D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center 2017-2018 Annual Repo rt 40 Transforming lives for 40 years Table of Contents

Message from the Executive Director and Pro Bono Committee Chair 2

About the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center 4

Serving the Community for 40 Years 5

Providing a Legal Safety Net 8

Client Profile: The Most Meaningful Victory So Far 10

Empowering D.C. Residents in Need 13

Tackling the Affordable Housing Crisis 16

Supporting the Broader Community 18

Client Profile: A Brighter Future 23

Mobilizing Pro Bono Volunteers 26

Financial Summary 28

D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center Leadership 29

D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center Staff 30

Participating Firms & Organizations 31

Pro Bono Center Donors 33

To Our Partners in the Fight for Equal Access to Justice

Amy L. Bess and Rebecca K. Troth

2 Message from the Executive Director and Pro Bono Committee Chair

As we celebrate the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center’s 40th anniversary, we want to thank all of you who have made this work possible. Your contributions of time and money over the last four decades have allowed us to serve hundreds of thousands of our neighbors who could not afford legal help. Our ability to provide legal representation has transformed the lives of families facing eviction, individuals with disabilities unable to work, parents at risk of losing their children, and others whose legal rights would have gone unprotected without a lawyer standing up for them.

This report demonstrates all that your support allowed us to accomplish over the last year. The Pro Bono Center continues to be the largest provider of pro bono legal assistance in the District of Columbia, touching more than 20,000 lives in fiscal year 2018. This legal assistance takes many forms, reflecting our ability to adapt to the needs of the community we serve. For individuals and families with legal problems, the Pro Bono Center offers Advice & Referral Clinics in disadvantaged neighborhoods, Resource Centers for pro se litigants in Superior Court, and full representation through our Bankruptcy Clinic and the Advocacy & Justice Clinic that we host twice a month. To augment our in-person services, we provide legal information online through LawHelp.org/DC, and on the phone via our Legal Information Help Line.

The Pro Bono Center also provides legal assistance through our Nonprofit and Small Business Legal Assistance Programs to the nonprofit organizations and small businesses upon which residents in low-income neighborhoods rely for vital services and economic sustenance. As the owner of one small business explained, the Pro Bono Center is always there to help small business owners understand and resolve a variety of legal issues, whether they involve employment and human resources, corporate structuring, or contract negotiation and resolution. Through these and other programs, the Pro Bono Center, together with our dedicated law firm, federal government agency, and corporate partners and volunteers, transform lives. We work day in and day out to meet the needs of individuals, families, nonprofits, and small businesses in our community with no resources to pay for critical legal help. With your continued support, we will narrow the access to justice gap until the gap has been breached and the rights of the most vulnerable among us are secure.

With gratitude for your continuing support,

Rebecca K. Troth Amy L. Bess

Executive Director Chair

D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center Pro Bono Committee

3 About the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center

History and Mission

In 1976, recognizing the critical need in the District of Columbia for accessible legal services, the D.C. Bar established the Office of Public Interest Activities (OPIA) to help legal services agencies deliver assistance to the District's poorest residents. In 1978, the Bar went a step further and established a separate Lawyer Referral and Information Service (LRIS) to refer callers to legal services providers, pro bono attorneys, and attorneys participating in fee-generating referral service.

As the needs of low-income D.C. residents changed and expanded, so did the Bar's public service efforts. The LRIS and OPIA (renamed Office of Public Service Activities in 1979) combined and was later renamed the D.C. Bar Public Service Activities Corporation, then the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Program, and finally the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center.

Today, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, an independent nonprofit organization funded entirely by voluntary contributions, is the largest provider of pro bono legal help in the District. Our principal mission is to identify the gaps in the legal services delivery system and address them with programs and services delivered by pro bono attorneys. Each year, we serve approximately 20,000 individuals, nonprofit organizations, and small businesses through our award-winning legal clinics, resource centers, and other programs.

Together, one client at a time, we transform lives.

Programs and Special Initiatives

The Pro Bono Center executes its mission through the following core programs and special initiatives:

Advocacy & Justice Clinic LawHelp.org/DC and Probono.net/dc Advice & Referral Clinic Legal Information Help Line Bankruptcy Clinic Nonprofit Legal Assistance Program Consumer Law Resource Center Outreach Initiative Family Law Task Force Pro Bono Partnership Housing Right to Counsel Project Pro Bono Training Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic Probate Resource Center Landlord Tenant Resource Center Small Business Legal Assistance Program

4 Serving the Community for 40 Years

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This year marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center.

Forty years ago, we began as lawyers and advocates determined to serve our District neighbors who could not afford a lawyer.

Over more than four decades, we’ve leveraged our small, expert staff and dedicated attorney volunteers to serve more than half a million D.C. residents.

Now more than ever, our work is critical to preserving the rights of low-income tenants, parents seeking to preserve their families, immigrants at risk of deportation, people in need of vital public benefits, and other vulnerable D.C. residents.

With your generous support, we will continue to transform the lives of District residents.

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OUR WORK IN ACTION

Throughout its history, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center has aspired to transform the lives of District residents by providing pro bono legal information, advice, and representation.

At a time of unprecedented uncertainty for individuals living in poverty and other vulnerable people, our commitment to meeting the legal needs of low- income residents remains the same.

We will continue to provide a legal safety net, empower D.C. residents in need, tackle the affordable housing crisis, support our broader community, and mobilize pro bono volunteers to maximize our impact and address critical legal needs. Providing a Legal Safety Net

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Thousands of people across the District of Columbia regularly face the threat of losing their homes, custody of their children, or access to life-sustaining public benefits without a lawyer.

Through our Advocacy & Justice Clinic, Bankruptcy Clinic, Advice & Referral Clinic, and Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic, the Pro Bono Center helps individuals and families in critical need of legal advice and representation. These clinics serve as safety nets for the entire legal services community.

Advocacy & Justice Clinic

For 25 years, we have recruited, trained, and supported pro bono lawyers to handle cases in family, housing, public benefits, consumer, health care access, and personal injury defense matters through our Advocacy & Justice Clinic. We provide training and assign an expert mentor for each case, ensuring that attorney volunteers are fully prepared to provide their clients the highest quality assistance. In FY18, with support from 22 law firms and many federal government agencies, the Pro Bono Center's flagship clinic provided full representation to 311 clients.

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Recognizing that individuals often require only brief services to solve their legal problems, the Pro Bono Center operates the Advice & Referral Clinic in the Shaw and Anacostia neighborhoods on the second Saturday of each month. The Advice & Referral Clinic is often the first point of entry into the legal services delivery system in D.C., serving individuals with any civil legal matter governed by D.C. or federal law. Volunteer attorneys meet with individuals one- on-one to answer their legal questions and help them access other legal resources on a variety of matters, including bankruptcy/debt collection, consumer, employment, family, health, housing, personal injury, probate, public benefits, and tax issues. In FY18, our Advice & Referral Clinic served 1,428 clients.

Eligible individuals who require more than brief services are referred to the Pro Bono Center's full representation clinics or another legal services provider able to help them.

Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic

At a time of increased uncertainty for immigrants in the United States, the Pro Bono Center is committed to protecting immigrants' rights. Our quarterly Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic at Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School in Columbia Heights is dedicated to making comprehensive immigration consultations accessible to D.C., Virginia, and Maryland residents, regardless of their status. Individuals attending the clinic meet with an attorney to discuss civil legal issues governed by U.S. immigration law. Bilingual volunteer attorneys and interpreters help clients who speak a wide variety of languages, including Amharic, French, Mandarin Chinese, and Spanish. For eligible clients who require more than brief services, volunteers make referrals to other legal services providers. In FY18, the Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic served 155 clients, the second highest number of clients served in its history.

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10 Victory So Far

or six months starting in September 2017, Rodney J. at the time and had no way of paying the back rent Miles and his family – his wife and young son – his landlord claimed he owed without some form of Fdespaired about the state of their recently-rented abatement. He briefly held hope when a local one-bedroom apartment in Southeast D.C. Although nonprofit agreed to help him make payments on the Rodney paid over $1,000 in rent each month, his back rent, but that hope was short-lived: When apartment was plagued by numerous housing code representatives from the charity saw the state of the violations. A roach infestation, mice infestation, holes apartment, they explained that they could only help in the floorboards, and lack of heat or hot water for make payments on habitable units. Rodney would three months were just some of the many violations have to seek a remedy to his eviction order in court. Rodney and his family faced on a daily basis. “I knew that I had rights, and I knew that the apartment was Over 34,000 eviction cases are filed annually in not supposed to look like that,” says Rodney. Landlord Tenant Court in the District. And like 90- 95% of tenants that appear in Landlord and Tenant He tried notifying his landlord about these housing Court, Rodney was unrepresented by an attorney code violations in person, and his landlord initially during his initial hearing. But that first experience agreed to address at least the rat infestation. But the made it clear to him that he needed to find legal landlord’s solution – to stuff the holes in some of the help before his next hearing in March 2018. “I knew it floorboards and enclosed porch – did not actually fix was important to speak with a lawyer first,” Rodney the problem. Conditions in the apartment continued says. “Someone at the courthouse explained to me to worsen, and Washington Gas, a public utility that I needed to file paperwork, and she company, flagged the apartment over its lack of heat recommended that I attend the D.C. Bar Pro Bono or hot water. Rodney knew that his home was Center’s Landlord Tenant Resource Center for help uninhabitable, and since his landlord did not make a with my case.” Attorney volunteers at the Pro Bono serious effort to repair the unit’s housing code Center’s Landlord Tenant Resource Center helped violations, he felt that the only thing he could do was Rodney prepare pleadings for his case and withhold rent in the hope that that would result in determined that his case could be referred to the Pro repairs. Instead, his landlord filed a suit to evict Bono Center's Advocacy & Justice Clinic for full Rodney and his family for non-payment of rent. representation. After Pro Bono Center staff conducted intake and evaluated the case, Advocacy This new legal issue only exacerbated Rodney’s & Justice Clinic Managing Attorney Vanessa Batters- vulnerable situation: his apartment was Thompson placed Rodney's case with attorney uninhabitable, his landlord claimed he owed volunteers from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP. thousands of dollars in back rent, and Rodney and his family also didn’t have anywhere to go if evicted from their home before they had enough time to search for alternate living arrangements. “Sometimes, something beats nothing,” Rodney explains about the disastrous consequences he and his family would have faced if evicted. He decided to fight the eviction order in Landlord Tenant Court.

In February 2018, Rodney attended his first hearing in the Landlord and Tenant Branch of D.C. Superior Court alone. “I had never been in court before,” he says. “I was asked during my initial hearing if I wanted to do a resolution, but I knew that wasn’t the way to go. I didn’t want to agree to a resolution without speaking to a lawyer first because I didn’t think that I should owe my landlord that much money based on the condition my apartment was in.” To make matters worse, Rodney was unemployed

11 “We first got involved with the Pro Bono Center’s experience, and it was a really great one,” says Bernie. Advocacy & Justice Clinic during a clinic training held “Pro bono service is a pretty strong part of [Morgan at our office,” says Bernie Archbold, an associate in Lewis’] culture. There is a deeply-rooted commitment to Morgan Lewis’ antitrust practice. Bernie, along with contributing to the community we’re a part of, so it’s just Serge Agbre, an associate in the firm’s energy practice, one of the things that I knew I needed to do shortly after and Paul M. Bessette, a partner also in the firm’s joining the firm.” Landlord Tenant Court was also a new energy practice, took on Rodney’s case for full experience for the group. “This was my first experience representation. Nina Armah, an intellectual property going to a hearing at Landlord Tenant Court, and our paralegal at Morgan Lewis, also joined their team and experience was very positive,” says Serge. “The judges provided substantial support to the attorneys. we saw were very receptive to the plight of tenants and even helped us with the mediation session that “We received the case pretty shortly before an answer ultimately got us to the settlement agreement that we was required,” explains Bernie, “and based on the lack entered into.” of specificity in the landlord’s complaint, we wanted to make sure that Mr. Miles and his family could stay in The support they received from the Pro Bono Center’s their unit until they could find new accommodations Advocacy & Justice Clinic also proved critical to their and also that they didn’t come out of this arrangement success. “Our Advocacy & Justice Clinic mentor, Shaina owing their landlord more than $5,000 for an Hagen (a housing staff attorney at Neighborhood Legal apartment that was uninhabitable.” The attorney Services Program), was fantastic,” says Serge. “She volunteers met with Rodney to go over his case and provided us with samples and other things that really kept in constant contact with their client via phone, cut down our research time and made it a lot easier to text, and emails. support Mr. Miles. There were many issues that Bernie and I came across [during this case] that we hadn’t had Rodney provided them with photos of the housing prior experience with, so just having another person code violations in his apartment, but the attorney there to advise us and point us in the right direction was volunteers felt it was important to also conduct a unit crucial. We got this case less than a week before an visit. “It was really eye-opening and disheartening to answer was required, so with the guidance that Shaina see that [Mr. Miles’] landlord would maintain these provided, we were able to go through and pick out half a conditions and expect someone to submit rent for dozen or so violations to the housing code and really put them when [the landlord] is obviously very lax in his in a strong first filing for Mr. Miles. I don’t think that we upkeep of the unit,” says Nina. “It absolutely surprised would have been nearly as successful without her me to see the housing code violations,” agrees Bernie. advice.” “The apartment was – and to the best of our knowledge still is – in a pretty horrendous state. Bernie agrees that the Advocacy & Justice Clinic’s Nobody should be living in it.” resources made a real difference in their first pro bono case and underlined the difficulty that unrepresented The unit visit further fueled the team’s determination tenants face. “It’s been a really great opportunity to to ensure a favorable outcome for Rodney and his make a meaningful impact in Mr. Miles’ life,” he says. family. “Throughout the process, we tried to exert “For Mr. Miles to go through and do what would have pressure on the landlord and take advantage of the been required to put together an effective defense on legal openings available to us to get an initial his own would have been a huge task. With the help of settlement agreement, which we were ultimately able our Advocacy & Justice Clinic mentor, we were able to to do,” says Bernie. After a mediation session, the quickly find the information we needed to compel the attorney volunteers secured a very favorable landlord to abide by his legal obligations and get a settlement that allowed Mr. Miles and his family to stay settlement that saved Mr. Miles thousands of dollars. In in their unit for three months, giving the family my practice, there are not a bunch of really big wins that enough time to find appropriate housing. All you feel you contributed to on a daily basis, but the time outstanding debt owed prior to April 11, 2018 -- $5,460 – that we spent on behalf of Mr. Miles, for me, has been was forgiven; the landlord was given a deadline to the highlight of my first year as an attorney. It has been complete all repairs to the unit; and Rodney’s only the most meaningful victory so far.” commitment was to make the three remaining Protective Order payments of $500 between May and Rodney was just as happy with the attorney volunteers’ July, at which time the Protective Order fund would be first foray into pro bono service. “I was more than happy evenly split between him and his landlord. Importantly, with the help that my attorneys provided,” he shares. “It the attorney volunteers' efforts made it possible for worked out better than I ever could have hoped. When Rodney and his family to move to their current safe other tenants at the courthouse saw me walk in with my and clean home. group of attorneys, they asked me ‘How did you get [multiple] lawyers?’ We definitely made an impression! What makes this great outcome even more incredible? And they did an excellent job for me. I am also happy This was the first pro bono case that Bernie, Serge, and with where I am living now. Everything worked out.” Nina had worked on. "This [was] my first pro bono

