Raising the. Appleseed presents PRO BONO BAR. Thursday, October 8, 2009 Harman Center for the Arts Washington, DC

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1 Appleseed presents Raising the PRO BONO BAR Thursday, October 8, 2009 Harman Center for the Arts Washington, DC

2 Sponsors * Leadership Council Members contribute at least $20,000 a year for three years LEADERSHIP COUNCIL Arent Fox Cahill Gordon & Reindel DLA Piper US FTI Consulting, Inc. Jones Day Kirkland & Ellis LexisNexis Mayer Brown Millennium Partners Morrison & Foerster O Melveny & Myers Sidley Austin Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Sullivan & Cromwell Weil, Gotshal & Manges UNDERWRITER Western Union PRO BONO LEADERS Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Arent Fox Latham & Watkins Morrison & Foerster Foundation NETWORK BUILDERS Jenner & Block Jones Day King & Spalding LexisNexis Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison Sidley Austin Foundation Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom SOCIAL JUSTICE ADVOCATES Larry and Melanie Nussdorf Williams & Connolly APPLESEED SUPPORTERS DuPont Goldberg Kohn Holland & Knight Hunton & Williams Kelley Drye & Warren Kirkland & Ellis McGuireWoods Paul Hastings Polsinelli Shughart Proskauer Rose Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton Shook, Hardy & Bacon Wachovia, a Wells Fargo Company Wiley Rein ASSOCIATES Sara J. Cavendish-Windward Asset Management Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca Mitchell and Monica Dolin Dow Lohnes Drinker Biddle & Reath Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson Rachel Jacobson & Eric Olsen Robert Kaplan-Kaplan Fox & Kilsheimer Ed Levin & Margot Aronson Levin Bob & Jane Loeffler Robert L. Mallett Patrick Malone & Associates Herb Milstein Ralph and Helen Petersberger Reed Smith Lowenstein Sandler Amy Schwartz & Eric Koenig Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal Arne and Ruth Sorenson Steptoe & Johnson Washington Express WilmerHale FRIENDS W. Lincoln Boyden Diana Daniels Bert Edwards Scott Enright Dr. Amitai Etzioni Ted and Elisa Geier Justice and Marty Ginsburg Bill and Linda Goldman Hogan & Hartson Chad and Michelle Johnson Dr. John Johnson Mark and Anastasia Joelson Ann Kappler William Katz Andrea LaRue Daniel M. and Claudia D. Lewis Kent Morrison Donal O Connell and Kathy Fierra Bill Price David E. Rogers Victoria Rollins Steven & Evelyn Schulman Meredith Senter William and Rebecca Senhauser Edward Schwartz Robert and Carol Swegle Paul H. Tobias James Weil and Judy Waxman Steve Wells and Jane Wilson Christopher Wright

3 Appleseed presents Raising the PRO BONO BAR EMCEE Eleanor Clift, Contributing Editor at Newsweek APPLESEED SPECIAL GUEST Award Presentations Closing Betsy Cavendish, Executive Director, National Appleseed Mark Russell, Political Humorist Jim Rogers, Appleseed Co-Chair, Partner at Latham & Watkins Steve Schulman, Pro Bono Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Latham & Watkins The Raben Group TBA, Appleseed Board Member

4 Speaker Biographies Eleanor Clift Contributing Editor at Newsweek Emcee Eleanor Clift became a contributing editor at Newsweek in September She writes on the Washington power structure, the influence of women in politics and other issues. She is currently assigned to follow the jockeying over policy and politics in the new age of Obama. Clift brings her perspective to analyze whether our political leaders are capable of seizing the moment, and what the impact will be of a new politically engaged population. Her column, Capitol Letter, is posted each Friday on Newsweek.com. Formerly Newsweek s White House correspondent, Clift also served as congressional and political correspondent for six years. During her career, she covered the campaigns of Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton as well as the Iran-Contra scandal, which tarnished the Reagan White House. In June 1992 she was named deputy Washington bureau chief. Clift began her career as a secretary to Newsweek s National Affairs editor in New York. She was one of the first women at the magazine to move from secretary to reporter. Clift is a regular panelist on the syndicated talk show, The McLaughlin Group. She wrote two books together with her late husband, Tom Brazaitis, War Without Bloodshed: The Art of Politics and Madam President: Shattering the Last Glass Ceiling. Other books include Founding Sisters and Two Weeks of Life: A Memoir of Love, Death and Politics. Clift was a member of the Newsweek reporting team that contributed to A Long Time Coming, written by Evan Thomas. She lives in Washington, D.C. where she is on the board of the International Women s Media Foundation, the Center for Politics and Journalism, and the National Hospice Foundation. Appleseed

