Annual Report 2019 Justice in Every BoroughThe Legal Aid Society Employees Daniel Abdul-Malak,...
Transcript of Annual Report 2019 Justice in Every BoroughThe Legal Aid Society Employees Daniel Abdul-Malak,...
The Legal Aid Society EmployeesDaniel Abdul-Malak, Charlene Abney, Hope Acevedo, Joshua Ackerman, Benjie Acunis, Alexander Adami, Lindsay Adams, Vanessa Adegbite, Melissa Ader, Katherine Adler, David Affler, Gabriella Agranat-Getz, Alena Aguilar, Jacqueline Ahearn, Noor Ahmad, Mastaque Ahmed, Hira Ahmed, Hatire Aikebaier, Diane Akerman, Akintunde Akinjiola, Sukayna Al-Aaraji, Shivani Alamo, Michael Alcarese, Myra Alcarese, Jean Alexandre, Gary Alexion, Ronald Alfano, Marianne Allegro, Melinda Allen, Chevelle Allison-McIntosh, Rebekah Almanzar, Jodi Almengor, Steve Alonso, Juan Alonzo, Michelle Altamirano, Charles Alvarez, Carla Alvarez-Gould, Lizet Amado, Katherine Amaya, Chelsey Amelkin, Nana Ama Amoah-Kusi, Akeem Amodu, Sara Amri, Anyamobi Ananaba, Sarah Anderson, Sharon Anderson, Tareek Anderson, Melinda Andra, Cheryl Andrada, Kaitlin Andrews, Nefertiti Ankra, Carmine Annunziato, Bahar Ansari, Kenneth Ansley, Alexandra Anthony, Odessa Antoine, Ikenna Anyoku, Nana Aoki, Anastasia Apostoleris, Ruth Appadoo-Johnson, Israel Appel, Rigodis Appling, Marienil Aquino, Haifa Arab, Noha Arafa, Rumzi Araj, Violeta Arciniega, Juan Ardila, Martha Arellano, Rebecca Arian, Jimmy Arias, Vivian Arismendiz Arevalo, Tarini Arogyaswamy, Marisol Arriaga, Jessica Arroyo, William Artus, Sherry Ashkins, Daniel Ashworth, Richard Asphall, Nicole Attara, Edward Auffant, Lynda Augente, Quincy Auger, Germaine Auguste, Garrett Austin, Elenor Austrie, Jesse Aviles, Ilana Avital, Alan Axelrod, Kayla Axelrod, Jose Ayala, Maria Ayora, Alisha Babar, Alisha Bacchus, Jaime Badia, Leslie Baez, Angie Baez Tiburcio, Christopher Baggett, Susan Bahn, Roxanne Bailey, Anya Bailey, Lejla Bajrami, Allison Baker, Japheth Baker, Michael Baldwin, Susan Baldwin, Vanda Ballard, Kelly Ballinger, Khouloud Ballout, Louis Balocca, Amadeo Baltazar, Sunita Balwant, Gloria Banasco, Nicholas Bancroft, Marla Band, Ishan Banerjee, Erin Bannister, Santeena Bantin, Thomas Barra, Chennette Barreto, Angelica Barrios, Elizabeth Barroso, Aissatou Barry, Denise Barry, Jessica Bash, Kip Bastedo, Patricia Bath, Nahal Batmanghelidj, Jessica Battle, Carlos Baxter, Lizzie-Anne Beal, Raymond Beauchamp, Sakeena Beaulieu, Faith Bekermus, Paul Belfort, Bryant Bell, Christine Bella, Valerie Bell-Bey, Casandia Bellevue, Jessica Bellinder, Bernard Bellinger, Ruthlyn Belnavis, Amanda Beltran, Zamir Ben-Dan, Deanna Benigno, Joshua Benjamin, Timothy Bennett, Auset Bennu, Michelle Benoit, Judyann Bentick, Victoria Benton, Mark Berger, Allison Berger, Juan Beritan, Steven Berko, Jeffrey Berman, Simone Berman-Rossi, James Bernal, Ciara Bernard, Sara Bernstein, Shari Bernstein, Lillian Berrios, Samuel Berroa, Marvis Berry, Jonathan Bertulis-Fernandes, Rebecca Besdin, Toni Beshara, Jennifer Betancourt, Jessica Bettencourt, Pavel Beyder, Robert Bickel, Charles Billups, Nicole Bingham, Carly Bisceglie, Gina Bisogna, Bridgette Bissonnette, Elizabeth Black, Charles Blakeley, Letticia Blakley, Faith Bland, Jennifer Blasser, Anna Blondell, Anna Blondell, David Blondell, Evan Bloom, Jeffrey Bloom, Richard Blum, Sarah Bodack, Marlen Bodden, Richard Bodrick, Anna Boksenbaum, Thomas Bomba, Julia Boms, Jeanine Bonanno, Kanika Booker, David Boone, Markus Borus, Heidi Bota, Anna Boullosa, Travis Bourgeois, Norah Bowler, Laura Boyd, Precious Boyd, Allison Boyle, Amanda Bradley, Marquis Bradshaw, Heidi Bramson, Adrienne Branch, Crystal Braswell, Jenny Braun Friedman, Edward Braunstein, Alexandra Breton, Jennifer Brillante-Weaver, Daniel Brioso, Mitchell Briskey, Amanda Brito, Kissa Broadie, Rebecca Broches, Robert Brock, Leslie Brody, Nicole Bromberg, Johanathan Brooks, Lisa Brown, Georgina Brown, Karene Brown, Tara Brown, Jasmine Brown, Malia Brown, Nadine Brown, Nickeysha Brown, Terrance Brown, Kristin Bruan, Andra Brumberg, Aishah Bruno, Margaret Bryan, Keith Bryant, Kevin Brzezinski, Katherine Buckel, Brian Buckmire, Rosemary Buckmon, Robert Budner, Alexis Bueno, Desiree Buenzle, Roulston Bumbury, Vanessa Burdick, Benjamin Burger, Carmen Burgos, Marta Burgos, Erin Burkavage, Jennifer Burke, Jamaal Burnside, Thomas Burrows, Katherine Burton, Claudia Bustos, Jessica Caba, Luis Caballero, Olivia Caban, Allison Cabibbo, Rosa Cabrera, Yissel