12 Empowering D.C. Residents in Need

The Pro Bono Center's services have evolved as the community's needs have changed and as we have adapted to meet those changes.

We have learned that we can meet the legal needs of many people without providing a lawyer for full representation, given the right tools. Our court-based resource centers, telephone help line, and online services equip many with the means to deal successfully with their legal problems. Those who find they still need a lawyer have a better sense of their legal issue, which helps us determine the services they need.

Resource Centers

Since 2004, the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center has worked closely with the District of Columbia Superior Court to give individuals the opportunity to meet with a volunteer attorney just steps away from the courtrooms where their cases will be heard. Year after year, our resource centers help guide more than five thousand individuals through the legal process.

Landlord Tenant Resource Center

The dire need for pro bono legal services in the District is vividly apparent in D.C.’s Landlord and Tenant Branch, where 95% of landlords are represented by counsel, while more than 90% of tenants routinely appear pro se. The Pro Bono Center’s Landlord Tenant Resource Center, our largest in-court program, addresses this imbalance by empowering pro se litigants with legal information and assistance before they must appear in court. The resource center is staffed each weekday by pro bono lawyers from 17 participating law firms and supervised by a Pro Bono Center attorney. Volunteers help unrepresented tenants and landlords understand court proceedings, prepare pro se pleadings, obtain continuances, and offer information on how to present their cases in court. Volunteers also provide information on social services and financial resources, including emergency rental assistance. Individuals with more complex matters may be referred to our Advocacy & Justice Clinic for full representation. In FY18, we served 4,221 customers at our Landlord Tenant Resource Center.

"The volunteer work at the Landlord Tenant Resource Center helps transform the lives of its customers."

- Rebecca J. Michael

Rebecca J. Michael, Arnold & Porter 13 Consumer Law Resource Center

Every Wednesday morning, volunteer attorneys from three law firms equip D.C. residents with critical information about their legal rights and obligations in consumer law matters at our Consumer Law Resource Center, which is also based at D.C. Superior Court. This resource center provides legal information to individuals with consumer-related issues including debt collection, predatory lending matters, and violations of the Consumer Protection Procedures Act. Volunteers and staff refer individuals who need full representation to the Pro Bono Center’s Advocacy & Justice Clinic or another legal services provider. In FY18, the Consumer Law Resource Center served 447 customers.

"I've seen many Consumer Law Resource Center volunteers become pro bono converts, having thoroughly enjoyed their volunteer experience." - Ted Howard

Ted Howard, Wiley Rein

Probate Resource Center

Probate is one of the more difficult areas of the law for people to understand, especially while grieving for a lost loved one. Our Probate Resource Center provides needed information and help to unrepresented parties on estate administration issues. Every Tuesday afternoon, volunteer attorneys and a Pro Bono Center lawyer help customers understand the probate process, prepare legal documents, explain how property should be distributed to beneficiaries, and assist with the transfer of property to beneficiaries. In FY18, the Probate Resource Center served 656 customers.

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14 LawHelp.org/DC

Because the first stop for many people with a legal problem is the internet, since 2005 the Pro Bono Center has operated LawHelp.org/DC, providing plain language resources, articles, automated pro se pleadings, and referral information to benefit the public. Visitors can find materials on legal topics such as consumer, employment, family, housing, immigration, military and veterans benefits, probate and estate planning, public benefits and taxation. A Spanish-language companion site includes many of the same self-help materials, and some resources are also translated into Amharic, French, Korean, and Mandarin Chinese.

On LawHelp.org/DC/CED, nonprofits and small businesses can find information about the basics of tax compliance, employment law, intellectual property, and other legal topics. There are webinars available on demand, as well as a calendar of upcoming clinics and trainings.

In FY18, more than 120 resources were posted, translated, edited, reformatted, or linked on the website. Pro Bono Center staff reorganized and redesigned the resources for nonprofits and small businesses to auto-populate related information to help visitors more easily navigate the site and find the help they need. Additionally, traffic to the website increased by almost 30%, from 62,507 to 80,970 page views per month.

The Pro Bono Center operates LawHelp.org/DC, a web resource that provides the public critical legal information on a variety of topics.

Legal Information Help Line

The Pro Bono Center operates a telephone Legal Information Help Line where callers seeking legal help can access information on consumer, employment, domestic violence, family, housing, and public benefits law. The Help Line also provides information about the courts, working with attorneys, and how to obtain free legal assistance. Help Line information is currently recorded in English, Spanish, French, and Amharic. Callers can also leave a message and the Pro Bono Center will return the call. In FY18, the Pro Bono Center assisted 12,918 callers.

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15 Tackling the Affordable Housing Crisis

One of the most urgent challenges facing low-income District residents is the lack of safe, decent, and affordable housing.

Housing Right to Counsel Project

Recognizing the need for affordable housing, in 2013, the Pro Bono Center and the D.C. Access to Justice Commission convened a coalition to form the D.C. Right to Housing Initiative, which aims to alleviate the affordable housing crisis. In 2015, the Pro Bono Center, Bread for the City, the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, and Legal Counsel for the Elderly formed the D.C. Housing Right to Counsel Project, a critical component of the Initiative. The Project’s mission is to dramatically increase legal representation for subsidized housing tenants who, if evicted, are most likely to become homeless. We recruit, train, and mentor pro bono lawyers to represent tenants in their eviction cases.

Our efforts are paying off. Right to Counsel Project analysis has demonstrated that represented tenants are significantly more likely to resolve their cases with a settlement agreement or dismissal and avoid the entry of judgment, and they are less likely to be evicted.

Housing Right to Counsel Project partners include fourteen law firms that agree to represent subsidized tenants. This past year, the federal government joined the Project.

In connection with the Project, the Center co-organized the second annual Right to Counsel Celebration Breakfast recognizing our law firm partners. Our Housing Initiative Attorney also attended the first national Housing Right to Counsel Convening where lawyers from various jurisdictions gathered to discuss strategies to secure a right to counsel in housing cases. Finally, the Pro Bono Center helped draft and posted relevant legal resources related to the Project on probono.net/dc, the website for pro bono lawyers that the Center hosts and manages. In FY18, the Pro Bono Center mentored 27 eviction cases for full representation with pro bono attorneys through the Project.

