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“I chose to be a loaned associate to Legal Aid so that I could learn about advocating for justice from the finest poverty lawyers in the country.”

Kristin Keeling, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP A MESSAGE FROM THE president A COMMUNITY OF JUSTICE & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Our clients are at the center of our work. While our efforts are structured by the mechanics The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is a community organized around the simple of the legal system, our clients’ disputes and the search for just resolutions guide us. It is our ideals that the law should be fair and should be fairly applied. Since its founding in 1932 in clients’ lives – their struggles and their successes – that motivate and inspire the Legal Aid the shadow of the great depression, Legal Aid has always been larger than the institution that community and that best tell our story. carries the name. GOING INTO THE COMMUNITY Legal Aid’s hardworking Board of Trustees and talented staff are critical to our work for equal Legal Aid has moved many of its services into communities of highly concentrated poverty. justice. The Board’s leadership and fundraising ensures that the program thrives and keeps While we continue to serve clients in our main office in downtown Washington, in order to to its mission. The advocates and others who come to work every day do a remarkable job reduce transportation and other barriers, we have opened three offices at locations east of taking the hardest cases and translating them into a just result - for individuals, for families, the Anacostia River and an office in the Landlord and Tenant Branch of the Superior Court. All for neighborhoods and for the District. of our community offices are partnerships with other legal and social services organizations. We have located them not only in our clients’ neighborhoods, but in places that clients already The Legal Aid community also includes our clients. As much as we work on behalf of our come to seek other services. Our presence in the community allows us to help individuals and clients, we also work with them. The cases belong to them, but we share the cause. Working families that may lack the resources to travel downtown. together we seek to elevate disputes above their procedural requirements and to achieve fair results. Individual cases are leveraged to bring about system reform. Our clients and their Michael stories inspire us and give us the courage to continue to look for ways to use each case to ichael came to Legal Aid’s office in Southeast DC seeking assistance to obtain bring us one step closer to a just society. Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits. Forty-seven years old with a wife and four children to support, Michael suffers from a serious heart condition and The hundreds of lawyers, law students and others who volunteer with Legal Aid in so many M diabetes that prevent him from doing even the most basic of work-related different ways are also part of our community. The reach of Legal Aid extends far beyond its activities. Nevertheless, Michael’s application for SSI was denied. His staff through generous individuals who give time to our cases and projects. family’s financial situation was dire. They fell behind on rent several times and received shut-off threats due to unpaid electricity, gas, We partner in this community effort as well with those who provide us financial support. and telephone bills. Some weeks, they struggled to buy enough Dedicated individuals, law firms, corporations and foundations provide meaningful contributions food for their children. Had Legal Aid not been in Michael’s each year. There is a deep commitment in this bar and this city to equal justice. neighborhood and had he been required to pay for transportation, he might have been unable to obtain help. A Legal Aid lawyer Finally, our community includes our legal and social services partners. Our staff works was able to take on his case immediately. Legal Aid appealed shoulder-to-shoulder with dedicated legal services, social work and medical staff across the denial and presented evidence of the disability. Nearly a the District. year after his original application was denied, Michael’s SSI was approved, and he received back payments in full. Said Michael, The Legal Aid Society is a law office for people who cannot afford to hire a lawyer. Legal "Legal Aid did a great deal for me. Without Legal Aid's help Aid staff take cases for litigation and provide advice, counsel and other assistance. From our I don't think I would have ever gotten the assistance I should individual case load, we identify systemic issues and pursue changes in government programs have gotten a long time ago." or business practices to address them. We have practice units in the areas of family, housing, and public benefits law and have recently formed a consumer law unit. All client names in this report have been changed to protect privacy. In this annual report, we have provided you with a snapshot of the community that is Legal Aid. We hope that you will continue to be part of our community and stand with us to ensure that all persons, regardless of income or wealth, have meaningful access to the mechanisms of our system of laws and justice.

