and the development of loan structuring and documentation, continues to develop an active pro young children in Madagascar, the and Hawkamah, the Institute bono practice. Our focus has been establishment of drinkable water for Corporate Governance, with on providing support to charities, systems for rural populations in a view to modernizing regional nongovernmental organizations Cambodia and the construction of insolvency frameworks to promote and nonprofits, which are relatively housing for the disabled in France. economic development and the new to Russia. The laws regulating Our labor law attorneys provided decriminalization of bankruptcy. these entities have been radically assistance to Force Femmes, which While our Middle East pro bono revised in recent years, and as a assists unemployed women age result much of our work in Moscow 45 and over, while our litigators has focused on the provision have advocated before the French of legal assistance to entities Parliament on behalf of OXFAM seeking to register or re-register in France concerning the introduction Russia as charities, nonprofits or of legislation on the export of nongovernmental organizations. We weapons. Our Paris attorneys have also worked with individuals also helped the nongovernmental seeking to set up new charities in organization MADRE by providing support of various causes, including support on a large-scale study of orphans, abandoned newborns, legislation pertaining to rape and disadvantaged youth and families, women’s rights. To read more about and the arts. Additionally, in 2011, our pro bono work and community we worked with a charitable service initiatives in Paris, see foundation in its efforts to amend pages 16, 18, 21, 24, 28-29, the Russian Family Code with 30, 31 and 38. respect to the termination of parental rights and represented Singapore individuals whose land rights Our Singapore lawyers have led pro were being violated by their local bono initiatives by the Law Society governments. To read more about of Singapore, including through Milan associate Emanuela Basso Petrino our pro bono work and community the Joint International Pro Bono participates in a panel at the 2011 PILnet service initiatives in Moscow, see Committee, which was established European Pro Bono Forum in Berlin. pages 21, 23 and 48. to match interested Singaporean 10 Latham & Watkins has performed award-winning work on a survey of microfinance practices across the European Union, assisted more than a dozen

Tokyo associates (from left to right) Tomohiko Kamimura, Saori Kawakami and Richard Chul Kim discuss the pro bono matters that they are working on for Ashoka Japan. Ashoka social entrepreneurs in France, and international law practices with advocacy groups in connection with advocated for cross-border pro bono opportunities the existing regulatory framework involving economic and social of the distribution of powers and disabled children development in emerging markets. competences regarding children’s The Committee also regularly rights between state, regional and in Germany, organizes talks and roundtable local authorities in Spain, and negotiated discussions on issues such as the obligations of those public social enterprise and philanthropy. authorities to enforce the United on behalf of Our local Pro Bono Committee Nations Convention on the Rights member Maree Myerscough of the Child. To read more about microfinance serves as the Assignments Chair our pro bono work and community organizations in on this Committee in addition to service initiatives in Spain, see coordinating our local pro bono pages 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 31 the Middle East, practice. Among other matters, our and 37. Singapore office participates in the helped asylum Prison Interview Programme run Tokyo by the Law Society of Singapore, Our Tokyo attorneys, under seekers in Hong and recently assisted a not-for- the direction of local Pro Bono Kong and assisted profit organization in fulfilling the Committee members Asuka requirements of and registering as a Fujita and Tomohiko Kamimura, in efforts to local charity under the Charities Act have assisted in filing an asylum in Singapore. To read more about application on behalf of a victim relocate at-risk our pro bono work and community of female genital mutilation from service initiatives in Singapore, Uganda, advised the anti-human survivors of the see pages 31, 46 and 53. trafficking organization Not For Sale earthquakes and in structuring and incorporating Spain its operations in Japan, helped a tsunami in Japan, Our Madrid and Barcelona offices relief project in its efforts to relocate have developed an active pro at-risk survivors of the March 2011 among other bono practice over the past five earthquakes and tsunami, assisted years, thanks in part to the efforts Ashoka Japan, and provided legal projects. of local Pro Bono Committee advice regarding children’s rights member Paco Iso. In addition through our partnership with the to their work for long-standing Daini Tokyo Bar Association. To firm pro bono clients, such as read more about our pro bono Ashoka, our Spanish attorneys work and community service have rendered recent pro bono initiatives in Tokyo, see pages services to international children’s 13, 15, 22, 31 and 49. n 11 Working to End Trafficking There are more than 30 million slaves in the world today, more than at any time in human history. In response, Latham & Watkins has significantly expanded our global efforts to help combat human trafficking. Our work takes many forms, including direct representation of trafficking victims, developing new strategies to bring traffickers to justice, supporting the development of commerce in areas of the world that are vulnerable to trafficking, and partnering on various projects with Not For Sale, a dynamic nonprofit organization trying to end slavery in our lifetime.

Representing Supporting Mission Freedom Pursuing Traffickers Trafficked Workers Our Hamburg office assisted in the Throughout 2011, Latham & Human trafficking is a pervasive creation of Mission Freedom e.V., Watkins supported the Chicago problem that received considerable a nonprofit organization founded Legal Aid Society in its efforts to news coverage when a Los in 2011 to fight human trafficking develop a new initiative aimed at Angeles-based labor recruiter was and forced prostitution in Hamburg. allowing trafficking victims to bring indicted by the US Department of Mission Freedom seeks to raise civil lawsuits and seek damages Justice for crimes related to the awareness of the consequences from traffickers and those who aid trafficking of hundreds of Thai of sex tourism, human trafficking them. In particular, Chicago partner men to the United States in 2004 and sexual abuse; establish a Zach Fardon, counsel Deborah and 2005. In most cases, these place of refuge for those in need; Steiner, associate Michael Rabkin men were tricked into paying large and support victims of human and summer associate Kathryn recruitment fees with the promise trafficking and forced prostitution by Dunne undertook extensive of good wages, only to find establishing and supporting local research into the constitutionality of themselves arriving in the United nonprofit organizations. Hamburg the Illinois Predator Accountability States in a state of debt bondage, associates Jörn Kowalewski Act of 2006, which will serve as working in substandard conditions and Felix Riethmüller, under the the basis to bring civil claims, with insufficient food and no ability supervision of partner Frank Grell, and the team is actively involved to leave the farms where they advised Mission Freedom on its in launching the anti-trafficking were forced to work. Since 2008, incorporation as a nonprofit, as initiative in cooperation with federal, attorneys in our Orange County well as in negotiations related to state and local law enforcement. office have represented and the acquisition of a countryside Although the act is considered to be assisted many of these trafficked house near Hamburg to be used among the most progressive legal victims in successfully obtaining as a shelter for victims of human remedies for victims of trafficking, T-1 nonimmigrant visas. trafficking and forced prostitution. to date it has never been tested.

Several Latham & Watkins partners and associates, along with business leaders, artists, scholars and others, attend Not For Sale’s annual Global 12 Forum on Human Trafficking to share innovative ideas for ending human trafficking. Further supporting these efforts is queries. London partner Sean Finn, Catherine Longkumer, our newest associates Sinthu Sivakumaran, Equal Justice Works Fellow, who Mel Adkins, Maud Holma and will focus on advancing this initiative Robbie McLaren and trainee and working with trafficking victims solicitors Hendrik Smit, Robert Among our newest to develop civil lawsuits. For more Davidson and Stephanie Warren information on Catherine’s work, advised NFS on various methods and most prolific see page 54. by which a UK presence may be incorporated efficiently into its relationships in global structure. Tokyo associates Partnering with Not For Sale 2011 was with Not Not For Sale (NFS) aims to attract Richard Fleming and Saori and leverage the skills of the most Kawakami and foreign legal For Sale. Operating innovative thinkers in support of consultant Hiroko WakelingOgawa, its cause: ending human trafficking under the supervision of partner in more than a and slavery. Our relationship with Hiroki Kobayashi, assisted in NFS is led by London partner Bill structuring the legal framework to dozen countries, establish an NFS entity in Japan Voge and San Francisco partner NFS seeks to end Karen Silverman and associate and drafted corporate documents Morgan Casey, with support from necessary for incorporation. In human trafficking Public Service Counsel Wendy addition, Silicon Valley partners Atrokhov. Latham has advised Anthony Klein, Glenn Nash and slavery NFS on complex commercial, trade, and Peter Chen and associates intellectual property, anti-defamation Kate Hillier, Heather Bromfield through “open and corporate structuring matters. and Kathleen Cui have provided ongoing pro bono support in relation source activism”— For example, London partners to intellectual property contracts educating, training Bill Voge and Simon Dickens, for the NFS Free2Work iPhone associates Anne Ferris, Andrew and Android applications, the NFS and mobilizing Boyd, Sarah Gadd, Gretchen online store and the administration Lennon, Amy Taylor and Hannah of grant funds, and Washington, “smart activists” , trainee solicitor Faulkner Joseph D.C. partner Sarah Nappi and to combat the slave Kimberling and paralegal Victor Orange County associate Daniel Eshkeri reviewed grant applications Ricks advised on trade issues trade in their own and contracts and provided legal relating to goods sold in the advice in relation to operational NFS online store. communities.

“I thank the universe for bringing me to  Latham & Watkins. The lawyers I’ve worked with have been invaluable partners in the  fight to end human trafficking.”

David Batstone President and Co-Founder, Not For Sale

13 Not For Sale In addition to performing extensive pro bono work relating to NFS operations and international expansion, Latham & Watkins proudly participated in and helped support several NFS initiatives.

Attending the Global Forum individuals, nonprofit organizations Following the Montara Circle, In October 2011, Latham partners and companies from around the the business plan was further Bill Voge, Ray Lin, Karen world who share our commitment developed by NFS along with Silverman and Bob Sims and to helping victims and abolishing Just Business, a social enterprise associates Andrea Cheuk, Kate human trafficking and forced labor. incubator. With assistance from a Hillier, Heather Bromfield, Laura team of Latham attorneys in New Vartain Horn, Morgan Casey, Joining the Montara Circle York, led by partner Ray Lin and Keith Cantrelle and Rachel Among the key strategies NFS associates Rachel Weschler and Wechsler attended Not For Sale’s emphasizes to eradicate human Keith Cantrelle, a new company annual Global Forum on Human trafficking is to incubate and called Headwaters Natural Products Trafficking. The two-day event grow social enterprises to benefit was structured and established, brought together business, media, trafficking victims and vulnerable and the first round of financing social justice and spiritual leaders, communities. In February 2010, San was completed in the summer of artists, musicians and more than Francisco partner Karen Silverman 2011. The Latham team structured 1,000 other attendees to network participated in the Montara Circle, Headwaters as a unique and and learn about innovative ideas for an innovative think-tank summit innovative social enterprise—for ending human trafficking. that challenges a small group instance, a licensing agreement of business, political and social with NFS is included in its corporate Among the many speakers were leaders to work together to develop charter providing that a certain Jack Dorsey, co-founder and real solutions to protect vulnerable percentage of Headwaters’ executive chairman of Twitter; communities from exploitive revenue stream will automatically Mike McCarthy, vice president of practices and create better flow back to the nonprofit and coverage and feature programming futures for victims through new into the Peruvian Amazon region. at CNN International; Douglas employment opportunities. At this Headwaters aims to bring its first Alexander, the British Labour event, participants were challenged product to the retail market in 2012. Party’s shadow foreign secretary to come up with a plan that would and a member of British Parliament; provide economic stability and In November 2011, Karen and Kindley Walsh-Lawlor, vice social infrastructure to a region of Silverman and Hamburg partner president of social and the Peruvian Amazon that has been Holger Iversen participated in environmental responsibility at Gap vulnerable to human trafficking and a second Montara Circle, held Inc. The forum provided Latham forced labor. The event yielded the in Amsterdam and organized to attorneys a unique opportunity to idea of developing a beverage line develop a tangible solution to stop meet and build relationships with using indigenous roots and plants. the trafficking of young girls from

14 Partners and associates from many Latham & Watkins offices pose with members of Not For Sale’s leadership and staff at the Not For Sale Gala during the Global Forum in October 2011. San Francisco partner Karen Silverman (right) participates in a panel to demonstrate the collaborative process involved in incubating new models for social change with President and Co-Founder of Not For Sale David Batstone (left) and San Francisco Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt (center).

In 2011, more Romania into the Netherlands Free2Play than 80 Latham to work in the sex industry there. Free2Play is a fundraising arm A team of Latham attorneys, of Not For Sale that works with personnel worked including Washington, D.C. partner athletes, artists, performers, Bill McGlone and associates musicians and others to raise on NFS matters Kim Fielding Vinocour, Jessica money to ensure that children in our Brussels, Thibodeau and Andrea Mangones who are vulnerable to or have and Brussels Office Managing been victimized by trafficking Hamburg, London, Partner Howard Rosenblatt, have the opportunity to follow associate Gianni De Stefano and their dreams. Over the summer, Los Angeles, law clerks Tim Engel and Teresa attorneys from our San Francisco Palomar Jiménez, prepared office joined NFS and baseball’s New York, briefing materials for the Montara San Francisco Giants to raise Orange County, event to educate participants on the money and awareness at Free2Play legal regime within the Netherlands Night at AT&T Park, home of the San Francisco, as it relates to human trafficking, Giants. The Latham team had a including immigration and work visa pre-game huddle on the field with Silicon Valley, options for victims of trafficking. representatives from NFS, including David Batstone, its president and Tokyo and co-founder, and some of NFS’s Washington, D.C. other partners. Giants relief pitcher Jeremy Affeldt, 2009 MLB Setup offices. Man of the Year, talked about the work he does as a Free2Play ambassador. Each time Jeremy strikes out a batter, achieves a hold or gets a win, he donates $250 to NFS. He has also encouraged other professional baseball players to join the campaign. n

15 Protecting Human Rights Over the decades, Latham & Watkins has developed a premier human rights practice, representing hundreds of asylum seekers fleeing persecution in their homelands based on their political views, affiliations, religion, ethnicity, gender or sexual orientation, as well as unaccompanied abused, abandoned and neglected youth seeking lawful immigration status. In addition to representing individuals, we work on systemic change to prevent broader abuses and deprivation of rights.

Aiding the UN Global Compact issues, grants given and made, Olexiy Oleshchuk, under the The United Nations Global Compact and third-party agreements supervision of partner Finn corporate responsibility initiative in support of Global Compact Zeidler, is currently representing a promulgates 10 core principles in activities around the world. The Lebanese refugee in his bid for right the areas of human rights, labor Latham team includes lawyers from of residence in Germany. standards, the environment and several offices and practice areas, anti-corruption. It is the world’s coordinated by New York partners Representing a Torture Victim largest corporate responsibility Jim Kearney and Jeff Tochner A team of Latham attorneys initiative, comprising more than and associates Paula Agrati, from our Public International 8,000 stakeholders, including Kevin Kay and Yiheng Feng. Law and Supreme Court & more than 6,000 signatories from Appellate practices, working the business sector and 3,000 Helping a Refugee Law Clinic with the Center for Justice & from civil society and other non- Latham attorneys in Frankfurt Accountability, an international business groups, and it has bases work with the Giessen University human rights organization based in more than 130 countries. Latham Refugee Law Clinic, a cutting-edge in San Francisco, brought a US & Watkins’ representation of the initiative that is implementing the federal district court claim under Global Compact is broad-based legal clinic model in Germany. the Alien Tort Statute and Torture and dates back to 2004, including Students apply their classroom Victim Protection Act against its work with the official nonprofit knowledge by helping refugees Colonel Abdi Aden Magan, the partner organization, the Foundation who require legal assistance. former chief of the Somali National for the Global Compact, created in Latham advises students on the Security Service Department of April 2006 to promote the Global preparation of cases and works to Investigations during the military Compact’s principles. Latham protect the refugees’ rights. For dictatorship of Siad Barre. The continues to advise on governance example, Frankfurt associate claim was filed on behalf of a former constitutional law professor and international human rights attorney who was an outspoken critic of the regime’s abuses. Our client was arbitrarily detained and brutally tortured for possessing a copy of an Amnesty International report. The defendant’s motion to dismiss was recently defeated, and the case is currently pending in the Southern District of Ohio. The team includes New York partner Mark Beckett, Washington, D.C. partner Rick Bress, Paris partner Rachel Thorn, London associates Christina Hioureas, Hussein Haeri and Lucas Bastin and Washington, D.C. associate Katya Georgieva.