16 New Attorney of the Day and Housing Legal Assistant for Eviction Defense

With new and generous support from the Council of the District of Columbia and the D.C. Bar Foundation this past year, the Pro Bono Center created additional staff positions to expand our housing law work, including a paralegal dedicated to serving customers at the Landlord Tenant Resource Center and an attorney to provide same-day representation to in-court tenants facing eviction. In addition to the information and resources we provide daily to pro se litigants at the Landlord Tenant Resource Center, income-eligible tenants will benefit from having counsel immediately able to advocate for them in court, represent them in negotiations with landlords, and provide legal advice on how best to address their legal situations. Most tenants will be referred for full representation, but our new Attorney of the Day also will allow the Pro Bono Center to represent clients who are waiting for placement through our Advocacy & Justice Clinic.

Understanding Your Rights Seminars for Landlords

To help ensure that landlords understand their rights and comply with the law, especially when proceeding with eviction, we partner with the D.C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs' (DCRA) Small Business Resource Center to offer bi-monthly informational sessions to small landlords renting residential property in the District. These sessions provide a general overview of D.C. landlord tenant law with a focus on the eviction process and DCRA's requirements for licensing and registration. In FY18, 70 landlords attended 8 seminars led by our Housing Managing Attorney.

"On any given day, the courtroom is packed with tenants who are being sued by their landlords and at risk of eviction."

- Zachary Best, Hogan Lovells US LLP Housing Right to Counsel Project attorney volunteer

2015 2017 2013 Housing Ri ght to Understandi ng Your D.C. Right to Housing Counsel Pilot Project Rights Seminars for Initiative launched begins Landlords begin

17 Supporting the Broader Community

Volunteers for Casey Trees, a Pro Bono Center nonprofit client, plant trees at St. Paul's Rock Creek Cemetery Photo courtesy of Casey Trees

Our work is not limited to helping individuals with legal concerns – we also support the greater District of Columbia community by serving community-based nonprofits and small businesses.

The Pro Bono Center’s Nonprofit & Small Business and review the documents in one-on-one meetings with Legal Assistance Programs provide legal information, volunteer attorneys. In FY18, we served 84 nonprofits representation, and training to nonprofits and small through our nonprofit legal clinics covering bylaws, businesses that provide critical services to low-income intellectual property, insurance, and governance policies, residents and strengthen the economic life of District as well as a special clinic on governance for nonprofits neighborhoods. Additionally, we participate in many engaged in affordable housing and homeless services. community-wide efforts to increase access to justice for individuals living in poverty. The NLAP also offers in-person and webinar trainings for nonprofit managers and staff on topics essential to the successful operation of their nonprofits. Experts Nonprofit Legal Assistance explain the legal requirements and best practices of Program governance, employment law, risk management, and other topics in a classroom setting. In FY18, we trained The Pro Bono Center’s Nonprofit Legal Assistance 1,330 nonprofit managers and staff.

Program (NLAP) matches community-based nonprofits with pro bono legal counsel, allowing To educate an even wider audience of nonprofits on organizations to devote more of their scarce financial common legal issues, the Pro Bono Center expanded resources to carrying out their missions. Pro bono our popular series of nonprofit podcasts. Podcasts legal services enable nonprofits to strengthen, grow, developed and produced in FY18 include:

and sustain their programs. Volunteers help - The Future is Now: Strategic Planning for Your organizations obtain tax-exempt status and counsel Nonprofit

on matters such as employment law, real estate, - Safe Spaces: A Podcast about Maintaining a corporate governance, contract review, and Safe Work Place

intellectual property. In FY18, we matched a record- - Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: A Conversation about breaking 72 nonprofits with pro bono counsel. Performance Evaluations

In addition to matching nonprofits with counsel, our nonprofit legal clinics help executives and managers gain a basic understanding of complex legal topics and how they apply to their organizations. Nonprofits provide their existing contracts or policies in advance

18 Attorney volunteers meet with nonprofit directors at the Pro Bono Cente r's Nonprofit Governance Policies Legal Clinic.

Former DLA Piper LLP partner David Krohn and George A. Jones, chief executive officer of Bread for the City.

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Small Business Legal Assistance Program

Small business owners often have limited financial resources to devote to legal issues. To address this "Entrepreneurs struggle need, since 2005, the Pro Bono Center’s Small Business Legal Assistance Program (SBLAP)has with the nuances of the offered the Small Business Brief Advice Legal Clinic. Held each month in a different D.C. neighborhood, the law and regulations. We clinic provides business owners the opportunity to meet one-on-one with an attorney to discuss their try to make the issue legal concerns. In addition, a staff member holds less dense for them." monthly office hours at the D. C. Department of Consumer and Regulatory Affairs where small - Darryl Maxwell, business owners can meet with a Pro Bono Center Assistant Director, Nonprofit & Small attorney for legal help and information. In FY18, we served 427 small business owners. Business Legal Assistance Programs

20 The Pro Bono Center offers in-person and webinar trainings on topics essential to the successful operation of small businesses. Our annual employment law training includes information on hiring and firing employees, employment discrimination, employee benefits, and other topics to help companies comply with the law. In FY18, the Pro Bono Center trained 650 small business owners and staff.

"I enjoy volunteering with the Pro Bono Center's Small Business Brief Advice Legal Clinic because in addition to providing legal service, I get to speak with business owners about their strategy, growth, and passion for their work – all the things that inspired me to work with small business owners in my own practice." - Shavon J. Smith, SJS Law Firm, PLLC

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21 To address the Task Force's goal of improving Outreach Initiative custody home studies, Pro Bono Center staff convened a working group to develop guidelines for As part of our 5-year strategic plan, the Pro Bono a new Office of Custody Assessments with the D.C. Center launched an outreach initiative to increase Family Court. As a result of this effort, in FY18, the public awareness of the services and resources that Court hired two social workers and an investigator to we offer. Over the past year, we presented on our staff the office. Home studies and brief focused services to community organizations that included the assessments can now be completed throughout the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN), District and in parts of Maryland and Virginia free of Edgewood Brookland Collaborative, and the Ward 7 charge to litigants. Family Services, Legal Services and Policies

Stakeholder Group. Additionally, we partnered with The Pro Bono Center continued to offer extensive the D.C. Department of Employment Service’s Aspire support and training for volunteer attorneys within to Entrepreneurship program, which supports D.C. Family Court. We hosted two trainings in support of residents who are on probation, parole, or reentering the Family Court's volunteer-based programs, the the community after a period of incarceration. We Family Court Volunteer Attorney Negotiator Program provided information on small business resources and and the Family Court Self-Help Center. A Pro Bono trainings and awarded two scholarships for Aspire Center staff member additionally presented a program participants to enroll in our eight-part webinar on ethical issues for pro bono attorneys course, “How the Law Impacts Your Small Business: A handling family law matters with unrepresented Business Law Trainings Series for Small Business opposing parties. Owners.”

Family Law Task Force

In 2009, the D.C. Bar Board of Governors created the Family Law Task Force to develop recommendations to expand access to justice and improve the administration of justice in the Domestic Relations and Paternity and Child Support Branches of Family Court. Center staff participated on the Task Force and have continued to play a leading role since its recommendations were issued in 2013.

To support the Family Law Task Force's goal of improving resources for parties appearing pro se in Family Court, we undertook an initiative with the D.C. Superior Court and Pro Bono Net to develop online interactive pleadings on the Court's website. Family Court Self-Help Center training hosted by the Pro Bono Center.

