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1 Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP 28 Liberty Plaza New York, NY Phone: (212) locations Los Angeles, CA New York, NY Washington, DC Beijing Frankfurt Hong Kong London Munich São Paulo Seoul Singapore Tokyo THE STATS No. of Attorneys: 646 No. of Offices: 12 Chairman: Scott Edelman Hiring Partner(s): Jay Grushkin (New York) Atara Miller (New York) Lauren Hanrahan (New York) Tyson Lomazow (New York) Sean Murphy (New York) Dara Panahy (Washington, DC ) Brett Goldblatt (Los Angeles) MAJOR DEPARTMENTS & PRACTICES Alternative Investments Corporate Financial Restructuring Leveraged Finance Litigation & Arbitration Project Finance Securities Tax Transportation & Space Trusts & Estates EMPLOYMENT CONTACT Amy Stisser Associate Director of Global Legal Recruiting Phone: (212) astisser@milbank.com Careers website (if different from main website): 1

2 Who s Who Does the firm have one or more pro bono coordinators and/or partners? If so, how many? 2 Please provide a general description of how much of their time each of your pro bono coordinators and/or partners spends on pro bono work and/or administering the firm s pro bono program (e.g., less than half of their time, more than half of their time, all of their time). 100 percent of the time by the Director and Assistant Director is spent on pro bono. Please provide the primary pro bono contact(s) s information below. Joseph S. Genova Partner, Director of Public Service Phone: (212) jgenova@milbank.com Anthony Perez Cassino Assistant Director of Public Service Phone: (212) acassino@milbank.com Does the firm have a pro bono committee? No THE SCOOP Does your firm have a pro bono policy? Can associates bring pro bono matters of interest to the firm? How does the firm decide whether to take on a pro bono matter? Each matter is reviewed and approved by the Director of Public Service. Has the firm signed on to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge? What are some of the areas of law in which your firm has performed pro bono legal work since 2013? Asylum, Bankruptcy, Civil rights, Community economic development, Consumer law and small claims court, Death penalty defense, Disability benefits, Domestic violence, Education, Elder law, Employment, Environment, Fair housing/ tenants rights, Family law, First Amendment and constitutional issues, HIV/AIDS advocacy, Homeless advocacy, Immigration, Indigent criminal defense, International human rights, Juvenile justice reform/children s rights, Nonprofit corporate law, Nonprofit incorporation/tax exemptions, Nonprofit intellectual property, Police misconduct, Prisoners rights, Social Security law, Probate law, Public benefits, Real estate transactions, The arts and historic preservation, Veterans benefits/appeals, Voting rights Are there areas of law in which, as a matter of policy or practice, your firm does not perform pro bono work? None List up to 10 of your firm s pro bono clients or partners since 2013, including legal service providers or clearinghouses. The Legal Aid Society Legal Services NYC The Door Legal Services New York Lawyers for the Public Interest HerJustice Public International Law & Policy Group The Innocence Project Public Counsel LAMDA Legal Defense & Education Fund NAACP List up to three representative examples of your firm s pro bono matters since Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. Lawyers in all three of Milbank s U.S. offices have worked on Shadow Letters in collaboration with the Center for Reproductive Rights. These Shadow Letters help to hold countries accountable for their human rights obligations by providing a detailed record of their record to United Nations Treaty Monitoring Bodies, which through periodic reviews oversee countries compliance with international human rights treaties. The Shadow Letters supplement information submitted by governments and highlight lapses in countries implementation of their international human rights obligations. The shadow reporting process is crucial to shed light on human rights violations and advocate for national-level legal and policy changes. Milbank lawyers have worked on Shadow Letters involving Kenya, Rwanda, Nepal and Pakistan. Divorce matters: Annually, our New York office handles dozens of uncontested divorce matters, many of which involve domestic violence and abuse. Adoptions: our Los Angeles office takes handles numerous adoption cases each year from Public Counsel. They often participation in Adoption Day they sponsor along with the Los Angeles Juvenile Court, the Alliance for Children s Rights and the Los Angeles Department of Children and Family Services. Visit for company rankings, ratings and reviews to learn what it s really like to work in an industry or company and how to position yourself to land that job. 2

