ANNUAL SERVANT of JUSTICE

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1 Welcome to the ANNUAL SERVANT of JUSTICE AWARDS DINNER 1331 H Street, NW Suite 350 Washington, DC (voice) (facsimile)

2 Skadden congratulates Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia on its achievements and its outstanding committment to the community and is proud to support the COVINGTON COVINGTON PrOudly supports legal aid society Of dc and The 2009 servant Of JusTICe awards dinner BeIJING Brussels london New york san diego we extend our congratulations to servant of Justice award recipients, Anthony Herman and Dean Kurt L. Schmoke, for their steadfast commitment to providing civil legal aid to those in need. 20th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner Congratulations to the 2009 Award Recipients Anthony Herman Dean Kurt L. Schmoke Julia Judish Housing Counseling Services san francisco silicon Valley washington Beijing Boston Brussels Chicago Frankfurt Hong Kong Houston London Los Angeles Moscow Munich New York Palo Alto Paris San Francisco São Paulo Shanghai Singapore Sydney Tokyo Toronto Vienna Washington, D.C. Wilmington

3 Now More Than Ever Legal Aid works to make justice real for persons living in poverty, providing counsel on matters related to domestic violence, family law, housing, public benefits and consumer law. Now more than ever, persons living in poverty need our assistance to avoid evictions, secure safety from domestic violence, access public benefits and more. Your support will ensure that we can continue providing these much-needed services. ANNUAL SERVANT of JUSTICE AWARDS DINNER Tuesday, April 21, :00 pm President s Reception 6:30 pm Opening Reception 7:30 pm Dinner, Awards Program and Dessert Reception JW Marriott Hotel 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC

4 program program President s Welcome Martin Klepper Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Executive Director s Remarks Jonathan M. Smith Partnership Award Presentation Honoring Housing Counseling Services Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence Presentation Honoring Julia Judish Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Barbara McDowell Tribute Julie Becker LEGAL AID SOCIETY David A. Reiser ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP Servant of Justice Award Presentation Honoring Anthony Herman Servant of Justice Award Presentation Honoring Dean Kurt L. Schmoke Howard University School of Law Dinner Closing Remarks Martin Klepper

5 sponsors sponsors Leaders of Justice Guardians of Justice Arent Fox LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP Exxon Mobil Corporation Hogan & Hartson LLP O Melveny & Myers LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Advocates of Justice Bingham McCutchen LLP Patton Boggs LLP Crowell & Moring LLP Dow Lohnes PLLC Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Ernst & Young LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Howrey LLP Jones Day Sidley Austin LLP and The Sidley Austin Foundation LexisNexis Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Defenders of Justice Stewards of Justice Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Mayer Brown LLP McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Arnold & Porter LLP BET Networks Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto Alston & Bird LLP Gilbert Oshinsky LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Bracewell & Giuliani LLP CB Richard Ellis Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B. Goodwin Procter LLP Kelley Drye & Warren LLP McDermott Will & Emery Miller & Chevalier Chartered Citi Private Bank Venable LLP Cooley Godward Kronish LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP Deloitte LLP Williams & Connolly LLP Drinker, Biddle & Reath LLP

6 Deborah Brand Baum Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Eric L. Bernthal Latham & Watkins LLP Donald B. Ayer Jones Day dinner c0-chairs Anne Coffey Proctor Leslie Smith Citi Private Bank dinner steering committee Christopher J. Herrling Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP The Servant ofjustice Awards David R. Berz Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Roger Clark Squire, Sanders & Dempsey LLP Donna Cooper Black Entertainment Television LLC Robert M. Cooper Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Lisa Duggan Williams & Connolly LLP Steven G. Forsyth Exxon Mobil Corporation Joyce Trimble Gwadz Dow Lohnes PLLC Rhonda Cunningham Holmes Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B. Daniel G. Jarcho McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Martin Klepper Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Timothy J. May Patton Boggs LLP Juliette Williams Pryor U.S. Food Service Kurt Richter CB Richard Ellis Mary Lou Soller Miller & Chevalier Chartered Each year since 1990, the Legal Aid Society has presented the Servant of Justice Award to individuals and organizations who have demonstrated faithful dedication and remarkable achievement in ensuring that all persons have equal and meaningful access to justice in the District of Columbia. Tonight s honorees and the past recipients have made the struggle for equal justice part of their personal and professional identities. They have demonstrated on a daily basis their commitment to and concern for the community of which they are a part. Please join us in expressing our gratitude for their life-long commitment to community service.