Silicon Valley associate Joyce Wang (left) helped her client secure a U-visa pursuant to 16 the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act. A C C O L A D E S

Advising Refugees with our client before the United Associate Honored by Our Hong Kong attorneys have Nations Refugee Agency in Hong State Bar of California been working closely with the Kong as part of their successful Hong Kong Refugee Advice Centre efforts to secure his asylum. In June, San Francisco for a number of years, providing associate Jason Lee legal advice and acting as legal Fighting Global Poverty representatives to clients seeking Washington, D.C. partner Bill received a “Wiley W. Manuel refugee status in Hong Kong after McGlone, counsel Les Carnegie Award” from the State Bar fleeing their home countries for a and associates Annie Simpson, of California. The award variety of reasons, including war , Kim Fielding Vinocour Waqas recognizes Jason’s work and severe ethnic discrimination. Shahid, Rachel Alpert, Laura on behalf of a client who Among other matters, a Latham Mancini and Katya Georgieva team, including associates Jae represent CARE USA, an was unlawfully arrested and Lemin and Amanda Goceljak, international humanitarian interrogated based solely under the supervision of partner organization fighting global on his race, then placed David Miles, successfully poverty. The Latham team has into immigration removal represented an asylum seeker advised CARE USA on a number from Afghanistan who was being of issues relating to compliance proceedings. Jason helped his threatened by the Taliban. In with US export controls and client challenge the legality of addition to preparing the legal economic sanctions administered his order of removal under the submissions, the team appeared by the Commerce and Treasury Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution.

“Once again, Latham attorneys have distinguished themselves in providing the highest quality pro bono service in support of the UN Global Compact. Their continued commitment, judgment and legal skills have been of enormous value to us in achieving our mission of advancing corporate responsibility globally.”

Georg Kell Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact

17 Departments, and is helping system that increase its accuracy, advised on applicable Italian the organization and its affiliates legitimacy and reliability and vastly regulations and authorization expand their ability to deliver improve outcomes. In conjunction procedures for the opening needed humanitarian assistance with Appleseed and others, a cross- of healthcare centers for to Somalia and Sudan, office team of Latham lawyers is disadvantaged people in Italy and among other countries. engaged in the data collection and for the purchase and stockpiling advocacy phases of the update of medicines to be shipped to Advocating for Justice project, and will soon begin drafting hospitals and first-aid centers The Appleseed Foundation is a report that examines what abroad. Similarly, Milan associates dedicated to building a just society progress the US government has Gaia Guizzetti and Ludovico through legal advocacy, community made since the publication of the Anselmi assisted Comitato di activism and policy expertise. initial report. During 2011, Latham Coordinamento delle Organizzazioni Latham & Watkins has a strong teams held meetings with White per il Servizio Volontario, an Italian and ongoing relationship with House policy advisors to advocate nongovernmental organization that Appleseed, working together to for systemic changes, met with promotes a model of development address major areas in need of senior policy and legal officials built on solidarity and in close reform. We are currently helping at the Department of Homeland collaboration with local partners to to update the expansive 2009 Security and the Department of aid victims of war, natural disasters, report entitled Assembly Line Justice to obtain information and poverty and social discrimination. Injustice, which the firm worked press for reforms to the immigration The team advised on the creation of on with Appleseed to outline a court system, interviewed dozens of an organizational and management series of small-scale changes practitioners and key constituents, model under Italian law. to the immigration adjudication established court-watching teams in multiple jurisdictions, and sought, Promoting Transparency obtained and reviewed hundreds A global team from our Frankfurt, of pages of materials from US Houston, London and Paris offices government agencies through the provided research assistance to Freedom of Information Act. This the Legal Resources Centre (LRC), multioffice effort is led by New York a newly established organization partner John Giouroukakis, with in Moldova focused on raising associates Dennis Craythorn, awareness of human rights issues. Lyndsay Speece and Daniel Glad As part of its efforts to strengthen managing teams in New York, a transparent, fair and credible Chicago and Washington, D.C., judiciary in Moldova, the LRC respectively. Other team members sought information on international include associates Jessalyn approaches to recording, Garvey, Manasi Shanghavi transcribing and disseminating and Kyle Wallace in New York; judgments from judicial associates Megan Sindel, proceedings. The Latham team Katherine Knapp, Jonathon prepared an extensive research Fazzola and Andrew Gehl in memorandum analyzing how court Chicago; and associates Matthew decisions are published and how

Photo: Natasha Fain, The Center for Justice & Accountability Photo: Natasha Fain, The Center for Justice & Cronin and Anna Rathbun in court hearings are recorded in Latham & Watkins represents this Washington, D.C. England, France, Germany and former constitutional law professor the United States, as well as how and international human rights attorney citizens are granted access to such from Somalia who was tortured for Helping Victims of War possessing a copy of an Amnesty Rome partner Stefano Sciolla resources. The research was used International report. and associate Giovanni Sandicchi by the LRC in proceedings before and Milan associate Cesare the Moldovan Supreme Court. The Milani assisted Emergency, an cross-office Latham team consisted independent nongovernmental of associate Daniel Schlößer organization that provides free and counsel Mathias Fischer in healthcare to victims of war and Frankfurt, partner Ryan Maierson poverty. In particular, the team and associate Rebecca Brandt in Houston, associate Simon Yeung in London and partner Myria Saarinen and associate Olivier Parleani in Paris. n

18 All client names are pseudonyms.

A Look Behind the Headlines: Our Clients and Their Powerful Stories

Leyla As a member of an Iraqi religious and client with boiling water and she was Ray and Ashianna Esmail linguistic minority, Leyla was violently hospitalized for months afterward. worked with country conditions attacked in her home by the son of Aude and her husband were forced experts, mental health experts a local official in Saddam Hussein’s into hiding, where her husband and the Hastings Center for government. She fled to Jordan, remains. Silicon Valley associates Gender and Refugee Studies to where she began a courtship with an Jacqueline Haggarty and Thomas build our client’s case. The team American citizen whose family she Lloyd, working under the supervision convinced the Asylum Office to had known as a child. After a months- of partner Kathleen Wells, argued accept an electronic submission long engagement, the couple flew that our client was persecuted—and of our client’s form that same day, to Southern California to start a new fears future persecution—on account before his scheduled release, in life. However, as soon as our client of imputed political opinion and her order to preserve his ability to was married, her husband’s behavior membership in a Congolese family apply for affirmative asylum as an changed drastically. He abused and known to oppose those in power. unaccompanied minor, and then berated our client, refused to allow Having been granted asylum, our secured a continuance to prepare her to use electricity or take hot client now looks forward to his application and supporting showers, and threatened to lock her attending school again. documentation. After an eight- out if she left the house without him. month review period, our client Luis On two occasions, he struck her in was granted asylum. Now living Luis was persecuted in his the face. The second time, Leyla fled native Honduras on account of with his mother, he recently to her brother’s house, expecting his homosexuality and familial began 10th grade. her husband to apologize and make relationship to members of one of Ahmed peace. Instead, he sent divorce the largest gangs in the country. papers. For the next seven years, Ahmed, a native of Somalia, On separate occasions, a rival escaped that country after receiving Leyla fought to avoid deportation gang attempted to rape and kill to Iraq, where her prospects would death threats from the Al-Shabab him, ultimately precipitating his militia, which had previously killed be extremely bleak. Our client’s flight from Honduras. New York initial immigration petition under his uncle. Our client opposed the partner John Giouroukakis and activities of Al-Shabab and applied VAWA was denied. When formal associates Parul Mehta, Kyle deportation proceedings began, for asylum based on this political Wallace, Stephanie Herbert and stance. He also requested asylum Los Angeles associates Megan Sadie Holzman prepared extensive Lorenz, Ghaith Mahmood and Peter based on his practice of Sufism, documentation in support of the a more mystical sect of Islam; he Durning, under the supervision of application and presented testimony partner Manny Abascal and with believes that he was targeted by from a psychiatrist regarding the Al-Shabab for this reason. San translation assistance from associate trauma suffered by our client. In Diego associate Matt Ichinose, Raffi Djihanian, revived her VAWA granting asylum, the immigration with significant assistance from cancellation of removal petition, court found that our client had faced legal secretary Pat Beebe and and Leyla’s application was finally past persecution in his native country supervision by counsel Kimberly approved. After many years of and had a well-founded fear of future Arouh, began representing Ahmed worrying about her future, our client persecution if forced to return. said, “Now I can finally sleep at night.” after he had already filed an asylum Jaime application pro se. With a merits Aude Jaime fled his native El Salvador at hearing set for two months later, Aude, a 22-year-old woman, fled age 15 after suffering severe abuse the team immediately evaluated the Democratic Republic of Congo from his uncle, and was placed and revised his filings, obtained to avoid further persecution by in removal proceedings upon his documentation and a psychological members of the PPRD, the ruling attempted entry into the United evaluation, drafted a pre-hearing political party. Our client’s husband States. The case proved uniquely brief and prepared the client for had been an active member of an challenging, in part, because our testimony at the hearing. The opposition party, and as a result client was due to be released to his immigration court subsequently the couple was targeted by the mother in Sacramento, California, granted asylum to our client on PPRD and experienced two violent before a necessary form could be both grounds and the government home invasions. During the second filed. San Francisco partner John waived its right to appeal. n attack, the intruders burned our Kenney and associates Sarah 19 Latham in the Community

INTERNATIONAL AID

Fostering Hope of 24 hours. Thanks to their charitable In Uganda inclinations and eagerness to see Nigel’s “eye of the tiger,” our London London partner Nigel Campion- colleagues raised more than £6,000 Smith and trainee solicitor Joanna in a single day! Collected funds Macintosh traveled to Uganda on a will go toward building a nursery service trip to benefit pro bono client at Ekiwumulo Orphanage Village. Esuubi, which runs an orphanage in the region. Nigel and Joanna helped build houses, painted classrooms, Riding for Change assisted with medical checkups Joanne Whalley, a reference and spent time with the 70 children librarian in our London office, who live at the orphanage. The duo participated in Barclays’ “Wheels also distributed an assortment of for Change,” bicycling from Edinburgh, clothing and goods donated by Scotland, to London, England, to raise London personnel. money for UNICEF’s African measles vaccination program. Joanne and the To help raise additional money for London office raised £1,415, even Esuubi, Nigel and Joanna e-mailed winning a “Fundraiser of the Day” the London office from Uganda with award for the amount donated. an offer: Nigel would agree to have his In total, the cyclists rode 450 miles face painted—and photographed—as over five days and raised more a tiger if London lawyers and staff than £250,000—enough to carry out raised at least £1,000 over the course approximately 430,000 vaccinations.

To raise money for an orphanage in Uganda, London partner Nigel Campion-Smith agreed to have his face painted as a tiger, to the delight of many of the children who live at the orphanage. 20 Sending Hope In Germany, we continued to In a Shoebox participate in Weihnachten im To celebrate the 2011 winter Schuhkarton (Christmas in a Shoebox), holidays, several Latham & Watkins filling approximately 30 shoeboxes offices packed shoeboxes full of with a variety of school supplies, toys, thoughtfulness and holiday spirit. candy and clothing to be distributed In the Middle East, our Abu Dhabi to needy children in Eastern Europe. office participated in Box Appeal, which provides shoeboxes filled with And in a well-coordinated everyday essentials, such as shaving pan-European effort, our Brussels, cream and toothpaste, to laborers Hamburg, London, Madrid, Milan, throughout the region. Since it began Moscow and Paris offices joined in 2008, Box Appeal has donated together to raise money to purchase more than 20,000 shoeboxes to more than 300 supply-filled shoeboxes low-income laborers. for extremely poor families, children and the elderly in Romania. London trainee solicitor Sam Kempsey Photo: Maria Scard, www.mariascard.com personally delivered the shoeboxes Latham & Watkins offices across Europe to the small town of Tecuci—joining raised money to purchase supply-filled shoeboxes for impoverished Romanian a team from Link Romania, a charity children and families. that works with the extremely poor. n

“Many of the families we visited were living in squalor. This helps you realize that the relative value of a shoebox is intrinsically

Photo: © UNICEF/T.O’Keeffe so much more than it may at first appear.” Joanne Whalley, a reference librarian in our London office, is congratulated by partners Martin Cotterill (left) and Andrew Moyle (right), as well as UNICEF UK Sam Kempsey ambassador Duncan Bannatyne (center) London trainee solicitor at the Barclays’ “Wheels for Change” reception.

21 Improving the Lives of Children Advocating for children and families is a major component of our pro bono program. Our work in this realm includes representing parents and guardians in adoption and custody matters, advising public interest organizations dedicated to children’s causes and advocating directly on behalf of children with special needs. In addition, attorneys and professional staff from across the firm engage in various charitable and volunteer initiatives benefitting children. We highlight below some of the work we undertook in 2011 to improve the lives of children.

Supporting Families Affected psychologists who specialize in various Big Brothers Big Sisters By Natural Disasters supporting disadvantaged and at- organizations in California, and Tokyo partner Hiroki Kobayashi risk children, BBBSD selects and solicit donations and grants for and associates Tomohiko matches mentors and mentees. distribution among the different Kamimura and Saori Kawakami Hamburg partner Christoph von affiliate organizations throughout provided pro bono support to Teichman and associates Tina the state. The organization now has a project that relocated at- Witten, Torsten Volkholz, Henrik an 18-member board and is actively risk survivors of the March Lay, Christian Müller, Andreas involved in fundraising efforts. 2011 earthquakes and tsunami Lönner, Gabriele Wunsch and in Japan. The team worked Zahra Rahvar continue to assist Enforcing Children’s Rights with JEN, a nongovernmental BBBSD in expanding its activities Latham & Watkins advised on agency based in Tokyo that to further grow from a local to a the existing regulatory framework specializes in disaster relief, and nationwide operation. The team of distribution of powers and the Japanese Organization for has assisted with intellectual competences in the area of International Cooperation in Family property and labor law issues, children’s rights among state, Planning (JOICFP), advising the helped negotiate an affiliation regional and local authorities in organizations on free housing agreement with Big Brothers Big Spain and the obligations of the contracts between participating Sisters International and drafted public authorities to enforce the landlords and relocating survivors. cooperation agreements with a United Nations Convention on Through this project, JEN and growing number of sponsors and the Rights of the Child, a legally JOICFP also provided special other charitable organizations. binding, collectively agreed upon programs for relocated children, In the United States, our Silicon set of obligations and principles including hikes and educational Valley and San Francisco offices regarding basic human rights. activities. In addition to her work assisted the Bay Area chapter of Madrid partner Antonio Morales with JEN, Saori, as a member of the Big Brothers Big Sisters in leading and associates Rosa Espín and Children’s Rights Committee of the a statewide effort to form an Isabel Borrero prepared a position Daini Tokyo Bar Association, gave umbrella fundraising organization. paper being used to advocate legal advice to children and their Associates Connie Chen, Julia for improved enforcement of the parents through the association’s Taylor, Peter Boyd and Josh Convention in Spanish territories. hotline and, along with associate House, under the supervision of Asuka Fujita, helped determine partners Grace Chen, Peter Chen Helping Children in Italy how to use the hotline to help and Kirt Switzer, worked together Our lawyers in Italy provide pro children affected by the disaster. to form the Big Brothers Big Sisters bono support for children in many Association of California, a nonprofit ways. Partner Fabio Coppola, Assisting Big Brothers public benefit corporation, and to associate Emanuela Basso Big Sisters file for 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status. Petrino and trainee Ghayas Tanwir Big Brothers Big Sisters The association was organized to Syed are assisting Associazione Deutschland gGmbH (BBBSD) improve the quality and quantity Amici dei Bambini, a nonprofit and is a nonprofit organization that of mentoring relationships, hold nongovernmental entity that seeks provides volunteer mentoring educational seminars, promote to prevent child abandonment, services to help children reach their professionalism among staff promote adoption and create potential. With the help of trained and board members across the policies aimed at giving abandoned

22 A C C O L A D E S children stable and, if necessary, Europe, with more than 80 Partner Honored by new families. Fabio also worked Theodora “clown doctors” helping A Place Called Home with counsel Daniela Frascella hospitalized children. and Luca Pocobelli to assist A Place Called Home Foundation AVSI in assessments, Providing Opportunities to (APCH) bestowed its evaluations and analysis of new Disadvantaged Children projects and partnerships. This Moscow partner Christopher highest honor, the “Deborah nongovernmental organization Allen and associates Sergey Constance Humanitarian operates in Africa, Latin America, Shorin and Marina Babanskaya Award,” upon Los Angeles the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, assisted Production Cooperative partner Peter Gilhuly at the Middle East and Asia, helping KOSH in its quest to become a its annual Gala for the children in difficult conditions nongovernmental organization by providing vocational training. devoted to children. The Children in December 2011. In addition, partner Riccardo organization restores and Located in South Central Agostinelli and trainee Alessia transforms old buildings into Los Angeles, APCH provides De Coppi, along with associate educational and recreational a wide array of programs, Emanuela Basso Petrino, provided centers for disadvantaged children bylaw and microlending advice and their families. Our client plans including educational, to Fondazione Theodora Onlus, to give classes in bee farming, computer, dance, music, whose mission is to bring fun and plant-growing and woodcarving, as art, tutoring, nutrition and well as to design and implement laughter to hospitalized children mentoring to young people and their families and to collaborate environmental projects in an effort aged eight to 20. Peter, a with hospital staff to complement to heighten kids’ interest in the their work. The foundation is active nature and ecology of the region. former chair of the Pro Bono in several hospitals throughout Committee, has provided pro bono legal support to APCH for many years and has served on its Board of “Thank you very much for the precious support, Directors for more than a decade, keeping involved counsel and logistical help. We are so lucky to in virtually every aspect of work with Latham & Watkins. I commend you the organization, including chairing its Strategic for your remarkable approach toward corporate Planning Committee. social responsibility. Theodora Italy is in good hands—thank you for being part of the team.”

