BAKER, Donelson, BEARMAN, Caldwell & Berkowitz, Pc

Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC

165 Madison Ave., Ste. 2000 THE STATS Memphis, TN 38103 Phone: (901) 526-2000 No. of Attorneys: 641 www.bakerdonelson.com No. of Offices: 17 Chairman & CEO: Ben C. Adams

locations EMPLOYMENT CONTACT Atlanta, GA • Baton Rouge, LA • Birmingham, AL • Chattanooga, TN • Houston, TX • Huntsville, TN • Jackson, MS Rebecca Simon • Johnson City, TN • Knoxville, TN • Macon, GA • Mandeville, Recruiting Director LA • Memphis, TN • Montgomery, AL • Nashville, TN • New Phone: (205) 244-3814 Orleans, LA • Orlando, FL • Washington, DC Email: [email protected]

MAJOR DEPARTMENTS & PRACTICES

Construction • Financial Institutions • Health Law • Labor and Employment • Litigation • Public Policy • Real Estate • Securities and Corporate Governance • Taxation • Transportation • White Collar Crime and Government Investigations

Who’s Who law, Nonprofit incorporation/tax exemptions, Nonprofit intellectual property, Probate law, Public benefits, Real estate Does the firm have one or more pro bono coordinators and/or transactions, Social Security law, Veterans’ benefits/appeals, partners? If so, how many? Voting rights 1 Are there areas of law in which, as a matter of policy or practice, For each of your pro bono coordinators and/or partners, please your firm does not perform pro bono work? specify how much of his/her time is spent on pro bono work and/ Consumer law and small claims court, Employment or administering the firm’s pro bono program. Pro Bono Coordinator/Partner 1 List up to 10 of your firm’s pro bono clients or partners since All of his/her time 2010, including legal service providers or clearinghouses. • Atlanta Legal Aid Please provide the primary pro bono contact(s)’s information below. • Birmingham Volunteer Lawyers Program Lisa W. Borden • Memphis Area Legal Services Pro Bono Shareholder • Pro Bono Project of New Orleans Phone: (205) 244-3803 Email: [email protected] • Kids in Need of Defense (Houston) • Equal Justice Initiative Does the firm have a pro bono committee? • Animal Legal Defense Fund Yes • Homeless Experience Legal Protection Programs (HELP) • Alabama Appleseed How often does the committee meet? • Community for Creative Non-Violence Bi-monthly List up to three representative examples of your firm’s pro Please describe the composition of the committee. bono matters since 2010. Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. Committee consists of shareholders and associates from each office as well as administrative personnel. • We established and continue to coordinate homeless shelter legal clinics in several cities through HELP. We also coordinate the New Orleans Homeless Court and the legal THE SCOOP services for several Project Homeless Connect annual events. • Our Memphis office represents immigrants in asylum matters Does your firm have a written pro bono policy? involving domestic violence and recently won asylum for a Yes client from El Salvador. • Our New Orleans office has formed a non-profit services Can associates bring pro bono matters of interest to the firm? team that has provided hundreds of hours of pro bono corporate work for social innovators through Propellor, and Yes to grantees of the Kellogg Foundation.

How does the firm decide whether to take on a pro bono matter? List up to three pro bono matters that are highlights (e.g., Approval by Pro Bono Shareholder and the requesting a Supreme Court case). Please limit your answer to a short attorney’s practice group leader. paragraph per matter. • Our Birmingham office represents plantiffs suing the town Has the firm signed on to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge? of Harpersville, AL for its maintenance of a debtors’ prison. Plantiffs allege the town routinely charges indigents high No monthly probation fees for traffic and other minor infractions and jails those who are too poor to pay. Plaintiffs have already What are some of the areas of law in which your firm has won substantial injunctive relief. performed pro bono legal work since 2010? • Our New Orleans office has partnered with the Animal Legal Arts and historic preservation, Asylum, Death penalty defense, Defense Fund to fight to free Tony, an 11-year-old Siberian- Disability benefits, Domestic violence, Elder law, Family law, Bengal tiger, from a cage at a roadside truck stop. The court First Amendment and constitutional issues, Homeless advocacy, has ruled that Louisiana can no longer issue permits to keep Immigration, Indigent criminal defense, Nonprofit corporate Tony at the truck stop.