“Through my work on the Board I am able to contribute to our larger community in a meaningful way, and I am inspired by the talented and Martin Klepper Jonathan M. Smith dedicated attorneys and staff of LAS who do so much to help the most President, Board of Trustees Executive Director Skadden, Arps, Slate, Legal Aid Society of vulnerable among us.” Meagher & Flom, LLP the District of Columbia Joyce Trimble Gwadz, Dow Lohnes PLLC

1 Legal Aid Society www.legalaiddc.org 2 PROTECTING VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SECURING MEDICAL CARE It takes strength and courage to escape domestic violence. In many cases, victims can secure The health care safety net in the District of Columbia is among the best in the nation. an order without a lawyer, but in far too many cases the lack of counsel can be disastrous. Nevertheless, many low-income children and adults confront barriers to securing care. Legal Legal Aid gives the highest priority to helping victims secure protective orders and to solving Aid’s staff work with clients to ensure that they have access to medications and treatment. the myriad of related issues that confront a person escaping an abusive partner. Donna Rose onna, an 82 year-old woman living with breast cancer, sought help from Legal Aid mother came to Legal Aid after years of unrelenting violence and verbal abuse. As an to solve problems with medical care. Two years ago, an insurance salesman talked immigrant without a strong extended family or social network around her for support, Dher into enrolling in a private Medicare HMO. The plan was inappropriate for Donna’s A she felt particularly vulnerable to her husband’s almost daily threats. He called her medical needs, something that should have been apparent to the broker and the insurer. Had a “slave” and asserted that he could do with her what he pleased. Her abuser was the sole she stayed in traditional Medicare, her premiums would have been paid by Medicaid and all of breadwinner and Rose was not allowed to work and had no money of her own. her health care costs would have been covered. The HMO required her to pay co-payments for He refused to provide money for food and clothing unless she submitted every doctor’s visit and medical procedure. Unable to pay, Donna was taken to court following to unwanted sex. For years, he threatened to burn down the house a mastectomy. She paid as many bills as she could and as she fell farther behind in payments, with the family inside, telling Rose and the children that he would kill she stopped seeking medical care. When Legal Aid first began working with her, Donna had them all if she ever took legal action against him. When outsiders been to the doctor only once in the past four months. She had also stopped taking some of intervened, he dismissed them, asserting that his abuses were his her cancer medications. We persuaded her to immediately resume her doctors visits while we right as a husband. Once Rose was ready to take action, Legal Aid worked to restore her original benefits. We intervened with the insurance company and federal sought and won a Civil Protection Order (“CPO”) which included Medicare officials. As a result of our advocacy, Donna had her original benefits restored. She an order granting our client temporary exclusive custody. The can now seek treatment and get medications whenever she needs them without worrying that father was allowed to visit the children only under supervision and she will not be able to buy food or pay rent. “I can’t thank you enough for what you’ve done,” was required to vacate the family home and pay child support. The Donna said. “You’re very reliable people. You do what you say you’re going to do and work hard payments to Rose enabled her to establish an independent household until it’s done. You can’t get any better help than Legal Aid.” and to care for the daily needs of herself and her children. For the first time in many years, our client and her children can sleep and live in their home safely, happily, and peacefully. “I give Legal Aid 10 out of 10,” Rose said. “Without you I would never have made it.” PRESERVING AFFORDABLE HOUSING In recent decades the shortage of affordable housing has grown worse and poverty has grown more concentrated. Legal Aid works with tenants and tenant associations in the District to save buildings and preserve them from conversion to condominiums or luxury apartments PREVENTING EVICTIONS with the goal of an affordable and economically integrated city. Important protections are built into the District’s landlord and tenant laws, including the right to safe and well maintained housing, freedom from retaliation for reporting housing code Six tenants living in a building in Southeast Washington came to violations, and the right to be accommodated for a disability. However, the procedures are Legal Aid after their landlord imposed massive and illegal rent structured to make it very difficult for a tenant to assert these rights without a lawyer. Legal increases. The landlord was attempting to convert the Aid staff step in to protect tenants from avoidable evictions and to ensure that the housing building to condominiums and the tenants had voted code is enforced. against the move. In retaliation, the landlord increased rents as much as 46% in some units in violation of Maria the District’s rent control law. Our clients are low- aria came to Legal Aid in danger of being evicted from the house where she lived with income and could not afford to stay if they were her two children. Her landlord had fallen into foreclosure and the bank, which forced to pay the higher rents. Legal Aid lawyers M assumed ownership of the house, tried to evict her as a squatter. The eviction was sought relief from the Office of Administrative improper; Maria had a valid tenancy and thus a right to stay. Faced with our legal challenge, the Hearings. The administrative law judge ruled bank then tried to evict Maria for nonpayment of rent. She uses a government voucher to pay a that the increases were illegal and rolled back portion of the rent and the bank had not taken the appropriate steps to secure payment from the the rent. In addition, the landlord was fined D.C. Housing Authority (DCHA). Compounding matters, the property was not up to code, and $2500 as a penalty for acting in bad faith and was thus ineligible for the voucher program. Working with DCHA and the bank, Legal Aid forced engaging in retaliation. This case succeeded in necessary repairs, got the bank enrolled in the voucher program and saved our client’s tenancy. preventing this group of clients from being forced Maria and her children now have a new one-year lease with the bank. Additionally, the eviction from their homes. case against her was dismissed. “If it wasn’t for Legal Aid, I would be out in the street,” Maria said.“I wouldn’t have known what to do. I am a success from Legal Aid.”

