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2009 – 2010 ANNUAL REPORT
PARTNERING FOR JUSTICE
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. 2010–2011 Board of Directors
PresidentSamuel W. Seymour Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
ChairAustin T. Fragomen, Jr. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Vice PresidentsMichael J. Chepiga Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Barbara Berger Opotowsky New York City Bar
Wanji J. Walcott American Express
TreasurerDonald S. Bernstein Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Assistant TreasurerCarol S. Rosenbaum, C.P.A. New York City Bar
Secretary Mary K. Warren Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
General Counsel Alan Rothstein New York City Bar
DirectorsDavid J.B. Arroyo Scripps Networks
Nina M. Beattie Brune & Richard LLP
Alan J. Brudner Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Miriam A. Buhl Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Kwanza Butler Time Warner Inc.
Francis S. Chlapowski Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Hon. George B. Daniels U.S. District Court, SDNY
Cheryl R. David Law Office of Cheryl R. David
Michael B. de Leeuw Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Michael Delikat Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Jonathan N. Eisenberg UBS
Michele Hirshman Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Jay Holtmeier Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Conrad A. Johnson Columbia University School of Law
Edward S. Kornreich Proskauer Rose LLP
Ronald L. Marmer Jenner & Block LLP
Robin J.H. Maxwell Linklaters LLP
Hazel-Ann Mayers CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Sara E. Moss The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Hon. Juanita Bing Newton New York State Judicial Institute
Paul Schoeman Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Jeffrey Taylor Ernst & Young LLP
Barron M. Tenny The Ford Foundation
William Viets JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jim Walden Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Jane L. Wilton The New York Community Trust
Administration
Executive DirectorLynn M. Kelly
Managing AttorneyAlice Morey
Director of Pro Bono InitiativesCarol Bockner
Director of DevelopmentRebecca Nelson
Director of CommunicationsEric Friedman
Administrative AssistantDeidre Smith
The City Bar Justice Center’s mission is to increase access to justice by leveraging the resources of the New York City legal community. Drawing upon our relationship with the New York City Bar, the Justice Center provides legal assistance to those in need; mobilizes lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments, and other legal institutions to provide pro bono legal services; educates the public on legal issues; fosters strategic relationships; and impacts public policy.
Corporate Legal Departments
Academic Institutions
Law Firms
Legal Services & Nonprofit Organizations
Government Agencies Judiciary
City Bar FundIn addition to the City Bar Justice Center, the City Bar Fund supports the research, educational,
and public service activities of the following New York City Bar programs:
OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY
Created to affirm the commitment of New York City law firms and
corporate legal departments to diversity goals that have specific
time targets and milestones, the Office for Diversity annually tracks
the progress of its 126 signatories to the Association’s
Statement of Diversity Principles, which it adopted in 2003. The
Office designs programs that foster a more diverse and inclusive
legal profession, such as the Annual Diversity Champion Award,
which recognizes individuals who initiate and sustain change within
their organizations and the New York legal community.
NEW YORK CITY LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The Lawyers Assistance Program provides free, confidential
assistance to attorneys, judges, law students, and their families
who are experiencing problems with alcohol, drugs, depression,
and stress, as well as other addictions and mental health issues.
Evaluation, intervention, referral, outreach, and education is
provided by professional staff and peer support based on the
concept of “lawyers helping lawyers.”
CYRUS R. VANCE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Working with law firms, bar associations, educational institutions,
and NGOs around the globe, the Vance Center seeks to expand
access to justice in young democracies and developing economies.
Collaborating across borders, the Center’s ongoing work includes
recruiting and supporting volunteer lawyers to work on interna-
tional public interest projects; creating a network of justice reform
advocates in Africa and Latin America; and building VanceNet.org,
a web-based, global community of advocates to promote access to
social justice.
AWARDS
• Jeremy G. Epstein Award, recognizing outstanding
volunteer attorneys with the City Bar Justice Center’s
pro bono programs.
• Bernard Botein Medal, recognizing employees of the
courts of the First Judicial Department
• Legal Services Award, honoring lawyers providing
full-time, pro bono legal services to the needy
• Municipal Affairs Award, recognizing outstanding
young lawyers in the New York City Law Department
• Henry L. Stimson Award, recognizing Assistant U.S.
Attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of
New York
• Kathryn A. McDonald Award, for service to the New
York City Family Court
• Thomas E. Dewey Award, recognizing outstanding
Assistant District Attorneys in each of the five boroughs
and in the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office
LECTURES
• Milton Handler Antitrust Review, Herman Goldman and
Mortimer H. Hess Lectures on trusts, estates, and taxation
• Leslie H. Arps, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Hon. George Bundy Smith,
Barbara Paul Robinson, and Orison S. Marden Lectures
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women
and the Law
“Thank you for the risk you took to advocate
on my behalf in what I consider was the most
difficult period of my life. Yet I never doubted
that your organization would succeed even
though there were no guarantees. My son and
I are enjoying our home and our peace thanks
to your program.” —Client
On April 5th, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (right) delivered the annual Leslie H. Arps Lecture at the City Bar. Over 500 attendees listened to her address on the importance of judicial independ-ence and civic education. Pictured with Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge, NYS Court of Appeals.
October 2010
Dear Friends, When the Haitian earthquake struck in January of this year, the City Bar
Justice Center put out the call for pro bono volunteers, and within 24
hours over 150 attorneys volunteered to staff a large-scale legal clinic
to help Haitians in New York City apply for Temporary Protected Status.
The City Bar Justice Center specializes in both innovative pro bono projects
designed to mobilize pro bono lawyers to meet the emerging issues of
our time and long-term projects in areas of persistent need, such as asylum,
homelessness, consumer debt and bankruptcy, domestic violence, and
trafficking. Pro bono efforts such as our entrepreneur project and our
life planning project present opportunities for non-litigators to take on
transactional work and address areas of unmet legal needs.
The Justice Center’s Legal Hotline exemplifies our efforts to make it easy for hundreds of low-income
callers each month to access fast, simple legal advice when appropriate as well as referrals. Our projects
also reach many more needy New Yorkers with education and materials in partnership with effective
community organizations. The Justice Center’s strong relationship with the New York City Bar allows us to
mobilize all segments of the profession, from law firms and corporate legal departments to government
offices, non-profits, and law schools. Together we can represent low-income clients in need, educate the
public on important legal issues of the day, foster strategic relationships, and impact public policy.
In the spirit of our theme for this year, “Partnering for Justice,” we thank you for supporting our work
over the past year. During this recession, the City Bar Justice Center has been able to persevere in our
work to increase access to justice, and we’ve enjoyed some considerable successes. With your help, our
projects have addressed the challenges of our time, and we look forward to building new partnerships
in the future.
Sincerely,
Samuel W. Seymour Barbara Berger Opotowsky Austin T. Fragomen, Jr. Lynn M. Kelly President Vice President Chair Executive Director, Justice Center
Immigrant Women and Children Project Ms. G is a Jamaican immigrant who was the victim of a violent assault and assisted with the investigation and prosecution of the crime. The Justice Center matched her with a pro bono attorney who helped her obtain her U Visa. The volunteer also advocated for months with the U.S. embassy in Jamaica to get appointments for her two children to receive their visas, and they have finally reunited with their mother in the U.S. after eight years of separation. The volunteer is now working with all the family members to extend their status and help Ms. G obtain her green card.
SUCCESSES
Neighborhood Entrepreneur
Law Project hosts 10 Spring
clinics for 144 low-income
microentrepreneurs with
community partners. Law
firms partner with corporate
legal departments to assist
New Yorkers with a dream.
Justice Center partners
with Civil Court on
successful pilot of Lawyer
for a Day Project in
Housing Court, assisting
178 clients this year.
Justice Center hosts eight
training sessions for deferred
associates assisting NYC
nonprofit and government
law offices.
Legal Clinic for the Homeless
successfully advocates for
increase in carfare allowance,
which enables homeless
families to search for perma-
nent housing, benefitting
thousands of families in
the shelter system.
Pro bono volunteer
successfully battles insurer
on behalf of breast cancer
patient denied coverage
for life-saving surgery on
the basis of “pre-existing
condition.” Patient’s success
story was detailed in The
New York Times “Neediest
Cases” section.
Inaugural Jeremy G.
Epstein Awards are
presented to 10
outstanding Justice
Center volunteers at
luncheon in connection
with the National
Celebration of Pro
Bono Service.