Cabrera, Danny Cabrera, Mario Cabrera, Karen Cacace, Keri Caden, Jeannine Cahill-Jackson, Heidi Cain, Kristen Calabrese, Elisabeth Calcaterra, Raisa Calderon, Matthew Caldwell, Ioana Calin, Marly Calixte, Anne Callagy, Jean Callahan, Glenda Callender, Susan Cameron, Courtney Camp, Marion Campbell, Megan Campbell, Stephanie Campos, Josue Cantave, Allison Capp, Clayton Capp, Catherine Carbonaro, Matthew Caretto, Anna Carlsen, William Carney, Raissa Carpenter, JoAnne Carpenter, Christian Carrillo, Joshua Carrin, Mae Carrington, Roger Carrion, Nora S.C. Carroll, Amanda Carter, Carol Carter, Annemarie Caruso, Bernette Carway-Spruiell, Marilyn Casiano, Sabrina Castillo, Ana Castillo-Bernabel, Emilie Catlett, Ana Cecilio, Cindy Cedeno, Yohance Celestine, Gordon Cen, Ferdinand Cesarano, Cara Chambers, Alyssa Chan, Lisa Chan, Rohit Chandan, Denise Chardon-Cruz, Tricia Charles, Cassandra Charles, Shinequa Charles, Susan Chase, Abida Chaudhry, Steven Chavez, Jonathan Chazen, Devin Chee, Brian Chelcun, Hung Kong Cheng, Wai-Hong Cheng, Phyllis Cherebin, Vanessa Cherena, Hillary Chernow, Jenny Cheung, Rebecca Chevalier, Andrew Chi, Toe-Fun Chia, Mourad Chiadmi, Andrew Childers, Samuel Chiszar, Maria Chiu, Ben Choi, Danielle Chorne, James Chubinsky, Javier Chuck, Jasmina Chuck, Vincent Ciaccio, Julie Ciccolini, Ariana Cid, Erica Cioffero, Aleksandra Ciric, Rachel Clapp, Jamara Clark, Alicia Clarke, Kayan Clarke, Lucinda Clarke, Gregory Clarke, Nichole Clarke, Ralph Claudomir, Thomas Cleary, Olivia Clement, Susan Clement, Vilma Clerge, Kawan Clinton, Bryan Coakley, Antonia Codling, Janet Cofie, Dana Cohen, Emily Cohen, Matthew Cohen, Jennifer Cohn, Luis Coig, Patricia Colella, Gregory Coleman, Carolyn Coleman, Francisco Colon, Esperanza Colon, Maria Colon, Joann Colon-Cimino, Johari Commodore, Carlo Concha-Zea, Kalle Condliffe, David Conn, Virginia Conroy, Cynthia Conti-Cook, Abigail Cook-Mack, Jayne Cooper, Felton Cooper, Justin Cope, Virginia Cora, Marisol Cordero, Stephanie Cordero, Melissa Cordero, Shemori Corinthian, Nidia Yurixhy Jette Corona-Gonzalez, Jeriline Correa, Shelley Correy, Jona Cosio, Jose Cotto, William Cotto, Safiatou Coulibaly, Alyssa Couture, Joyce Couvares, LeShawn Cox, Russell Crane, Daniela Crespo, Gloria Crespo, Susan Crile, Ellen Crotty, David Crow, Victor Cruz, Leah Cruz, Mia Cruz-Worthy, Priya Cumberbatch-Schut, Gaynor Cunningham, Meghan Cuomo, Lauren Curatolo, Aurora Curtis, Brittney-Rose Curtis, Thomas Curtis, Esmeralda Daci, Sharon Dacosta, Mark Dahm, Amy Dallas, Casey Dalporto, Teresa Daly, Michael D'Ambrosio, Maria D'Amelio, Jaylan Daniels, Olayinka Dan-Salami, Dawn Dapelo, Erin Darcy, Clineesa Dargan, Alaina Dartt, Tamina Daruvala, Shashwat Dave, Dilsa David, Jacques David, Ellen Davidson, Jeremy Davidson, Rachel Davidson, Nora Davila, Edgar Davila, Patricia Davis, Emily Davis, Peter Davis, Royce Davis, Yasmin Davis, Devon Dawkins, Teresa De Fonso, Adrian De Gennaro, Jason De Jesus, Nelson De Jesus, Yirensky De Jesus Fullerton, Tania De La Cruz, Ashley De la Cruz, Susanna De La Pava, Ana De La Rosa, Cristina De La Rosa, Jennys De La Rosa, Khadine De Paiva, Warren Deans, Melanie Dearth, Natalie Deduke, Agnieszka Deenihan, Gerard Deenihan, Eddie DeGrand, Lina Del Plato, Karla Del Pozo-Garcia, Stanley Delacruz, Ana Delgado Hierro, Maryssa Deliteris, Benjamin Dell, Jeffrey Dellheim, Christine Dell'isloa-Ruggiero, Sandy Delouis, Natasha Delvalle, Victor Dempsey, Lonette Dennard-Williams, Karena Dennis, George Depountis, Robert Desir, Daniel DeStefano, Sarah DeVita, Sneha Dhanapal, Richard Di Marco, Hannah Diamond, David Diaz, Ruth Diaz, Samantha Diaz, Patricia Diaz, Yonoris Diaz, Shareny Diaz Saldana, Ada DiCarlo, Laurel Dick, Yvonne Dillard, Ellen Dille, Clay Distler, Celena Ditchev, Anton Ditchev, Vernon Dixon, Lucretia Dobson, Dana Dohn, Sarah Dolan, Natalya Dolub, Jacqueline Dombroff, Michelle Domena, Madeline Domenech, Katherine Dominguez, Julie Dona, Mary Donahue, Timothy Donahue, Lisa Donchak, Christine Donnellan, Lauren Donnelly, Amy Donner, Kasia Donohue, Francis Donovan, Melodie Donovan, Sara Doody, Zachary Dorado, Nicole D'Orazio, Germenda Dorisma, Patricia Dornelles, Cassandra Dorvil, Roxanne Douby, Kisha Douglas, Felicia Douglas, Hilary Dowling, George Downing, Violetta Doz, Brooke Drew, Monica Dula, Marisol Duran, Joanne Dwyer, Jacek Dziembaj, Tristan Eastman, Emily Eaton, Meir Edri, Alanda Edwards, Lisa Edwards, Marcia