André Poulie President, Fondazione Theodora Onlus

23 Fighting Pediatric Cancer and Juan de Navasqüés, Brussels and fundraising efforts. Our lawyers Our Hamburg office continues partner Javier Ruiz Calzado and take on a variety of cases with the to advise Fördergemeinschaft associates Rita Motta and Maria CLC, including adoption cases, Kinderkrebs-Zentrum Hamburg Eugenia Leoz Martin-Casallo, complex child custody disputes and e.V., a charitable organization that Hamburg associate Zahra Rahvar, special education advocacy. In one supports the children’s cancer London associate Richard Kitchen, recent matter, associates Kelsey center at one of Hamburg’s major Milan associate Emanuela Basso McPherson and Kate Whelehan hospitals. The Latham team, which Petrino and trainee Ghayas Tanwir succeeded in obtaining a final includes partners Holger Iversen Syed and Paris associate Oriane custody order for our clients, the and Tobias Klass, counsel Norma Faure, performed an in-depth aunt and uncle of a one-year-old girl Studt and associate Christian analysis of whether certain laws whose mother died in January. The Müller, assisted on a variety and regulations (as implemented custody of the child was initially in of legal matters, including the by several public universities in dispute when a former boyfriend of construction of a new children’s Spain) concerning the recognition the mother obtained custody based hospital in Hamburg. Our Hamburg of diplomas issued by universities on a birth certificate that errantly attorneys also provided legal advice in other EU Member States would listed him as the father. Despite a on cooperation agreements with the be contrary to the provisions of the DNA test that conclusively showed Hamburg University Medical School Treaty on the Functioning of the he was not the father, the boyfriend and other charitable organizations. European Union. Latham’s analysis and his mother sought permanent was accompanied by a benchmark legal custody. At the request of Helping EU Students study in which the Spanish system the CLC, we intervened—and Our Brussels, Hamburg, London, was compared to similar systems the Washington, D.C. Superior Madrid, Milan and Paris offices in France, Germany, Italy and the Court granted full legal custody worked together to assist Fundación United Kingdom. to our clients. As part of Latham’s La Caixa, which sponsors various commitment to supporting the CLC, projects and services dedicated Representing Kids in D.C. we also participate in its annual to fighting poverty, protecting the The Children’s Law Center fundraising campaign. environment, providing health (CLC) is the only legal services services, sponsoring volunteer organization in Washington, D.C. Enriching the Lives of work and ensuring international that provides comprehensive Young Adults cooperation. The team, which representation exclusively for Year Up is a nonprofit entity that includes Madrid partner Jordi children. Our Washington, D.C. seeks to close what it calls the Domínguez and associates Iván office is committed to supporting “opportunity divide” by providing a Rabanillo, Ignacio Domínguez the CLC through pro bono services year-long intensive training program Photo: The Alliance for Children’s Rights Alliance for Children’s Photo: The

Los Angeles associates (from left to right) Desmund Wu, Sam Greenberg and Julie Crisp, paralegal Evie Gallardo, associate Momo Sugawara and partner Kim Posin take part in the Alliance for Children’s Rights’ “Adoption Day,” helping the Los Angeles County Children’s Court work through a 24 backlog of adoptions by representing adoptive families in court to finalize the process. to low-income, urban young adults guardianship and transition the aged 18 to 24. Participants are young man into her home. taught a unique combination of technical and professional skills and Forging an Alliance provided with college credits, an The Los Angeles office has taken educational stipend and a corporate on a significant number of cases The year 2011 internship, which enable them to through the Alliance for Children’s marked a decade move on to full-time employment Rights, acting on behalf of low- in corporate settings or to higher income families in guardianship of partnership education. Boston partner Pete matters; unaccompanied, abused, Handrinos and associate Kristen abandoned or neglected minors with the Alliance Grannis advise Year Up on seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile corporate governance matters, Status; and foster children who are for Children’s allowing the organization to better eligible to receive special education Rights, assisting serve the community. services and monetary benefits. In special education matters, attorneys families in Creating New Families assist the children’s caregivers with Through Adoption the request for an initial assessment finalizing their Attorneys from across the firm for services and provide advocacy help to create permanent families at the Individualized Education adoptions. by providing pro bono assistance Program meeting to establish in adoption and guardianship appropriate services for the child. matters. For example, Silicon Valley In benefits matters, attorneys During that time, associates Andrew Farthing and represent the children’s caregivers Joyce Wang, under the supervision in benefits appeals through the Latham & Watkins of partner Kathleen Wells, assisted administrative fair hearing process a client in obtaining guardianship to obtain the proper level of support attorneys have over her two-and-a-half-year- a child is entitled to based on his or handled close old grandson who suffers from her special needs. Many of these severe cerebral palsy and had cases involve disabled children to 800 adoptions, been abandoned by his mother. who require highly specialized As a result of the guardianship, and intensive care. These special including our client became eligible to apply education services and benefits approximately for expanded health and therapy provide critical support for abused benefits for the child, thereby and neglected children to address 40 in 2011. improving the level of care he their needs and provide them with is able to receive. a safe, stable placement.

In another matter, Silicon Valley Several times each year, the Los associates Elizabeth Sharma Angeles County Children’s Court and Brian Savage, under holds an “Adoption Day” dedicated the supervision of associates to working through the backlog of Jacqueline Haggarty and Andrew adoptions and celebrating adoptive Farthing and partner Peter Chen, families. Our team, led by Los with help from legal secretaries Angeles partner Kim Posin and Nell Burr and Kathy Kunst, counsel Amy Quartarolo, works successfully assisted a woman in collaboratively with the Alliance, the securing guardianship of a minor Children’s Court and the Department who had spent the majority of of Children and Family Services his childhood moving between to support and assist families in the homes of various relatives. navigating the foster child adoption Our client had helped care for process. The services we provide this young man for seven years include counseling adoptive families during his childhood and wanted to on applicable laws and regulations, provide a stable home for him. The preparing documents and other Latham team worked closely with materials required for adoption and our client and advocated on her representing adoptive families in behalf at several hearings to secure court to finalize the process. n

25 Latham in the Community

YOUTH CAUSES

Doing the ‘Write’ Thing a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization Our Chicago office is committed to that sponsors after-school educational helping local students “Do the Write and performance arts activities for underprivileged youth. The All Stars Thing.” Since 2009, this annual essay are at the forefront of a new trend competition, part of the National known as “supplemental education,” Campaign to Stop Violence, has asked based on the belief that learning seventh and eighth graders to explore opportunities outside the classroom in prose the answer to such questions are critical to young people’s success. as “How has violence affected my In 2011, the firm contributed financially life?” and “How can youth violence to the All Stars Project, in addition be reduced?” In 2011, Latham & to Latham lawyers and professional Watkins helped sponsor a program staff who actively participated in awards dinner for 100 students the program by leading workshops, and their families. The top student conducting mock job interviews, authors traveled to Washington, D.C. employing students through summer to serve as “national ambassadors” job programs, holding trial advocacy and presented their views on youth workshops and helping students violence to government leaders. hone their public speaking skills. In Chicago, for example, we hosted a Being an All Star graduation ceremony for participants Through a multioffice initiative for and welcomed two interns from the youth development, our Chicago, New All Stars Project to work in the office’s Jersey, New York and San Francisco library under the supervision of Janet offices support the All Stars Project, Smith, information research manager.

Local student Natalie Ogbuagu (left) is congratulated by Chicago business development manager Alexis Johnson (center) and partner Robin Hulshizer (right) at the “Do the Write Thing” 26 awards ceremony. Going Back to School associates Michael Bern, Chris to CBP, with Washington, D.C. A number of attorneys and staff from Blickley, Matt Cronin, Chris Grieco, associate Richard Owen acting as across the firm give back to their Mike Hitsky, John Kim, Gabrielle the attorney liaison and advising on communities by working with local Kohlmeier, Laura Mancini, Josh a variety of matters. schools and schoolchildren. For Marnitz, John Mathews, Alicia example, personnel from our New Neubig, Natalie Sanders, Timilin Matching Partners York office share their love of the Sanders, Kala Sherman-Presser, To raise money for the Children’s written word through the “Everybody William Sloan, Jeff Streeter, Law Center’s “Lawyers for Children” Wins!” program in Manhattan, Jess Thibodeau, Rami Turayhi, campaign, which helps ensure that regularly reading to children in Eric Ubias, Cynthia Weiss and area children have a solid foundation nearby elementary schools, while Kate Whelehan and retired partner of family, health and education, their colleagues in California spend Ken Weinstein. our Washington, D.C. office held a time with kids at Beechwood School, “Match That Partner” photo contest. a private, nonprofit school in Silicon Chartering a New Course Participants paid for the privilege of Valley for families with limited For D.C. Schools trying to match photos of more than opportunities, during the “Reading In Washington, D.C., almost 40% of 20 current partners to their baby or Buddies” program. Latham personnel the school-age population attend one childhood photos, raising several also raised funds to enable this school of the city’s 120 independently run thousand dollars for the campaign. n to upgrade its computers and software, charter schools. While the founders allowing teachers and administrators of these schools have a great deal of to create a new media curriculum. educational expertise, they often lack the business experience required to In the Spirit of effectively manage large institutions Thurgood Marshall with multimillion dollar budgets. A In a program spearheaded by principal at The Carlyle Group had Washington, D.C. associates Andrea the idea to match individuals from Mangones and Michael Chiswick- local business and professional Patterson, Latham attorneys led six communities with such skills to charter sessions of “Law Day” for ninth graders school boards that can best utilize their from the Thurgood Marshall Academy, expertise, and Charter Board Partners a public charter school in Washington, (CBP) was formed in September 2010. D.C. that combines a standards-based Latham partners Jenny Van Driesen, curriculum with particular education Dave Della Rocca, Peggy Zwisler, about the law, democracy and human Nick Luongo, Kevin Boyle, Lori rights. The program brings students to Alvino McGill, Bill Rawson, David law firms, where attorneys lead mock Dantzic and David Penna received trials and discussions on advocacy, training from CBP and have already During the holidays, the lobby of our San Diego office featured a tree covered negotiation and other legal issues. joined or are in the process of being in teddy bears, which were later donated Latham participants included partners matched to a charter school in the to the A.B. and Jessie Polinsky Children’s Center and the San Diego Center for Kevin Metz and Peter Winik, counsel community. Latham is also serving on Children, local charities dedicated to Ann Claassen and Jean Baxley, a pro bono basis as outside counsel improving the lives of children.

27 Investing in Microfinance and Social Entrepreneurs Over the years, Latham & Watkins has shown a strong commitment to the emerging areas of microcredit and microfinance, actively supporting projects and social entrepreneurs that utilize these innovative tools to protect the environment and fight poverty, among other social ills. Through the extension of small loans to individuals unable to qualify for traditional bank loans, budding entrepreneurs and microbusinesses are given the resources they need to flourish while supporting and, in many cases, rejuvenating their communities.

Promoting Microfinance General for Internal Market and other financial services to poor Across the European Union was discussed at a Commission- men and women who start their A team from our Brussels, London, hosted forum on microfinance in own businesses. ACCIÓN partners Madrid and Milan offices assisted Brussels in November 2011. The with more than 25 microfinance ADIE (Association pour le droit Latham & Watkins team included organizations throughout Latin à l’initiative économique), a London and Brussels partner Marc America, the Caribbean, Asia, Africa French microfinance organization, Hansen, Brussels associates Luca and the United States, reaching in analyzing key legal and Crocco and Styliani Sarma and a total of 3.9 million poor people regulatory provisions applicable to London associates Opeyemi Atawo through microfinance. ACCIÓN’s microenterprises, self-employment, and Maud Holma, with help from role in facilitating the provision microcredit and microfinance Milan associate Emanuela Basso of capital to small entrepreneurs institutions in the 27 Member States Petrino and trainee Alessia De enables its beneficiaries to afford of the European Union. The survey Coppi, Madrid associates Paco basics like running water, better seeks to identify any barriers to Iso and Julio Peralta and London food and schooling for their the development of this sector associate Júlia Samsó Lucas, children. The Latham team— of the economy, to encourage among others. This project won including New York partners Tony the European Commission to the “Pro Bono Impact Award” at Del Pino, Jonathan Rod and closely monitor the application the first annual TrustLaw Awards Jennifer Perkins, Madrid partner of existing legislation and to in December 2011. For more Ignacio Pallarés and New York promote new EU-wide legislation information on this award, associates David Sajous, Kristin so that microfinance and self- see page 29. Mendoza, David Sparrow, Mark employment can serve an important Woods, Liliana Párias Neuburg role in battling unemployment Taking Action with ACCIÓN and Jennifer Patota—has helped and impoverishment. The survey, We continue to work with ACCIÓN prepare and negotiate published by the Thomson Reuters ACCIÓN International, a nonprofit legal agreements, advised on Foundation, was presented to the organization that provides investment documentation, assisted European Commission—Directorate microloans, business training and with developing a framework for providing angel financing to early stage projects and entrepreneurs, and reviewed jurisdictional issues related to ACCIÓN’s investments.