7 The Servant of Justice Award The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor Anthony Herman The Servant of Justice Award The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor Dean Kurt L. Schmoke Howard University School of Law A partner at Covington & Burling, Tony Herman s commitment to civil rights and anti-poverty work spans more than three decades, dating back to his college years. Prior to law school, Mr. Herman worked full time for anti-war and antipoverty organizations, and was a full-time union organizer in the Deep South. Mr. Herman has continued to champion civil rights and anti-poverty causes as a lawyer. In 1991, he led a team at Covington to successfully challenge the District s cutback of Aid to Families with Dependent Children benefits to 67,000 recipients. In 1996, Mr. Herman represented the Fair Housing Council and an African American condominium owner who had been subjected to a constant stream of racial invective and physical threats including written threats of lynching by a white neighbor. The case settled with an injunction and a record-setting payment from the condominium association, and established the principle that a condominium association could be liable under the Fair Housing Act for failing to take appropriate steps to end racial harassment. More recently, Mr. Herman worked with the late Barbara McDowell and Legal Aid to obtain a contempt finding against a landlord, the landlord s law firm, and the founding partner of that firm, who ignored a court order and a DC Code provision designed to protect tenants against landlords who failed to pay their utility bills. Mr. Herman is currently lead class counsel in a constitutional challenge to the failure to provide adequate medical care to inmates at a privately owned prison in North Carolina housing mostly District prisoners. He also leads a team of Covington lawyers who represent the District s nearly 10,000 severely mentally ill residents in a 30 year quest in federal court to force the District to provide an adequate community-based mental health system. For nearly a decade, Mr. Herman has chaired Covington s Public Service Committee, which oversees the firm s preeminent pro bono program. He serves on the boards of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless and Bread for the City and as a trustee of the Washington Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Last year, he served as the honorary chair of Legal Aid s Associates Campaign. Mr. Herman graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School and clerked for the late Judge Irving Goldberg in the Fifth Circuit. He is a general commercial litigator and trial lawyer, is listed in Who s Who in American Law, Who s Who in the United States, and Who s Who in the World, and has been recognized as a leading trade secret litigator in The Legal 500. Dean Kurt L. Schmoke was appointed Dean of the Howard University School of Law on January 1, Dean Schmoke earned his undergraduate degree in history from Yale University. While at Yale he co-founded a child care center that has been in continuous operation as the Calvin Hill Day Care Center and Kindergarten since He pursued graduate studies on a Rhodes Scholarship at Oxford University and subsequently earned a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School. Dean Schmoke served as the mayor of Baltimore City for 12 years, from 1987 to 1999, and was the State s Attorney for Baltimore City from 1982 to During his tenure as mayor, Dean Schmoke initiated a number of programs in the areas of housing, education, public health and economic development. In 1992, President George H.W. Bush awarded him the national Literacy Award for his efforts to promote adult literacy, and in 1994 President Bill Clinton praised his programs to improve public housing and enhance community economic development. The Clinton Administration named Baltimore one of six cities to receive Empowerment Zone designation in Dean Schmoke s other public service includes his appointment as Assistant Director of the White House Domestic Policy Staff under President Jimmy Carter and service as an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Maryland. After completing three terms as Mayor of Baltimore, Dean Schmoke returned to the practice of law, first as a partner in the law firm of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr LLP. He became actively involved in the American Bar Association and the National Bar Association, serving a term as Chair of the ABA Council on Racial and Ethnic Justice. He has provided countless hours of pro bono legal services to charitable organizations, such as the Children s Health Forum, a non-profit group established to combat lead poisoning among our nation s youth. During his tenure as Dean of Howard Law School, Dean Schmoke has focused much of his attention on expanding the clinical law program to emphasize matters of environmental justice, fair housing and civil rights.