3 List up to three pro bono matters that are highlights (e.g., a Supreme Court case). Please limit your answer to a short paragraph per matter. Milbank obtained a landmark settlement in a civil rights lawsuit affecting over 30,000 New Yorkers with disabilities. The class action law suit, Lovely H. v. Eggleston, was filed in 2005 in Federal Court in the Southern District of New York because low-income New Yorkers with disabilities were being denied access to benefits by the City s welfare agency, the Human Resources Administration. Lovely H. challenged HRA s rules and systems for people with disabilities who receive cash assistance, SNAP and Medicaid. The case alleged that HRA programs and systems did not comply with federal, state and local laws protecting individuals with disabilities - failing to provide the accommodations clients need to comply with HRA rules. The lawsuit alleged that without needed accommodations, clients were losing benefits when they could not comply with HRA rules and were put at risk of hunger and homelessness. HRA agreed to change some rules and systems to make Cash Assistance and SNAP programs and benefits more accessible to people with disabilities by improving the screening clients for disabilities, providing faster access to help and more case management services, and better prevention of lost benefits related to disabilities. The settlement represents a sea change in the way people with disabilities will be served. In a class action litigation where Milbank is co-counsel with the Disability Rights Legal Center (DRLC), Milbank and the DRLC litigated against various governmental agencies for years in an effort to provide special education and related services to eligible students with disabilities incarcerated in the Los Angeles County Jail, as required by federal and state law. On behalf of lead plaintiff Michael Garcia and the certified class of similarly situated individuals, Milbank and DRLC obtained summary judgment against certain defendants and fought an appeal filed by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). In December of 2013, after Milbank s arguments before the California Supreme Court, the Court issued a 7-0 decision written by Chief Justice Cantil-Sakauye, agreeing with Milbank and DRLC that the LAUSD was the education agency responsible for providing special education and related services to Mr. Garcia during his detention in the Los Angeles County Jail. This decision, which answered a question certified to the California Supreme Court by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, will impact the educational programs available to detainees in jails throughout the state of California. Milbank and the DRLC are in the process of finalizing and seeking approval of various class settlements with different defendants, making great strides toward developing a comprehensive system for providing special education and related services to students with disabilities detained in the jail. In a dramatic development in a death penalty case spanning three decades, Milbank secured a court order vacating the death sentence of a Louisiana man convicted of rape and murder in In May of 2014, Milbank and the prosecution jointly moved to have John Francis Wille, who was convicted in the 1985 rape and murder of an eight-year-old girl in a parish near New Orleans, resentenced to life imprisonment. He is currently serving his sentence in the Louisiana State Penitentiary (at Angola). This is an important first step in an ongoing battle to overturn his conviction and demonstrate that he is actually innocent. The Milbank team asserted that Mr. Wille s constitutional rights were violated because, among other things, he was deprived of the effective assistance of counsel at trial and did not receive complete disclosure of material exculpatory evidence in the hands of law enforcement. Milbank also argued that newly tested DNA evidence demonstrates Mr. Wille s innocence. The sole direct evidence against Mr. Wille in his 1986 trial was his confession (along with those of his girlfriend and her daughter). All of these confessions were recanted, and Milbank argues they are demonstrably false and were procured by coercion and improper police conduct. At trial, the jury never heard key evidence that would have undermined the confessions in part because Mr. Wille s lawyers, one of whom was assigned the case to satisfy his sentence for a felony conviction, never mounted a defense or developed a strategy for challenging the confessions. Milbank continues to fight to overturn his conviction and demonstrate that he is actually innocent. BY THE NUMBERS What is the total number of hours that lawyers at your U.S. office(s) spent performing pro bono legal services, as defined by the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge, in 2013 and 2014? Do not include summer associate or non-lawyer pro bono hours in your answers. Total number of pro bono hours in 2013: 37,838 Total number of pro bono hours in 2014: 44,271 What was the attorney headcount in your firm s U.S. offices? Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2013: 444 Number of attorneys as of December 31, 2014: 471 Using the number of attorneys listed above, what is the average number of pro bono hours per attorney in your firm s U.S. office(s) during the following years? Average number of hours per attorney in 2013: 85 Average number of hours per attorney in 2014: 94 What percentage of attorneys employed during 2013 and 2014 in your firm s U.S. office(s) did at least 20 hours of pro bono during that calendar year? Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2013: 71-80% Percentage of attorneys who did pro bono work in 2014: 71-80% SUPERVISION AND EVALUATIONS Is there partner supervision on all pro bono matters? 3