Bringing Microfinance to Renewable Energy Projects Having heard about Latham’s extensive pro bono work with microcredit organizations such as ADIE and the MicroFinance Network, Sun Impact Investing (SUNII) contacted our Paris office for help. This small French start- up company is developing the means to obtain microfinancing for small photovoltaic energy

Paris partner Etienne Gentil (center) discusses SUNII, a pro bono client that provides microfinancing for small photovoltaic energy projects, with associates Carla-Sophie 28 Imperadeiro (left) and Lionel Cazajus (right). A C C O L A D E S projects through partnerships with assisting SUNII in discussions Project Honored for local public authorities, charities with various institutions about ‘Pro Bono Impact’ and financial institutions. Beyond potential partnerships and preparing promoting renewable energies, corporate documentation for In December 2011, Latham SUNII also seeks to encourage buy- special purpose companies to be in for these projects by members implemented for each project. & Watkins was recognized, of the local community, involving along with our pro bono them through their contributions of Supporting Microfinance in client ADIE, the law firm small amounts (as little as €20 per The Middle East Orrick and other participant lender) towards financing renewable Our Dubai office continues to law firms, with the first energy projects to be installed in grow its long-standing relationship local schools, town halls, local with Grameen-Jameel Pan-Arab “Pro Bono Impact Award” organizations and other places Microfinance Limited, which from TrustLaw. A team of with significance in their daily lives. seeks to eradicate poverty by attorneys from our Brussels, SUNII’s strategy also involves providing technical and financial London, Madrid and Milan adapting web tools, applications and assistance to microfinance offices assisted ADIE, microfinance industry techniques institutions. Throughout 2011, to communicate with their many Dubai partners Kai Schneider and a French microfinance investors throughout the life of Andrew Tarbuck and associates organization, in analyzing the project. Paris partner Etienne Christian Adams, Victoria Honey key legal and regulatory Gentil and associates Carla- and Sally Elshihabi Soubra provisions applicable to Sophie Imperadeiro and Lionel assisted the organization with its Cazajus are working with SUNII on regional microfinance initiatives, microenterprises, self- a feasibility study, identifying French including its recapitalization via employment, microcredit and legal and regulatory constraints, funding from its shareholders, the microfinance institutions in benchmarking existing Internet establishment of standard-form the 27 EU Member States sites and identifying successful microfinance loan agreements and as part of an effort to help online models. The team is also ancillary documentation, and the promote microfinance and self-employment as solutions to unemployment “The support that Latham & Watkins has provided and other economic challenges. The Latham and continues to provide is invaluable to us.  team helped coordinate the We greatly appreciate this contribution as it has work of a diverse group of lawyers and microfinance a direct impact on the work we are doing in  practitioners across the EU the region to help alleviate poverty.” and oversaw the preparation of a comprehensive report Julia Assad on current legislation on General Manager, Grameen-Jameel microfinance.

29 establishment of a microfinance illnesses and work accidents and to of agencies located in densely program in Cambodia. In addition help them perform their jobs better populated cities across France, to many other matters, the team and with greater ease. The Paris including Saint-Ouen, Montreuil assisted with the structuring of team has assisted S.I.E.L. BLEU and Arles. funding arrangements between in developing its legal structure Ashoka France introduced Paris Grameen-Jameel and its in connection with the creation of partner and microfinance partners and with a new operations in Ireland, Spain, François Mary associates and real estate dispute. Belgium and the United Kingdom, Laure Valance to Simon de Cyrène, and provided counsel to the Louis Paumier an association that constructs and Helping Ashoka Fellows and organization on corporate, tax, operates housing for the disabled. Other Social Entrepreneurs labor law and contracts issues to Latham has been helping to set Our Paris office has played an help the organization position itself up an appropriate legal and tax important role in helping more than for future development. structure for the financing of several a dozen social entrepreneurs in Partner new sites, including an endowment their efforts to create social change. Charles-Antoine Guelluy and associates Mathieu Denieau, fund to receive donor gifts and Partner François Mary and Alain Gatignol and Anne-Sophie entities to receive contributions from associate Laure Valance, along Silvera-Darmon represent Réseau social investors. The envisioned with associates Audrey de Garidel Môm’Artre, a French nonprofit structure will enable Simon de and Alain Gatignol, worked with organization involved in after-school Cyrène to operate several new sites S.I.E.L. BLEU (Sport, Initiative Et programs for families with limited within the next few years. Loisirs), a nonprofit organization financial means, in particular low- 1001 Fontaines Pour Demain is a founded by an Ashoka Fellow income single mothers who work nonprofit organization that enables in France that provides physical outside of school hours. With help small, isolated rural communities training to the disabled and the from our Paris attorneys, Réseau in Cambodia and Madagascar elderly. S.I.E.L. BLEU also offers Môm’Artre, which was founded by to establish and maintain locally employees a physical fitness an Ashoka Fellow, has expanded sustained purifying systems for training program to prevent its project through a network drinking water. One of its founders, Lo Chay, was named “Asia Social Entrepreneur of the Year” for 2011 by the Schwab Foundation for “S.I.E.L. BLEU was one of the first Ashoka Social Entrepreneurship for his work in Cambodia. Having previously projects we worked on, and we’re still helped the organization set up a joint venture with Danone Communities, advising them. It’s extremely gratifying Latham most recently provided assistance to 1001 Fontaines to be involved in this organization’s Pour Demain with respect to tax, corporate and other legal issues. The work, because it really is responding— Paris team, under the supervision of partner François Mary, included and making a change—to the society  associates Audrey de Garidel and in which we live.” Sabrina Lavail for French corporate matters and counsel Jérôme Commerçon and associate Mathieu François Mary Denieau for French tax matters. In Paris corporate partner and Pro Bono Committee member addition, London partner Sean Finn and associate James Clare provided 30 1001 Fontaines Pour Demain with UK tax law assistance. n Ashoka Ashoka is a global nonprofit organization that invests in social entrepreneurs, helping them to positively transform communities. These “Ashoka Fellows”— chosen through a rigorous screening process—develop innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social issues and offer new ideas for widespread change. This year, Latham & Watkins was excited to sponsor and participate in Ashoka’s 30th Anniversary Celebration in Paris, while continuing to provide Ashoka with legal support around the world.

Throughout 2011, Latham & Additionally, Chicago partner Watkins worked on several cross- Marcelo Halpern and associate border projects on behalf of Lindsay Ditto prepared a form of Ashoka. Washington, D.C. partners affiliation agreement for Ashoka in an Latham & Watkins Jennifer Archie and Sarah Nappi effort to formalize relationships the and associate Joshua Marnitz, organization has with its affiliates, as is proud to working with a large team of Latham well as to establish certain boundaries partners, counsel, associates, regarding their use of Ashoka’s celebrate its trainees and paralegals in Hamburg, intellectual property. Working together 30th year of Hong Kong, London, Madrid, Paris, with New York associate Gabrielle Singapore and Tokyo, prepared Russell and under the supervision partnership with and administered a detailed global of Washington, D.C. counsel Kieran survey of local employment laws in Dickinson, the team also created Ashoka, providing 23 of the countries in which Ashoka and negotiated various consulting operates. The team developed an agreements on behalf of Ashoka. pro bono services extensive network of pro bono legal in the areas of counsel worldwide and prepared a A team led by Orange County counsel comprehensive guide that will help Julie Dalke continues to assist finance, litigation, Ashoka address local employment Ashoka throughout the world with issues and streamline hiring practices. trademark clearance, applications and IP, technology, registrations for several trademarks, Washington, D.C. partner Kevin including those for new initiatives. corporate, Boyle and associate Rebekah Lewis, In Europe, several Latham teams from London associate Amy Taylor, employment our Paris office have worked directly Frankfurt partner Ulrich Wuermeling with organizations, such as Réseau and regulatory and associate Malte Hilpert and Paris Môm’Artre, S.I.E.L. BLEU and Signes partner Myria Saarinen helped update law in the United Ashoka’s website privacy policy and de Sens, founded by Ashoka Fellows terms of use to reflect changes to the to assist the elderly, families with States, Europe site as well as the legal landscape. limited means and the deaf and hard of hearing, respectively. and Asia. In another cross-office matter, a team In Asia, Hong Kong partner including Chicago partner Marcelo Jane Ng and London associate Halpern, New York partner Andrea Daniel Mathias assisted Ashoka China Limited in Schwartzman and associates David preparing its application for charitable Saunders, Amber Haywood and status in Hong Kong. The team also Yiheng Feng and Washington, contributed to a global labor and D.C. associate Andrew Hennessy has been working with Ashoka to employment law survey for Ashoka draft form agreements to govern aimed at enhancing the organization’s various aspects of its Executive recruitment and training of personnel in Residence Program, which in Hong Kong. Tokyo partners Daiske places senior executives of major Yoshida and Hiroki Kobayashi, US and international corporations associates Richard Chul Kim, Saori into inspiring, on-site volunteer Kawakami and Tomohiko Kamimura opportunities with organizations run and foreign legal consultant Hiroko by Ashoka social entrepreneurs. WakelingOgawa assisted Ashoka Japan with various corporate matters, including drafting agreements, advising on employment law and securing proper tax representation. n 31 Helping Holocaust Survivors Latham & Watkins has been assisting Holocaust survivors since 2007 in their efforts to apply for reparations and social security pensions from the German government for work performed in Nazi-controlled ghettos. This year, our offices in the United States and Germany continued to partner with Bet Tzedek Legal Services and the Holocaust Survivors Justice Network, spending more than 7,400 hours providing pro bono legal services to Holocaust survivors and their families.

In 2011, Latham & Watkins worked Holocaust survivors in applying for Teams of attorneys, paralegals with more than 400 clients across the related German Ghetto Work and professional staff, led by New the United States, many of whom Payment (GGWP) program. First York partner Bruce Prager (who are in their 80s or older, are in poor announced in October 2007, the serves as Co-Chair of the Holocaust health and live on fixed incomes GGWP was created by the German Survivors Justice Network) and or below the poverty line. We government to provide a one-time Los Angeles associate Josh secured more than €900,000 in back payment of €2,000 to survivors Mausner, with support from Public payments for Holocaust survivors whose ghetto labor had not been Service Counsel Wendy Atrokhov, and tens of thousands more in recognized under other programs, participated in clinics and home ongoing monthly payments. Our including ZRBG, which in the years visits and provided other support lawyers continue outreach to new following its enactment had been for the ZRBG and GGWP programs, clients and have a significant number interpreted restrictively by the including appeals. In total, during of cases still pending, including German pension insurance agency, 2011 alone, more than 130 Latham appeals on behalf of clients whose the Deutsche Rentenversicherung— personnel from our Chicago, previous applications for benefits between 2002 and 2007, more Frankfurt, Hamburg, London, Los were denied. While no monetary than 80 percent of ZRBG Angeles, Munich, New Jersey, New amount could ever make up for applications were denied. York, Orange County, San Diego what our survivor clients endured, In the summer of 2009, the German and Washington, D.C. offices the funds they receive under these Federal Social Court issued a took part in this initiative. programs provide meaningful, often series of decisions that vastly much-needed financial support. Leading our office teams are expanded Holocaust survivors’ partners Carlos Alvarez, Bruce Since 2009, our work has primarily access to ZRBG pensions. Based Prager, Will Reckler and Larry focused on helping survivors apply on these rulings, survivors whose Safran, counsel Matthew Ahrens, ZRBG applications were previously for monthly pension payments associates Stephen Amdur, David rejected became eligible to have available under the German Hammerman and Virginia Tent their claims re-examined by the social insurance law known by its and secretarial coordinator Anna agency under newly liberalized acronym ZRBG. Approvals of ZRBG Bravo in New York; associates criteria. Since this change in applications generally include a Julie Gerchik, Lindsey Levine policy, Latham has been active monthly pension, as well as a lump- and Josh Mausner and paralegals in resubmitting applications on sum payment to account for back Eileen Longo and Lauren Rosen behalf of clients and in conducting pay while an application is pending. in Los Angeles; associates We have also worked to assist outreach to those eligible to submit Patrick English, Katie Schettig, applications for the first time. Micah Schwartz and Stacey Because the GGWP directive VanBelleghem in Washington, D.C.; was first enacted as a response partner David McLean, associates to the high rate of ZRBG denials, Kira Dabby, Sean-Patrick Wilson Holocaust survivors were historically and Vincent Mekles and paralegals permitted to receive benefits under Kim Barrett and Judy Calderon in either ZRBG or GGWP, but not both. New Jersey; associates Adrianna In July 2011, however, German Kripke, Natalie Prescott and Chancellor Angela Merkel issued an Lauren Ross and paralegals Karin Executive Order allowing Holocaust Sanders and Jennifer Reveles in survivors to receive payments under San Diego; partner Dirk Kocher both programs. In addition to first- and associates Jan Spangenberg time applications, the Latham team and Frederick Staudacher in assists existing clients who made Hamburg; counsel Thies Deike Associate Jennifer Yoo (right) celebrates an election between the programs in Frankfurt; and associate with one of her clients at the Los Angeles to apply for further benefits. Christian Badura in Munich. n 32 office’s ZRBG Approval Party. All client names are pseudonyms.

A Look Behind the Headlines: Our Clients and Their Powerful Stories

Sora Saul Hannah Sora, an 89-year-old Holocaust Saul, an 83-year-old Holocaust Hannah, an 87-year-old Holocaust survivor, was born and raised in survivor, was born and raised in survivor, was born and raised in Czechoslovakia. In 1930, her family Ukraine. In 1941, Saul was forced Romania. Hannah began suffering moved to Hungary, where she lived to relocate to the Chernivtsi ghetto. persecution as a teenager when until the Nazi occupation turned her While there, he worked gathering her hometown was annexed by neighborhood into a Jewish ghetto crops as well as carrying materials Nazi-allied Hungarians in the early in 1944. While pregnant, Sora was to and cleaning construction sites. stages of World War II. By the deported to Auschwitz, where she New York associate Elana Cooper, spring of 1944, she was forced into employed numerous tactics to hide under the supervision of counsel a Jewish ghetto, where she labored her pregnancy, including standing Matthew Ahrens, represented Saul in with other Jews moving and burying behind friends during lineups, and applying for a pension under ZRBG. the dead. Hannah first applied for eventually gave birth. She was able The German pension authority initially a pension stemming from this labor to spend only a few minutes with rejected his application because it in 1994 but was rejected by the her newborn son before friends took incorrectly identified the Chernivtsi German government. New York him away. Sora never saw her child ghetto as being located in Bukovina, associate Jason Mollick, under again. Only a few months later, on a Romania. Our team appealed the the supervision of partner Carlos march to what she believed would be decision, emphasizing the fact that Alvarez, submitted an application her certain death, Sora escaped from the client lived and worked in a ghetto for reconsideration under ZRBG the Nazis and hid until liberation. Los located in Transnistria, a territory on Hannah’s behalf. The case Angeles associates Michael Reiss expressly covered under the ZRBG presented special challenges as and Jessica Kronstadt represented guidelines. The appeal was accepted she recalled the ghetto only by its Sora in her successful application for in June 2011, with Saul ultimately Yiddish name, “Selish,” which was a ZRBG pension. Unfortunately, Sora receiving a pension with a absent from historical records. (In passed away only a few weeks after significant back payment. Eastern Europe, where borders and the award. Her family donated the nationalities have shifted throughout money to a Jewish organization. Leo the 20th century, a single location Leo, a 90-year-old Holocaust survivor, can be known by a variety of different Gussie was born and raised in an area of names.) After in-depth research and Gussie, an 83-year-old Holocaust Czechoslovakia that had been under consultation with Holocaust and East survivor, was born in Jasina, the control of several different nations Central European experts, the team Czechoslovakia (later Hungary). At during the 20th century. Beginning uncovered the ghetto’s Hungarian the age of 16, Gussie and her family in early 1944, Leo was forced to live name: “Nagyszőllős.” Hannah were rounded up by the Hungarian in the Sevlush ghetto in Hungary, was awarded a pension with police and sent to a ghetto, where they where he was put to work cleaning a significant back payment. n worked for six months before being streets and carrying water and transported to Auschwitz. Upon their food into the ghetto. Leo was then arrival, her parents were immediately deported to Auschwitz, where he was killed. Gussie was forced into slave incarcerated until his liberation in labor at Auschwitz and elsewhere 1945. Los Angeles associates David until she escaped toward the end of Amerikaner and Josh Mausner the war. Gussie applied for and was represented Leo in applying for a denied ZRBG benefits in May 2003. pension under ZRBG. Due to Leo’s The German pension insurance failing health and significant ongoing agency reviewed her case sua sponte medical expenses, expedited handling but denied her again in February 2011. of the pension application was of Washington, D.C. associates Katie the utmost importance to Leo and Schettig and Tyler Brown appealed his family. Our team worked with the these denials—and successfully German pension authority to process persuaded the agency to reverse the application quickly, and Leo was itself in December 2011. Gussie was awarded a monthly pension and back awarded a back payment as well payment fewer than eight weeks At the Los Angeles office’s ZRBG Approval as monthly payments going forward. after his application was filed. Party, associate Lindsay Florin (left) celebrates with one of her clients. 33 Empowering the Disabled Latham & Watkins continues to pursue numerous matters aimed at helping children and adults with physical and developmental disabilities live with dignity and respect. Working in the areas of education, civil rights, social integration and immigration, among others, our attorneys and professional staff strive to ensure that traditionally disadvantaged groups are given equal opportunities. The matters that follow reflect Latham’s dedication to this cause.