3 Legal Aid Society www.legalaiddc.org 4 ENSURING FAMILY STABILITY “Our attorneys find representation of clients referred by the Legal Aid Child custody and support arrangements can be a critical part of helping a family find stability. Society quite rewarding because they are able to help them with compelling Without judicial intervention, many parents are unable to reach an agreement that is in the legal needs, such as housing or legal custody of their children. The dedicated best interest of the family. Legal Aid represents parents to secure court orders that bring and experienced Legal Aid staff attorneys provide excellent mentoring and family stability. support enabling our attorneys with no background in poverty law to take on these deserving clients. Our Firm and its pro bono program are proud to be a Celia part of the Legal Aid referral network.” elia was desperate after her ex-boyfriend kidnapped their six-year-old son and refused to return him to her custody. The father had a history of brutally abusive Susan Hoffman, Public Service Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP C behavior toward Celia; including pulling out her hair and trapping her hands in the window of a car door to drag her down the street. As a result of this abuse, and the loss of her child, Celia was struggling with depression. Before coming to Legal Aid, she had unsuccessfully sought help from the police and the courts. Legal Aid lawyers treated Celia’s case as an emergency. We secured a court order granting her primary physical custody of her son, although the father ESTABLISHING PRECEDENT was allowed visitation. It quickly became clear that the child was being neglected and abused during their Most disputes involving persons living in poverty are resolved in high-volume courts or before visits. We moved for and secured an order of sole legal under-resourced administrative tribunals. The law often takes second seat to efficiency and physical custody for Celia. Visits with the father and justice is subordinated to speed. The unavailability of counsel and the structure of the were thereafter supervised. At the same time, other proceedings augers against the development of legal precedent that may define and protect Legal Aid lawyers worked to secure Medicaid benefits the rights of thousands of litigants seeking relief in subsequent cases. for Celia, through which she was able to access therapy to address the trauma she experienced. Celia and her To address this gap, Legal Aid established an appellate litigation project. The project’s lawyers son have started a new life: they are living in their own two- bring cases in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals that present the opportunity to bedroom apartment, she is attending school and expecting to create decisional law that will advance and protect the rights of low-income individuals and graduate into a full time job in the health care industry, and her son communities. We have won important decisions concerning the rights of tenants, persons is faring much better in school. with disabilities and victims of domestic violence.

The Appellate Advocacy Project will also take a series of cases in an area and build the precedent Declared Celia, “Legal Aid has renewed my life.” from one decision to the next, thus expanding the law beyond what can be achieved by a single decision. For example, Legal Aid has long been concerned that the District’s administrative tribunal, the Office of Administrative Hearings (OAH), has established rules so strict that many disputes are resolved on procedural missteps by pro se clients, rather than on the merits. We prioritized appeals that illustrated the hostility of OAH to pro se litigants and sought reversals. Case-by-case, the decisions of the Court of Appeals have re-written OAH’s rules of procedure.