5 Mark Russell Political Humorist Whenever Mark Russell is down in the dumps, he opens the newspaper and immediately cheers up. Practically everything he sees strikes him as funny. Some days he says, the jokes jump off the pages and write themselves. Mark plays off the day s headlines, performing stand-up comedy while accompanying himself on the piano. He spent 30 years on public television as host of the Mark Russell Comedy Specials, which were consistently among the top-rated shows on that network. With impeccable timing, twinkling eyes and shock-of-recognition insights into American politics, he draws merriment from the pomposity of public life. Today his syndicated column is enjoyed all over America, as are his CDs, tapes and videos. Mark Russell is on the road most of the year performing at colleges, conventions and in theaters. And just recently he has added lyricist and song writer to his portfolio for a new children s musical, Teddy Roosevelt and the Treasure of Ursa Major which premiered in 2006 at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Mark and Tom Isbell are currently working on Teddy Roosevelt and the Ghostly Mistletoe with Mark again writing the songs. It, too, will premiere at the Kennedy Center this December. He still lives in Washington, DC with his wife, Alison. He is the father of three and the grandfather of seven. And his answer to the frequently asked question, Do you have any writers? is Oh, yes...i have 535 writers. One hundred in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives. Raising the Pro Bono Bar

6 Speaker Biographies Betsy Cavendish National Appleseed, Executive Director Betsy Cavendish joined Appleseed in March 2007 as executive director. At Appleseed, she directs the national staff, coordinates its programs, and promotes pro bono service to remedy tough structural problems that block access to justice, education and opportunity. She provides support and coordination for Appleseed s network of 16 public interest justice Centers in the United States and Mexico. Before coming to Appleseed she served as interim president of another non-profit with a nationwide affiliate network, NARAL Pro-Choice America, where she also held the positions of vice president, general counsel and legal director. Ms. Cavendish has 25 years of experience in public service, including work in all three branches of government and in academia. She worked for several years at the U.S. Department of Justice and fought fraud as a trial attorney in the Civil Division. She was an assistant professor at the University of Illinois, College of Law, teaching in various areas of public law. Following her graduation from Yale University and Yale Law School, she clerked for The Honorable Gerhard A. Gesell during the trial of Oliver L. North. In addition to volunteering for local environmental groups and her children s school and sports teams, she serves on the Board of Directors of the Alliance for Justice and has served on the boards of several other nonprofit organizations. Appleseed

7 Jim Rogers Appleseed Co-Chair, Partner at Latham & Watkins James F. Rogers is a corporate partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Latham & Watkins, where he heads the firm s Mid- Atlantic Emerging Companies Practice Group. Mr. Rogers has a broad-based practice, counseling clients across a variety of legal and business issues, including private and public mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnerships and joint ventures, equity and debt financings, labor and benefits, government licensing and contracting, and public policy, regulatory, and disclosure matters. His practice has a focus on technologyoriented companies (including communications, information technology, biotechnology, and clean technology) and has also included traditional industries such as restaurants, consumer products, real estate and professional services. Mr. Rogers serves as co-chair of the board of directors of Appleseed and he previously served as president of the D.C. Preservation League. He serves as a member of the National Venture Capital Association s Model Document Working Group and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Mid-Atlantic Venture Association s Capital Connection. He received his BA from Yale University, his MPA from Princeton, and his JD from Columbia University. After law school, he clerked for The Honorable Charles Clark and for The Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Raising the Pro Bono Bar