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• Our Memphis office is representing death row inmate Abu What is the maximum number of pro bono hours that can be Ali Abdur Rahman in seeking clemency from the Governor applied toward the billable hour target? of Tennessee. 1–50

Does the firm consider pro bono hours when determining BY THE NUMBERS bonuses? What is the total number of hours that lawyers at your U.S. office(s) Yes spent performing pro bono legal services, as defined by the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge, in 2010 and 2011? Do not include summer associate or non-lawyer pro bono hours in your answers. PRO BONO POINTS Total number of pro bono hours in 2010: 12,631 What training opportunities are open to associates working on Total number of pro bono hours in 2011: 12,697 pro bono matters? The firm offers professional development opportunities What was the attorney headcount in your firm’s U.S. offices? in-house to all associates. Each attorney also has a continuing Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2010: 553 education budget that can be applied to external training including training related to pro bono matters. Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2011: 626

Using the number of attorneys listed above, what is the average Does the firm offer the use of support staff in handling pro bono number of pro bono hours per attorney in your firm’s U.S. office(s) matters? during the following years? Yes Average number of hours per attorney in 2010: 23 Average number of hours per attorney in 2011: 22 Please indicate how many total hours and average hours per person your summer associates spent performing pro bono in What percentage of attorneys employed during 2010 and 2011 in 2010 and 2011. your firm’s U.S. office(s) did at least 20 hours of pro bono during Total hours summer associates spent on pro bono work that calendar year? 2011: 157 Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2010: 31–40% Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2011: 21–30% Average hours per summer associate spent on pro bono work 2011: 10 SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONS Percentage of summer associates in your firm’s U.S. office(s) Is there partner supervision on all pro bono matters? engaged in pro bono work No 2011: 43%

Please provide any additional information about pro bono Do partner supervisors or, if applicable, senior associates provide opportunities available to summer associates. written evaluations of associates’ work on pro bono matters? In addition to assisting with ongoing pro bono matters, summer No associates are invited to participate with our attorneys at pro bono clinics and pro se help desk sessions. Summer associates Is there a pro bono requirement at your firm? have assisted with death penalty cases, homeless shelter matters and non-profit corporate work. No

Does the firm have established programs, such as externships, Does the firm give billable hour credit for pro bono work? that enable its associates to work in a public interest setting? Yes No

Does the firm have a maximum number of pro bono hours that can be applied toward the billable hour target? Yes