“I work for Legal Aid because of the wonderful support and guidance I receive from my colleagues and the pleasure I get from assisting our clientele. The opportunity to provide quality legal assistance to those individuals who cannot afford counsel and give back to the community is very rewarding.”

Trisha Monroe, Senior Staff Attorney, Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

5 Legal Aid Society www.legalaiddc.org 6 BUILDING COMMUNITY 2008 GENEROUS ASSOCIATES CAMPAIGN: THROUGH PRO BONO GIVING FOR JUSTICE

The Legal Aid community includes the hundreds of lawyers and law students who volunteer Associates in the District’s law firm community rallied together for this year’s effort to raise an at Legal Aid’s offices or agree to take a Legal Aid casepro bono. Volunteer lawyers work with unprecedented $780,000 from their colleagues and firms to support the work of Legal Aid. Legal Aid in a myriad of ways. In the past year: The competition between the firms was intense this year, with many setting new records in • More than 100 cases were placed through Legal Aid’s Pro Bono Program. The private fundraising. The following are the top-contributing firms in each size category in order of the practice and government agency attorneys that took these cases ensured that clients who amount raised: would have been turned away from Legal Aid due to constraints on staff time and resources had access to a lawyer. 251+ Attorneys 151-200 Attorneys 51-100 Attorneys Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale Mayer Brown LLP Reed Smith LLP • Attorneys from Arent Fox LLP, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, and Hogan & Hartson and Dorr LLP O’Melveny & Myers LLP Epstein Becker & LLP conducted initial interviews and, together with Legal Aid staff, provided advice and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Sutherland Asbill & Green, P.C. brief assistance. These volunteers help us remain open three afternoons a week for initial Meagher & Flom LLP Brennan LLP Miller & Chevalier Chartered meetings with potential clients. Latham & Watkins LLP Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Van Ness Feldman, PC Hogan & Hartson LLP Preston Gates Ellis LLP Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP • Arnold & Porter LLP; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; and Steptoe & Johnson Crowell & Moring LLP White & Case LLP LLP each sent an associate to work full-time in Legal Aid’s offices on a six-month rotation. 1-50 Attorneys 201-250 Attorneys 101-150 Attorneys Gilbert Randolph LLP • Volunteers from Latham & Watkins LLP; Covington & Burling LLP; Hogan & Hartson LLP; Williams & Connolly LLP Baker Botts L.L.P. Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP; Alston & Bird LLP; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP; Arnold & Porter Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Dow Lohnes PLLC Wilson Sonsini LLP; Shearman & Sterling LLP; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP; Goodwin Procter Pittman LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Goodrich & Rosati LLP; Crowell & Moring LLP; and Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP worked with staff from Legal Aid Jones Day Alston & Bird LLP Baach Robinson & and the Whitman-Walker Clinic Legal Services Program to help Medicare recipients with Arent Fox LLP McKenna Long & Lewis, PLLC problems related to their Medicare drug benefit. McDermott Will & Emery Aldridge LLP Clifford Chance US LLP