8 Speaker Biographies Steve Schulman Pro Bono Partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Steven H. Schulman leads Akin Gump s pro bono practice worldwide. Since joining the firm in 2006, he has substantially increased participation in the pro bono practice, with Akin Gump lawyers now devoting an average of more than 85 hours annually to pro bono client matters. Mr. Schulman will also run the Washington Office Pro Bono Scholars Summer Program, a program to identify and develop the firm s next generation of pro bono leaders. While at a previous firm, he developed and implemented that firm s signature Child Refugee Project, assisting unaccompanied alien children in the United States through individual representation, legislative advocacy and systemic reform. As a result of this project, thousands of children were moved from detention to foster care. Mr. Schulman maintains a substantive practice in many areas of public interest law, including human rights, immigration, assistance to military personnel and poverty law matters. He has handled dozens of asylum and other immigration cases and also has extensive experience in antitrust and white collar criminal matters. Mr. Schulman received his B.A. cum laude in 1989 from Brandeis University and his J.D. cum laude in 1994 from the Northwestern University School of Law. He is a member of the Washington Council of Human Rights First, the legal advisory board of the Capital Area Immigrant Rights Coalition and the board of directors of Buildable Hours, a law firm partnership with Habitat for Humanity. He has also served as co-chair of the ABA Section of Litigation Pro Bono and Public Interest Litigation Committee ( ) and on the ABA Commission on Immigration ( ). Mr. Schulman is an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches a seminar on law firms and pro bono practice. Appleseed

9 Latham & Watkins Latham & Watkins is a full-service international powerhouse with approximately 2,000 attorneys in 27 offices around the world. The founders of Latham & Watkins instilled an ethic of hard work, commitment and quality that flourishes today and has nurtured the firm s dramatic growth into one of the world s premier business law firms. With that growth, we have built internationally recognized practices in a wide spectrum of transactional, litigation, corporate and regulatory areas. We have also received praise for our innovative approach to law firm management and for our pro bono work both on a local and global scale. Our dedication to pro bono work is a source of pride and reflects a fundamental part of our firm s culture. The Raben Group The Raben Group is a full-service strategic planning and public policy firm dedicated to serving our clients with passion, intelligence, integrity, and a sense of humor. We believe that the best approach to public policy challenges is to understand them from the ground up, carefully considering our clients, their environment, and the audiences our clients must reach in order to fulfill their mission. We combine inside the Beltway experience, insight and access with an outside the Beltway approach to creativity and implementation to achieve our clients objectives in the real world. Raising the Pro Bono Bar

10 Appleseed wishes to thank and recognize lawyers who Kevin Agnew Mary R. Alexander Lilly Altshuler Angela Angelovska-Wilson Santosh S. Aravind Monica Y. Awadalla John C. Ayres James S. Ballenger Edo Banach James R. Barrett Joel C. Beauvais Heather E. Blanco Esther W.B. Bleicher Rebecca N. Brandt Teneille R. Brown Ethan J. Brown Kegan A. Brown Donna M. Bunbury Kendall C. Burman Michelle L. Carpenter Mitzi Chang Viravyne Chhim Julie Ann Cilia Ann Claassen David E. Coe Brett Collins Mark A. Covey Sean P. Coyle Brandon K. Crase Dennis G. Craythorn Kira S. Dabby Amanda L. Devereux Matthew C. Dewitz Delavan J. Dickson Lindsay B. Ditto Amy S. Donovan Patricia A. Eberwine Michael E. Elisofon Mikhail I. Eydelman John M. Falzone Maria A. Fehretdinov Ian P. Fitzgerald Heather Foran Douglas A. Freedman Erica Galos WM. Andrew H, Gantt, III Elissa J. Germaine Natasha N. Gianvecchio John Giouroukakis Daniel W. Glad Seth R. Goldstein Julio C. Gomez Christopher D. Grogan James B. Haas Melissa R.H. Hall Gregory R. Hallmark Marc P. Hanrahan Amos Hartson Robert E. L. Hasty Jennifer A. Hein Catherine M. Henderson Bruce P. Howard Eric M. Husketh Jennifer R. Jaffe Shaohui Jiang David A. Jones Amjad M. Khan Julian Y. Kim Elliott M. Klass Elizabeth J. Klein Jason A. Kolbe Alan E. Kraus Elizabeth A. Kronk Stuart S. Kurlander Jeanye Kwack Daniel W. Lageman Appleseed