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When Mr. Z, a Vietnam War veteran and father of two, came to the Veterans Assistance Project in December 2009, he was only rated at 10% disability for PTSD. Having experienced a worsening of his symptoms, he spoke with a volunteer attorney about his options to receive additional compensation. Less than a year later, his attorney’s advocacy on his behalf resulted in raising his PTSD rating to 50%, a finding of 100% unemployability, and a grant of basic eligibility for Dependents’ Education Assistance. Mr. Z will now receive a monthly award of $2,823, effective back to the date when the claim was filed.
Veterans Assistance Project
Partnering for Pro Bono Across New York City
SUCCESSES
NYC Know Your Rights
Project is featured on the
front page of The New York
Times when Justice Center
issues report finding over
one-third of immigrant
detainees have a legal
claim but no lawyer.
NO
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Within 24 hours following
devastating earthquake,
Justice Center recruits
150 attorneys to assist
Haitians in NYC to apply
for Temporary Protected
Status. 83 Haitians are helped
at clinic held at City Bar.
JAN
UA
RY
Justice Center creates
Consumer Bankruptcy
clinics to address increased
need and trains 50 new
volunteers who will
participate at 15 clinics,
cutting waiting list in half.
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Victories begin to come in
on veterans’ disability cases.
Justice Center has trained
over 400 attorneys from 67
law firms to help veterans
pursue disability claims.
Legal Hotline receives
increasing number of
requests for assistance with
consumer cases, including
foreclosure and debt relief.
DE
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Justice Center convenes
roundtable for immigration
advocates with Department
of Homeland Security
Assistant Secretary John
Morton. Topics include the
closing of the Varick Federal
Detention Facility.
FEB
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Over 600 members of the
legal community attend
the Justice Center’s Fifth
Annual Gala to support our
pro bono efforts. JPMorgan
Chase & Co. and Paul,
Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison receive the City
Bar Justice Award recogniz-
ing their leadership and
dedication to public service.
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City Bar Justice Center Projects at a GlanceThe City Bar Justice Center’s projects are focused in three areas: economic
justice, immigrant justice, and access to justice initiatives. The projects,
complemented by a high-volume legal hotline and a pro bono program
development clearinghouse, address the unmet needs for civil legal services
in New York City. The Justice Center continues to adapt dynamically to the
city’s evolving legal landscape, evidenced by the creation of a Foreclosure
Project in response to the nationwide mortgage crisis. Our model is efficient
and effective: projects are developed and overseen by an experienced legal
expert, coordinated by a dedicated staff member, and delivered through
pro bono volunteer lawyers and community outreach.
ECONOMIC JUSTICE
The Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law
Project provides legal assistance to low-
income microentrepreneurs in the initial
stages of structuring a company or
strengthening an existing business.
The Consumer Bankruptcy Project is
one of only two pro bono bankruptcy
projects in New York City providing legal
assistance to low-income consumers with
outstanding debts, assisting debtors filing
pro se bankruptcy petitions, and providing
pro bono representation to debtors in
contested matters.
The Elderlaw Project maintains the dignity
and independence of elderly people by
training pro bono attorneys who counsel and
represent seniors in a variety of legal areas.
The Cancer Advocacy Project provides
cancer patients, survivors, and their families
with legal information and pro bono legal
assistance on issues relating to discrimination
in the workplace, health law, insurance
issues, access to public benefits, advance
directives, and wills.
The Foreclosure Project includes the
Lawyers Foreclosure Intervention Network,
co-sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, and additional efforts supported
by the New York State Banking Department
and New York State Housing Trust Fund
Corporation. We recruit, train, and mentor
pro bono attorneys to assist distressed
homeowners in an effort to preserve homes
and minimize damage to creditworthiness.
The Legal Clinic for the Homeless
provides advice, advocacy, and represen-
tation to residents of homeless shelters on a
variety of matters related to public benefits.
The Project sponsors legal clinics at homeless
shelters, with services provided by a partner-
ing law firm or corporate legal department.
The Veterans Assistance Project recruits,
trains, and mentors volunteer attorneys to
provide pro bono assistance to veterans in
connection with the filing of disability benefit
claims before the New York Regional Office
of the Veterans Administration.
IMMIGRANT JUSTICE
The Immigrant Women and Children
Project assists survivors of violence, abuse,
and human trafficking in legalizing their
immigration status. Project staff also trains
law enforcement, community-based
organizations, and NGOs about the legal
remedies available to these crime victims.