When Geoff Gettinger, an associate at the law firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, took a Supplemental Security Income (SSI) case from Legal Aid’s Pro Bono Program, he had Legal Aid offers its heartfelt thanks to our Campaign Honorary Chair for his support: no idea that it would involve so many hearings and appeals. These cases usually resolve in months with only one hearing. Geoff’s client is unable to work as a result of significant Anthony Herman physical and mental impairments. He had applied for benefits on his own and been denied. Covington & Burling LLP Cadwalader represented the client at a hearing before an Administrative Law Judge (ALJ), who denied the appeal. Convinced that their client was entitled to benefits, the firm appealed. In addition, the leadership of the Campaign truly did a remarkable job. Thank you to all the They were successful at the Appeals Council and the case was sent back to the ALJ for a Campaign Co-Chairs: second hearing and eventually a third. The ALJ continued to deny benefits. Again, Geoff and his colleagues appealed, and this time the Appeals Council remanded the case and assigned a Thomas G. Allen Kristin Keeling Ryan C. Tisch new ALJ. The new ALJ issued a fully favorable decision, awarding the client monthly benefits Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Skadden, Arps, Slate, Crowell & Moring LLP and a back award of $30,000. These funds make an immeasurable difference in the life of Pittman LLP Meagher & Flom LLP Daniel Wendt Geoff’s client by providing him with a steady income to meet his basic needs. "Helping a client Wesley D. Bizzell Stephanie Litos Miller & Chevalier Chartered in need navigate the legal and regulatory process to successful conclusion is a tremendously Altria Corporate Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale rewarding aspect of legal practice,” said Geoff Gettinger. “I'm so grateful to have had the Kevin S. Willen Services, Inc. and Dorr LLP opportunity to help our client achieve a measure of financial security and peace of mind." Hogan & Hartson LLP Randall Brater Susan Ruge Howard A. Wolf-Rodda Arent Fox LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Brown Rudnick LLP Feld LLP Janna Chesno Van Ness Feldman, PC Vadim Schick Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw “There are many reasons I give my time to Legal Aid: smart and dedicated Thomas M. Henry, III Pittman LLP lawyers, a chance to help the most vulnerable, the hope to make a lasting Jones Day Derek Y. Sugimura difference. But it comes down to this: working with Legal Aid keeps me young.” Alicia M. Hunt Gilbert Randolph LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale David Reiser, Zuckerman Spaeder LLP and Dorr LLP

7 Legal Aid Society www.legalaiddc.org 8 ANNUAL SERVANT OF LEADERSHIP CABINET JUSTICE AWARDS DINNER

Annual Gift Recognition Program Legal Aid hosted its 19th annual fundraising dinner on April 29, 2008. The Servant of Justice The Legal Aid Society created the Leadership Cabinet in order to recognize those donors Award was presented to Professor Richard Roe of Georgetown University Law Center who who support the organization in significant ways. We are proud to recognize members for has been involved for 35 years with the Street Law Program, and Seth Waxman of Wilmer their generosity during the period of 9/1/2007 through 8/31/2008: Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP for his long-standing commitment to equal justice issues, both locally and nationally. PLATINUM PATRON PATRON $75,000 and above $10,000 - $19,999 In addition to the Servant of Justice Awards, Legal Aid recognized two non-lawyer individuals The District of Columbia Bar Foundation Arnold & Porter LLP from the community with its recently introduced Partnership Awards. Gloria WilderBrathwaite, Martin & Arlene Klepper Bingham McCutchen LLP MD, MPH and Ronique Shields-Harris, MD, MHA received these awards for creating Legal Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Aid’s collaboration with the Children’s Health Project at the Town Hall Education, Arts & GOLD PATRON Citi Private Bank Recreation Campus (THEARC) in Anacostia, D.C. $50,000 - $74,999 Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Covington & Burling LLP Crowell & Moring LLP The Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence made its debut at the event and was presented Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Deloitte LLP to Melissa Bianchi of Hogan & Hartson LLP for her significant volunteer services to Legal Equal Justice America Aid’s Medicare Part D Project. The prize was created through the generosity of Arlene & SILVER PATRON Exxon Mobil Corporation Martin Klepper. $30,000 - $49,999 Fannie Mae Foundation Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Gilbert Randolph LLP Dinner Co-Chairs Joyce Trimble Gwadz of Dow Lohnes PLLC and Michael E. Nannes of Alston & Bird LLP Philip & Roberta Horton Dickstein Shapiro LLP, along with the Dinner Steering Committee, successfully raised over Arent Fox LLP Ivins, Phillips & Barker Chartered $750,000 from the legal and corporate communities! Dickstein Shapiro LLP King & Spalding Equal Justice Works LexisNexis Hogan & Hartson LLP Miller & Chevalier Chartered Mayer Brown LLP Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Williams & Connolly LLP Anthony Pierce & Karen Stevens Eric S. Richter BRONZE PATRON Shearman & Sterling LLP $20,000 - $29,999 Sidley Austin LLP and CB Richard Ellis The Sidley Austin Foundation Consumer Health Foundation Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P.L.L.C. Dow Lohnes PLLC Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP Howrey LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP Jones Day Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Wiley Rein LLP Servant of Justice Award Anthony Pierce, Legal Aid Board President (left); Partnership Award recipients recipients Seth Waxman (left) Melissa K. Bianchi, Klepper Prize for Volunteer Dr. Gloria WilderBrathwaite (left) Latham & Watkins LLP Zuckerman Spaeder LLP and Professor Richard Roe Excellence recipient; Arlene Fine Klepper; and and Dr. Ronique Shields-Harris McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Jonathan Smith, Legal Aid Executive Director Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP The Morrison & Foerster Foundation O'Melveny & Myers LLP Patton Boggs LLP “As is true of many legal services organizations in the District, the work of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP the Legal Aid Society makes a tangible difference in the lives of each of their Steptoe & Johnson LLP clients. This is all the more true in the current economic times, where jobs Sullivan & Cromwell LLP are harder to find and where the cost of living for those on limited incomes Venable LLP is so impacted by rising energy and food costs. Our donations will mean the Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