Promoting Inclusive as well as the media. Partners and delay. San Francisco partner Education and Labor Wilhelm Reinhardt and Marcus Darius Ogloza and associates Paul For more than four years, our Funke are leading the team, which Llewellyn, Patrick Ferguson and Frankfurt office has been working includes associates Andreas Ryan Erickson helped to prepare with Bundesarbeitsgemeinschaft Feith, David Profit and Christine a class action complaint on behalf Gemeinsam Leben–Gemeinsam Masseli and paralegal Deniz of all mobility-impaired passengers Lernen, a nonprofit organization Alkanli. Additionally, our Frankfurt who ride on AC Transit’s buses. supporting parents of disabled lawyers are increasingly focusing After months of negotiation and children, in a project promoting on inclusive aspects of the general mediation, the team secured a inclusive education for disabled labor market and corresponding favorable settlement providing children in Germany. In 2011, we social security legislation. compensatory damages for our helped draft a bill to ensure that the client, intensive training for drivers United Nations Convention on the Securing Wheelchair in the use of wheelchair lifts, Rights of Persons with Disabilities Access to Buses electronic monitoring to ensure that is implemented in the German state Latham & Watkins worked with the drivers cycle the lifts daily, random of Saarland, having previously Legal Aid Society in San Francisco proficiency checks and independent worked on a similar bill for the state to represent a mobility-impaired oversight on compliance. of Hesse. The proposed bill would woman with a motorized scooter. bring state law into compliance Our client uses AC Transit to Enforcing Fair Housing with international requirements commute to work but frequently A New York team achieved a for inclusive education, and has encountered bus drivers who did sizable settlement in a fair housing received considerable attention not know how to properly operate case for a wheelchair-bound client from parents of disabled children, the vehicles’ wheelchair lifts, who struggling with multiple sclerosis. governments and parliaments were rude to her or who just drove When our client sought to purchase across the sixteen German states, by, causing her embarrassment an apartment in a Bronx co-op that would require physical modifications to make it accessible, the board turned down her application without providing a reason. Partner David Brodsky and associates Meaghan Chmura, Cameron Smith, Jennifer Greenberg and Katherine Boyd filed a federal action against the co-op board and the building’s management company, alleging violations of the Fair Housing Act. During discovery and after several rounds of negotiation, the team resolved the case out of court.

San Francisco associates Patrick Ferguson (left) and Ryan Erickson (right) pose with their co-counsel Jinny Kim (center) of the Legal Aid Society and their client (seated). As a result of the team’s efforts, AC Transit has implemented significant changes to make its bus 34 system more accessible to mobility-impaired riders. Fighting for a Disabled Veteran harmless error. The team won the Washington, D.C. partners Greg appeal and secured significant back Garre and Lori Alvino McGill benefits for our client. and associates Drew Ensign, Michael Bern, Brian Schmalzbach Settling a Case of and Chris Grieco, assisted by First Impression paralegals Rachel Jaffe and Olga Chicago associates Meghan Baeza, represented a disabled Hansen and Meredith Monroe veteran in an appeal to the US and Washington, D.C. associate Court of Appeals for the Federal Jessica Lee, supervised by partner Circuit. Our client is a veteran of Kevin Russell and assisted by World War II who suffered disabling paralegal Sharon Hylek, secured leg injuries in the course of his a remarkable settlement for a service. He was initially awarded 71-year-old wheelchair-bound disability benefits in 1944, which woman residing in a suburban were terminated in 1950. In 2006, Illinois condominium complex. Our a Veterans Administration (VA) client, who suffers from chronic regional office determined that obstructive pulmonary disease, the termination was a clear and began experiencing severe unmistakable error and reinstated medical issues several years the benefits. Although the decision ago after secondhand tobacco was final, the VA central office smoke started infiltrating her home used an extraordinary procedure to from the unit located above hers. reverse the reinstatement, which Although she repeatedly requested was subsequently invalidated by the a smoke-free accommodation courts. Despite the government’s from her condo association, her admission that its action was requests were ignored and the unlawful, it nevertheless appealed, association ceased responding to arguing that its actions were her unrelated maintenance requests

“I call my Latham lawyers the ‘Dream Team.’ Going through this experience with them taught me to always fight to stand up for myself.”

A wheelchair-bound client in New York, upon settling her fair housing case

35 as well. The Latham team filed a governing documents and internal housing discrimination complaint policies, and updated its state on her behalf against the condo filings to ensure good standing. association, alleging fair housing Most critically, our attorneys worked and disability-based violations to obtain 501(c)(3) status for the of the Illinois Human Rights organization as well as state-level Act, including refusal to make a tax exemption to greatly enhance reasonable accommodation and its fundraising potential. unlawful intimidation, discrimination and retaliation. Following a Battling an Eviction favorable ruling in the administrative Working closely with the Bar tribunals, the case was ultimately Association of San Francisco’s removed to Illinois State Court. The Homeless Advocacy Project in team secured a settlement requiring connection with the Motion to the condo association to adopt a Vacate project, San Francisco reasonable accommodation policy, associate Genevieve Jenkins, perform all outstanding repairs to under the supervision of partner our client’s home, and issue her Darius Ogloza, represented an Members of the Orange County Asperger’s Support Group presented this handmade a monetary payment. As the state older man with physical disabilities card to their Latham & Watkins lawyers legislature has yet to pass any who had for 12 years relied on in appreciation of the pro bono services laws concerning the regulation of contract jobs as a mechanic as well provided to the group. smoking inside one’s private home, as sublet income to pay his rent. the case was considered one of When his roommate refused to pay first impression in the jurisdiction. him, our client could not pay the full rent. As a result, his landlord provides housing and other Helping Those with Asperger’s attempted to evict him and a default services for people with The Orange County Asperger’s judgment was entered against him. developmental disabilities. The Support Group (OCASG) provides After litigation and negotiations, the Latham team, which includes support, education and self- team convinced the landlord to set partner Björn-Axel Dissars and advocacy services to individuals aside the default judgment and to associates Kai Wehmeyer and and families of individuals suffering recall the writ of possession for the Michael Zickler, continued its pro from Asperger’s syndrome or high- apartment. The team also worked to bono support and representation functioning autism. Orange County have our client qualified for Social of Lebenshilfe Lüneburg-Harburg associates Julie Nudel and David Security disability benefits to ensure throughout 2011, including drafting Wheeler and Los Angeles associate a regular source of income. and advising on employment, Samuel Greenberg, under the lease, framework, service and supervision of Orange County Facilitating Services for the other contracts our client uses partner Bill Cernius and Los Developmentally Disabled in connection with its regular Angeles partner Pardis Zomorodi, For several years, our Hamburg business activities. advised OCASG on a variety of office has represented Lebenshilfe corporate governance matters, Lüneburg-Harburg gGmbH, Representing a Visually reviewed and revised its principal a nonprofit organization that Impaired Artist New York associate Kathleen Ho, under the supervision of partner Greg Rodgers, represents a visually impaired artist who designs t-shirts, baseball caps and other apparel featuring unique definitions of the signs of the zodiac. As part of the ongoing representation, the Latham team provides our client with assistance on legal matters pertaining to his business, including contract preparation and negotiation, as well as intellectual property law support for registering his trademarks. n

New York associate Kathleen Ho (right) and her client, a visually impaired artist, display his 36 specially designed merchandise. Latham in the Community DISABILITY RIGHTS

Madrid associates Jimena Jorro (left) and Javier Martí-Fluxá (center) and office administratorArantxa Ilardia (right) belong to the Latham & Watkins Runners Club, which participated in a 10-kilometer charity race in Madrid.

You’ll Never Run Alone Massachusetts. The Latham team Bell” was dedicated with a special In mid-October, our Madrid office’s consisted of five partners from our plaque to honor the firm’s support of Latham & Watkins Runners Club Boston, London, Los Angeles, New and work with the Junior Blind. This invited clients and friends of the firm to Jersey and Silicon Valley offices, as bell is well-known to the campers as it join them in the Carrera de la Ciencia, well as clients. The hockey tournament is rung to call everyone to meals and a 10-kilometer race that takes place benefited three area organizations: special events and serves as a central in Madrid every fall. We had a record Autism Speaks, Juvenile Diabetes gathering place for campers and staff. 133 registrations in 2011, making Research Foundation and the Latham the largest club in the race. Foundation Fighting Blindness. More Latham’s association with the Junior Five Latham runners, including both than $100,000 was collected during Blind goes back several years. In lawyers and staff, recorded particularly the three-day event, which also one noteworthy matter, lawyers exceptional times. Team members included a silent auction and garnered from our Los Angeles office secured wore Latham & Watkins-branded significant support and enthusiasm an important court victory for the t-shirts with “You’ll Never Run Alone” from Latham personnel. organization in a lawsuit concerning styled across the back. In addition, Camp Bloomfield. The sole entry for each registration, the office Being Honored by to the camp is by way of an access donated €5 to Fundación Deporte y The Junior Blind road running through a neighboring property. Although the camp had Desafío, a private, nonprofit, apolitical The Junior Blind of America paid an easement for the access, the organization whose primary objective special tribute to Latham & Watkins neighboring property owner contested is the social integration of physically, for its pro bono work in support of the camp’s right of access and mentally, visually or hearing challenged Camp Bloomfield in California, which refused to allow the Junior Blind to people through specially adapted since 1958 has provided children make necessary improvements to the sports and outdoor activities. who are blind, visually impaired or access road. The Latham team led multidisabled with a natural and safe a two-year-long litigation to confirm The Cranberry Cup environment to develop self-esteem, easement rights to the road, ultimately Several lawyers exchanged their smart build independence and experience securing a court decision confirming phones for ice skates during the eighth the joys of the great outdoors. Over the Junior Blind’s full easement rights annual “Cranberry Cup” in Nantucket, the summer, the “Latham & Watkins and denying the neighbor’s claim to any right to enter Camp Bloomfield.

“The Cranberry Cup was a great way for Refurbishing a Playroom As part of the citywide Frankfurt Latham & Watkins to help support causes Volunteer Day in July, several members of our Frankfurt office important to medical research, while helped refurbish a playroom at Alte Mühle, a center for disabled also joining in the larger efforts of our adults and children. The Latham team created several wall mosaics community. It also doesn’t hurt that  and constructed a special wall with movable elements that helps the tournament was a lot of fun!”  physically disabled residents better move throughout the room. n Hans Brigham Boston corporate partner 37 Supporting Women Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women between the ages of 15 and 44 in the United States. Many victims lack legal representation and are ill-equipped to independently handle a process that can be frustrating, complicated and intimidating. Others are unaware of the full spectrum of protections available to them under the law, and even more are simply too overwhelmed by the process to pursue long-term protection. Below is a sampling of our efforts to support domestic violence victims and promote women’s rights.

Strengthening Women’s in the drafting of the law on rape IMPOWR is establishing a Rights Internationally and sexual violence. This project collaborative research database A Latham & Watkins team assisted was nominated for a “Pro Bono on women’s rights under the laws MADRE, an international women’s Impact Award” at the first annual of various countries, with original human rights organization, on a TrustLaw Awards. content summarizing current comparative law research project gender equality laws as well as designed to help strengthen rape Working to ‘IMPOWR’ Women the legal reform and enforcement laws and improve their enforcement In addition to our direct efforts taking place in more than in Haiti. The project involved representation of domestic violence 185 countries on 40 specific researching the relevant legal victims, we are working to protect topics. The database will serve framework to address rape and the right of women around the as a valuable tool for comparing other sex-related crimes in select world to live free from fear and laws and legal reform efforts on countries across the globe, with discrimination. As part of a global a country-by-country or issue- Latham focusing on Brazil and effort to promote compliance by-issue basis and for identifying France. The research performed with the principles underlying the best practices. Supervised by Brussels associate Rita Motta United Nations Convention on by Washington, D.C. partner and Paris associate Delphine Sak the Elimination of All Forms of Jennifer Van Driesen, associates Bun, under the supervision of Paris Discrimination Against Women Kathryn Almar, Rachel Alpert, partner Myria Saarinen, covered (CEDAW) and to facilitate the flow Andrew Hennessy, Elizabeth issues such as legal provisions, of knowledge between lawmakers, Matthew and Cynthia Weiss have investigation and prosecution of donors, scholars and gender prepared database submissions such crimes, and assistance to rights advocates, the American on such topics as inheritance law victims, as well as a review of Haiti’s Bar Association has initiated the in Indonesia, divorce law in the draft law, to provide MADRE with International Models Project on United States and healthcare law recommendations to be considered Women’s Rights (IMPOWR). in Argentina.

Supporting Women Across Our Offices In 2011, Latham & Watkins provided of certain violent crimes, including Cook County Courts as its model direct pro bono representation to rape, incest, felonious assault, for a court-organized clinic. Our domestic violence victims across domestic violence, trafficking clinic structure allows attorneys almost all of our US offices. Our and kidnapping, who assist law to appear in court within hours of work included helping clients enforcement authorities with their taking on a case, bringing speed obtain emergency and permanent investigations, can petition for a and efficiency to domestic violence restraining orders against their U-visa. This year, our attorneys victims seeking emergency orders abusers, as well as providing legal worked on more than 100 VAWA of protection as well as permanent assistance to immigrant women who and U-visa cases, enabling many restraining orders. Led by Chicago are victims of abuse. In particular, of these victims of criminal acts to associate Margrethe Kearney the Violence Against Women Act obtain lawful immigration status and partner Mike Faris, with help (VAWA) allows immigrant women in the United States. from paralegals Sharon Hylek and who are married to US citizens or Lindsay Cutler, Latham attorneys permanent residents and who have C H I C A G O participating in this clinic go to the been victims of abuse to petition for Our Chicago office, working closely Cook County Domestic Violence US residency without the assistance with conflict specialists and support Courthouse and offer on-the-spot or knowledge of their spousal staff throughout the firm, developed assistance to victims who have abusers. In addition, under the a domestic violence clinic that shown up pro se to seek emergency Victims of Trafficking and Violence was eventually adopted by the orders of protection, as well as 38 Protection Act, non-citizen victims Domestic Violence Division of the follow-up representation to obtain A C C O L A D E S plenary orders of protection against should have been allowed at trial to Associate Honored for their abusers. Over the years, introduce expert testimony related Pro Bono Service more than 150 Latham partners, to intimate partner battering and its effects. In December 2011, the counsel, associates and paralegals Associate Aviania Iliadis, from all practice areas in the court ruled that our client, who has co-coordinator of our New Chicago office have represented already served 24 years in prison, more than 100 domestic violence had met her burden of showing a York office’s VAWA and victims in obtaining emergency and prima facie case for habeas corpus U-visa programs, received plenary orders of protection against and issued an order to show cause a “Jeremy G. Epstein Award their abusers. In 2011, we have to the district attorney. for Pro Bono Service” from represented almost 20 domestic violence victims referred to us N E W J E R S E Y the City Bar Justice Center in through the clinic. Our New Jersey office works with October 2011. She was named Partners for Women and Justice, a an “outstanding volunteer” LOS ANGELES nonprofit organization that provides in recognition of her work to Attorneys in our Los Angeles office a range of free legal assistance help domestic violence victims work with the Harriett Buhai Center to low-income women who are for Family Law to assist domestic victims of domestic violence. For escape abuse and start life violence survivors representing example, under the supervision of anew by obtaining immigration themselves in matters involving partner David McLean, associate relief through Violence Against represented an restraining orders, child custody and John Falzone Women Act petitions, U-visas support, visitation rights, paternity elderly immigrant and victim of and T-visas. orders and dissolution of marriage. domestic violence from Ukraine Our attorneys work with local in a day-long hearing seeking a shelters with domestic violence permanent restraining order against programs and help battered her husband. The team succeeded, immigrant women who seek benefits securing a final restraining order, and protection under VAWA. Latham which required our client’s abusive attorneys in Los Angeles also work husband to vacate their home. with the California Habeas Project to represent incarcerated survivors N E W Y O R K of domestic violence who were In New York, we partner with convicted of crimes against their Sanctuary for Families, a nonprofit abusers prior to expert testimony organization that provides legal on battering and its effects being assistance to those seeking admissible. For example, in one independence from their abusers. recent success, Los Angeles This partnership has resulted in associates Marie Dalton and David several programs in our New York Yaroslavsky, under the supervision office to assist victims of domestic of partner Susan Azad and with violence, including our VAWA help from associate Ashley initiative and our U-visa program for Johndro, filed a petition for a writ immigrant crime victims. In 2011, of habeas corpus on behalf of a approximately 80 attorneys in our long-suffering victim of physical, New York office worked on more sexual and psychological abuse. In than 65 VAWA cases and more 1989, our client was sentenced to than 15 U-visa cases referred by 27 years to life in prison for killing Sanctuary. Many of these matters her abusive boyfriend. The team resulted in our clients obtaining petitioned the court to set aside the lawful immigration status in the 39 conviction, arguing that our client United States. San Francisco associates (from left to right) Matt Dickman, Elyse Greenwald, Mariam Missaghi and Pete Cline, who all worked on Bay Area domestic violence matters in 2011, proudly display the “Outstanding New Pro Bono Partner” award from Bay Area Legal Aid. ACCOLADES