The Refugee Assistance Project represents
individuals who have suffered torture and
other forms of persecution in their home
countries and who are seeking asylum in the
U.S. The project also assists with filing relative
petitions and obtaining asylum-related
benefits such as employment authorization,
refugee travel documents, and green cards.
The Immigrant Outreach Project is a
collaboration of the Justice Center and
community-based organizations, including
the South Queens Boys and Girls Club and
Children’s Aid Society. The project provides
accurate information about immigrant rights
and options, as well as assistance in the
preparation of naturalization applications.
The NYC Know Your Rights Project is
a partnership between the Justice Center,
The Legal Aid Society, American Immigration
Lawyers Association, and the private bar
that provides advice and legal information
to immigrant detainees.
ACCESS TO JUSTICE INNOVATIONS
The Legal Hotline is the largest free general
civil legal hotline in New York City, providing
assistance to low- and moderate-income
callers on a variety of legal issues.
The City Bar Public Service Network
serves as a clearinghouse for pro bono
opportunities throughout New York City
and develops innovative legal and non-legal
volunteer placements for attorneys.
“We are here too short a time not to do some justice when we can…” —Justice Center Volunteer
Financial StatementAssociation of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc.
April 30, 2010
Assets
Cash and Cash Equivalents
Investments at Fair Market Value
Pledges Receivable
Accounts Receivable and Current Assets
Library Books and Works of Art, at nominal value
Property and Equipment (net)
Total Assets
Liabilities and Fund Balances
Accounts Payable and Accrued Expenses
Fund Balances
Total Liabilities and Fund Balances
Sources of Operating Support Expenses by Function
04/30/10 04/30/09
40% Corporate & Law Firms
17% Government
16% Foundations & Trusts
17% Individuals
4% Bar Association Support6% Donated Services
78%Legal Services
14% Education & Research
3% General & Administrative
5% Fundraising
$ 807,782
4,430,946
356,450
33,599
1
21,007
$ 5,649,785
$ 138,536
5,511,249
$ 5,649,785
$ 571,108
3,596,757
804,208
31,800
1
30,964
$ 5,034,838
$ 278,438
4,756,400
$ 5,034,838
City Bar Fund SupportersMay 1, 2009 to April 20, 2010
Thank you for your partnership and generosity!
The City Bar Fund is deeply grateful to all of our partners for your generous support. Although we strive to ensure the accuracy of these lists, errors may still occur. If you find an error, please accept our apologies and contact us at 212.382.6661 so we may correct it.
INDIVIDUALS
$50,000 and Above
Anonymous
Amy K. Epstein
Robert M. Kaufman
$25,000 – $49,999
Austin T. Fragomen, Jr.
Grace Lyu-Volckhausen
$15,000 – $24,999
Patricia M. Hynes &
Roy L. Reardon
Samuel & Karen Seymour
Jane C. Sherburne
$10,000 – $14,999
S. Todd Crider
Edwin S. Maynard
Barbara Paul Robinson
Antonia Stolper
$5,000 – $9,999
Stuart H. Coleman
Evan A. Davis
Stephen Fishbein
Edward S. Kornreich
Eugene & Carol Ludwig
Taisa Markus
Bettina & Kenneth Plevan
$1,000 – $4,999
Peter T. Barbur
Helaine M. Barnett
Nina M. Beattie
Susan L. Bender
Donald S. Bernstein
Sheila L. Birnbaum
Charles W. Bradley
Louis J. Briskman
Robert E. Buckholz, Jr.
Michael A. Cardozo
Michael Joseph Chepiga
Denny Chin
Maria Cilenti & Michael Embler
Wayne D. Collins
Michael A. Cooper
Mark Geoffrey Cunha
Cheryl R. David
Frederick T. Davis
Jonathan N. Eisenberg
Robert B. Fiske, Jr.