Egger, Felicia Ehrlich, Nadia El Hannari, Zunira Elahi, Adam Elewa, Kerry Elgarten, Whitney Elliott, Claudia Emanuel, Uchenna Emeagwali, Theresa Emeterio, Elizabeth Emmons, Ernest Engebretson, Sarah Engell, Susan Epstein, Laura Eraso, Joel Ernst, Jana Ertrachter, Brian Escaravage, Betty Escobar, Lourdes Escobar, Miriam Esipila, Cristian Espinal, Keila Espinosa, Mitchell Paolo Esteller, Rudolph Estrada, Belinda Etienne, Dwan Ewell, Denise Fabiano, Forabo Fagbulu, Allen Fallek, Tara Famularo-Del Bianco, Tariq Farah, Allen Farbman, Lisa Farray, Trelinda Farrer, Sean Farrow, Briana Fedele, Elysia Fedorczyk, Martin Feinman, Elizabeth Felber, Harold Ferguson, Naiyma Ferguson, Massiel Fernandez, Joan Ferng, Andrea Ferrante, Gabriella Ferrara, Ana Ferrin, Craig Fielding, Leanne Fields, Stephanie Fields, Yaritza Figueroa, Japel Filiaci, Marisa Filupeit, Andrew Fine, Oscar Finkel, Kenneth Finkelman, Matthew Finston, Sofia Fiorentino, Cheryl Fisher, Katherine Fitzer, Mae Flato, Phillip Fleary, Vera Fletcher, Elisa Flight, Husein Flight, Robert Flink, Doris Flores, Josephine Flores, Leticia Flores, Richard Flores, Yvonne Floyd-Mayers, Megan Foley, Kayla Fonseca, Zoraida Fontanez, Allison Force, Jacqueline Ford, Hamilton Forde, Mark Formichelli, Leanne Fornelli, Janet Forrester, Izel Fortunato, Ebette Fortune, Natasha Fortune, Omar Fortune, Bradley Foster, Allan Fox, Jane Fox, Michelle Fox, Norma Frade, Khadijah Francis, Keisha Francis, Grover Francis, Brittany Francis, Cheryl Francisco, Christina Francois, Edward Franco-Lopez, Robin Frankel, Corinne Frankenfield, Diane Fraticelly, Angel Frau, Demetra Frazier, Jeremy Fredericksen, Lisa Freeman, Diego Freire, Helen Frieder, Oda Friedheim, Bruce Friedman, David Fritz, Laura Frost, Joseph Frumin, Kathleen Fulton, Lenore Furlong, Michael Fusilli, Angel Gabriel, George Gabriel, Shellyann Gale, Allison Galgano, Frances Gallagher, Spencer Gallop, Mona Gambardella, Debra Gambella, Adrienne Gantt, Lillian Gantt, Amanda Garay, Jessica Garcia, Maria Garcia, Belkys Garcia, Felipe Garcia, Harinda Garcia, Jessika Garcia, Juan Garcia, Laureen Garcia, Mily Garcia, Jonathan Garelick, Melvin Garlick, Margaret Garrett, Samuel Gauthier, Claire Gavin, Nora Gay, Shannon Gayden, Findayawah Gbollie, John Geida, Gail Geltman, Melissa George, Diego Gerardi, Debbora Gerressu, Samuel Getz, Francis Gibbons, Michael Gibbons, Katharine Gibbons, Julia Gilgurd, Nancy Ginsburg, Hannah Gladstein, Zoe Glaser, Alana Glaubiger, Radley Glaude, Charles Glover, Michael Gluck, Steven Godeski, John Godfrey, Keisha Godfrey, Yesenia Godoy, Lily Goetz, Joshua Goldfein, Judith Goldiner, Rachel Goldsmith, Ariella Goldstein, Cathy Goldstein, Jacob Goldstein, Jessica Goldthwaite, Jacalyn Goldzweig Panitz, Chandra Gomes, Margarita Gomez, Michael Gompers, Jessie Gong, Jose Gonzalez, Pedro Gonzalez, Rolando Gonzalez, Aurea Gonzalez, Emma Goodman, Jaclyn Goodman, Roberto Goodsell, Sayra Gordillo, Alan Gordon, Tiffany Gordon, Robin Gordon Leavitt, Martin Gorfinkel, Lauren Gottesman, Maxwell Gould, Vincent Graci, Candace Graff, Holly Graham, Maya Graham, JaQuan Grandy, Anthony Graniere, Danielle Grant, Jennifer Grant, Sulay Grant, Herbert Grant, James Graves, Sinead Gray, Jerome Greco, Marshall Green, Daniel Greenbaum, Sara Greenberg, Simon Greenberg, Camille Greene, Naima Gregory-Holder, Dana Grierson, Molly Griffard, Catherine Griffin, Shannon Griffin, Pamela Griffith, Katherine Groot, Seth Gross, Gerald Grossman, Nidia Guadalupe, Lucy Gubernick, David Guerrero, Yoedys Guerrero Valero, Morgan Guinnip, Nailah Gumbs-Fahie, Yosha Gunasekera, Samantha Gupta, Laurence Gurwitch, Karen Gutheil, Laura Guthrie, Gustavo Gutierrez, Monica Gutierrez, Brianda Guzman, Kyle Guzman, Shanice Guzman, Donna Haase, Joshua Hadas, Jason Hadley, Melissa Hafenbrack, Patrick Hahn, William Hair, Juliette-Noor Haji, Ayaan Haji, Hanifa Hakim-EL, Larry Hales, Danielle Haley, Coleen Hall, Tima Hambleton, Karen Hambrick, Barbara Hamilton, Alayasia Hamilton, Shahidah Hamlett, Matthew Hanifin, Valerie Hannibal, Erika Hanson, Michael Harding, Kathleen Hardy, Stacey Harkey, Megan Harney, Robert Harold, Elon Harpaz, Donjhannae Harris, Judith Harris, Alissa Harrison, Caitlin Harrison, Peter Hart, Jacqualine Hartley, Bryn Hartman, Nadia Hasan, Evan Hasbrook, Redmond Haskins, Erica Haspel, Jo-Ann Hassan, Adam Hassuk, Michele Hauser, Amy Hausknecht, Lawrence Hausman, Matthew Hawkins, Wanjuri Hawkins, Henry