8 The Partnership Award The Partnership Award Legal Aid s Partnership Award was created to recognize significant collaborations between Legal Aid and non-legal organizations or individuals that directly increase our ability to serve our clients. This year we are excited to present the award to Housing Counseling Services. The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor Housing Counseling Services Housing Counseling Services (HCS) is the largest direct housing agency in the District. Founded in 1972, HCS provides comprehensive housing counseling, training, advocacy, technical assistance and housing opportunities for low and moderate-income homebuyers, homeowners and tenants to help them achieve successful living in healthy, safe and affordable homes. HCS also works with individuals and families to help them develop the skills, self-confidence and self-esteem necessary for successful living. Further, HCS works to build the individual and group capacity for economic, physical, and social development of homes, neighborhoods and communities. HCS takes a holistic approach to a family s needs for shelter, placing great emphasis on understanding fully the causes of a housing issue so as to devise the best strategy for achieving a long-term solution. Housing counselors not only provide basic counseling intervention but also offer technical assistance, client training and skills enhancement. Since its inception, HCS s direct counseling, training, technical assistance and advocacy has resulted in thousands of families being able to purchase their first homes; hundreds of mortgage and rental delinquencies being brought current; hundreds of families succeeding in bringing their homes up to housing code; and thousands of families spared homelessness. Through training, HCS has empowered thousands of individuals and families by teaching them how to prevent recurring problems and how to resolve problems when they arise. HCS has been an invaluable partner in Legal Aid s efforts to prevent evictions and homelessness and ensure safe, decent and affordable housing for the District s poor and low-income residents. The two organizations have collaborated to achieve a number of important housing victories over the years, including preserving affordable rent levels, fighting substandard housing conditions and challenging illegal condominium conversions. Legal Aid and HCS often work together to ensure that a client s housing needs are fully addressed, with Legal Aid providing legal assistance and representation and HCS providing counseling and technical assistance.

9 The Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence The Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence The Klepper Prize was created through the generosity of Martin and Arlene Klepper in order to recognize an attorney early in her or his career who has made a significant volunteer contribution to the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. This evening we present the Prize to an individual who has demonstrated a commitment to the mission of Legal Aid and has given substantial support to Legal Aid during the last several years. She has not only provided direct client services but has served as Legal Aid s ethics counsel and advised us on a range of organizational and employment issues, providing crucial support that has allowed Legal Aid to maintain its high caliber of legal work. The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia is proud to honor Julia Judish Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Julia Judish is a counsel at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP. Ms. Judish s practice covers all aspects of the employment relationship and includes both litigation and counseling. She advises on the full panoply of employment laws, investigates and resolves sensitive personnel issues, and conducts management training. She works with her clients to adopt best practices to ensure compliance and to address disputes before they develop into litigation. As litigation cannot always be avoided, Ms. Judish represents clients in mediation and arbitration proceedings, before the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, and in state and federal courts on both the trial court and appellate level. In addition to her employment law practice, Ms. Judish also advises on and litigates legal ethics issues. In 2001, Ms. Judish began working with the Legal Aid Society, initially advising on personnel policies. Since then her relationship with Legal Aid has expanded greatly. In addition to employment counseling, she is a regular intake volunteer, along with other Pillsbury attorneys. Ms. Judish also serves as outside ethics counsel to Legal Aid, advising on conflicts issues and conducting trainings on legal ethics issues for Legal Aid s attorneys and staff. While Legal Aid is one of her favorite clients, Ms. Judish also represents a number of other non-profit organizations on employment or legal ethics matters on a pro bono basis. Ms. Judish is a 1989 graduate of Swarthmore College. She has a master s degree in religious ethics from Brown University and graduated from Harvard Law School in 1996.

10 previous award recipients Servant of Justice Award 2008 Professor Richard L. Roe Georgetown University Law Center Seth P. Waxman Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 2007 E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr. Hogan & Hartson LLP Sidney White Rhyne 2006 Theodore A. Howard Wiley Rein LLP David A. Reiser Zuckerman Spaeder LLP 2005 Katherine S. Broderick Dean, University of the District of Columbia, David A. Clarke School of Law Andrew H. Marks Crowell & Moring LLP 2004 Lois G. Williams R. Sargent Shriver E. Clinton Bamberger, Jr. Edgar S. Cahn Jean Camper Cahn posthumously 2003 Peter J. Nickles The Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia 2002 Samuel F. Harahan Council for Court Excellence Douglas G. Robinson Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP 2001 Lynn E. Cunningham George Washington University Law School John E. Nolan Steptoe & Johnson LLP Charles F.C. Ruff, posthumously 2000 Patty Mullahy Fugere Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless Robert N. Weiner Arnold & Porter LLP 1999 Blossom Athey Eldon H. Crowell Crowell & Moring LLP 1998 Eric H. Holder, Jr. United States Department of Justice Francine Salzman Temko The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia 1997 Peter B. Edelman Georgetown University Law Center Timothy J. May Patton Boggs LLP 1996 R. Kenneth Mundy Robert L. Weinberg Williams & Connolly LLP 1995 Willie E. Cook, Jr. Neighborhood Legal Services Program David B. Isbell 1994 Charles T. Duncan Reid and Priest Stephen J. Pollak Shea & Gardner Janet Reno Attorney General of the United States 1993 Justice Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court of the United States Zona F. Hostetler O Toole, Rothwell, Nassau & Steinbach John H. Pickering Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 1992 Howard C. Westwood D.C. Legal Service Providers 1991 Augustus L. Palmer Howard University Barbara M. Rossotti Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 1990 Earl W. Kintner Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, LLP Charles A. Horsky Partnership Award 2008 Rhonique Shields-Harris, MD, MHA Children s National Medical Center Gloria WilderBrathwaite, MD, MPH CORE HEALTH Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence 2008 Melissa K. Bianchi Hogan & Hartson LLP

