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WELCOME TO THENATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008EXEMPLAR AWARDS DINNER
Leading the way~ Achieving Justice
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008 National Dinner Committee
Bruce N. KuhlikMerck & Co., Inc.
Kathleen O'ConnorDechert LLP
Alfred W. Putman, Jr. Drinker Biddle
& Reath LLP
Co-Chairs
Timothy J. MayopoulosBank of America
Thomas J. Sabatino
Schering-Plough Corporation
Clinton LyonsNLADA Service Corp.
Candace K. Beinecke
Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
Leading the Way~ Achieving Justice
Charles F. Elsesser, Jr.
2008
Kutak-Dodds
Civil Prize
Florida Rural Legal Services, Inc.
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
Leading the Way~ Achieving Justice
Eileen Hirsch
2008Kutak-Dodds
Defender Prize
State of Wisconsin Office of the state public defender
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008 NLADA Exemplar Awards Dinner Sponsors
Chairman’s Circle
Underwriters
Patrons
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • American Express • Arnold & Porter LLPBartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP • Bingham McCutchen LLP
Butler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada, PLLC • Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLPCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP • Choate Hall & Stewart LLP • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP • Colgate-Palmolive Company • Covington & Burling LLP • Debevoise & Plimpton LLP • E.I. Du Pont •
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP FTI Consulting • Fulbright & Jaworski LLP • Hewlett-Packard
King & Spalding LLP • Kirkland & Ellis LLP Latham & Watkins LLP • Litigation Management, Inc. • Microsoft Corporation
Moore & Van Allen PLLC • Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP • Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLPPfizer Inc. • Reed Smith • Seyfarth Shaw • Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP • Shell Oil Company • Sidley Austin LLPWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP • Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Benefactors
Sponsors
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals LP • C.N.A. • Davis Polk & Wardwell •Jones Day • Ronald D. McCray Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP • Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Friends
Golkow Technologies, Inc. • Hunton & Williams LLP • Kaye Scholer LLP • Mutual of America Richard & Judy Weill • Wachovia Insurance Services, Inc. • Wyeth
DonorsJo-Ann Wallace • Legal Aid & Defender Association, Inc. • Smith & Carson, Inc. • Thomas A. Gottschalk
Veritext Court Reporting - Worldwide • Hogan & Hartson LLP
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008 National Dinner CommitteeCommittee MembersSteven H. Schulman
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer
& Feld LLP
Kenneth I. ChenaultAmerican Express
Jeffrey HandwerkerArnold & Porter LLP
Philip S. BeckBartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott
LLP
Amy L. KyleBingham McCutchen
LLP
Christy D. JonesButler, Snow, O'Mara, Stevens & Cannada,
PLLC
Christopher WhiteCadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Thomas L. SagerE.I. Du Pont
Robert BaechtoldFitzpatrick, Cella,
Harper & Scinto
David ShineFried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
LLP
David BeckerFTI Consulting
Gerry Lowry Fulbright & Jaworski
LLP
Michael HolstonHewlett-Packard
Company
Russell DeyoJohnson & Johnson
James ClarkCahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Diana K. LloydChoate Hall & Stewart LLP
Robert L. Tortoriello
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Andrew HendryColgate-Palmolive
Company
Timothy HesterCovington & Burling
LLP
Evan CheslerCravath, Swaine &
Moore LLPMark P. Goodman
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008 National Dinner CommitteeCommittee Members
Steve de GrootKing & Spalding LLP
Thomas A. GottschalkKirkland & Ellis LLP
Steven ChernyLatham & Watkins LLP
Elizabeth B. JulianoLitigation Management,
Inc.
Bradford L. SmithMicrosoft Corporation
James W. HovisMoore & Van Allen
PLLC
Lisa DykstraMorgan Lewis &
Bockius LLP
John BeisnerO'Melveny & Myers LLP
John J. O’NeilPaul, Weiss, Rifkind,
Wharton & Garrison LLP
Jeffrey B. KindlerPfizer Inc.
Esther LardentThe Pro Bono Institute
Michael K. BrownReed Smith
Ralph A. CampilloSedgwick, Detert, Moran
& Arnold LLP
Joel H. KaplanSeyfarth Shaw LLP
William C. LowreyShell Oil Company
Joseph B. Tompkins, Jr.
Sidley Austin LLP
Paul F. StrainVenable LLP
Douglas R. MarvinWilliams & Connolly
David W. OgdenWilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Graeme W. BushZuckerman Spaeder
LLP
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008 Beacon of Justice Honorees
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP Alston & Bird LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Dechert LLPDorsey & Whitney LLP
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Fredrikson & Byron, P.A.
Gibbons P.C. Jenner & Block LLP
Jones Day Kaye Scholer LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Perkins Coie LLPSchnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLPSidley Austin LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and
Dorr LLPZuckerman Spaeder
LLP
WELCOME TO THENATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
2008EXEMPLAR AWARDS DINNER
Leading the way~ Achieving Justice
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
Leading the Way~ Achieving Justice
Kenneth C. Frazier
2008 NLADA Exemplar
Awardee
NATIONAL LEGAL AID & DEFENDER ASSOCIATION
Leading the Way~Achieving Justice
Congratulations
To the 2008 NLADA Honorees