Hayden, Oren Haymovits, Renee Haynes, Robert Haywood, Lauren Headley, Christopher Healy, Mattie Heath, Kathryn Heeke, Robert Heilbrun, Alexandra Heinegg, Rebecca Heinsen, Amy Helfant, Lester Helfman, Devyn Helsing, Charles Henderson, Donna Henken, Evan Henley, Maritza Henriquez, Kimberly Henry, Marva Henry, Arnulfo Hermes, Luis Hernandez, Sordaly Hernandez, Rodrigo Hernandez, Alba Hernandez, Ariel Hernandez, Kevin Hernandez, Melvin Hernandez, Wilmarie Hernandez, Maoly Hernandez Rosario, Lucy Herschel, Ayana Heyward, Michael Higgins, Madeline High, Eric Hildebrand, Kwandza Hill-Daniels, Angela Hines, Shazzia Hines, John Hirsch, Barbara Ho, Thomson Ho, Yvonne Hobbs, Fuery Hocking, Emily Hoffman, Alexandra Hoffman, Cara Hoffman, Beth Hofmeister, Shamus Hogan, Adriene Holder, Macon Hollister, Bridgett Holloman, Jerrell Holloman, Linda Holmes, Jacqueline Holmes, Deno Holness, Alison Holstein, Amy Hong, Everett Hopkins, Arthur Hopkirk, Davim Horowitz, Aaron Horth, Gwyneth Horton, Susan Horwitz, Jennifer Hose, Abrar Hossain, Shalena Howard, Samuel Howell, Erin Hoya, Mary Hoynacki, Charmaine Hoyte, Natasha Hrynenko, Daniel Hsiung, Caroline Hsu, Carmela Huang, Yvonne Huaringa, Tyler Hudgins, Nyiesha Hudson, Zachary Hudson, Kevin Hughes, Michael Hurson, Jenny Hurwitz, Katharine Hussung, Alec Hutchinson, David Hymen, Amanda Ingle, Ashley Ingram, Natasha Ingram, Alejandra Iniguez Lopez, Gregory Insardi, Vivian Intermont, Charles Ippolito, Yolanda Irizarry, Celia Irvine, Brittany Irving, Elizabeth Isaacs, Svetlana Isakov, Nia Itoh, Kenneth Ives, Rebecca Ivry, Richard Jack, Amanda Jack, Rosemarie Jackson, Lois Jackson, Bailey Jackson, Michelle Jacobs, Emily Jacobs, Lucinda James, Taylor James, Jordyne James, Mike Jang, Keshav Jankie, Masooma Javaid, Maride Javier, Archana Jayaram, Michael Jean Baptiste, Christina Jeffery, Cornelius Jeffery, Patricia Jeffery, Lance Jeffrey, Willoughby Jenett, Julia Jenkins, Amanda Jennings, Robert Jereski, Randy Jerez, Kam Jim, Jenesis Jimenez, Sunny Jo, Ashley Johnson, Travis Johnson, Jamal Johnson, Loretta Johnson, Surraya Johnson, Thomas Johnson, Clyde Johnson, Nadine Johnson, Robert Johnson-Stevenson, Sarah Johnston, Gregory Johnston, Donovan Jones, Peter Jones, Amina Jones, Danah Jones, Lauren Jones, Willie Jones, LaSalle Jones, Phoebe Jones, Richard Joselson, Satish Joseph, Gina Joseph, Jennifer Joseph, Melissa Josephson, Maria Joza, Afeisha Julien, Steven Jurash, Giovannies Justiniano, Siri Kagan, Douglas Kahan, Maria Kaidas, Karen Kalikow, John Kalinowski, Anna Kalliagas, William Kammler, James Kampil, Jamie Kang, Michael Kang, Benjamin Kanstroom, Kathryn Kaplan, Emily Kaplan, Alison Kaplan, Hannah Kaplan, Melissa Kaplan, Stephanie Kaplan, Jan Kaplan, David Kapner, Robin Karasyk, Olga Karounos, Sheryl Karp, Judith Karpatkin, Dena Kasendorf, Anthony Katchen, Andrew Katz, Mitchell Katz, Alexander Katz, Lauren Katzman, Sharone Kaufman, Noel Keating, Maureen Kelleher, Kathleen Kelleher, Jenna Keller, Robert Kellogg, Yvette Kellum, Monique Kelly, Diane Kelly, Leslie Kenney, Maryann Kenney, Melvin Kenny, Saleem Khan, Zoe Kheyman, Afsane Khot, Ragni Kidvai, Eugene Kim, Hyeji Kim, Katherine Kim, Mary Kim, Mihea Kim, Thomas Kim, Diana Kim, Joshua Kimpson, Chrystalia King, Danielle King, Aisha King, Jenille King, Susan Kingsland, Mik Kinkead, Amy Kinville, Doreen Kirwan, Emily Kitay, Sharon Kleinhandler, Kathryn Kliff, Michael Klinger, Helen Kloogman, Douglas Knepper, Shana Knizhnik, Alexis Koerner, Lisa Koinig, Ryan Koleda, Teresa Kominos, Richard Kopacz, Svetlana Kornfeind, Ilana Kornfeld, Joyce Korn-Winderman, Daniella Korotzer, Marion Koshy, Estajo Koslow, Jennifer Kovacs, Traci Krasne, Beth Krause, Gillian Kress, Scott Krischke, Jesse Kropf, Marissa Kubicki, Andrew Kudysch, Erika Kuhl, Katharine Kuhl, Tara Kumar, Rebecca Kurti, Steven Kuza, Carolyn Kwon, Noreen Labajo, Shannon Lacey, Martin LaFalce, Joanna Laine, Fainan Lakha, Sabrina Lall, Stacy Lam, Brian Lamb, Lori Landowne, Josette Lang, Robert Langdon, Patrick Langhenry, Sumani Lanka, Julie Last, Leigh Latimer, Julia Lau, Peter Laumann, Daniela LaValva, Patricia Lavelle, Joseph Lavine, Frances Lawall, Simone Lawson, Misa Le, Hana Le, Felicia Leak, Robyn Lear, Valerie LeBrew, JoAnn LeBright, Ashley Lecaro, Everett Lee, Deborah Lee, Jeff Lee, Young Lee, Casey Lee, Sungso Lee, Sarah Legler, Mimi Lei, Sabieta Lekhraj, Jorge Lema Rodriguez, Sarah Lemelman, Marty Lentz, Morgan Leppla, Samantha Lepre, Kevin Lerman, Adrian Lesher, William Lesman, Michael Letwin, Veronica Leventhal, Jordana Levey, Clifford Levin, Arnold Levine, Benjamin Levine, Steven Levine, Robin Levinson-Zalewski, Karen Levit, Sharona Levitt, Samuel Levy, Jennifer Lewis, Dorothy Lewis, Hannah Lewis, Allison Lewis, Donna Lewis, Michael