Michael Fitzgerald
Beatrice S. Frank
Frances M. Friedman
Faith E. Gay
Jeffrey Gracer
Sean Hagan
Peter R. Haje
Michele Hirshman
Gregory P. Joseph
Yukako Kawata
John J. Kenney
Joel S. Klaperman
Ray & Sanford Klein
Alan W. Kornberg
Kenneth & Susan Kramer
Mei Lin Kwan-Gett
W. Jeffrey Lawrence
Susan B. Lindenauer
James & Nancy Lipscomb
Ronald L. Marmer
Patricia A. McGovern
Joseph T. McLaughlin
Cathleen McLaughlin
Barbara Mendelsohn
Daphna H. Mitchell
Mark C. Morril
Gary P. Naftalis
Lynn & Rob Neuner
Danforth Newcomb
Sidney S. Rosdeitcher
Eric & Laurie Roth
David A. Schulz
Felice K. Shea
John Sand Siffert
Kenneth Stein
Erica H. Steinberger
Audrey Strauss
Kathleen M. Sullivan
James P. Tallon
Takemi Ueno
George J. Wade
Wanji J. Walcott
Jim Walden
Mary K. Warren
Alan G. Weiler
Jane L. Wilton
Under $1,000
Jaculin Aaron
Stewart D. Aaron
Alton L. Abramowitz
Karen E. Abravanel
Howard J. Aibel
Roger L. Anderson
Eleanor S. Applewhaite
Abigail Arms
David J.B. Arroyo
Stuart J. Baskin
John E. Baumgardner, Jr.
Ron & Linda Bayer
Marshall Beil
Barry Berke
Laurie Berke-Weiss
Joel I. Berson
Victoria & Hank Bjorklund
James I. Black, III.
Janet L. Blakeman
Lawrence A. Blatte
Alan Gordon Brenner
Bill Brentani
Simeon Brinberg
David M. Brodsky
Ronald P. Brotherton
Alan J. Brudner
Evelyn Buckstein
Mara D. Byrne
Robert Carswell
Richard Cashman
Theresa Ann Cerezola
Mark A. Chertok
Francis Chlapowski
Cathleen A. Clements
Mahoney Cohen
Cynthia M. Cohen
Jason A. Cohen
Susan Michelle Cohen
Howard M. Cohen
Lewis G. Cole
Clare B. Connaughton
John P. Cooney, Jr.
Richard Bennett Cooper
Barry Cozier
Stephen G. Crane
Alice Welt Cunningham
Catherine Curry
Susan S. Danoff
George A. Davidson
Michael B. De Leeuw
William Dean
Robert G. DeLaMater
Joseph J. DiMona
Caroline R. Donhauser
William Dougherty
Margaret H. Douglas-Hamilton
Kevin Dowling
William M. Dreyer
Robert Dominick Duke
Karen Eckhoff
Matthew L. Eilenberg
Leonard Eisenberg
Betty Weinberg Ellerin
Sheldon H. Elsen
John Ericson & Jainee C. McCarroll
Robert Evans, III.
Jeff Facter
John D. Feerick
Ira M. Feinberg
Rorri Feinstein
Michael S. Feldberg
Patricia L. Feldman
Denise R. Fenton
Fred N. Fishman
Jerome S. Fortinsky
David L. Fox
Helen E. Freedman
Eric M. Freedman
Alan R. Friedman
Barry H. Garfinkel
Paula Gellman
Martha E. Gifford
Barbara S. Gillers
Morton David & Florence Goldberg
Jane R. Goldberg
Harvey J. Goldschmid
“Through my work at the City Bar Justice Center, I have
been given a rare opportunity to make a significant
difference in someone’s life.” —Justice Center Volunteer
Emily M. Gottlieb
Alan S. Goudiss
Bruce A. Green
Jonathan Greenblatt
Allan L. Gropper
John Gueli
Robert H. Haines
Melvyn H. Halper
Susan U. Halpern
Edward I. Handelman
Conrad K. Harper
Joan B. Heckerling
Alice H. Henkin
James D. Herschlein
Joseph C. Hill
Michael W. Hilliard
Adria S. Hillman
G. Malcolm Holderness
Sanford Holo
Richard R. Howe
Lawrence Iason
David W. Ichel
Steven L. Ingerman
Samuel W. Ingram, Jr.
Adeel Jamaluddin
Andrew Janszky
Conrad A. Johnson, III.
Meredith B. Jones
Patience E. Jones
Roberta Kalachman
Rhoda H. Karpatkin
Stephen Kass
Jay Kassis
Robert J. Katz
Beth L. Kaufman
Joseph Kaufman
Marjorie Kaye, Jr.