2009 Family Law Task Force launched 2015 Outreach In itiative begins as part of the Pro Bono Center's strategic assessment process

22 A Brighter Future

Homer Sellers, Jesse Witherspoon, Natasha Freeman, Michael Smith, Antoinette Parker, Benjamin Wells

& with Mike Smith QA President and CEO, Smith & Sons, LLC 23 Mike Smith is the President and CEO of Smith & Sons, LLC, an infrastructure construction business that specializes in site utility, security solutions, and facilities maintenance in the District. A long- time participant in the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center's Small Business Legal Assistance Program clinics and trainings, Smith explains why pro bono legal help is essential to small business owners like him.

Pro Bono Center: Tell us about your small Mike Smith: My great grandfather, Henry Q business, Smith & Sons, LLC. A Smith, escaped from slavery at the age of twelve and later sold ice from a horse- drawn wagon in the streets of D.C. My Aunt Lillian C. Smith bought and leased Mike Smith: Smith & Sons, LLC began in real estate on Capitol Hill at the tender A 1984 as Smith & Sons, created by my age of twenty years and is now believed to father, Pastor Raymond A. Smith, and my have been the first female African brother Craig and me. Pastor Ray, as my American millionaire on Capitol Hill – father was affectionately known, wanted perhaps even in D.C. Coming from a to answer the call that the late Mayor family with thirteen hardworking and Marion Barry made to the citizens of entrepreneurial siblings, it was not a Washington, D.C. to remove the boards stretch for my father to want to continue from the windows and doors of vacant this spirit through his immediate family. houses and create homes for those that needed them. Smith & Sons purchased U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Pro Bono Center: How did you first hear Development-foreclosed properties, about the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center? renovated them, and leased apartments Q to low- and moderate-income residents in Wards 7 and 8. Mike Smith: As a Certified Business A Enterprise (CBE), our company is apprised Pro Bono Center: Why did your father of all the resources in the District that can Q decide to make Smith & Sons a family- help support small businesses. It was owned business? through the certifying agency for CBEs, the Department of Small and Local Business Development, that I became aware of the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center’s extensive resources for small businesses like mine.

Smith & Sons, LLC employees start their monthly staff meeting at the Anacostia Neighborhood Library with a brief prayer.

24 Pro Bono Center: How has the Pro Bono "There is no chance at a Q Center's Small Business Legal Assistance Program (SBLAP) helped you? bright future for any business if it does not have good legal Mike Smith: Over the years, our company A has found the Pro Bono Center’s legal advice at hand. The Pro Bono resources extremely helpful. As a small business owner, I am always in need of Center's [Small Business critical legal advice, which is often expensive. Because of this, I look forward Legal Assistance Program] to notices of upcoming workshops and small business clinics from Darryl Maxwell provides that." (Assistant Director for the Pro Bono Center’s Nonprofit & Small Business Legal Assistance Programs).

I have attended many of the SBLAP’s Pro Bono Center: Would you recommend Small Business Brief Advice Legal Clinics, Q the Small Business Legal Assistance where entrepreneurs typically meet with Program to other small business owners? attorney volunteers to get clarity and advice about a legal issue impacting their small business. Not only do small business Mike Smith: Yes, yes, and yes! There is no owners like me gain a better A chance at a bright future for any business understanding of the issue at hand but, if it does not have good legal advice at quite often, our issues can be resolved at hand. The Pro Bono Center’s SBLAP the clinic with the help of expert provides that.

transactional law attorneys. Even if additional help is needed, the clinic gives It is said that you can't appreciate what entrepreneurs a more defined sense of you have at home until you go to other the correct legal assistance required cities. I am very proud to be a business outside the clinic, which saves us a lot of owner in Washington, D.C. because after money. The Small Business Brief Advice talking with other business owners across Legal Clinics have helped me better the country, I learned that they do not understand and resolve legal issues enjoy the resource opportunities that we related to human resources, corporate have here. The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center is structuring, and contract resolution. a major factor in that mix.

I also attended the SBLAP’s 8-Part Business Law Training Series for Small Business Owners a number of years ago. It was pretty intense and not for the faint of heart! Business is replete with landmines, and this comprehensive training, I believe, was designed to bring awareness to small business owners of all the things that could go wrong if a company is not judicious about its activities and structure.

Smith & Sons, LLC employees discuss expansion plans at a staff meeting.

25 Mobilizing Pro Bono Volunteers

Attorneys attend a Pro Bono Center training session

Last year, the Pro Bono Center mobilized more than 1,500 dedicated volunteers to serve approximately 20,000 individuals, nonprofits, and small businesses.

We equip our volunteers with training, mentoring, a In FY18, our 21 training events prepared 609 volunteer network in which to exchange ideas about pro bono attorneys for pro bono service. The Pro Bono Center practices, and unlimited access to online materials recorded four trainings to make the sessions even more that help them provide high quality service to their accessible to interested attorneys, and we also presented clients. our first cross-discipline webinar, “Protecting Temporary Protected Status Beneficiaries and Your Business,” an innovative collaboration between our Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic and Small Business Legal Pro Bono Training Assistance Program attorneys.

Volunteers come to the Pro Bono Center with varying levels of expertise. To ensure that our volunteers feel comfortable and competent and to ensure quality pro bono service, we offer training sessions in a variety of areas including asylum, bankruptcy, family law, landlord and tenant, and public benefits. We recruit expert practitioners to train volunteers in those areas of the law in which low-income D.C. residents most need help. Following each training session, we connect participants with volunteer opportunities with our own clinics and resource centers, as well as with other legal services providers. We also sponsor an 1984 annual public benefits law training series for legal Pro Bono Tr aining services lawyers, case managers, and client advocates. Program begins

26 Probono.net/dc Pro Bono Partnership

The Pro Bono Center hosts and administers the The Pro Bono Center coordinates the Pro Bono Washington, D.C. regional site of the Probono.net Partnership, a network of 103 law firms and 4 platform, probono.net/dc, for pro bono and legal federal government agencies committed to services attorneys. We provide substantive and providing pro bono legal services in Washington. As procedural legal information in six local practice areas: part of this work, we maintain a listserv and host bankruptcy, consumer law, family law, housing, quarterly luncheons to facilitate communication projects and clinics, and public benefits. Membership among members, highlight emerging pro bono is free and provides access to training materials, needs, help members exchange ideas about pro model pleadings and briefs, applicable news items, bono management practices, and strengthen relevant events, training videos, manuals, and connections to D.C. legal services providers. recorded seminars. In FY18, the Pro Bono Partnership presented events In FY18, we worked with Pro Bono Net to roll out a on the importance of pro bono public benefits comprehensive redesign focused on usability and representation, the significant role of attorney accessibility across all six practice areas. The Pro Bono volunteers and the need for full representation, and Center also worked with the D.C. Consortium of Legal the transformative work of the Pro Bono Center’s Services Providers and the Federal Government Pro Nonprofit and Small Business Legal Assistance Bono Program to update their websites. Additionally, Programs. we are in the process of implementing “News” and “Projects” features that will allow members of the legal services community to post important updates and highlight initiatives seeking pro bono volunteers. The website hosted 9,893 memberships from pro bono attorneys – an approximate 24% increase in membership over the previous year.