11 gave their time pro bono while at Latham & Watkins Garth E. Lagerway Nicholas A. Lambrecht Dennis D. Lamont Elizabeth B. Lamzaki Jill A. Lavacchia Jennie C. Lin Edward S. Livingston Garret S. Long Benjamin S. Longlet James Lynch Robert Lynch Rebecca L. Malcolm Travis H. Mallen Jessica Mathewson Sapna A. Mehta M. Cristina Melendez Andrew D. Morton Sarah R. Mullin Tanya C. Nair Roopa Nemi Claudia M. O Brien Amy L. Oliver Angela M. Olsen Ellen M. Padilla Matthew S. Parker Vinesh Patel Timothy Pitrelli Michael A. Ponzoli Matthew D. Pryor Jon M. Queen Halleh Rabizadeh Anne W. Robinson James F. Rogers Sean F. Rosario Melanie S. Rowen Katherine M. Russell Connie Sardo Michael R. Scalera Esther R. Scherb Michael I. Scherzer Janice M. Schneider Norma J. Schrock Daniel C. Scripps Syed Waqas Shahid Shari D. Shaw Annie E. Simpson Lyndsay D. Speece Patricia G. Stringel Justin S. Strochlic Kevin B. Tam Andrew S. Ting Jason M. Twining Shanaira Udwadia Courtney E. Vaudreuil Benjamin E. Vinocour Debra R. Volland Susan P. Welch Eric S. Westenberger Daniel J. Wolman Dennis K. Yai Megan N. Zini Raising the Pro Bono Bar

12 Appleseed Board of Directors Stephen Gates (Co-Chair), Mayer Brown James F. Rogers (Co-Chair), Latham & Watkins Natalia Delgado (Chair- Elect), Huron Consulting Group Malcolm C. Rich (Vice President), Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice Eric S. Koenig (Treasurer), Retired, Microsoft Corporation Alexis Rovzar (Secretary), White & Case Robert Mallett (Immediate Past Chair) Kevin Arquit, Simpson Thacher & Bartlett Evelyn Becker, O Melveny & Myers Julie Carpenter, Jenner & Block Stephen M. Cutler, JPMorgan Chase & Co. Maureen Del Duca, Marriott International Karin DeMasi, Cravath, Swaine & Moore David Douglass, Shook, Hardy & Bacon Jack Dunn, FTI Consulting Marc Fleischaker, Arent Fox Richard Godfrey, Kirkland & Ellis Willis J. Goldsmith, Jones Day Susan Haller, Sprint Nextel Barbara Harding, Kirkland & Ellis Eileen Hershenov, Consumers Union A. Stephen Hut, WilmerHale Richard Ketchum, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Antony Klapper, Reed Smith Robert Loeffler, Morrison & Foerster Paul Lovejoy, United Airlines William Lurye, AFL-CIO Timothy J. Mayopoulos, Fannie Mae Peter Mundheim, Stone Point Capital Steven Newborn, Weil Gotshal & Manges Melanie Nussdorf, Steptoe & Johnson Tai Park, Park & Jensen James Patton, Robert Half International Marianela Peralta, Littler Mendelson Elizabeth Rector, LexisNexis R. Bruce Rich, Weil, Gotshal & Manges J. Douglas Richards, Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll Thomas Sager, DuPont Legal Phillip Spector, Intelsat Kerry Sulkowicz, The Boswell Group Eliza Swann, Shearman & Sterling Ronald Tabak, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Andy Tomback, Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy Appleseed

13 Center Directors Jack Barnes, South Carolina Sowell Gray Stepp & Laffitte David Broderick, New Jersey McCarter & English Brannon J. Buck, Alabama Badham & Buck A. Stevens Clay, Georgia Kilpatrick Stockton Michael A. Collora, Massachusetts Dwyer & Collora Gary Epstein, Washington, DC SkyTerra Communications, Inc. Jack Focht, Kansas Foulston Siefkin Joe Goldberg, New Mexico Freedman Boyd Hollander Goldberg & Ives Harry Hardin, Louisiana Jones Walker Forrest N. Krutter, Nebraska Berkshire Hathaway Group Ron Lewis, Texas Marshall & Lewis Paula Littlewood, Washington Washington State Bar Association Carlos Ortiz Mena, Mexico Grupo Peñoles Charles F. Smith, Chicago Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom Arthur White, Connecticut Yankelovich Group Founding Directors Robert L. Bachner, Phillips Nizer Gail Erickson, Retired, W.R. Grace & Co. Robert E. Herzstein, Miller & Chevalier Edward M. Levin, Retired, Department of Commerce Richard J. Medalie (Chair Emeritus), Law Offices of Richard J. Medalie Ralph Nader, The Center for Study of Responsive Law Ralph I. Petersberger, Retired, McDermott Will & Emery Bertrand B. Pogrebin, Littler Mendelson Philip F. Zeidman, DLA Piper US Raising the Pro Bono Bar