Latham & Watkins Named Outstanding ORANGE COUNTY SAN FRANCISCO New Pro Bono Partner For many years, our Orange County Attorneys in our San Francisco office has provided family violence office work in conjunction with Asian Bay Area Legal Aid named survivors a full complement of Pacific Islander Legal Outreach Latham & Watkins as its legal services to assist them in (APILO) to assist immigrant victims “Outstanding New Pro Bono breaking the cycle of violence of domestic violence in securing and starting their lives anew. In the benefits and protection of Partner.” This distinction 2011, Orange County attorneys, VAWA. In addition, a Latham team, recognizes our work assisting paralegals and professional staff including partner Darius Ogloza more than 40 victims of handled almost 50 domestic and associates Paul Llewellyn domestic violence in securing violence, VAWA and U-visa and Stacy Tillett, represented the matters. The office also continued victim of a violent sexual assault U-visas throughout 2011. its commitment to strengthening who brought a civil action against community resources available to her attacker. Despite the fact that domestic violence victims though the defendant pled guilty in the its active participation in various related criminal action against him, Chicago Lawyers local domestic violence clinics he denied all liability in this civil Honored for and its support of the University of action. Following the defendant’s Legal Clinic California at Irvine School of Law’s deposition, and just weeks before pro bono program, which provides trial was due to commence, the In December, Chicago law students the opportunity to Latham team helped to secure associate Margrethe Kearney assist in representing domestic a significant settlement from violence victims. our client’s attacker. and partner Mike Faris were recognized at the inaugural S A N D I E G O SILICON VALLEY “Robert B. Catell Awards Our San Diego attorneys and In Silicon Valley, our attorneys Dinner for Civic Leadership,” paralegals work at the Casa represent pro bono clients in presented by the Brooklyn Law Cornelia Law Center clinic to partnership with the award-winning screen potential VAWA and U-visa Domestic Violence Limited Scope School. The award honors applicants and represent them Representation Project by assisting their leadership of Chicago’s in their petitions. Our personnel with domestic violence restraining Domestic Violence Legal also participate in the San Diego order hearings and child custody Clinic, founded by Latham & Volunteer Lawyer Program and support matters before the Domestic Violence Clinic, assisting family court. Our attorneys also Watkins in 2006. More than victims of domestic violence by represent clients in VAWA and 150 Latham lawyers and preparing the documentation U-visa cases, as well as in asylum paralegals have participated necessary to obtain temporary matters involving domestic violence. in the clinic, representing over restraining orders and representing In 2011 alone, our Silicon Valley 100 domestic violence victims. victims in their efforts to do so. office handled 45 U-visa, VAWA and domestic violence cases. n

40 Latham in the Community

WOMEN’S CAUSES

Personnel from our Brussels office, including (from left to right) Ekaterina Skoraya, Pedro Cudell Salgueiro, Ines Eckermann, Saskia Van den Kerkhove, Tomas Nilsson and James Holloway, get ready for the Legal Run of Brussels.

Running to Benefit Women Human Options Our Brussels office joined 27 other Our Orange County office works international law firms to participate in closely with Human Options, a the 20-kilometer Legal Run of Brussels. multiservice agency dedicated to This charity fundraiser helps support helping battered women and children legal, humanitarian and medical aid escape domestic violence. Over the in Belgium and other countries. In summer, the office held a “Celebrity 2011, the Legal Run benefited NASCI Summer Associates” competition, Centre for Infant Aid, a Brussels-based in which summer associates vied nonprofit organization that offers against one another to collect the support, supplies, equipment and most donations. Proceeds went medical assistance to pregnant women, to the “Back to School Blowout,” single mothers and families in need. which purchased school supplies and uniforms for children escaping This year marked Latham & Watkins’ domestic violence, many of third year participating in the event, whom would be starting school and our Brussels running team— in new communities. Latham & business development manager Ines Watkins, along with Deloitte, also Eckermann, technology support “adopted” two families served by the trainer James Holloway, associate organization, providing wrapped Tomas Nilsson, accounting assistant gifts for the holidays. n Ekaterina Skoraya, enterprise network analyst Pedro Cudell Salgueiro and office administrator Saskia Van den Kerkhove—raised significant sponsorship funds from family and friends. Thanks to contributions from lawyers and staff, as well as a donation from the firm, Latham raised approximately €20,000 to benefit women.

41 Ensuring Fair Housing and Ending Homelessness Latham & Watkins works with a variety of public service organizations whose goal is to ensure affordable housing and prevent homelessness. Supporting pro bono clients and community service partners in these areas involves more than just providing legal services—it also requires dedication, passion, creativity and a willingness to go beyond what is expected. The matters below reflect the time and effort of Latham personnel toward aiding those in need.

Advocating for the Homeless special order which purported to United Kingdom that provides For the past three years, Latham not allow officers to cite homeless emergency accommodation, & Watkins has been working with individuals on nights when no support, information and training Idaho Legal Aid and the National shelter beds are available. to homeless young people, mainly Law Center on Homelessness However, the amendments did not in London. After Centrepoint and Poverty to help vindicate resolve constitutional issues in the received a substantial grant from the constitutional rights of case, and discovery proceeded. Redbridge Borough Council to homeless individuals in Boise, While the defendants ultimately purchase one-bedroom flats to use Idaho. Washington, D.C. partners garnered summary judgment on for housing the homeless, counsel Maggy Sullivan and Roger largely procedural grounds, the Simon Graham, associate Jane Goldman and associates Sarah court’s opinion gave a stern warning Stark and trainee solicitor Paiyel Greenfield, Marissa Jenkins that leaves open the possibility of Bassi helped with the residential and Heather Johnson have re-filing the suit if the city continues conveyancing needed to buy more been working to convince the city to violate the rights of homeless than 30 one-bedroom properties. to repeal or significantly modify individuals in Boise. The team is In addition to providing pro bono its anti-camping and disorderly now helping to assemble a program legal advice, our London office is conduct statutes, which target to monitor post-lawsuit enforcement actively involved in fundraising and homeless individuals who have of the statutes to determine if community service for Centrepoint, no choice but to sleep outside and when it may become coordinated by associate JP due to Boise’s severe shortage of necessary to again challenge Sweny, including participating in beds available in shelters. After their constitutionality as applied. its annual “Sleep Out” fundraiser in settlement negotiations broke down which participants spend the night and the Latham team helped file Helping Homeless Youth in Exchange Square, fielding a team a lawsuit against the city and its Over the past several years, at Centrepoint’s charity football police department, Boise enacted our London office has developed tournament and volunteering at a amendments to include a definition a strong relationship with number of Centrepoint’s hostels in of camping and put in place a Centrepoint, a charity in the the London area. Latham is also working with Centrepoint to develop a program to provide mentoring and full-time employment opportunities in our London office, an important stepping stone toward helping homeless young people develop a stable career and self-sufficiency.

Standing Up in Chicago In Chicago, Latham & Watkins successfully defended the Arial Foundation, a nonprofit organization that builds homes for low-income families in impoverished countries. In 2008, a former employee sued Arial in Illinois State Court for breach of contract after being dismissed for verbally abusing volunteers. The Latham team, including partner Sean Berkowitz (Clockwise from top left) London associates Miles Jennings, Stephen Soper, Matthew and associates Michael Nelson, Schneider and Benedict Nwaeke, trainee solicitor Hendrik Smit, Alex Dodds and associate 42 Aymen Mahmoud compete in a charity football tournament to benefit Centrepoint. Allison Passman and Elijah nutrition education, ESL classes and Watkins and paralegal Lindsay recreational and athletic activities. Cutler, secured a full dismissal with prejudice of the plaintiff’s Expanding to Help Even More claims. The team also worked to Chrysalis is a nonprofit organization ensure that Arial will be protected founded in 1984 as a food and from future attempts by the clothing distribution center serving plaintiff to resurrect his claims. people living on the streets of Los Angeles. Dedicated to creating Building Affordable Housing a pathway to self-sufficiency A Latham team in Los Angeles for homeless and low-income provided pro bono support to individuals, Chrysalis now places Abode Communities, a nonprofit thousands of men and women in organization that specializes in jobs each year, including 3,000 building sustainable, affordable in 2011. Latham represented housing for low-income families, Chrysalis in connection with seniors and individuals with special the lease and expansion of its needs. After the Los Angeles existing headquarters in downtown City Council approved a series of Los Angeles, which will include entitlements for Abode’s newest classrooms, computer stations and project, a service-rich, 100 percent volunteer/program offices to allow affordable housing development in Chrysalis to serve its increasing the San Fernando Valley, partner number of clients. Partner Mary Cindy Starrett and associates Ellen Kanoff and associate Shivaun Cooney and John Tracy Porter in Los Angeles, with Heintz helped Abode navigate the assistance from partner David entitlement process and obtain Meckler in Orange County, advised support and approvals from various Chrysalis on all aspects of the lease agencies. The project will not only negotiation, including the resolution provide sustainable affordable living, of a holdover tenant issue that it will offer resident services such threatened to substantially delay as case management, subsidized the organization’s occupancy of child care, job skills workshops, the expansion space. Los Angeles parenting courses, computer labs, partner George Mihlsten also after-school enrichment, teen clubs, advised on certain land use issues leadership development, health and in connection with the expansion. n

“It’s an honor to work with community nonprofits like Chrysalis. Using our legal skills to help them further expand their services and support to low-income individuals is richly rewarding.”

David Meckler Orange County finance partner 43 Latham in the Community

B A S I C N E E D S

‘Food from the Bar’ Food, Clothes and Beyond Our Los Angeles colleagues won the Helping to feed and clothe the 2011 Los Angeles Regional Food homeless is an endeavor shared Bank “Food from the Bar” competition by many of our offices. In Houston, for the second consecutive year. This for example, attorneys, summer annual campaign encourages the associates and staff volunteered legal community in Los Angeles to their time, energy and enthusiasm by fight hunger through fundraising and assisting at the Houston Food Bank. volunteering for local food banks. More In Chicago, we volunteered at the than 200 Latham & Watkins lawyers, Greater Chicago Food Depository and paralegals and staff in Los Angeles worked with local icon Uncle Pete, contributed more than $71,000 to an 89-year-old man who regularly this year’s winning effort, almost 30 delivers food to the homeless. In percent more than last year. This addition to donating food and money, amount represents the largest financial our Chicago attorneys and staff donation by any firm or organization assembled more than 200 lunch bags in the three-year history of the event. full of granola bars, fresh fruit, cheese, The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank chips, sandwiches and juice. and its participating agencies will use the food and funds raised to provide Our Washington, D.C. office annually more than 1 million meals to children, fields a “Team Latham” in the Fannie the elderly and families who might Mae Help the Homeless Program, a otherwise go hungry. five-kilometer walk on the National Photo: Marie Carpenter, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank Los Photo: Marie Carpenter,

Los Angeles associate Kee-Min Ngiam and partner Mark Stegemoeller (first and second from left) accept a plaque and trophy commemorating Latham & Watkins as the Overall Winner of the 2011 “Food from the Bar” campaign from former California Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno (second from right) and President/CEO of the Los Angeles Regional Food Bank 44 Michael Flood (far right). Mall. The office also continued In Orange County, our colleagues from the firm, the first-ever “Eidsgiving its annual tradition of holding participated in the Council on Aging Family Dinner” raised enough money several fundraising events around SmileMakers Holiday Project, through to build two schools in Bangladesh, Thanksgiving to benefit Miriam’s which attorneys and staff donated and the Doha office hopes to make Kitchen, which provides services and holiday gifts for 25 elderly men and this event an annual tradition. n meals to area homeless. women based on each recipient’s wish list. According to SmileMakers, these On the West Coast, our colleagues gifts are sometimes the only ones the in Silicon Valley donated almost individuals receive. 200 items to Dress for Success, a nonprofit organization that provides ‘Eidsgiving Family Dinner’ assistance to men and women Thanksgiving in the United States transitioning from unemployment and Eid Al Adha in the Middle East to self-sufficiency. Without jobs, (also known as the Muslim Festival of many of these people cannot afford Sacrifice or Greater Eid, celebrated in professional clothing, yet they need early November in 2011) share many appropriate outfits in order to find similarities—both involve expressing work. Our Silicon Valley office also gratitude, embracing family and assisted and collected donations for sharing generously with those in need. community organizations such as Our Doha office celebrated the shared Shelter Network, a local homeless spirit of the two late-fall holidays by shelter, and Little Brothers-Friends hosting a bountiful dinner for personnel of the Elderly, dedicated to relieving and their families. Attendees feasted isolation and loneliness in seniors. on turkey with gravy and cranberry The office also participated in the sauce, mashed sweet potatoes, Share Your Lunch Campaign, beef Wellington, biryani and pasta Dubai office administrator Soirse contributing money and food to Flanagan (left) and Doha office cooked by facilities staff member administrator Laurel Barnes enjoy the first help ensure that kids have enough Gustavo Pereira, as well as salads “Eidsgiving Family Dinner,” a celebration to eat during the summer. and desserts. of both Thanksgiving and the Muslim holiday Eid Al Adha, at the Doha office.

Our San Diego office raised money As part of the event, the office raised for StandUp for Kids, an organization money for the Qatar Foundation’s devoted to helping homeless children. Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) program, Participants donated food, personal a nonprofit organization committed care products, first-aid kits, new to providing access to quality primary and gently used clothes and other and secondary education to children requested items. To benefit the San in need across Asia. In support of the Diego Food Bank, the office also United Nations’ “Education for All” hosted a “Chili Cook-Off” fundraiser program, ROTA is endeavoring to at which personnel sampled chili build 100 schools and learning centers and cornbread cooked by partners, for children in Teknaf and Ukhia, associates and staff. Bangladesh. Along with a donation

45 Assisting Nonprofits Latham & Watkins attorneys have developed relationships with a wide variety of charities and nonprofit organizations worldwide. These institutions often seek or face the need to incorporate, merge or restructure in order to streamline their operations or expand their reach. Our work assisting charities and nonprofits with their ongoing legal needs enables them to achieve greater impact, while also providing us with an indirect way to reach larger segments of society that are in need of support. We worked on many matters for nonprofits in 2011, a small sampling of which follows.

