Presidents Reception

 

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Join the past presidents of the D.C. Bar on Thursday, June 20, 2024 for the Presidents Reception honoring incoming president Shaun M. Snyder and benefiting the D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center, the largest provider of pro bono legal help in the District of Columbia. The Pro Bono Center’s award-winning legal clinics, projects, and resource centers each year serve more than 21,000 individuals living on low incomes, families, safety-net nonprofits, and local small businesses.

The 2024 Presidents Reception will take place from 6 to 7:30 pm at the Westin Washington, DC Downtown, 999 Ninth Street NW, immediately preceding the D.C. Bar’s Celebration of Leadership Awards Dinner and Annual Meeting.

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Sponsorship pledges and contributions received by May 31 will be acknowledged in the reception program, and on the D.C. Bar website.

To learn how you or your organization can sponsor the 2024 Presidents Reception and help increase access to justice for our neighbors in need, contact Gregg Kelley at [email protected] or 202-390-6448.

The D.C. Bar Pro Bono Center is a charitable organization exempt under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code. All the Pro Bono Center’s services are made possible through voluntary contributions. No mandatory D.C. Bar license fees support the Pro Bono Center.

Law Firm Sponsors

Pacesetter
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
DLA Piper LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Williams & Connolly

Presidents Circle
Hogan Lovells
Jenner & Block
K&L Gates
Kellogg Hansen Todd Figel & Frederick, PLLC
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Gold Benefactor
A&O Shearman
Foley & Lardner LLP
Jones Day
Paul Hastings LLP
Wiley Rein LLP  
Winston & Strawn LLP

Silver Benefactor
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Baker McKenzie
Ballard Spahr LLP
Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll
Cooley LLP
Dentons US LLP
Epstein Becker Green
Fenwick & West
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
HWG LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Lathrop GPM Foundation
Munger Tolls & Olson Foundation
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sulllivan & Cromwell LLP
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Wilson Sonsini  Goodrich & Rosati Foundation
Womble Bond Dickinson
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Patron
Beveridge & Diamond
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Clifford Chance
Debevoise & Plimpton
Dechert LLP
Eyman Associates, PC
Furey Doolan & Abell LLP
GMP LLP
Groom Law Group
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Miller & Chevalier, Chartered
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Potomac Legal Group LLC
Wendy H. Schwartz & Associates, PLLC
Vedder Price
ZwillGen PLLC

Sponsor
Ain & Bank, P.C.  
Alston & Bird LLP
Baker Botts LLP
Baker Hostetler
Banner Witcoff
Bass, Berry & Sims PLC  
Bernstein & Lipsett, PC
Blank Rome
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Cohen & Gresser LLP
Cozen O'Connor
Cuneo Gilbert & LaDuca, LLP
Curtin Law Roberson Dunigan & Salans, P.C.
David A. Clark School of Law
Duane Morris LLP
Dykema
Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Goulston & Storrs, P.C.
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Hollingsworth LLP
Honigman LLP
Jackson & Campbell, P.C.
Kaiser PLLC
Keller and Heckman LLP
Klein Hornig LLP
Law Offices of Peter T. Nicholl
Mintz
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP
O'Donoghue & O'Donoghue LLP
Powers, Pyles, Sutter & Verville, P.C.
Regan Zambri Long PLLC
Sheppard Mullin
Squire Patton Boggs
Thompson HD
Thompson Hine LLP
Troutman Pepper
Tucker LLP
Van Ness Feldman LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Whiteford, Taylor & Preston LLP

Corporate Sponsors

Silver Corporate Leader
ACC National Capital Region
AIF Global
Fastcase
Kelmar Associates

Individual Sponsors

Gold Benefactor
Jamie S. Gorelick

Silver Benefactor
Erica J. Dominitz & Yaron Dori
Ron Flagg & Patti Sharin Flagg
Stephen I. Glover
Carolyn Halladay
Ellen M. Jakovic & David Lipson
Patrick McGlone & Kevin Taylor
Martha L. Rees & Frank W. Hobbs, Jr.
James J. Sandman & Elizabeth D. Mullin

Gold Pro Bono Partner
Marc L. Fleischaker
Susan M. Hoffman
Paul F. Khoury
Vivek Koppikar
Patrick A. Malone
Andrew H. Marks & Susan G. Esserman
John W. Nields, Jr.
Mary Ellen Powers
Bruce E. Rosenblum
Chad & Christina Sarchio
Shaun & Grace Snyder
Kelly D. Voss & Steve Kaplan
Timothy K. Webster

Silver Pro Bono Partner
Susan M. Allen
Blake A. Biles & Laura L. Sessums
J. Penny Clark
Jennifer A. Duane
Matthew L. Haws
Ted & Judy Howard
James W. Jones
Joseph E. Kolick, Jr.
June B. Kress
Carolyn Lamm & Peter Halle
Paul S. Lee
John E. McCarthy Jr.
Meg McKinney & Doug Weaver
Kelli & Lionel Neptune
Thomas C. Papson & Toby Singer
Lyle Jeffrey Pash
Michael P. Reilly
Daniel C & Theresa Moran Schwartz
Mark H. Tuohey, III