Doris Barbara Keeley
John Kerr
James Kerr
George A. Kirschenbaum
Philip L. Kirstein
Alan M. Klein
Phyllis A. Klein
Hilary Klein
Susan J. Kohlmann
Kerry Konrad
Russ Korins
Edna Berk Kuhn
Edward Labaton
Linda B. Lakhdhir
Elizabeth S. Landis
Nancy F. Lang
Sander Lehrer
Edwin Deane Leonard
Jack Lerner
Lucinda Lew
Muriel M. Liberto
Douglas S. Liebhafsky
Carol B. Liebman
Elisa Lim
Albert L. Lingelbach
Richard G. Liskov
Bonnell M. Lombardi
John Lombrano
Walter & Diana Looney
E. Nobles Lowe
Mitchell A. Lowenthal
Henry A. Lowet
Robert MacCrate
Edward F. Malone
Donald M. Manasse
Deborah Sari Mansfield
Daniel Markewich
Linda Martin
Stephen James Marzen
Andrea Masley
Deborah Masucci
Hazel-Ann Mayers
David E. McCraw
Edward T. McDermott
Cyrus D. Mehta
Esther Altaras Meyers
Jennifer M. Mone
Carlos M. Morales
Thomas H. Moreland
Robert H. Mundheim
Kathleen A. Murray
Kay C. Murray
Michael Mushlin
Juanita Bing Newton
Matthew Nimetz
Christina Nooney
Deborah & Philip Nord
Robert F. Nostramo
William O’Brien
Francesca Odell
Jeanne C. Olivier
James Bernard O’Neal
Barbara Berger Opotowsky
Richard E. Organisciak
Jeffrey D. Osterman
Wayne N. Outten
Vincent Pagano
Daniel Paretsky
Donna Parisi
Seth I. Perlman
Kerri-Ann Philp
John Pierce
Gerome R. Pinkins
Brian H. Polovoy
Bruce & Mary Prager
Robert M. Pyle, Jr.
Debra L. Raskin
Marc Rauch
Lorraine & Robert W. Reeder, III.
Glenn Reiter
Thomas Rice
Rosalyn Heather Richter
Lawrence Rivkin
Mordecai Rochlin
Kathy Hellenbrand Rocklen
William J. F. Roll, III.
Oren Root
Michael A. Ross
Stanley Rothenberg
Alan J. Rothstein
Ira I. Roxland
Cynthia B. Rubin
Mimi K. Rupp
William T. Russell, Jr.
Bradley K. Sabel
Catherine C. Samuels
Harold H. Saunders
Jess Saypoff
Lynn Hecht Schafran
Michael E. Schwab
Richard F. Schwed
Keith E. Secular
Eric A. Seiff
Steven P. Seltzer
James M. Shaughnessy
Margaret L. Shaw
Winthrop Allen Short
Shirley Adelson Siegel
Jacqueline W. Silbermann
Rhonda K. Singer
Jeffery Smith
Marjorie M. Smith
Michael R. Sonberg
Thomas E. Spath
David Spokony
Erik J. Stapper
Sidney H. Stein
Elizabeth S. Stong
Richard M. Strassberg
Claire Svetlik
Ronald J. Tabak
Flora Tartakovsky
Kimberly Tate-Brown
Jeremiah L. Thomas, III.
Ellen Fluhr Thomas
Janine M. Tramontana
Nora Jane Tronto
Ihenji Ugenyi
Melissa M. Urofsky
John Walker
Avrom S. Waxman
Henry Weisburg
Gregory Weiss
Susan J. Weiswasser
Carroll D. Welch
Thacher W. White
Judith Whiting & Arthur Baer
Merrie Faye Witkin
Eric Cooke Woglom
Michael Wolitzer
David Woll
Michael D. Young
Holly K. Youngwood
Edward F. Zagajeski
Mary Marsh Zulack
Foreclosure Project Mr. and Mrs. H worked hard to run their small family business, but it failed following a death in the family. They suffered a loss of income, and, unable to make the payments on their subprime mortgage, their home went into foreclosure. Mr. H then suffered a massive stroke. The Foreclosure Project assisted the family in obtaining a permanent HAMP modification of the first mortgage and obtained funds from The New York Times “Neediest Cases Fund” to completely pay off their second lien mortgage. As a result, Mr. and Mrs. H were able to keep the home, where they live with their two sons.
SUCCESSES
LAW FIRMS
$100,000 and Above
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen,
& Loewy LLP
$75,000 – $99,999
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
$50,000 – $74,999
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton &
Garrison LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
$25,000 – $49,999
Allen & Overy LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &
Jacobson LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
$15,000 – $24,999
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Jones Day
Linklaters LLP
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
$10,000 – $14,999
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Dechert LLP
DLA Piper US LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Gregory P. Joseph Law Offices LLC
Hughes Hubbard & Reed
Jenner & Block LLP
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kobre & Kim LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason,
Anello & Bohrer, P.C.