Attorneys attend the Pro Bono Center's annual Pro Bono Partnership luncheon at Sidley Austin LLP.

2002 Probono.n et/dc launched, spearheaded by the 2007 Pro Bono Center's Pro Bono Part nership Technology Initiative membership grows Working Group to 100 organizations

27 Financial Summary

The Pro Bono Center is a nonprofit tax-exempt organization principally supported by the voluntary contributions of D.C. Bar members. No Bar dues are used to support the work of the Pro Bono Center.

Revenue 2017-2018 (Unaudited) 2016-2017 (Audited)

Gifts and Contributions $2,996,037 $3,067,588 Training and Admissions $79,375 $76,035 Publications Sales $375 $50 Miscellaneous $4,991 $44

Revenue From Operations $3,080,778 $3,143,717

Fund Transfers $19,000 $22,000 Long Term Inve stment Gain/Loss $253,730 $299,668

$272,730 $321,668

Total Revenue $3,353,508 $3,465,385

Expenses

Total Operating Expenses $3,067,161 $2,904,022

Change in Net Assets $286,347 $561,363

2017-2018 Revenue 2017-18 Expenses

Programs & Services (78.58%) D.C. Bar Members (64.31%) Law Firms, Corporations (23.47%) Admin & Fundraising (21.42%) Interest (7.57%) Registrations, Admissions (2.37%) Foundations (1.71%) D.C. Bar Sections (0.57%)

28 Pro Bono Center Leadership

Pro Bono Committee

Chair Vice Chair Amy L . Bess Erica J. Dom initz Vedder Price PC Marsh LLC

Members

Susan D. Bennett Gwendolyn S. McDowell Washington American Universi ty Public Defender Service for the Distric t of Washington College of Law Columbia

Barbara E. Butterworth Kevin D. Minsky Finnegan, Henderson, Fa rabow, Garrett & Dunner Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. LLP John Townsend Rich Elizabeth R. Dewey Goodwin Procter LLP DLA Piper US LLP Ronald J. Tenpas Matthew L. Haws Morgan, Lewis & B ockius LLP Jenner & Block LL P Timothy K. Webster Su Sie Ju Sidley Austin LLP Bread for the City

Laura F. Klein U.S. Departme nt of Justice

Nonprofit and Small Business Advisory Subcommittee

Chair Vice Chair Erica J . Dominitz Matthew L . Haws Marsh LLC Jenner & Block LL P

Members H. Guy Collier Glen O'Gilvie McDermott W ill & Emery LLP Center for Nonprofit Advancement

Ryan C. Compton James J. Sandman DLA Piper US LLP Legal Services Corpo ration

Kelly Sweeney McShane Gary S. Thompson Community of Hope Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC

Kris D. Meade Jeremiah M. Wolsk Crowell & Mor ing LLP Latham & Watkins L LP

29 D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center Staff

Rebecca K. Troth Kathy Lugo Executive Directo r Project Coor dinator

Lise Adams Nakia Matthews Assistant Dir ector (Clinics) Managing Attorn ey

Stanley Augustin Darryl Maxwell Training and Outr each Program Specialist Assistant Direct or (Nonprofit & Small Business Legal Assistance Programs) Vanessa Batters-Thompson Managing Attorney Jennie Netburn Housing Initiativ e Attorney Angela Boone Assistant Direc tor (Development) Lauren Paley Program Spec ialist Marcia Boyd Senior Admin istrative Assistant Jason Qu Managing Attorney Erica Creaven Bilingual Intake Coordinator Brian Rohal Attorney of t he Day - Eviction Defense Liliana Fiorenti Housing Legal A ssistant Connie Sinclair Development S pecialist Reece Flexner Staff Attorney Brenda Thomas Lead Administra tive Assistant Adrian Gottshall Managing Attorn ey Ruth Verdin Program Spe cialist Alicia Lee Attorney o f the Day - Eviction Defense

Gabriella Lewis-White Managing Attorney

30 Participating Firms & Organizations

The Pro Bono Center would like to thank the following firms, agencies, and organizations, and their volunteer attorneys, for participating in our service delivery programs.

Please note that volunteers employed by federal agencies do so in their individual capacity.

Advocacy & Justice Clinic National Labor Relations Board Office of the Director of Nationa l Intelligence Platinum Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Sidley Austin LLP Postal Regulatory Commission U.S. Department o f Justice Sidley Austin LLP Wiley Rein LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, Taxation Division Gold Taxation Community, D.C. Bar Foley & Lardner LLP Tort Law Community, D.C. Bar King & Spalding LLP Trial Lawyers Association of M etropolitan Washington, DC Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP U.S. Agency for International Development Williams & Connolly LLP U.S. Air Force U.S. Commodi ty Futures Trading Commission Silver U.S. Department of Agriculture Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP U.S. Department of Energy DLA Piper (US) LLP U.S. Department of Homeland Security Epstein Becker & Gr een PC U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP U.S. Department of Justice Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division Jenner & Block LLP U.S. Department of Labor McDermott Will & Emery LLP U.S. Department of State Miller & Chevalier Chartered U.S. Department of the Interior Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP U.S. Department of Transportation Morrison & Foerster LLP U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs Pepper Hamilton LLP U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Ropes & Gray LLP U.S. Food and Drug Administration Stinson Leonard St reet LLP U.S. Office of Special Counsel U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission U.S. Small Business Administration Advice & Referral Clinic United States Postal Service Venable LLP American Constitution Society Verizon Antitrust and Consumer Law C ommunity, D.C. Bar Washington Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division Asian Pacific American Bar Association Washington Council of Lawyers Blank Rome LLP Willis Towers Watson Board of Veterans Appeals WilmerHale LLP Capital Area Muslim Bar As sociation Young Lawyers Se ction, Bar Association of the District of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Columbia D.C. Bar Board of Governors D.C. Bar Leadership Academy D.C. Bar Pro Bono Committee Consumer Law Resource Center District of Columbia Access to Justice Commission Employment Law Community, D.C. Bar Wiley Rein LLP Estates, Trusts and Probate Law Comm unity, D.C. Bar Williams & Con nolly LLP Exelon Corporation Venable LLP Family Law Commun ity, D.C. Bar Federal Communications Commission Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Immigration Legal Advice & Referral Clinic Federal Election Commission Federal Trade Commission Asian Pacific American Bar Association of D.C. Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Capital Area Immigrants' Rights (CAIR) Coalition Groom Law Group Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School Jones Day DMV Immigration Alliance K & L Gates Hispanic Bar Association of D.C. Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Fragomen, Del Ray, Bernsen & Lo ewy, LLP Keller & Heckman LLP Tahirih Justice Center King & Spalding LLP Public Defender Servic e for D.C. Labor and Employme nt Law Community, D.C. BarLegal Services Corporation Litigation Community, D.C. Bar 31 Landlord Tenant Resource Center Keel Point, LLC Kelley Drye & W arren LLP Arent Fox LLP Kilpatrick Townsend & Sto ckton LLP Arnold & Porte r LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Covington & Burling LLP Knowledge Advanta ge Inc. Crowell & Moring LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Federal Government Law Office of Edwin W ang PLLC Goodwin Procter LLP Law Office of Jeffrey Sherman Jones Day Law Office of Keyur Vyas McDermott Will & Emery LLP Law Office of Michael Hue y Miller & Chevalier Chartered Law Office of Nigel A. Barre lla Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Law Office of Ruthven R. Philli p PLLC Nelson Mulins Riley & Scarbo rough LLP Lex Mundi Pro Bono Foundation O'Melveny & Myers LLP Lindner & Associates, PC Ropes & Gray LLP Mayer Brown LLP Sidley Austin LLP McDermott Will & Emery LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Miller & Chevalier Chartered Venable LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Williams & Connolly LLP Morrison & Foerster LLP WilmerHale LLP Nixon Peabody LLP Northrop Grumman Corporation Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Nonprofit & Small Business Legal Assistance Office of the Attorney General for D.C. Programs Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Pascal, Weiss & Hirao, P.C. American University Washington College of Law Perkins Coie LLP Amtrak PilieroMazza PLL C Arent Fo x LLP Polsinelli PC Arnold & Porter LLP Powers Pyles Sutter and Verville PC Association of American Medical Colleges Rees Broome, PC Ballard Spahr LLP Ropes & Gray LLP Bank of America Securities & Excha nge Commission Blank Rome LLP Seyfarth Shaw LLP Booz Allen Hamil ton Inc. Shook, Hardy & Ba con, LLP Boston University Sidley Austin LLP Brookings Institute SJS Law Firm BSA - The Software Alliance Skadden, Arp s, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Capital One Squire Patton Boggs LLP Capitol Hill L egal Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox, P.L.L.C. Caplin & Drysdale , Chartered Stinson Leonard Street LLP Carfax, Inc. Technology-Innovation-Law , LLC Catholic University Columbus School of Law The Harvey Law Group Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP The Katawal Firm PLLC Covington & Burling LLP The Todd Law Firm Crowell & Moring LLP Tresquire Legal Ser vices David A. Clarke Schoo l of Law at UDC U.S. Department of Hom eland Security David, Brody & Dondershine, LLP U.S. Department of the Interior Davis & Harman LLP U.S. Department of Justice Debevoise & Plimpto n LLP U.S. Department of Transpo rtation Dechert LLP U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs /Board of Veteran District of Co lumbia Department of Health – Office of Appeals General Counsel U.S. Posta l Service District of Columb ia Superior Court U.S. Small Business Administration DixonHall, PLLC U.S. Social Security Administration DLA Piper US LL P Epstein Becker & Green, P.C. Ullico Inc. Equal Justice Works University of New South Wales Ernst & Young LLP Urban Energy Garden Eversheds Sutherland Vedder Price P.C. Federal Aviation Administration Venable LLP Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Veritas Law Fields-Nelson Law Verizon Communications Freddie Mac Webster, Chamberlin & B ean, LLP Freeman Wade LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP Weisbrod Matteis & Copley P LLC GEICO Westerman Hattori Daniels & Adr ian, LLP Georgetown University Law Center Wiley Rein LLP George Washington University Law School Willlis Towers W atson Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP WilmerHale LLP Greenberg TraurigHewett Packard Enterprise Services, World Bank LLC Hoga n Lovells US LLP Howard University Sch ool of Law Probate Resource Center Hum Law Firm, PLLCHunton Andr ews Kurth LLP Johnson Controls Entergy Services, Inc. Morgan, Lewis & Bock ius LLP 32 WilmerHale LLP Pro Bono Center Donors