14 Appleseed Centers Alabama Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Montgomery, AL Chicago Appleseed Fund for Justice Chicago, IL Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Stamford, CT DC Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Washington, DC Georgia Appleeed Center for Law and Justice Atlanta, GA Kansas Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Lawrence, KS Louisiana Appleseed New Orleans, LA Massachusetts Appleseed Center for Law and Justice Boston, MA Mexico Appleseed Mexico City, MX Nebraska Appleseed Center for Law in the Public Interest Lincoln, NE New Jersey Appleseed Public Interest Law Center Newark, NJ New Mexico Appleseed Albuquerque, NM New York City Office New York, NY South Carolina Appleseed Center for Legal Justice Columbia, SC Texas Appleseed Austin, TX Washington Appleseed Center Seattle, WA Appleseed

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16 Appleseed Raises the Pro Bono Bar Each year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants must defend their right to remain in the country. Swept up in an overburdened court system that is structurally unable to render fair and accurate decisions, these individuals face the direst of consequences: prolonged incarceration, permanent separation from family, or even removal to a country where persecution and death await. In response, Appleseed has embarked on a groundbreaking project to reform U.S. immigration courts, generating a comprehensive slate of recommendations to redress problems at all stages of the adjudicatory process. Based on countless hours of research and more than a hundred in-depth interviews with experts in the field, the report, Assembly Line Injustice, outlines Appleseed s strategy for ensuring accuracy, legitimacy and efficiency in a system that currently lacks critical resources and freedom from political bias. Appleseed s proposals stem from several core objectives: More immigration judges and support staff are needed to handle already excessive (and growing) caseloads. Procedural and administrative practices relating to translation, recordkeeping, videoconferencing, and the release of case files must be improved. Immigration courts must be depoliticized to remove the threat of systemic bias.

17 Immigrants must have better access to pro bono representation, and pro se defendants must be better informed of proper procedures. Now in the crucial advocacy stage, Appleseed, along with its pro bono partners at Latham & Watkins and Akin Gump, is presenting its findings and proposals to relevant government agencies, legislators, and like-minded organizations. Moving forward, Appleseed is applying its impressive network of partners and resources to ensure that immigration courts uphold the ideals of American justice. Raising the Pro Bono Bar

18 Appleseed Staff Betsy Cavendish Jose Arevalo Maggie Bertke Jeremy Cook Jennifer Ching Edwin C. Darden Meredith Barnes Driscoll Anna Figel Erica Henri Erin Herlihy Heather Jones Nakia P. Kelly Annette LoVoi Benet Magnuson Executive Director Controller Executive Assistant & Volunteer Coordinator Communications Associate Director of New York Office Director of Education & Law Policy Operations & Field Director Development Associate Development Director Deferred Associate Fellow Grants Manager Event Planner Director, Financial Access & Asset Building Program Kaufman-Skirnick Fellow, Financial Access & Asset Building Program Appleseed

19 Event Host Committee Patrick Campbell, Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison Willis Goldsmith, Jones Day Susan Haller, Sprint Nextel Ted Hester, King & Spalding R. Bruce McLean, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Raymond Lin, Latham & Watkins Bob Loeffler, Morrison & Foerster Elizabeth Rector, LexisNexis Barbara Span, Western Union Rebecca Troth, Sidley Austin Robert Sheehan, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom

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43 Congratulations to the Honorees: Jim Rogers Steve Schulman Latham & Watkins The Raben Group From your colleague and fellow Appleseed Board member Eileen B. Hershenov

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46 BUILDING STRONGER COMMUNITIES DLA Piper is proud to support DC Appleseed s Raising the Pro Bono Bar fundraising gala. We congratulate tonight s honorees. When it matters to our communities, it matters to us. DLA Piper LLP (US) Lisa Dewey, 500 8th Street, NW, Washington, DC Attorney Advertising

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