Table of Contents 2 Our Mission
4 Report of the Attorney-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer
5 Report of the President & Chair of the Board
6 Board of Directors
7 Leadership
8 In Memory of Blaine V. “Fin” Fogg
10 Sustaining Law Firms
12 Where We Work
14 Our Year in Review
16 What We Did in 2019
19 Leading Through Partnership
20 Expertise Where it Matters
22 Our 2019 Impact
28 Our Practice Areas
30 Staff Awards
32 Pro Bono Publico Awards
34 Our Supporters
42 Financial Summary
2
O U R M I S S I O N
Delivering Justice in Every BoroughThe Legal Aid Society is built on one simple but powerful belief: that no New Yorker should be denied the right to equal justice. We seek to be a beacon of hope for New Yorkers who feel neglected—regardless of who they are, where they come from, or how they identify. From our start over 140 years ago, our growth has mirrored that of the city we serve. Today, we are proud to be the largest, most influential social justice law firm in NYC.
Our staff and attorneys deliver justice in every borough, working tirelessly to defend our clients and dismantle the hidden, systemic barriers that can prevent them from thriving. As passionate advocates for individuals and families, The Legal Aid Society is an indispensable component of the legal, social, and economic fabric of NYC.
Leading Through PartnershipThe partnerships we’ve forged with communities across the city are the driving force behind our transformative litigation and advocacy work.
Expertise Where it MattersThe expertise and dedication of our staff empower us to deliver justice in every borough. When life and liberty hang in the balance, expertise makes a crucial difference in the lives of our clients.
4 5
Report of the Attorney- in-ChiefIn January 2019, I was privileged to return to The Legal Aid Society where I grew up professionally. I started my career here as a trial attorney in Housing Court, working on health and disability law reform issues, running a neighborhood office and the Immigration Law Unit, and finally serving as General Counsel and Chief Administrative Officer. Coming back after eight years on the Executive Team at the NYS Attorney General’s office, I discovered many familiar faces coupled with a new dynamism and energy, and a vigorous commitment to our commu-nities and partners. The Legal Aid Society I returned to is larger and more diverse. It is more creative and more determined. It is a leader in criminal justice, civil legal services, and juvenile rights. And it is recognized nationally for the talent and dedicated work of our staff. It was with great pride and humility that I came home to The Legal Aid Soci-ety, inspired to lead the organization in NYC most capable of rising to the extraordinary challenges faced by our city and country.
It has been a year of significant achievement.
Our staff and attorneys secured victories in and out of the courtroom with implications across NYS—and in some cases, across the nation. They worked in collaboration with community partners and affected individuals to build strong and lasting coalitions that are, without a doubt, a key to their success.
Among the groundbreaking achievements this year were victories in criminal justice and tenant protection. The commitment to our mission and the enduring respect for the protection of basic human rights led us, working in coalitions with community ad-vocates, to challenge the federal government and take a stand for immigrants across the country in a series of groundbreaking court cases.
No one has a deeper understanding or greater empathy for our client communities than the individuals who make up The Legal Aid Society. We are over two thousand attor-neys, paralegals, investigators, social workers, support and administrative staff united by the simple but powerful belief that no person should be denied the right to equal justice. Together, our tireless efforts have resulted in lasting change for the people and communities we serve.
As we continue our work in the year ahead, we remain vigilant in our commitment to justice.