What other law-related public interest and community service • Legal Aid of East Tennessee, Pro Bono Attorney of the Year: programs (that are not “pro bono” as defined by the Law Firm Legal Aid of East Tennessee also honored Johnson City Pro Bono Challenge) do you offer and manage? For example, list associate Christy Hayes as its Pro Bono Attorney of the Year any law school collaborations and public interest scholarships, auctions at law schools, monetary support, or fellowships. • SouthFace Volunteer of the Year Award: Our Atlanta office was honored by SouthFace, a non-profit organization that Summer pro bono fellowships in conjunction with Cumberland promotes sustainable homes, workplaces and communities School of Law, Jones School of Law and Tulane Law School; throughout the Southeastern United States Loan repayment assistance program for University of Tennessee law graduates who choose public interest careers; Atlanta Legal • Volunteer Law Firm of the Year, Birmingham Volunteer Aid Cancer Legal Initiative intake program Lawyers Program: BVLP issued a call for help to deal with a huge backlog of unassigned cases. Within a few days, our Birmingham lawyers had accepted almost thirty cases. In What non-law related volunteer opportunities does your firm addition, two Birmingham shareholders were serving on offer? For example, list any work with high school students the BVLP board during a tumultuous but ultimately very and non-legal volunteerism for organizations like Habitat for successful period of reorganization Humanity. • Friend of Pro Bono Award, Louisiana State Bar: Awarded to Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure, Habitat for Humanity, Sherry Dolan for her tireless efforts in support of pro bono Project Homeless Connect, education programs at elementary initiatives including the Pro Bono Project of New Orleans, New schools Orleans HELP project and the New Orleans Homeless Court • A Business Commitment to Pro Bono Award, State Bar of Please list any special recognition or awards your firm has won Georgia: Awarded to Valerie King of Atlanta (who recently since 2010 for its pro bono work. departed the firm to join the in-house legal staff of a client) • Community for Creative Non-Violence, Mitch Snyder for her service to the Pro Bono Partnership of Atlanta Extraordinary Performance Award: Presented to DC and many of its non-profit clients. Valerie provided legal Attorneys John Calender, Phillip Zane and Taylor Ferrell in advice and counsel to numerous non-profit organizations recognition of their outstanding pro bono legal service work throughout the year and served on the Pro Bono on behalf of Washington DC’s homeless Partnership’s Advisory Committee • Chattanooga Bar Association, Albert L. Hodge Volunteer • Chief Justice Thomas Marshall Lifetime Achievement Award Attorney of the Year: presented to shareholder Sheri Fox for Professionalism, State Bar of Georgia: Presented to Linda Klein in recognition of her career-long dedication to the • Louisiana State Bar Pro Bono Publico Awards: Presented to promotion of pro bono service, civility and professionalism Baker Donelson for its commitment to the Pro Bono Project of New Orleans, the New Orleans HELP program, and the • Pro Bono Highest Achievers Award, Mississippi Volunteer New Orleans Homeless Court. New Orleans attorneys Sherry Lawyers Program: Presented to Michael Dawkins for the many Dolan and Lauren McKnight also received individual Pro pro bono hours he donated to deserving clients of the MVLP Bono Publico Awards • Pro Bono Service Award, Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers • Louisiana State Bar Friend of Pro Bono Award: Presented to Program: Presented to La’Verne Edney for her two years of Donna Fraiche for her work with Louisiana Appleseed, the service as General Counsel of MVLP Pro Bono Project of New Orleans, the Lagniappe Project and • Pro Bono Service Award, Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers the LSBA Access to Justice Committee Program: Kenya Rachal was honored for her devoted service • Pro Bono Project of New Orleans Honor Roll: Eighteen of to the MVLP Legal Line, a pro bono advice hotline for low our Louisiana attorneys were honored for their individual income residents of Mississippi commitment to the Pro Bono Project of New Orleans in • Distinguished Service Award, Mississippi State Bar: Presented 2010. These attorneys each donated at least 50 hours of to La’Verne Edney for her dedication to pro bono and her their time to PBP service to the Mississippi Volunteer Lawyers Program • Pro Bono Project of New Orleans Law Firm of the Year: • Pro Bono Hall of Fame, Legal Aid of East Tennessee: Thomas During 2010, our attorneys donated more than 700 hours of Caldwell, who has since retired from our Chattanooga office, pro bono time and we partnered to organize its fundraising was inducted into the inaugural class of Legal Aid of East event, the Justice for All Ball, and to present a program on Tennessee’s Pro Bono Hall of Fame for his long-standing pro bono and professionalism during Pro Bono Celebration commitment to pro bono. Tom devoted hundreds of hours to Week handling conservatorships and other matters for individuals • Legal Aid of East Tennessee, Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year: and families served by the Orange Grove Center, which Our attorneys in Knoxville, Chattanooga and Johnson City provides services for people with disabilities frequently accept civil cases, including many family and domestic matters, from the organization

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