Pro Bono Council
Stephen Anthony
Robert B. Barnett
Cecily Baskir & John Freedman
James F. Bendernagel
Brigida Benitez
John C. Cruden
David W. DeBruin
John M. Dowd
Hamilton P. Fox, III
Elizabeth S. Gere & William F. Causey
Nathalie Gilfoyle
Minsuk Han
Mark C. & Anne Hansen
Thomas G. Hentoff
Eric L. Hirschhorn & Leah Wortham
John R. Jacob
Andrew Karron
Geoffrey M. Klineberg
Petro R Kostiv
Sheldon Krantz
Ira Lechner
Esther H. Lim & John C. Yang
Justin Loffredo
Charles R. Lowery, Jr.
Andrew T. Maccabe
Mira Nan Marshall
Darryl Maxwell & Janice Bashford
Katherine A. Mazzaferri
Erum Z. Mirza
Andrea Agathoklis Murino
Irvin B. Nathan
Michael Nemeroff
David W. Ogden
Peggy Lansbach O'More & Sean C. O'More
Aaron & Jennifer Panner
William J. Perlstein
Michael Perry
Carter G. Phillips
Jason Qu
Gregory G. Rapawy & Jessica Sky Boger
Thomas G. Schultz
Jane C. Sherburne
Robert J. Spagnoletti & Bernard Lewis
Silvija A. Strikis
Maureen Thornton Syracuse
K. Chris Todd
John K. Van De Weert, Jr.
Natalie S. Walker
Roger E. Warin
David B. Weinberg

Patron
Lise Adams
Daniel R. Barney
Catherine “Katie” Bertram
Amy L. Bess
Christina Biebesheimer
Angela Boone
Barry Boss
Dwight Bostwick
John G. Buchanan, III
Graeme Bush
David Catania
Vincent J. Colatriano
Ryan C. Compton
William J. Conyngham
David J. Cynamon
Clark Downs
Peter B. Edelman
Ted & Lee Ellett
Mary-Christy Fisher & Harold H. Koh
Susan & Tim Gibson
Andrew E. Goldsmith & Miriam Fishman
Thomas A. Gottschalk
Adrian Gottshall
John J. Halloran, Jr.
Kelly J. Harris
Jacob E. Hartman
Regina M. Hopkins & Larry Glenn
Janene D. Jackson
Sheila D. Jones
Adam Kane
Kim M. Keenan
Gregg A. Kelley
Laura Klein
Philip A. Lacovara
Evan T. Leo
Gabriella Lewis-White
Lisa Lipsky
Carol & Gene Ludwig Family Foundation
Myles V. Lynk
Andrea Mangones
Louis T. Mazawey
Kris Meade
Sadina Montani
Karen A. Newton Cole & Gregory J. Cole
Stephen C. Nichols
Ellen Ostrow
James T. Phalen
Mark D. Pugliese
James E. Rocap, III
Lois J. Schiffer
Kurt Schmoke
Lawrence A. Schneider
Lillian V. Smith
Shavon J. Smith
Annamaria Steward
Brian W. Thompson
Thomas W. Traxler, Jr
Tia Trout-Perez
Hon. Annice McBryde Wagner (ret.)
William D. Wallace
Jay S. Weiss
David B. Witherspoon
Jeremiah M. Wolsk
Charles R. Work & Veronica A. Haggart

Sponsor
David & Livia Bardin
Bruce H. Bernstein
Carl S. Bernstein
James D. Bishop
Mary L. Blatch
Katherine S. Broderick
Carol Elder Bruce
Charles E. Buffon
G. Brian Busey
Barbara Butterworth
George R. Clark
H. Guy Collier & Catherine Colyer
Shirley Diaz
Courtney Dyer
Marc F. Efron
Latosha M. Ellis
Patrick English
Robert N. Falk
Holli Jo Feichko
Nicholas W. Fels
Andrea C. Ferster
Cathy Gebhard
Jeffrey E. Gordon
Hardeep Grover
Jeffrey S. Gutman
Brian D. Koosed
Susan M.C. Kovarovics
Mollie Megan Lacchini
Robert H. Loeffler
Alicia May Long
Margarita & Peter Lorenzetti
Nicholas S. McConnell
Steven Miller
Bradley E. Oppenheimer
Ramya Ravindran
David A. Reiser
Pamela Robinson
Jessica T. Rosenbaum
Paul M. Smith
Elizabeth Spivak
Anne L. Stone
Brenda Thomas & Desmond Burns
Lucy L. Thomson
Anna Tirol
Edward G. Varrone
Jeffrey D. Watkiss
Courtney Weiner
Cynthia G. Wright

Donors listed included pledges and contributions as of May 2, 2024