Report of the President & Chair of the BoardThis year, we are happy to report that the advocacy efforts of our staff resulted in improved lives for our clients through crucial reforms in the criminal defense, civil legal services, and juvenile rights justice systems. The Legal Aid Society continues to play an important role in challenging government violations of our clients’ rights, and in making NYC a better place to live.
As announced in these pages last year, Janet Sabel joined us as Attorney-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer in January. Janet’s 25 years of experience at The Legal Aid Society, coupled with eight years at the NYS Attorney General’s Office where she served as Chief Deputy Attorney General, made her the ideal person for the role. So far, she’s done an incredible job of bringing people together, improving workplace culture, and instituting innovative programs and policies.
Another exciting moment this year was the launch of our redesigned website, which provides clients and supporters with the information they need to know about their rights, get legal help, and find answers to pressing questions. The new website also provides a place to learn about the outstanding accomplishments of our staff.
With great sadness, we must also report the passing of our beloved President, Blaine V. "Fin" Fogg. On July 14, Fin lost his courageous 18-month battle with brain cancer. Fin was a fierce advocate for the rights of our clients and for our staff—he constantly talked about his admiration for our staff who, as he would say, looked at what they were doing as a calling and not just a job. As President he contributed his time, his wisdom, his humor, and his unbelievable energy to make The Legal Aid Society a better place. We will sorely miss him.
We were fortunate that John K. Carroll, a Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, and a retired partner at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, assisted with Fin's responsibilities during his illness. John has now been elected President of The Legal Aid Society.
As ever, we’re grateful for the support of the Sustaining Law Firms without which our work would not be pos-sible. Special thanks to the Chairs of our various committees including Charles Weinstein (Audit); Brian H. Polovoy (Development); Tracy Richelle High (Diversity and Inclusion); Douglas Curtis (Finance and Investment); Thomas M. Cerabino (Nominating and Governance); Aaron R. Marcu (Practice Support); Bradley I. Ruskin (Real Estate); Mark P. Goodman (Retirement & Benefits); and Randy Mastro (Strategic Planning and External Rela-tions).
Of course our greatest asset at The Legal Aid Society is our staff; we thank them for their dedication to our clients and organization. Their names appear on the inside covers of this annual report.
We look forward to another year of providing the highest quality representation for our clients in partnership with our law firm supporters and the many organizations working in the communities we serve.
John K. Carroll P R E S I D E N T
Janet Sabel AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H I E F A N D C H I E F E X EC U T I V E O F F I C E R
Richard J. Davis C H A I R O F T H E B OA R D
O F D I R ECTO R S
6 7
Board of DirectorsComprised of some of the brightest minds from law firms, law schools, corporations, and communities, our board members provide crucial guidance that strengthens our work.
MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Richard F. Albert
Deborah N. Archer
Nicole Argentieri
Christopher D. Belelieu
Steven M. Bierman
Barry A. Bohrer
Alvin L. Bragg
Lara S. Buchwald
Alex V. Chachkes
Matthew Diller
June S. Dipchand
William R. Dougherty
Scott A. Edelman
Edward Flanders
Jeffrey A. Fuisz
Christopher L. Garcia
Linda C. Goldstein
David J. Greenwald
Jason M. Halper
David G. Hille
Victor L. Hou
David G. Januszewski
Jeffrey L. Kessler
Atif Khawaja
Natalie Lamarque
Gillian Lester
Adeel A. Mangi
Aaron R. Marcu
J. Kevin McCarthy
Joan McPhee
Roger Meltzer
Thomas C. Meriam
Perry A. Napolitano
Charles C. Platt
Brian H. Polovoy
Sharyl A. Reisman
William Savitt
Paul H. Schoeman
Bart R. Schwartz
William Schwartz
L. Kevin Sheridan Jr.
Audra J. Soloway
Joseph L. Sorkin
Dina Ganz Traugot
Christine A. Varney
Andrew M. Wasserman
Charles Weinstein
Peter M. Williams
Jamie L. Wine
OFFICERS
John K. Carroll P R E S I D E N T
Douglas F. Curtis T R E AS U R E R
Janet Sabel AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H I E F A N D
C H I E F E X EC U T I V E O F F I C E R
Scott Rosenberg S EC R E TA RY A N D G E N E R A L C O U N S E L
Archana Jayaram C H I E F O P E R AT I N G O F F I C E R
Ezra Miller C H I E F F I N A N C I A L O F F I C E R
CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Richard J. Davis
VICE CHAIRS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Thomas M. Cerabino
Douglas F. Curtis
Mark P. Goodman
Tracy Richelle High
Randy Mastro
Sara E. Moss
Bradley I. Ruskin
LeadershipLeaders of The Legal Aid Society are some of the most respected in their fields, offering decades of experience and perspective gained from dedicating their careers to ensuring equal justice.
Janet Sabel AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H I E F A N D
C H I E F E X EC U T I V E O F F I C E R
Adriene Holder AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H A RG E ,
C I V I L P R ACT I C E
Tina Luongo AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H A RG E ,
C R I M I N A L D E F E N S E P R ACT I C E
Dawne Mitchell AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H A RG E ,
J U V E N I L E R I G H TS P R ACT I C E
Scott Rosenberg S EC R E TA RY A N D G E N E R A L C O U N S E L
Archana Jayaram C H I E F O P E R AT I N G O F F I C E R
Allan Fox C H I E F H U M A N R E S O U RC E S O F F I C E R
Ezra Miller C H I E F F I N A N C I A L O F F I C E R
Edward Braunstein C H I E F I N FO R M AT I O N O F F I C E R
Louis Sartori D I R ECTO R O F T H E P RO B O N O P R ACT I C E
Patricia Bath D I R ECTO R O F C O M M U N I CAT I O N S
Sharon Kleinhandler D I R ECTO R O F D E V E LO P M E N T
Bharati Narumanchi D I R ECTO R O F R EC RU I T M E N T
Andrew Kudysch FAC I L I T I E S M A N AG E R
8 9
In Memory of Blaine V. "Fin" FoggBlaine V. "Fin" Fogg—a great leader, mentor, and friend, who devoted 10 years of service as the President of The Legal Aid Society—passed away on July 14. The entire family at The Legal Aid Society suffered a tragic loss at the death of this great man who had given so much of himself to the cause of equal justice for all.