difference in how many lawyers these programs can hire, in how many clients Legal Aid would also like to thank the District of Columbia's Office of Victim Services and the they serve, and in the lives of those clients.” Office of the Tenant Advocate for their support of our Family Law and Housing Programs. William J. Perlstein, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

9 Legal Aid Society www.legalaiddc.org 10 Ethan Shenkman Rebecca Carr Nancy Heermans Emily McMullin Joanne Savage Richard D. Shore Michael Carvin Kevin C. Heffel Daniel S. Meade Matthew F. Scarlato SUPPORTERS Matthew Shors David L. Cavanaugh Emily Helms Williams Kris Meade Jason Schall Timothy K. Shuba Howard Cayne Melissa Henke Edward Meehan Ronald A. Schechter Jerry & Judith Shulman Matthew W. Cheney David & Margaret Hensler Sonia Merzon & Susan Gilbert James R. Sims Steven Cherry Daniel S. Herzfeld Frederick G. Michaud, Jr. Anne Scheinfeldt Mae Cheung Renata B. Hesse Thomas Mikula Michael A Schlesinger Joe & Robin Sims Gabriel J. Chevallier Bruce Hickey Joel L. Millar Matthew Schlesinger David F.B. Smith Bradley Christmas Lori Hildebrand Alexandra W. Miller Mary J. Schmid The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia extends its gratitude to the following Jeffrey L. Snyder Sarah Citrin Dan Himmelfarb Brian Miller Jorge Schmidt Antonia R. Soares Barton Clark J. Michael Hines Mark & Jessica Miller Lawrence Schneider supporters for their generosity (gifts from 9/1/2007 – 8/31/2008): Luke A. Sobota Noah Clements Caswell O. Hobbs Thomas E.D. Millspaugh & Susan Ness Christine Sonu Katie Clune Gary & Ileene Hoffman Richard D. Milone Joshua I. Schwartz Rebecca L. Springer Michael I. Coe Danielle M. Hohos Jan Mincarelli Katherine Scott $5,000 - $9,999 Don Stepka Maurita Elaine Horn Kavitha J. Babu Mark Jones Adrian L. Steel Bradley Cohen John G. Holland Michael Mitchell Peter W. Segal Hunton & Williams LLP William R. Baker & Michelle Rusk Laurie M. Stegman Vincent Colatriano Brendan Holland Nicolas Mitchell Eric B. Sensenbrenner Anonymous Van Ness Feldman, PC & Terri Evans Robyn M. Holtzman Avner Mizrahi Padma Babubhai Shah Daniel G. Jarcho Lauren & Conrad Gerald A. Kafka Robert A. Stern William and Mary Washington Hancock Barski Jennifer A. Karmonick Donald & Dorothy Stone Lisa Cole Brooke Horiuchi Meaghan Molinini Ariel Shapiro William & Philip D. 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