11 The Leadership Cabinet Annual Gift Recognition Program The Legal Aid Society created the Leadership Cabinet in order to recognize those donors each year that support the organization in significant ways. We are proud to recognize our Leadership Cabinet members as of April 10, 2009 for their generous support. Platinum Patron $75,000 & up District of Columbia Bar Foundation Gold Patron $50,000 $74,999 Bronze Patron $20,000 $29,999 Alston & Bird LLP Arent Fox LLP Consumer Health Foundation Gilbert Oshinsky LLP Jerry Hartman Latham & Watkins LLP Bronze Patron $10,000 $19,999 Bingham McCutchen LLP Crowell & Moring LLP Dickstein Shapiro LLP Dow Lohnes PLLC Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP Ernst & Young LLP Exxon Mobil Corporation Hogan & Hartson LLP Howrey LLP LexisNexis Miller & Chevalier Chartered The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Mayer Brown LLP McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Eugene & Agnes E. Meyer Foundation Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP O'Melveny & Myers LLP Patton Boggs LLP Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Shearman & Sterling LLP Sidley Austin LLP and The Sidley Austin Foundation Skadden Fellowship Foundation Steptoe & Johnson LLP Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Zuckerman Spaeder LLP Jones Day Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Silver Patron $30,000 $49,999 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP In addition to their generous financial contributions, the following firms loan an associate to Legal Aid on a full-time basis for 6-month rotations: Arnold & Porter LLP Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP

12 2008 Generous Associates Campaign Giving for Justice Generous associates throughout Washington, DC s legal community set another campaign record in 2008 by raising $780,000 from their colleagues and firms to support the Legal Aid Society. Legal Aid would like to recognize last year s Honorary Co-Chair: Anthony Herman We would also like to offer our heartfelt thanks to all of our Campaign Co-Chairs: Thomas G. Allen Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Wesley D. Bizzell Altria Corporate Services, Inc. Randall Brater Arent Fox LLP Janna Chesno Van Ness Feldman P.C. Thomas M. Henry, III Jones Day Alicia M. Hunt Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Kristin Keeling Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Stephanie Litos Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP 251+ attorneys Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP $61,606 Susan Ruge Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Vadim Schick Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Derek Y. Sugimura Gilbert Oshinsky LLP Ryan C. Tisch Crowell & Moring LLP Daniel Wendt Miller & Chevalier Chartered Kevin S. Willen Hogan & Hartson LLP Howard A. Wolf-Rodda Brown Rudnick LLP A spirit of friendly competition has long been the hallmark of the Generous Associates Campaign. The following are the topcontributing firms in each size category: attorneys Baker Botts L.L.P. $23, attorneys Williams & Connolly LLP $37, attorneys Mayer Brown LLP $22, attorneys Reed Smith LLP $13, attorneys Gilbert Oshinsky LLP $20,450

13 We are proud to be a supporter of The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia FORTUNE magazine ranked Alston & Bird as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For for the tenth year in a row. Atlanta Charlotte Dallas Los Angeles New York Research Triangle Silicon Valley Ventura County Washington, D.C.

14 Thank you for inspiring all of us. Gilbert Oshinsky LLP is privileged to join its Washington, DC colleagues in supporting the Legal Aid Society s important mission of providing legal access to justice in our nation s capital. Congratulations to Legal Aid and to each one of its dedicated employees and volunteers. Washington DC Los Angeles Austin gotofirm.com Abu Dhabi Barcelona Brussels Chicago Doha Dubai Frankfurt Hamburg Hong Kong London Los Angeles Madrid Milan Moscow Munich New Jersey New York Orange County Paris Rome San Diego San Francisco Shanghai Silicon Valley Singapore Tokyo Washington, D.C. Latham & Watkins is proud to support the 20th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner and congratulates the honorees We share the Legal Aid Society of D.C. s belief in equal justice for all. We are proud to have provided more than 1 million hours of pro bono legal services since 2000 alone to persons with limited means and nonprofit organizations that support equal justice.