The Pro Bono Center acknowledges the generous individuals and organizations that supported our work in 2018:

40th Anniversary Underwriters Gilbert LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Arnold & Porter Gray Plant Mooty Foundation Finnegan, Hende rson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP Sidley Austin LLP Katten Muchin Rosenman Foundation Kellogg, Hansen, Todd, Figel & Frederick P.L.L.C. Kolar Charitable Foundation of Buckley Sandler Underwriters McDermott Will & Emery LLP Munger Tolles & Olson LLP Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation O'Melveny & Myers LLP Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP Perkins Coie LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Proskauer Rose LLP Eugene and Agnes E. M eyer Foundation Reed Smith LLP Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Foundatio n Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP The Steptoe Foundation Sullivan & Cromwell LLP Suntrust Foundation Thomson Reuters Wiley Rein LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP WilmerHale LLP White & Case LLP Winston & Strawn LLP Pacesetters Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Covington & Burling LLP Benefactors D.C. Bar Communities DLA Piper LLP (US) Scott & Shannon Burwell Hunton Andrews Ku rth LLP Gregory S. Bruch Kilpatrick Townsend & Stock ton LLP Donald R. Dunner Morrison & Foerster Foundation Ann K. Ford Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox P LLC Leslye M. Fraser & Darryl Fraser Ullico Inc. Jamie S. Gorelick Carolyn C. Halladay Paul F. Khoury Presidents' Circle Bruce N. Kuhlik Patrick McGlone & Kevin Taylor Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP Rebecca McNeill Mary G. Clark James J. Sandman & Elizabeth D. Mullin Cleary, Gottlie b, Steen & Hamilton LLP Steuart H. Thomsen & Linda Chatman Thomsen Crowell & Moring LLP Rebecca K. Troth & Christopher J. Wright Hogan Lovells US LLP Jenner & Block LLP Jones Day 40th Anniversary Law Firm & Corporate Patrons K&L Gates LLP King & Spalding LLP Dentons US LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP Gibbons P.C. Mayer Brown LLP Seyfarth Shaw LLP Morgan, Lewis & B ockius LLP Troutman Sanders LLP Mount Vernon Place, LLC Vedder Price PC Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Whar ton & Garrison LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Ropes & Gray LLP 40th Anniversary Pro Bono Partners Savills Studley Skadden, Arps , Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP David M. Battan Venable LLP Smith R. Brittingham IV Williams & C onnolly LLP Paul W. Browning Bryan C. Diner Erica J. Dominitz & Yaron Dori Law Firm & Corporate Benefactors Carolyn C. Halladay James K. Hammond American College of Bankruptcy Foundation Justin & Sarah Hasford Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP Tom & Judy Irving Banner & Witcoff, Ltd. John C. Keeney, Jr. Bruch Hanna LLP Esther H. Lim & John C. Yang Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered Charles & Karen Lipsey Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, PLLC Leslie McDonell Epstein Becker & Green, PC John W. Nields, Jr. Exelon Corporation Erik R. Puknys Foley & Lardner LLP Bruce E. Rosenblum Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP Peter Shields Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP Mark D. Sweet Timothy K. Webster