Fin’s steadfast support, wise counsel, and his oft-stated belief that the availability of justice must not depend on a person’s ability to pay sustained the Board of Directors, managers, and staff. His legacy continues to live on through them. Fin was a fierce advocate for the rights of our clients and for our staff. He made a real difference by increasing support for The Legal Aid Society’s mission through his persistence and enthusiasm. We will miss our beloved friend.
The Legal Aid Society celebrates its good fortune in having been the beneficiary of the excellent judgment, generous spirit, and wonderful sense of humor of Fin Fogg, the very best of lawyers and finest of people. We extend our deepest condolences to his wonderful family.
10
Sustaining Law FirmsThe Legal Aid Society is proud to acknowledge the outstanding support of the Sustaining Law Firms, whose dedication helps ensure that all New Yorkers have access to justice. These firms uphold the work of The Legal Aid Society by contributing at a leadership level of $600 per attorney in their New York offices.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Arnold & Porter LLP
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Buckley LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cooley LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Jones Day
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Milbank LLP
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Rower LLC
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Wollmuth Maher & Deutsch LLP
12 13
J U S T I C E I N E V E R Y B O R O U G H
Where We WorkWith offices in every borough, The Legal Aid Society’s clients don’t have to look far for the expertise they need. Here’s a snapshot of our staff’s accomplishments in each borough this year:
B R O N X
Our staff in the Bronx are incredibly dedicated—often spending their days in court fighting for clients, their evenings providing Know Your Rights trainings at local schools and churches, and their weekends run-ning in 5K races to support grass-roots organizations. Notable recent victories include securing 45 afford-able housing units, and ensuring the future of the oldest African American Baptist church in the borough fol-lowing its foreclosure.
M A N H AT TA N
In Manhattan, teams employed diverse expertise on issues ranging from homelessness and education to mental health. Of note this year was our partnership with the government and faith-based groups to host warrant-clearing workshops for people in the shelter system; our collaboration with adolescent mental health providers to help nearly 500 children and families access the educational support services needed to succeed at school; and the launch of our Juvenile Youth Leadership Board to em-power and engage youth beyond the courthouse.
B R O O K LY N
This year in Brooklyn, staff’s urgent response to the presence of ICE agents targeting immigrant clients around Brooklyn Criminal Court initiated our campaign to raise public awareness and press the govern-ment to end this unjust practice. We also launched a pilot program to provide guaranteed counsel to pub-lic housing tenants facing eviction for the first time, and trained 400 Department of Education psycholo-gists on the experience and needs of children in foster care.
S TAT E N I S L A N D
Our Staten Island staff this year advocated to ensure opioid addiction is treated as a public health crisis; partnered with the NYC Elder Abuse Center's Multidisciplinary Team to provide legal counsel on elder abuse cases in the borough; and tirelessly worked to ensure that young people do not face unlawful discrimination by employers, schools, and police due to a juvenile delinquency arrest or family court disposition.
Q U E E N S
In Queens this year, we worked to secure judgments to turn previ-ously unregulated housing units in 15 buildings into rent-stabilized units, safeguarding affordable housing and strengthening local communities for years to come; and we provided thousands of people incarcerated on Rikers Island with vital telephone access to contact attorneys, service providers, and bail funds.
M A R C H
Launched the Wrongful Conviction Unit to address the population of people who are currently incarcer-ated in NYC and still fighting for their freedom and to clear their names of crimes they did not commit.
15
jan mar apr may jun jul aug sept oct
JA N UA RY
Settled our litigation to ensure disabled Medicaid recipients receive access to the home care services they need.
JA N UA RY
Launched the Citywide Homicide Defense Task Force as the primary NYC provider of criminal defense representation.
M AY
Governor Cuomo signed the repeal of the vague and unjust gravity knife law due to the unrelenting advocacy of defender staff at our Manhattan Trial Office.
J U N E
Our housing advocates secured once-in-a-generation reforms to protect tenants in the statewide rent regulation system—impacting 2.5 million people living in rent-regulat-ed apartments in NYC alone.
JA N UA RY
Launched the Worker Justice Project to address and effectively remove the barriers to employment for current and former Criminal Defense Practice clients.
AU G U S T
Filed successful challenge to the Trump administration’s proposed changes to public charge regula-tions. The Court later blocked initial implementation of rules that would unfairly penalize 22 million noncitizens across the nation.
S E P T E M B E R
Filed litigation to prevent ICE from conducting enforcement activities in courts across NYS. Under Trump, ICE courthouse arrests and attempted arrests across NYS have increased 1700%.
M A R C H
Our Cop Accountability Project fought to repeal the laws and policies that hide bad acts and disciplinary records of NYC police officers and launched a public website that allows all New Yorkers to browse thousands of federal civil rights lawsuits filed against NYPD officers.
M A R C H
Secured a victory in a class action lawsuit on behalf of vulnerable immigrant youth which upheld the legitimacy of New York Family Court Orders, securing a path to permanent residency and citizenship for abused, abandoned or neglected young im-migrants. The government estimates the class includes over 6,000 young immigrants across New York.
S E P T E M B E R
Granted class certification in a case that expanded state access to vital dental services for 6.1 million Medicaid recipients. NYS revised its policies to allow coverage for dental implants for the first time.