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Vladeck, Waldman, Elias &
Engelhard. P.C.
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale
and Dorr LLP
Under $10,000
Brune & Richard LLP
Cohen Hennessey Bienstock
& Rabin PC
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Hafetz Necheles & Rocco
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Jackson Lewis LLP
Kasowitz, Benson, Torres
& Friedman LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Labaton Sucharow LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Mayerson Stutman Abramowitz LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Menaker & Herrmann LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP
Outten & Golden LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Weiss, Buell & Bell
CORPORATIONS
$50,000 and Above
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
$25,000 – $49,999
Citigroup Inc.
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP
$15,000 – $24,999
MetLife, Inc.
News Corporation
The Goldman Sachs Group
Time Warner Inc.
$10,000 – $14,999
BNY Mellon
Colgate-Palmolive Company
Deloitte.
Marsh
Pfizer, Inc
USI Affinity
Under $10,000
American Express Company
CBS Corporation
Eisner LLP
General Electric Company
JAMS
Merck
Network of Trial Law Firms, Inc.
Promontory Financial Group, LLC
The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.
UBS Investment Bank
Viacom Inc.
FOUNDATIONS, ORGANIZATIONS & INDIVIDUAL GRANTS
$100,000 and Above
New York Community Trust
$50,000 – $99,000
Bequest from the Estate of
Ernest C. Guerri, In Memory
of His Father, Galiano E. Guerri
Greater New York City Affiliate
of Susan G. Komen for the
Cure, Inc.
New York State Lawyers
Assistance Trust
Sheila Kelley Kaufman Fund
Tinker Foundation
$25,000 – $49,999
Judges and Lawyers Breast
Cancer Alert
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation
Mary J. Hutchins Foundation, Inc.
Tiger Baron Foundation
$10,000 – $24,999
American College of Bankruptcy
American College of Bankruptcy
Foundation
Anonymous
George B. Storer Foundation
Harriet Ford Dickenson Foundation
Under $10,000
Charlotte & Arthur Zitrin
Foundation
DLA Piper Foundation
Edith C. Blum Foundation, Inc.
Ford Foundation
Goldie Anna Charitable Trust
Kirkland & Ellis Foundation
KMC Foundation
Ludwig Family Foundation
Morrison & Foerster Foundation
News Corporation Foundation
Open Society
Ruth & Seymour Klein
Foundation, Inc.
Sidley Austin Foundation
Sidney & Judith Kranes
Charitable Trust
Solon E. Summerfield Foundation
Spingold Foundation
United Jewish Organizations
of Williamsburg, Inc.
GOVERNMENT
New York State Interest on Lawyer
Account Fund
New York State Housing Trust
Fund Corporation
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
New York State Banking Department
New York City Department of Youth
& Community Development
New York State Unified Court System
New York State Division of Criminal
Justice Services
“Her kind and courteous manner was so supportive
and helped me tremendously in handling this financial
crisis in my life at this time.” —Client
Reporter Nina Bernstein was the keynote speaker at the Justice Center’s Deferred Associate training.
The City Bar Justice Center’s mission is to increase access to justice by leveraging the resources of the New York City legal community. Drawing upon our relationship with the New York City Bar, the Justice Center provides legal assistance to those in need; mobilizes lawyers, law firms, corporate legal departments, and other legal institutions to provide pro bono legal services; educates the public on legal issues; fosters strategic relationships; and impacts public policy.
Corporate Legal Departments
Academic Institutions
Law Firms
Legal Services & Nonprofit Organizations
Government Agencies Judiciary
City Bar FundIn addition to the City Bar Justice Center, the City Bar Fund supports the research, educational,
and public service activities of the following New York City Bar programs:
OFFICE FOR DIVERSITY
Created to affirm the commitment of New York City law firms and
corporate legal departments to diversity goals that have specific
time targets and milestones, the Office for Diversity annually tracks
the progress of its 126 signatories to the Association’s
Statement of Diversity Principles, which it adopted in 2003. The
Office designs programs that foster a more diverse and inclusive
legal profession, such as the Annual Diversity Champion Award,
which recognizes individuals who initiate and sustain change within
their organizations and the New York legal community.