4 Do partner supervisors or, if applicable, senior associates provide written evaluations of associates work on pro bono matters? Are those evaluations taken into account in determining salary or bonuses?, they are taken into account when determining bonuses Are those evaluations taken into account in determining advancement within the firm? Is there a pro bono requirement at your firm? What is the requirement and to whom does it apply? Twenty hours per year for all lawyers in the firm. Does the firm give billable hour credit for pro bono work? N/A - The firm does not have a billable hours target Does the firm have a maximum number of pro bono hours that can be applied toward the billable hour target? N/A - The firm does not have a billable hours target Does the firm consider pro bono hours when determining bonuses? PRO BONO POINTS What training opportunities are open to associates working on pro bono matters? Many of the programs offer training, and the firm maintains an extensive library of training materials, which includes pro bono training. Average hours per summer associate spent on pro bono work 2013: : 31 Percentage of summer associates in your firm s U.S. office(s) engaged in pro bono work 2013: 88% 2014: 98% Please provide any additional information about pro bono opportunities available to summer associates. A number of specialized projects, including uncontested divorces, wills, family law, name changes, and special immigrant juvenile status work are available as well as many of the same opportunities offered associates. We make a special effort to include and indoctrinate summer associates in the pro bono ethic. Does the firm have established programs, such as externships, that enable its associates to work in a public interest setting? Please describe the established program(s) and their duration, if applicable. First year associates can participate in a 10-week fellowship at a pro bono program of their choosing. In 2014, a total of 45 associates, or half the class, participated in the program. Since its inception in 1990, nearly 400 associates have participated in Milbank s fellowship program donating nearly 200,000 hours. What other law-related public interest and community service programs (that are not pro bono as defined by the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge) do you offer and manage? For example, list any law school collaborations and public interest scholarships, auctions at law schools, monetary support, or fellowships. Milbank contributes money to various public interest programs, and encourages board service on legal aid boards, law teaching, bar association services and volunteer mediation and arbitration, for example. Does the firm offer the use of support staff in handling pro bono matters? Please indicate how many total hours and average hours per person your summer associates spent performing pro bono in 2013 and Total hours summer associates spent on pro bono work 2013: 1, : 1,465 What non-law related volunteer opportunities does your firm offer? For example, list any work with high school students and non-legal volunteerism for organizations like Habitat for Humanity. Milbank encourages participation in non-legal board service, mentoring, and high school mock trials, for example. The Firm also sponsors a volunteer day beautifying a park in the Bronx. Please list any special recognition or awards your firm has won since 2013 for its pro bono work. Milbank and its lawyers have been honored by a diverse group of programs such as HerJustice, Legal Services NYC, The Legal Aid Society, and The Urban Justice Center. Visit for company rankings, ratings and reviews to learn what it s really like to work in an industry or company and how to position yourself to land that job. 4

5 Please add any additional information about your firm s pro bono program. Milbank has a long and proud tradition of pro bono service. We have one of the oldest law firm pro bono programs in the country, and we are one of the few firms in the country to have both a full-time partner in charge of public service and an experienced attorney to coordinate pro bono. We are an early signatory to the American Bar Association s Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge, and every lawyer is encouraged to meet this 3 percent/60-hour standard, In addition, we require every domestic lawyer to do at least 20 hours of pro bono work per year. Milbank s public service department works closely with individual lawyers and departments to disseminate information about pro bono opportunities and coordinates training to prepare volunteers for the challenge. Milbank lawyers can either choose a pro bono opportunity developed by the public service department or they can suggest their own. We offer a first-year pro bono fellowship program, which enables incoming associates to spend 10 weeks working at a pro bono or legal services program of their choosing. In 2014, 45 incoming associates, half the class, took advantage of this unique opportunity, and since 1990, approximately 400 associates have participated in the program contributing nearly 200,000 hours. Some of our recent public interest work includes: Assisting clients with adoptions Representing battered women in divorce proceedings and child custody matters Protecting animals Helping form not-for-profits Assisting the elderly with wills 5

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. Albert Einstein At Sullivan & Cromwell, we have a long tradition of encouraging pro bono involvement by our lawyers