15 Real justice Mayer Brown is pleased to support the Legal Aid Society and its mission of making justice a reality for the citizens of the District of Columbia. Americas Asia Europe WORKING TOGETHER FOR A BETTER COMMUNITY McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP is proud to support the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia

16 service We are proud to support the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and congratulate the 2009 Servant of Justice Award Recipients for their distinguished accomplishments We salute Legal Aid Society honorees Anthony Herman, Dean Kurt L. Schmoke, Housing Counseling Services and Julia Judish for their outstanding commitment to public service. wilmerhale.com 2009 Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr llp

17 MAKING JUSTICE MORE JUST. Arent Fox LLP supports the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia. Taking on the world s toughest energy challenges. Washington New York Los Angeles We are pleased to support the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia and its Servant of Justice Awards Dinner Hogan & Hartson is a proud supporter of the Michael E. Nannes and our Firm are proud to support The Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia LEGAL AID SOCIETY of the District of Columbia, and congratulates the 2009 Servant of Justice Award honorees. and its 20th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner Washington, DC New York Los Angeles dicksteinshapiro.com Hogan & Hartson LLP 1100 ATTORNEYS 27 OFFICES 12 COUNTRIES

18 thank you Pillsbury proudly supports the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia Congratulations to Julia Judish on receiving the Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence for her years of dedicated pro bono work and volunteer service to Legal Aid. Tonight s Servant of Justice Awards Dinner has been made possible by the generosity of Washington, DC s legal and business communities. Legal Aid is extremely grateful for their support. In addition, Legal Aid would like to thank those who contributed significant time, energy and services in-kind to make this evening such a success: Elissa Leonard Videographer Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Adedapo Ojo-Ade Graphic Designer, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP 2300 N Street, NW Washington, DC Reliable

19 give to legal aid pro bono Support Legal Aid Legal Aid raises the majority of its budget through private sources including law firms, attorneys, corporations, legal support professionals, and foundations. We particularly appreciate the generosity of Washington's legal community. There are many ways to support Legal Aid s effort to make justice real. Please consider contributing to one or more of the following campaigns: Generous Associates Campaign this summer Annual Appeal at the end of the year Servant of Justice Awards Dinner in 2010 Designate 8140 in the United Way Campaign or in the Combined Federal Campaign Planned Gift For more information about these options, please visit our website at or contact Gregg A. Kelley, Director of Development, by phone at (202) or at gkelley@legalaiddc.org. Pro Bono Referral Program Legal Aid s Pro Bono Referral Program refers cases to attorneys working in private law firms and government agencies. Pro bono attorneys expand Legal Aid s capacity to help individuals and families who we otherwise would have to turn away because of limited in-house resources. Legal Aid refers cases in the areas of housing/ landlord and tenant, child custody and child support, public benefits, and consumer law, as well as a limited number of appellate matters. The matters are screened by Legal Aid staff prior to referral. For each matter referred, an experienced Legal Aid staff attorney is assigned as a mentor to answer questions, provide sample pleadings, discuss relevant case law and strategy, and offer ongoing guidance as the case moves forward. If you would like more information about pro bono opportunities with Legal Aid, please contact Jodi Feldman, Director of Pro Bono and Intake Programs, by phone at (202) or at jfeldman@legalaiddc.org.