33 Pro Bono Partners Elizabeth R. Geise Myles S. Getlan Richard & Emily Alexander Nathalie P. Gilfoyle Patrick H. Allen Geoffrey P. Gitner James Franklin Bendernagel, Jr. Michael Gordon Peter Buscemi Todd D. Gray Lisa Dewey Marjorie Reed Greene Paul M. Flynn Carolyn H. Grigg Stephen I. Glover Heidi Ann Hansan Richard A. Gollhofer Kenneth E. Hardman Gerald F. Ivey Matthew L. Haws David Micael Lynn Benjamin W. Heineman Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Patrick A. Malone Karin A. Hessler Stephanie J. May Rachel J. Hines Louis T. Mazawey Eric L. Hirschhorn & Leah Wortham Elizabeth B. Meers Susan M. Hoffman James R. Modrall Regina M. Hopkins & Larry Glenn Amanda Kathryn Murphy Christopher C. Horner Suzanne J. Peck Glen S. Howard Carter G. Phillips Ted & Judy Howard Steve & Ruth Pollak James W. Jones Martha L. Rees & Frank W. Hobbs, Jr. George W. Jones Jr. & Loretta P. Pleasant-Jones Donald F. Santa Hilary R. Kao & Ja Kao Ryan T. Scarborough Donald A. Kaplan Pauline A. Schneider Samuel C. Kaplan Gary & Caryn Seligman Anita D. Khushalani Susan Y. Tull Ronald Kirk Mark H. Tuohey Benjamin B. Klubes Robert A. Van Kirk Joseph E. Kolick, Jr. William R. Vigdor Sheldon Krantz Simeon M. Kriesberg Philip Allen Lacovara Pro Bono Council Carolyn Lamm & Peter Halle Chiswell D. Langhorne, Jr. Louis Gregory Adolfsen Ira M. Lechner Susan M. Allen Parkin Lee William B. Baker Joshua A. Levy Robert B. Barnett Patricia Gimbel Lewis Cecily Baskir & John Freedman Nancy H. Liebermann Brigida Benitez Andrew T. Maccabe Susan D. Bennett Chung Hsiang Mah Robin M. Bergen Peri Neilson Mahaley Susan O. Berghoef John M. Majoras Kenneth J. Berman John J. Mangan Caryl S. Bernstein Michael D. Mann Janet L. Blizard Andrew H. Marks & Susan G. Esserman Sharon Diane Brooks Richard Marks Stephen R. Bruce Mira Nan Marshall William A. Burck David B. Martin Paula Sammons Butler Timothy J. May Blain B. Butner Katherine A. Mazzaferri Lawrence L. Calvert Jr. Mary E. McClymont Patricia Chow William E. McDaniels Julia Penny Clark Bruce F. Metge Earl M. Collier Jr. Thomas H. Milch George R. Consta ntinople G. Paul Moates & Constance A. Sadler Renata Kendrick Cooper Robert P. Mollen Thomas G. Corcoran, Jr. John P. Moriarty Larry P. Cote Kenneth R. Morrow St John Courtenay III Anne McCully Murphy John J. Cross III John M. Nannes Lorenzo W. Crowe, Jr. Elizabeth A. Niemeyer John C. Cruden Alex Y. Oh David W. DeBruin Thomas Papson & Toby Singer Paul T. Denis William J. Perlstein Mark D. Director F. Whitten Peters Cathleen H. Douglas Stone Mari-Anne Pisarri John M. Dowd Mark W. Porter Jennifer A. Duane Mary Ellen Powers B.D. Eddie Farha Richard Michael Price Kevin L. Fast Kimberly J. Prior John R. Fisher Matthew C. Rampy Ronald Flagg & Patricia Sharin Flagg Douglas A. Rettew Marc L. Fleischaker Michael James Riella Robert P. Fletcher Joan Rinaldi in memory of Laura N. Rinaldi Hamilton Fox Michael J. Roach Eric J. Fues Frederick Robinson

34 Susan L. Ross Law Firm & Corporate Sponsors Mark W. Ryan Warren A. Schneider ACC National Capital Region Karen Anne Schoen Ain & Bank, P.C. Steven F. Schroeder Baker & Hostetler Juliana T. Schulte O'Reilly Bass Berry & Sims PLC Dan & Teresa Schwartz Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP Perry B. Seiffert Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney, PC Lesli Lynn Sheppard The Cochran Firm Jane C. Sherburne Cozen & O’Connor, PC Peter R. Sherman Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca Donald Silawsky Curtin Law Roberson Dunigan & Salans, P.C. Patrick W. Simien Dechert LLP Matthew D. Slater Dunner Law PLLC Dolores S. Smith Eyman Associates Benjamin Stark Softness Fish & Richardson P.C. Mark S. Sommers Goulston & Storrs, PC Robert Spagnoletti & Bernard Lewis Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis LLP Nancy Sue Sparks Hollingsworth LLP Andree M. St Martin Jackson & Campbell, P.C. Jeffrey P. Taft Kelley Drye & Warren LLP Evan M. Tager Klein Hornig LLP Charles E. Talisman Kuder, Smollar, Friedman & Mihalik, PC Bonnie S. Temple Mintz Levin Joseph B. Tompkins Jr. Nixon Peabody LLP Richard Lee Torczon Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP Richard J. Ufford O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP William D. Wallace Pasternak & Fidis, PC Roger E. Warin The Piorkowski Law Firm Jennifer C. Warren Thompson Hine LLP Jeffrey (Dan) Watkiss University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke Carla J. Weaver School of Law Kenneth B. Weckstein Van Ness Feldman LLP David B. Weinberg Whiteford Taylor & Preston LLP Janet A. Weiss Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP Allen Eugene White Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, LLP Gregory W. Whiteaker Jeremiah M. Wolsk Nancy E. Yanofsky Winston K. Zee

Law Firm & Corporate Patrons Introducing the Allen & Overy LLP Alston & Bird LLP Donald R. Dunner Fund Arent Fox LLP Baker Botts L.L.P. Beveridge & Diamond, P.C. for Legal Services Blank Rome LLP Cooley LLP The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center congratulates Delaney McKinney LLP Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP D.C. Bar President Esther H. Lim and her Feldesman, Tucker, Leifer, Fidell LLP colleagues at Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Garrett & Dunner LLP for their Furey, Doolan & Abell, LLP Groom Law Group, Charte red record-breaking generosity to the Center. Hartman-Cox Architects Contributions to the Donald R. Dunner Fund Keller & Heckman LLP for Legal Services, established at the Center Lake Research Partners, Inc. Levine Blaszak Block & Boothby LLP to recognize Donald R. Dunner’s outstanding Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP leadership and generosity to both the legal Miller & Chevalier Chartered profession and the community, totaled more Pepper Hamilton LLP Scribner, Hall & Thompson, LLP than $130,000 from the firm and 79 Shearman & Sterling LLP individual Finnegan attorneys. Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC Wendy H. Schwartz & Associates, PLLC We thank Finnegan for this demonstration of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation commitment to narrowing the access to justice gap in the District of Columbia.

35 Patrons Mr. and Mrs. E. Tazewell Ellett Leidos, Inc. David Francis Ennis Howard W. Levine Elizabeth A. Abdoo Anthony C. Epstein Charles S. Levy Alliance Architecture PC Robert Fabrikant David J. Lewis Burton A. Amernick Nicholas W. Fels Kim-Bun T. Li M. Jean Anderson Linda D. Fienberg Arthur Leonard Liberman Katherine D. Ashley Mary-Christy Fisher Natalie G. Lichtenstein Daniel Francis Attridge Jo Benson Fogel Hon. Eugene A. Ludwig & Dr. Carol Danny M. Awdeh Sean M. Foley Ludwig Mark D. Back Thomas C. Fox Warren C. Lutz Charlene Barshefsky Robert W. Frantz Myles V. Lynk III & Julie Lynk Jeffrey Bauman Margaret A. Freeston Philip J. Macres Carol A. Baumerich Gregory B. Friel Daniel E Maddux Jeanne M. Belanger Nicole Marie Fry Jihad O. Mahmud Brian A. Benko Patrick Allan Fuller Deborah P. Majoras George K. Bernstein Catherine S. Gallagher Kris Markarian Blake A Biles & Dr. Laura L. Sessums Linnette M. Garber Fredric Marro Rodney J. Bosco Poppi Eleni Georges-Massey Samuel M. 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