NEW YORK CITY LAWYERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM
The Lawyers Assistance Program provides free, confidential
assistance to attorneys, judges, law students, and their families
who are experiencing problems with alcohol, drugs, depression,
and stress, as well as other addictions and mental health issues.
Evaluation, intervention, referral, outreach, and education is
provided by professional staff and peer support based on the
concept of “lawyers helping lawyers.”
CYRUS R. VANCE CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE
Working with law firms, bar associations, educational institutions,
and NGOs around the globe, the Vance Center seeks to expand
access to justice in young democracies and developing economies.
Collaborating across borders, the Center’s ongoing work includes
recruiting and supporting volunteer lawyers to work on interna-
tional public interest projects; creating a network of justice reform
advocates in Africa and Latin America; and building VanceNet.org,
a web-based, global community of advocates to promote access to
social justice.
AWARDS
• Jeremy G. Epstein Award, recognizing outstanding
volunteer attorneys with the City Bar Justice Center’s
pro bono programs.
• Bernard Botein Medal, recognizing employees of the
courts of the First Judicial Department
• Legal Services Award, honoring lawyers providing
full-time, pro bono legal services to the needy
• Municipal Affairs Award, recognizing outstanding
young lawyers in the New York City Law Department
• Henry L. Stimson Award, recognizing Assistant U.S.
Attorneys in the Southern and Eastern Districts of
New York
• Kathryn A. McDonald Award, for service to the New
York City Family Court
• Thomas E. Dewey Award, recognizing outstanding
Assistant District Attorneys in each of the five boroughs
and in the Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office
LECTURES
• Milton Handler Antitrust Review, Herman Goldman and
Mortimer H. Hess Lectures on trusts, estates, and taxation
• Leslie H. Arps, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Hon. George Bundy Smith,
Barbara Paul Robinson, and Orison S. Marden Lectures
• Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Distinguished Lecture on Women
and the Law
“Thank you for the risk you took to advocate
on my behalf in what I consider was the most
difficult period of my life. Yet I never doubted
that your organization would succeed even
though there were no guarantees. My son and
I are enjoying our home and our peace thanks
to your program.” —Client
On April 5th, retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor (right) delivered the annual Leslie H. Arps Lecture at the City Bar. Over 500 attendees listened to her address on the importance of judicial independ-ence and civic education. Pictured with Judith S. Kaye, former Chief Judge, NYS Court of Appeals.
2009 – 2010 ANNUAL REPORT
PARTNERING FOR JUSTICE
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Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. 2010–2011 Board of Directors
PresidentSamuel W. Seymour Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
ChairAustin T. Fragomen, Jr. Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Vice PresidentsMichael J. Chepiga Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Barbara Berger Opotowsky New York City Bar
Wanji J. Walcott American Express
TreasurerDonald S. Bernstein Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Assistant TreasurerCarol S. Rosenbaum, C.P.A. New York City Bar
Secretary Mary K. Warren Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
General Counsel Alan Rothstein New York City Bar
DirectorsDavid J.B. Arroyo Scripps Networks
Nina M. Beattie Brune & Richard LLP
Alan J. Brudner Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP
Miriam A. Buhl Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Kwanza Butler Time Warner Inc.
Francis S. Chlapowski Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Hon. George B. Daniels U.S. District Court, SDNY
Cheryl R. David Law Office of Cheryl R. David
Michael B. de Leeuw Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Michael Delikat Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Jonathan N. Eisenberg UBS
Michele Hirshman Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Jay Holtmeier Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Conrad A. Johnson Columbia University School of Law
Edward S. Kornreich Proskauer Rose LLP
Ronald L. Marmer Jenner & Block LLP
Robin J.H. Maxwell Linklaters LLP
Hazel-Ann Mayers CBS Broadcasting Inc.
Sara E. Moss The Estée Lauder Companies Inc.
Hon. Juanita Bing Newton New York State Judicial Institute
Paul Schoeman Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Jeffrey Taylor Ernst & Young LLP
Barron M. Tenny The Ford Foundation
William Viets JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jim Walden Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Jane L. Wilton The New York Community Trust
Administration
Executive DirectorLynn M. Kelly
Managing AttorneyAlice Morey
Director of Pro Bono InitiativesCarol Bockner
Director of DevelopmentRebecca Nelson
Director of CommunicationsEric Friedman
Administrative AssistantDeidre Smith