20 OFFICERS board of trustees M E M B E R S continued board of trustees Martin Klepper PRESIDENT Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Deborah Brand Baum Vice President Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Deanne M. Ottaviano Secretary Arent Fox LLP Theodore B. Stone Treasurer Ernst & Young LLP Joyce Trimble Gwadz Dow Lohnes PLLC Christopher J. Herrling Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP Rhonda Cunningham Holmes Chevy Chase Bank, F.S.B. Anthony T. Pierce Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Anne Coffey Proctor Juliette Williams Pryor U.S. Food Service MEMBERS Philip W. Horton Arnold & Porter LLP Michael Raibman Reed Smith LLP Audrey J. Anderson Hogan & Hartson LLP Donna Cooper Black Entertainment Television, Inc. Daniel G. Jarcho McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Kurt Richter CB Richard Ellis Donald B. Ayer Jones Day Robert Cooper Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP Barbara K. Kagan Steptoe & Johnson LLP Henry M. Rivera Wiley Rein LLP Eric L. Bernthal Latham & Watkins LLP David R. Berz Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP John DeQ. Briggs Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP Barbara B. Brown Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP Roger K. Clark Squire, Sanders & Dempsey L.L.P. Lisa M. Duggan Williams & Connolly LLP Jonathan M. Fee Alston & Bird LLP David Florin Crowell & Moring LLP Steven G. Forsyth Exxon Mobil Corporation Brenda P. Fuller Sodexo, Inc. Deborah D. Kennedy Dennis M. Kiefer Deloitte LLP Dionne C. Lomax Vinson & Elkins LLP Timothy J. May Patton Boggs LLP John M. Nannes Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP Mark W. Ryan Mayer Brown LLP Joseph M. Sellers Cohen, Milstein, Sellers & Toll, P.L.L.C. Anita B. Shelton Leslie K. Smith Citi Private Bank Mary Lou Soller Miller & Chevalier Chartered H. Guy Collier McDermott Will & Emery Scott D. Gilbert Gilbert Oshinsky LLP Michael E. Nannes Dickstein Shapiro LLP Mark A. Srere Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP Frank M. Conner DLA Piper David C. Goldberg Serco, Inc. Karl R. Pavlovic, PhD FTI Alon Vogel LexisNexis

21 the presidents council C. Stanley Dees McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP Michael S. Helfer Citigroup Michael J. Henke Vinson & Elkins LLP Stephen S. Hill Howrey LLP Caswell O. Hobbs Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP G. Philip Nowak Sidley Austin LLP Thomas C. Papson McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP S. White Rhyne Barbara M. Rossotti Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Robert N. Sayler Thomas Schattenfield Arent Fox LLP Daniel W. Toohey staff Theresa Anderson, Legal Administrative Assistant Eric Angel, Legal Director Rosanne Aviles, Staff Attorney Julie Becker, Senior Staff Attorney Matthew Bostick, Steptoe & Johnson Loaned Associate Gary Cunningham, Intake Coordinator & Investigator Jodi Feldman, Director of Pro Bono and Intake Programs Yaida Ford, Staff Attorney Valerie Grab, Staff Attorney Beth Mellen Harrison, Project Director/Senior Staff Attorney Jennifer Hatton, Staff Attorney Katherine Hays, Chief Operations Officer Jeannette Henderson, Administrative Assistant Deborah Cuevas Hill, Staff Attorney Shirley Horng, Staff Attorney Gregg A. Kelley, Director of Development Julianna Lee, Staff Attorney Amalia Luxardo, Intake Coordinator/Investigator Jennifer Mezey, Supervising Attorney Trisha M. Monroe, Project Director/Senior Staff Attorney Robin Murphy, Supervising Attorney Lucy Newton, Project Director/Senior Staff Attorney Andrew Patterson, Staff Attorney Sandra Read-Brown, Development Associate Lucia Rich, Legal Administrative Assistant Patricia Roulhac, Legal Secretary Christopher Smith, Staff Attorney Jonathan M. Smith, Executive Director James van R. Springer, Volunteer Staff Attorney David Steib, Skadden Fellow Alessandro Terenzoni, Staff Attorney Tianna Terry, Liman Fellow Stephanie Troyer, Staff Attorney Wendy Weinberg, Supervising Attorney Brian Wildstein, Arnold & Porter Loaned Associate Peter G. Wilson, Staff Attorney Elizabeth Yates, Legal Administrative Assistant

22 in memoriam Barbara McDowell Barbara McDowell, the Director of the Appellate Advocacy Program for the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, died Friday, January 2, Barbara was the founding director of the Legal Aid Appellate Advocacy Program. She took the project from an idea to become the leading anti-poverty voice in the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. She handled a broad range of cases that developed important decisional law for families, individuals and communities living in poverty, with many having national significance. Barbara was an advocate of extraordinary talent. She believed deeply that she could make a difference in ending poverty and inequality and used every case as an opportunity to do just that. In her honor, we have renamed the program The Barbara McDowell Appellate Advocacy Program. Additionally, The Barbara McDowell Endowment for Appellate Litigation has been established by her family and Legal Aid to honor her amazing work and dedication. Barbara was many things to us at Legal Aid colleague, friend, teacher, mentor. We will miss her deeply.