Helping a Human Improving a Nation’s Vision local charity under the Charities Rights Organization The Vision for a Nation Foundation Act in Singapore. PiA creates Human Rights Watch is one of aims to improve eyesight in Rwanda opportunities for recent graduates the world’s leading independent by working with the Ministry of of US colleges and universities to organizations dedicated to Health to screen the vision of all serve communities in Asia for year- defending and protecting human people age eight and older and to long fellowships, including service- rights. By focusing international provide eyeglasses to those who oriented fellowships in the areas of attention on places where human need them. London partner Rod education, healthcare, population rights are violated, it gives voices Brown and associates Hannah services and the environment for to the oppressed and holds Strong and Karl Mah assisted with harder-to-reach rural populations. oppressors accountable for their the formation of the Foundation, The Latham team guided PiA crimes. In London, counsel Simon its charity commission and HMRC through the registration process Graham, associate Jane Stark registrations, and continue to advise for local charities, advising on the and trainee solicitor Joanna the Foundation on its contractual Singaporean regulatory framework, Macintosh assisted Human arrangements and relationships amending our client’s constitutional Rights Watch with a lease on with suppliers and the government documents and advising on a new property, advising on of Rwanda. In addition, associate compliance matters. due diligence, negotiation and Gretchen Lennon advised Vision for completion of the lease, including a Nation on employment law matters. Enabling Mentors a rent deposit deed and license to The National Organization of alter, as well as post-completion Creating Fellowship Concerned Black Men (CBM) is a formalities, registrations and tax Opportunities nonprofit organization founded in filings. The team also included Singapore associates Maree 1975 when several Philadelphia Frankfurt associate Malte Hilpert, Myerscough and Marcus Lee Wey police officers sponsored social who advised Human Rights Watch Lip assisted Princeton in Asia (PiA) events for kids at risk for gang with respect to data privacy issues. in its successful registration as a violence. CBM provides at-risk youth with black male role models and creates programs that bring care, discipline and opportunities for enrichment. Latham represented CBM in a breach of contract lawsuit brought by a company hired to evaluate its programs. The team, consisting of Washington, D.C. partner Abid Qureshi, associates Patty Robbins, Katie Schettig and Chris Wynne and paralegal Lisa Zurmuhlen, as well as New York associate Kamil Redmond, engaged in active pre-trial litigation, which eventually led to settlement negotiations. The parties reached a mutually satisfactory agreement and the case was voluntarily dismissed.

Los Angeles associates (first and second from left) Maureen Falcone and Monica Klosterman attend their office’s Pro Bono Fair along with Diego Cartagena, the former Pro Bono Director of the Alliance for Children’s Rights, and Tai Glenn, Executive 46 Director of the Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center. A C C O L A D E S

Humane Society Pro Bono Chair Named Over many years, Latham & Watkins has built a strong relationship with the To LSC Task Force Humane Society of the United States (HSUS), and together we are working to end animal cruelty. In 2011, we continued to represent HSUS in a variety of San Francisco partner and Pro litigation and regulatory matters. Below is a sampling of our work in this area. Bono Committee Chair Charlie Crompton was named to the Latham & Watkins represented We continue to work with HSUS Legal Services Corporation’s HSUS in a challenge under the to petition the US Department of Marine Mammal Protection Act to a Agriculture (USDA) to change its (LSC) Task Force, charged permit application seeking to acquire rules under the Horse Protection with finding creative, viable healthy sea lions for public display. Act. The Act prohibits the “soring” ways of ensuring the The organization seeking the permit of horses, or the deliberate infliction continuation of civic legal requested that the National Marine of injury on the front legs or feet to Fisheries Service (NMFS) order create an exaggerated, high-stepping aid in the wake of economic federally funded “stranding networks” gait, yet the practice persists. The uncertainty and budget cuts. to turn over sea lions determined to Latham team, including partners Rick A federally funded nonprofit be fit to return to their natural habitat. Bernthal and Scott Ballenger and organization, LSC is the A team including Washington, D.C. associate Sara Orr in Washington, largest provider of civic legal partner James Barrett and associate D.C. and associate Joyce Wang Jessica Munitz assisted HSUS and summer associate Chris Reilly aid to low-income Americans. in submitting comments to NMFS, in Silicon Valley, assisted HSUS arguing that the sea lions must, as in preparing a rulemaking petition a matter of law, be released into the requesting that the USDA implement wild, rather than displayed in captivity. stricter rules to prohibit this practice.

Washington, D.C. partner James Partner Scott Ballenger and Barrett and associates Drew Ensign, associate Kerry Dingle in Sean Krispinsky and Kala Sherman- Washington, D.C. and associate Presser represented HSUS in a Andy Gass in San Francisco, preliminary injunction proceeding in assisted by summer associates the US District Court for the District Jessica Boluda, Allison Wyman, of Columbia to prevent the NMFS Matthew Peters and Victoria from authorizing the killing of sea VanStekelenburg in Washington, lions. At the request of Oregon and D.C., represented HSUS and several Washington State, the US government other organizations as intervenors had approved the killing of as many in a case before the United States as 85 sea lions at the Bonneville Dam Supreme Court in November 2011. on the Columbia River for the purpose The matter involved a suit by of protecting salmon. In response to meatpacking and slaughter plant the suit, the states agreed to suspend trade groups seeking to enjoin their planned slayings in 2011 and enforcement of a California criminal the federal government withdrew its statute that requires immediate authorization pending further review. euthanasia of nonambulatory livestock at slaughterhouses and prohibits slaughter of those animals for human consumption. Latham advocated in favor of the law. n

47 Protecting the Oceans funds all of the organization’s contemporary art, produces cultural The BLUE Marine Foundation overhead so that 100 percent events and collaborates with other (BLUE) promotes marine of donations go directly to these institutions in Italy and abroad. conservation through targeted nonprofits. Partners Robin Struve Latham assisted Peep Hole in investment and strategic and Chris Lueking and associates drafting a right-of-use deed (diritto communications, working to Puja Seam and Sarah Song di uso) concerning an exhibition share best practices globally in advised ABC on its initial formation space that Peep Hole created for order to halt the decline in marine and application for 501(c)(3) status. contemporary art in Milan. The team biodiversity, increase protection The team currently advises ABC also reviewed corporate documents, of the world’s oceans and ensure on all governance, employee and relevant contracts and agreements restoration and renewal of vital general corporate matters, as entered with museums and artists. marine ecosystems. A Latham team well as on the negotiation of grant from our London office advised and investment agreements with Supporting Film and Theater BLUE on negotiations with a nonprofit organizations. Our London office supports various major sponsor, website terms and film and theater organizations. For conditions, and consultancy and Defending an Art Museum example, our lawyers worked with employment contracts, as well Latham & Watkins lawyers in the Battersea Arts Centre (BAC), as provided general advice on Orange County successfully which brings people together branding, privacy law and corporate defended the Downey Museum through theater, during its ongoing governance. Under the supervision of Art and its executive director refurbishment and construction of partner Rod Brown, the team in a labor and employment action program. The Latham & Watkins included associates Mary Kusalic, wherein a former consultant sued team, which includes partner Kathryn Donovan and Emily for alleged breach of contract. Omar Shah, associates Ronan Martin and trainee solicitors Rachel After more than two years of Flanagan and Marguerite Lavedan Croft and Christopher Williams. litigation, this highly contentious and trainee solicitor Warren matter was favorably resolved Fernandez, assisted in analyzing Promoting Pro Bono in Russia before trial and all claims were BAC’s obligations under European Our Moscow attorneys, including dismissed with prejudice, due to and UK public procurement rules. partner Christopher Allen and the work of partner Jon Anderson In addition, London partner Daniel associates Mark Teeter and and associates Charity Gilbreth Friel, associates Mel Adkins and Olga Ponomarenko, worked with and Garrett Jansma. Sinthu Sivakumaran and trainee PILnet: The Global Network for solicitors Hendrik Smit and Robert Public Interest Law on activities Strengthening a Charity Davidson helped the British Film related to its Russian Pro Bono In London, partner Catherine Institute (BFI) to fully utilize the tax Clearinghouse. Specifically, the Drinnan and associate Kathryn advantages of its charitable status. team helped prepare a disclaimer Donovan provided employment BFI’s charitable endeavors include posted on the Clearinghouse’s and pension advice to the Watford encouraging the development website to allow it to upload Women’s Centre, a local women’s of the arts of film, television and and distribute law firm research charity that supports victims of the moving image throughout the memos on matters related to domestic abuse and their children, United Kingdom and establishing nongovernmental activities in among others. The Latham team collections reflecting the country’s Russia. Latham also helped advised on the legal and practical moving image heritage. Latham prepare a related disclaimer implications of an employee assisted BFI in obtaining clearance for the general public regarding transfer from a local authority to from the UK tax authority, permitting open distribution of the the charity. This involved complex BFI to reclaim UK Gift Aid on the research memos. issues surrounding the protections value of admission tickets to afforded to transferring an some public screenings. This Making a Better Chicago employee’s terms and conditions of clearance effectively overturns Our Chicago office provides pro employment, as well as whether the current published guidance and bono strategic and legal counsel charity is required to join the local could result in significantly more to A Better Chicago (ABC), a government pension scheme. funds being available to BFI for venture philanthropy fund in the its charitable purposes. n Chicago metropolitan area. ABC Fostering Art and Culture provides management support and Attorneys in our Milan office, nonrestrictive grants to a select including associates Marcello group of high-performing local Bragliani and Gabriele Pavanello nonprofits that help low-income and trainee solicitor Alessandro children, families and adults Abbiati, under the supervision obtain educational opportunities of partner Andrea Novarese, and professional skills to become assisted Peep Hole, a nonprofit economically self-sufficient and association based in Milan that successful. The board of directors promotes projects connected with 48 Latham in the Community

FUNDRAISING

More than 50 Latham & Watkins personnel in Los Angeles prepare to race up the stairs of a local skyscraper as part of a charity fundraiser for the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA.

Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Japan Disaster Relief Around the firm, exercising for a cause Donations from Latham & Watkins remains a popular way of helping personnel across the globe poured into the community. To list just a few the firm’s Japan Disaster Relief Fund examples, our Los Angeles colleagues after the earthquakes and tsunami participated in the Run for Justice race, in Japan in March 2011. Combined with proceeds going to Public Counsel, with Latham’s matching and other our longtime pro bono partner, which donations, the firm raised a total of assists children, refugees, the elderly, almost half a million dollars, which the poor and other disenfranchised was donated to various organizations members of the community. In New working in the area, including the Red York, our colleagues raised money for Cross, Save the Children, the Japan kids by participating in events such Society and Doctors Without Borders. as the March for Babies walk held by the March of Dimes and the Juvenile Additionally, in May, Hamburg Office Diabetes Research Foundation’s Managing Partner Götz Wiese annual Walk to Cure Diabetes. presented a €25,000 check to the Japanese Club in Hamburg for use Climbing to New Levels by the Japanese Red Cross. Each Our Los Angeles colleagues took part spring, the Japanese Club in Hamburg in the Ketchum-Downtown YMCA’s organizes an annual event to mark the “Stair Climb to the Top,” an event blooming of the city’s Japanese cherry that originated more than a dozen blossom trees, including a fireworks years ago with retired partner John show. As our Hamburg office offers Welch, whose exercise regime spectacular views of the fireworks, included regularly jogging the stairs the firm regularly holds its own Cherry of the US Bank Tower. Latham & Blossom Party for clients and business Watkins remains a strong sponsor contacts. After the earthquakes and of this citywide event, fielding more tsunami, the Japanese Club decided than 50 participants who climbed to to cancel its cherry blossom event the top of the skyscraper as part of a and fireworks, and our Hamburg fundraising effort to help benefit the office chose to contribute the money YMCA’s community programs, such as earmarked for its event as a donation after-school tutoring, teen leadership to aid Japan’s disaster relief. n development and senior fitness.

49 Safeguarding Civil and Individual Rights We recognize our unique obligation to help ensure that the doors of justice are open to all. Safeguarding civil rights and liberties for vulnerable, underserved segments of the population continues to be an important part of our pro bono program. Our work in this area not only benefits our individual clients, but also contributes to the strengthening of a civil society. The matters below demonstrate some of the many ways in which Latham & Watkins attorneys bring their expertise to bear in support of those fighting for civil rights.

Pursuing Freedom for the Fighting Employment and ensure that parole examiners Wrongfully Convicted Discrimination understand and properly apply The California Innocence Project Washington, D.C. associates John federal guidelines. In instances (CIP) is a clinic located at California Mathews, Nabeel Yousef and where the team felt the parole Western School of Law that seeks Laura Mancini worked with the examiners erred in recommending to free the wrongfully convicted. CIP Washington Lawyers’ Committee that parole be denied, our attorneys receives more than 1,000 requests for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs followed up with a formal request for assistance each year from in representing a client who was for reconsideration. To date, the inmates incarcerated in California terminated from a construction Latham team has secured parole prisons, and its work has led to the job due to his race and age. Our release for six individuals. reversal of nine convictions in the client alleged that his employer past six years. Our San Diego office engaged in a pattern and practice Ensuring Due Process works closely with CIP to screen of discriminating against older Through our New York office’s inmate files for viable claims of and African-American employees Krimstock automobile seizure factual innocence, which can include through harassment, a hostile work program, created in conjunction newly discovered evidence, faulty environment and disproportionate with the New York City Office of eyewitness identifications and DNA termination, and he was told Administrative Trials & Hearings evidence that was never tested. We directly by his supervisor that he (OATH), Latham & Watkins have also assisted CIP with habeas was transferred to make room provides pro bono representation in petitions for cases that are currently for younger workers. He also administrative due process hearings in litigation and have performed experienced racially derogatory for low-income individuals whose legal research on complex or novel remarks and imagery. The team vehicles have been seized by the issues. In 2011, our San Diego office succeeded at mediation in police. For many of our clients, developed a pilot program to involve obtaining a significant settlement their vehicle is their most valuable paralegals in initial case screenings, for our client. possession and is critical to their developing resource guides for livelihoods. The program was CIP and developing contacts at Protecting Prisoners’ Rights developed by New York partner forensic labs, police departments Over the past year, our Chicago, Chris Plaut and is supervised and state courts to assist with Los Angeles, New York and San and coordinated by partner Jim tracking down evidence for CIP Francisco offices have taken on Kearney and associates Melinda cases in the investigation stage. a number of prisoner civil rights Franek and John Molluzzo. Our San Diego CIP team is led by cases referred by various courts. A number of associates have associate Chris Olson and partner Additionally, Washington, D.C. achieved recent successes in Kathy Lauer, with assistance from associates Katherine Gigliotti, Krimstock matters, including a associate Lauren Ross. In addition, Elizabeth McCrillis, Anna dismissal of a vehicle forfeiture legal secretary Kathi Carcella Rathbun, Nicole Neuman and pending in New York Supreme has been instrumental in handling Alexandra Shandell, under the Court after arguing that the police the administrative aspects of the supervision of partner Kevin Metz, department failed to effect timely program, and paralegals Carolyn have teamed with the Washington and proper service of the forfeiture Scott and Kelli Moro led the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights complaint against our client. initiative to start the Paralegal and Urban Affairs to assist with Associates Tyler Nims and Kamil Pilot Program. the Committee’s D.C. Prisoners Redmond drafted the motion to Project. As part of this initiative, dismiss, and Tyler argued the the team has researched and motion in two separate hearings. coordinated Freedom of Information Additionally, on the morning of a Act requests and traveled to federal key evidentiary hearing, associates prisons in Virginia, Maryland, North Karen Goldstein and John Carolina and Pennsylvania to Molluzzo successfully negotiated 50 represent clients at parole hearings a vehicle release on behalf of our A C C O L A D E S client, an “innocent owner” whose they remain on his record and D.C. Office Honored car was seized after a friend was have negatively impacted his job For Civil Rights Work arrested while using it. In another search. Associate Ashianna Esmail matter, associates Shervin Rezaie, helped her client successfully In June, our Washington, Melinda Franek and Kamil appeal a denial of his application Redmond won dismissal of a for a security guard license and D.C. office was honored at forfeiture proceeding in New York continues to work with him in pursuit the Washington Lawyers’ Supreme Court, based on the police of expungement remedies. Committee for Civil department’s failure to timely serve Rights and Urban Affairs’ the forfeiture complaint. The team Battling Excessive Force “Wiley A. Branton Awards is currently pursuing an Article 78 Against Prisoners proceeding to address an important Chicago partners John Casey and Luncheon,” which honors issue regarding evidentiary burdens Matthew Kutcher and associates area attorneys who are that will affect all Krimstock cases. Allison Passman, Nicholas committed to civil rights. , , Siciliano Eric Swibel Gabe Associates John Mathews, Providing Second Chances Edelson and Vivian Shan secured Nabeel Yousef and Laura Started in January 2011, the a favorable settlement for a county Second Chance Legal Clinic in correctional facility inmate in a Mancini accepted an “Equal San Francisco helps formerly Section 1983 excessive force case Employment Opportunity incarcerated clients who are striving against a correctional officer who Award” on Latham’s behalf to reintegrate successfully into shot our client with a Taser gun in recognition of the firm’s their communities, but whose past during a hunger strike protesting criminal records impede their efforts his treatment in the facility. Latham efforts to provide quality to find housing or employment. San joined the case after our client representation to those who Francisco associate Vanessa Reid had already proceeded pro se experience employment has been working with a client in his through the discovery process and, discrimination. attempts to seal an arrest that did lacking proper resources, failed not lead to a conviction. Although to fully develop a factual record. the client is innocent of the charges, The court had already refused our

“Thank you for your excellent advocacy in our Second Chance Legal Clinic. Latham & Watkins attorneys have taken on two of our most involved, most technically difficult cases, and have been providing outstanding assistance to their clients.”

Meredith Desautels Fellow, Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area

51 ACCOLADES

San Diego Office client’s request to orally depose any associate Brendan Kelleher, filed Honored by ABA/IJP witnesses, including the defendants. a brief in opposition and awaits the The Latham team worked to court’s decision. Our representation correct the procedural imbalance, of the client on this issue as well The American Bar convincing the court to allow the as his capital case continues. Association’s Immigration filing of an amended complaint Justice Project (IJP) of San to add claims of which our client Supporting the Diego named Latham & was previously unaware. The Midwest Tax Clinic Watkins its “2011 Law Firm team also filed and prevailed on a Our Chicago attorneys continued hotly contested motion to reopen to work with the Midwest Tax of the Year.” The award discovery, allowing 16 depositions Clinic at the Center for Economic recognizes the San Diego of the defendants and other key Progress to provide tax assistance office’s contributions to the witnesses. Those successful to struggling members of the IJP, including representing motions changed the leverage community by seeking refunds, its clients before the Board paradigm that had previously submitting offers in compromise on hampered our client and paved tax liabilities and litigating cases of Immigration Appeals, the way for a favorable settlement. in the United States Tax Court. In handling cancellation of one notable example, an elderly, removal and asylum cases, Helping a Death Row Inmate low-income client going through a hosting IJP training sessions A team of Latham attorneys has contentious divorce was disallowed been representing a Louisiana deductions his wife had submitted and participating on the IJP death row inmate since 2007. In for her gambling losses on their Advisory Board. 2011, the team won dismissal for joint tax returns. The dispute went our client from a civil action brought to court, and both husband and by the Louisiana Department of wife were represented by the same Corrections (DOC) against all lawyer in both the tax case and the death row inmates in the state— divorce. After the taxpayers lost, our client was the only one to be Latham took over the husband’s dismissed from the case. The case. Chicago counsel Andy DOC sought declaratory judgment Roberson, associate Patty that the Louisiana lethal injection Liu and paralegal Mike Smith protocol was adopted in compliance challenged the deficiency judgment with the Louisiana Administrative by arguing that the husband was Procedures Act. New York an “innocent spouse” who should associates Kevin McDonough not be responsible for a six-figure and Kyle Wallace, under the tax liability resulting solely from his supervision of partner Will Reckler, wife’s wrongful conduct. The team prepared a brief in support of also emphasized the prior lawyer’s our client’s motion to dismiss the conflict of interest in representing declaratory judgment action, and both spouses. After a trial on the Kevin successfully argued the merits, the Tax Court found in motion based on the fact that the favor of our client, now more than identical issues had been raised 70 years old, on every issue of law and are currently pending in our and fact. Andy was also profiled client’s previously filed petition for in April 2011 in the Midwest Tax post-conviction relief. The DOC Clinic’s newsletter for his help over appealed to the state Court of the years assembling teams of Appeal, and the Latham team, Latham attorneys to assist 52 with assistance from San Francisco low-income taxpayers. A C C O L A D E S

Our New York office’s Special Immigrant Juvenile Status program was recently recognized New York Office by the Legal Aid Society of New York. (Clockwise from top left) Civil Practice Immigration Unit Supervising Attorney Maria Navarro, Latham summer associate Spencer Ricks, New York State Honored by Legal Aid Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, Legal Aid Society Chairman Richard Davis, New York associate John Molluzzo, Legal Aid Society President Fin Fogg, and New York associates Elana Cooper, Jessalyn Garvey and Hayley Moore pose at the awards ceremony. Our extensive Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) program was recognized by the Legal Aid and Equal Protection clauses of Working with the Prison Society of New York at its Interview Programme the US Constitution. After a four- Pro Bono Publico Awards. Our Singapore office continues its day evidentiary hearing, the court involvement in the Prison Interview granted a preliminary injunction and Presented by the Honorable Programme run by the Law enjoined the town from obtaining ex Jonathan Lippman, Chief Society of Singapore. Participating parte TROs restraining occupants Judge of the State of New attorneys visit Changi Prison with from reentering their homes York, the award recognizes an accompanying Criminal Legal without delivering appropriate prior Aid Scheme officer and interview notices of violation. After protracted our work representing applicants about the charges and discovery and nearly a year of unaccompanied abused, circumstances of their alleged mediation, and exactly five years abandoned or neglected offense as well as their financial after issuance of the preliminary immigrant youth in obtaining means. After the interview, the injunction, the parties reached a permanent legal status, Latham attorneys prepare a report settlement in which the town agreed describing the applicant’s case and to conduct its code enforcement allowing them to remain in a recommendation as to whether activities in compliance with all the United States. Led by the applicant qualifies for legal aid. governing laws, committed to partner Blair Connelly and ensuring that all code inspectors will Latham participants in the program supervised by associate include associates Tim Fourteau, continue to be compliant with state- John Castiglione, the SIJS Matthew Hendrix, Dimple Mehta mandated training requirements, and Maree Myerscough, foreign and provided a mechanism for the team includes associates law counsel Alex Ye and trainee public to ensure that the inspectors Jessalyn Garvey, Hayley solicitor James Willis. are in compliance with federal and Moore, John Molluzzo, state civil and fair housing laws. Lillian Lardy, Melissa Securing Civil Rights The town also agreed to expand In conjunction with the Workplace its Anti-Bias Task Force with Baumgartner, Elana Project, a nonprofit organization two members nominated by the Cooper and Kelli Sussman, dedicated to serving the Latino Workplace Project and to create a and works with the Civil committee to evaluate and report day laborer populations in Nassau Practice’s Immigration and Suffolk counties, our New on housing and other needs of the Law Unit on these matters. York office secured a significant town’s immigrant community. New settlement for a group of Latino York partner Blair Connelly led the day laborers against the Town of team, which included associates Brookhaven arising from the town’s Melinda Franek, Mark Covey, use of no-notice, no-standard Alex Croswell, Rachel Kui and temporary restraining orders (TROs) Susan Ebersole and paralegal to evict Latino residents from their Damon Gaynair. n homes. In 2005, our clients filed suit against the town, alleging the evictions violated the Fair Housing Act as well as the Due Process 53 Congratulating Our Fellows Equal Justice Works Fellowships Each year, Latham & Watkins sponsors a new two-year public interest fellowship through Equal Justice Works. The fellowships address the shortage of attorneys working on behalf of traditionally underserved populations by providing financial and technical support to the Fellows to meet pressing needs in their communities. They also help create a new generation of public interest attorneys, as many participants continue their public service work well beyond the two-year fellowship.

Katherine Ojeda Stewart Munmeeth Soni Catherine Longkumer Equal Justice Works Fellow 2010–2012 Equal Justice Works Fellow 2011–2013 Equal Justice Works Fellow 2012–2014 Harriett Buhai Center for Family Law Public Law Center Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Los Angeles, California Orange County, California Family Services Chicago, Illinois Katie works with the Harriett Buhai Munmeeth leads “Project Asylum” at Center for Family Law in Los Angeles, the Public Law Center (PLC) in Orange Catherine, our newest Equal Justice California, empowering mothers County, California, assisting survivors Works Fellow, will begin her fellowship released from prison or jail to reunite of torture and persecution in obtaining in 2012. She will work at the Legal Aid with their children through custody or immigration relief and improving their Society of Metropolitan Family Services in visitation orders. Incarcerated mothers, access to mental health services. Chicago, Illinois, assisting sex-trafficking who are disproportionately poor women Shortly after Munmeeth’s fellowship was victims. It is estimated that there are of color and survivors of violence, awarded, US Immigration and Customs thousands of women and children in are often the primary caretakers of Enforcement expanded the number of the Chicago area who are victims of their children prior to incarceration. detention facilities in Orange County, trafficking. All too often those responsible To protect existing parent-child increasing the number of detainees from for the trafficking or those benefiting from relationships and facilitate family 200 to nearly 1,000. Project Asylum it are never held accountable. Catherine’s reunification, Katie provides direct legal allowed Munmeeth and PLC to respond project will work to change that by services and representation to formerly to the overwhelming critical need for using the Illinois Predator Accountability incarcerated mothers in family and legal and mental health services in Act (PAA), which allows victims of sex probate court. She regularly assists the detention centers, particularly for trafficking to sue their trafficker and clients coping with drug and alcohol the gay and transgender immigrant third parties that were involved with or addictions, mental health issues and detainee population. Many of these benefited from the trafficking. Partnering trauma resulting from domestic violence individuals, who fled persecution and with the Cook County State’s Attorney’s by engaging in community outreach torture in their native countries, now office, LexisNexis, law firms and social with residential treatment centers face discrimination and mistreatment service agencies, Catherine will develop for women on parole or probation as while in immigration custody. Munmeeth a comprehensive approach that will well as substance abuse recovery provides pro se assistance and direct allow for an innovative and coordinated programs. Katie also provides legal legal representation and works with local effort to deliver justice for these victims. education to formerly or currently organizations and healthcare agencies The goal of the project is to work with incarcerated women planning for that locate and assign pro bono mental victims to service all their legal needs reentry. Her curriculum on custody and health professionals to provide services. while helping them connect to appropriate visitation law helps women preserve In addition, Munmeeth’s presence in the social service agencies to ensure their their parental rights and make more detention centers in Orange County has continued support and safety. In addition informed choices about their children’s allowed PLC, through Project Asylum, to co-counseling cases with local firms, welfare. She is also working to increase to participate in Ninth Circuit litigation Catherine will assist in training others county probation officers’ knowledge of and national impact litigation addressing on PAA and trafficking issues. custody and visitation law and of how the treatment of detained gay and incarceration impacts families. transgender individuals.

54 California Bar Foundation’s Latham & Watkins Scholar The California Bar Foundation’s Public Interest Scholarships are awarded to exceptional law students seeking to pursue a career in the public interest. In 2011, Latham & Watkins sponsored the maximum award in the program in recognition of the importance of preparing the next generation of public interest attorneys.

James Beck California Bar Foundation Public Interest Scholarship Recipient Latham & Watkins Scholar University of California at Davis School of Law

As a Latham & Watkins Scholar, James “Giving back to the community is central will receive a scholarship to be used to our firm’s core values, and our support as he continues his legal education at of the California Bar Foundation’s Public the University of California at Davis Interest Scholarship Program is one way School of Law. Having witnessed the we demonstrate our commitment to struggles of his foster siblings in the ensuring that all Californians, regardless of juvenile justice system as a child, James income, have access to the justice system,” plans to become a public defender with said Charlie Crompton, Chair of the Pro the goal of supporting, protecting and Bono Committee. “The Foundation’s Public representing traditionally underserved Interest Scholarship recipients represent groups. A graduate of Amherst College, some of the best and brightest aspiring James has served as a law clerk with the public interest lawyers and give us great Office of the Federal Public Defender in hope for the continued vitality of our justice Sacramento and with the Public system. We congratulate James on his Defender Service in Washington, D.C. selection as a Latham & Watkins Scholar.” n

“None of my work at Housing & Economic Rights Advocates would have been possible without Latham’s support. It has been an honor to be the firm’s Equal Justice Works Fellow—I know the firm has a deep commitment to supporting public interest work.”

Adetunji Olude Equal Justice Works Fellow 2009–2011

55 Pro Bono Challenge Each year, Latham & Watkins challenges our personnel to meet (and exceed) the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge® by providing 60 or more hours of legal services through our pro bono program. Thanks to the contributions of our many attorneys, paralegals, summer associates, trainees and professional staff who rise to the challenge, our program remains one of the most robust and diverse among large law firms, providing assistance to low-income individuals and the nonprofit organizations that serve them. We congratulate our colleagues who made substantial contributions to our efforts by meeting the 2011 Pro Bono Challenge.

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Edelson Jon Anderson Peter Boyd Charles Cox Bryant Edwards Angela Angelovska-Wilson Kevin Boyle Brandon Crase Robert Ellison Anitha Anne Michelle Bradfield Karyn Crassweller Buck Endemann Ludovico Anselmi Brent Brandon Dennis Craythorn Patrick English Charles Anthony Richard Bress Emily Cridland Drew Ensign Jennifer Archie Heather Bromfield Julie Crisp Ryan Erickson Kimberly Arouh Erin Brown Christopher Cronin Victor Eshkeri Rainbow Andrea Auyeung Michael Brown Matthew Cronin Ashianna Esmail Susan Azad Natalie Brown Christopher Cross Rosa Espin Leila Azari Rebecca Brown Alexandra Croswell John Everett Kristin Azcona Anthony Bruno Timothy Crudo Fabrice Fages Marina Babanskaya Katherine Buckel Kathleen Cui Maureen Falcone Christian Badura Lesley Budzinski Daniel Cunha Nicole Fanjul Olga Baeza Colin Bumby Lindsay Cutler Zachary Fardon Lucas Bailey Evangeline Burbidge Caitlin Dahl Michael Faris Nicole Baker Alisha Burgin Carshae Dahl Joseph Farrell Katherine Baldwin Sophie Butterworth 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The pro bono legal services provided by our lawyers would not be possible were it not for the tremendous efforts of our professional staff. Latham & Watkins’ talented and dedicated librarians, paralegals, document specialists, land use analysts, legal secretaries, guest service attendants, facilities managers, public relations specialists, docket staff, records clerks and everyone in between often play key roles in our pro bono matters.

In addition, staff members from across the firm participate in our extensive community service efforts, whether as organizers, facilitators or volunteers.

No matter what role they serve, our dedicated staff make vital contributions to our pro bono program and community service initiatives across our offices. Many of them are acknowledged throughout this report, but we would also like to give a special “thank you” to every staff member who helped on a pro bono matter or participated in a community service initiative throughout 2011. Thank you for your dedication, hard work and commitment to serving our communities! n

Top left: Staff members from our Hong Kong office join Latham & Watkins attorneys, family members and a client at the “Walk for Millions” to raise money for social welfare agencies that provide services for children. Top right: San Diego business development coordinator Ericka Thibodo (left) and senior human resources generalist Nina Russell (right) take part in their office’s “Chili Cook-Off” fundraiser to benefit the San Diego Food Bank. Bottom: Staff members in our Frankfurt office participate in Weihnachten im Schuhkarton (Christmas in a Shoebox), filling approximately 30 shoeboxes with a variety of school supplies, toys, candy and clothing to be distributed to needy children in Eastern Europe.

59 Latham & Watkins Pro Bono Committee The Pro Bono Committee includes partners, counsel, associates, paralegals and staff from across the firm.

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