O C TO B E R
Joint juvenile and criminal Adolescent Defense teams ensured that Raise The Age reforms—which ended the automatic prosecution of 16- and 17-year-olds as adults and increased the age of criminal responsibility to 18 years old—were implemented fully and that young clients are being pro-vided holistic representation. The new law aims to provide age-appropriate court process, services and facilities to reduce recidivism and promote wellbeing.
2 0 1 9 T I M E L I N E
Our Year in ReviewThis year, The Legal Aid Society staff urgently responded to continued attacks on the rights of marginalized communities and on our institutions. We worked to develop new coalitions and programs that helped ensure New York is a safe and supportive place for all people.
A P R I L
The Decarceration Project helped advance the bail reform that passed the State Legislature this month, by drafting legislation, lobbying legislatures, providing policy input, and working in coalition with other public defenders and grassroots organizations.
J U LY
The Digital Forensics Lab opened in our Bronx Criminal Defense Office as the second Digital Forensic Lab at The Legal Aid Society. We are the first state public defender to implement in-house digital forensic analysis.
16
O U R W O R K
What We Did in 2019America’s ideal of equal justice under the law is only as meaningful as the experiences and outcomes our justice system creates. In 2019, staff across The Legal Aid Society’s practice areas worked to reinforce this ideal and ensure that NYC places social, racial, and economic equity at its heart.
This year, our Civil Practice delivered its expertise to clients and marginalized communities across NYC—whether by fighting housing and lending practices that discriminate against domestic violence survivors or older adults, securing settlements for individuals who were unfairly sanctioned or denied benefits, or expanding access to vital health care services.
Utilizing the experience of our staff and the power of partnership, the Criminal Defense Practice helped bring historic reform to the criminal legal system in NYS. Our efforts this year will result in the abolition of antiquated and unfair discovery, bail, and speedy trial laws in 2020.
In the Juvenile Rights Practice, staff worked zealously to safeguard the rights and needs of our clients in every facet of their lives from courts and schools to protective agencies. This year, we launched two new client-centered initiatives— the Juvenile Rights Youth Leadership Board and Set the Record Straight—which fight to decriminalize foster youth, and challenge lawless revocations of youth on aftercare.
18 19
Leading Through Partnership This year, partnerships with community organizations, government agencies, pro bono partners, and other advocates led us to achieve sweeping reforms and case victories on behalf of all New Yorkers.
Our close collaboration with clients, government officials, and agencies helped us bring increased fairness to our criminal legal system this year. Staff from our Criminal Defense Practice joined with com-munity advocates, many of them personally impact-ed by the justice system, to mount an action plan and campaign to reform key criminal justice laws, educate the public, and advocate for legislation to force needed changes to the state’s bail, discovery, and speedy trial laws. This powerful partnership was successful. As we move towards the January 1, 2020 effective date of new criminal justice laws in NYS, we remain unified with our partners, working together to ensure that these important protections are implemented correctly and not rolled back.
The Legal Aid Society’s housing practitioners made history this year by coordinating the largest state-wide coalition of tenant and affordable housing advocates in recent history and securing the most significant changes to the rent regulation system in a generation. The new law expanded regulation statewide for the first time and eliminated high-rent vacancy decontrol and preferential rents. These changes will have an enormous impact on the lives of the 2.5 million people occupying rent-regulated apartments in NYC. Our Civil Practice also formed the Coalition of Labor and Disability Advocates to ensure low-wage workers’ rights are upheld and to protect older adults’ ability to remain in their homes and receive care.
Working on behalf of our young clients, our Juvenile Rights Practice lawyers were instrumental in creat-ing the Youth Justice Coalition, a group of advo-
cates focused on issues facing young people in the juvenile and criminal justice system. The Coalition, in turn, became a critical resource in ensuring that we could address challenges and best practices in implementing the momentous Raise the Age legis-lation across NYS. Passed in 2017 and implemented gradually from 2018 to 2019, the Raise the Age legislation increased the age of criminal respon-sibility from 16 to 18 years old and moved young peoples’ cases into specialized court systems. Before it passed, 16- and 17-year-olds who entered the criminal justice system were treated as adults and held in adult jails and prisons—with no option to have their case heard in Family Court. Additionally, our Education Advocacy Project partnered with NYC child protection agencies to develop school stability programs and transportation solutions, and pro-vided substantial input as the NYC Department of Education rewrote the school discipline code.
Advocating on behalf of our immigrant youth clients, a multi-disciplinary team worked with pro bono co-counsel and community advocacy partners to suc-cessfully challenge federal immigration policy that unlawfully restricted more than 6,000 young people from finding a path to lawful residence in the US.
Only by working in collaboration with our community and pro bono partners can we achieve long-lasting and meaningful change. We’re only as strong as our relationships, and this year proved that the more we invest in our partners, the more we’re able to radi-cally improve the lives of our clients.
By working within communities we can meet the clients where they are.
K H A D I N E D E PA I VA STA F F AT TO R N E Y FO R EC LO S U R E P R E V E N T I O N P RO J ECT
20 21
Expertise Where it MattersWhen life and liberty hang in the balance, expertise matters. Our 140+ years of experience working directly with hundreds of thousands of clients make our staff uniquely equipped to meet the needs and understand the challenges our clients face today. This year, we used our expertise to push for reforms that help dismantle the harmful barriers that can destabilize the lives of our clients and damage their communities. From our trial work, through our appeals and systemic advocacy work, our staff and attorneys truly “make the law.”
Expertise empowers us to meet the critical needs of our clients by focusing resources to help them address and overcome the issues they face.
In January of this year, we debuted our Homicide Defense Task Force—an interdisciplinary team of highly skilled senior attorneys, mitigation specialists, homicide investigators, and paralegal case handlers. Members of the Task Force respond immediately to homicide arrests and provide clients the full range of legal and social services needed for a vigorous defense. This new team is setting the standard for practice in NYC and across the country, and is already saving lives. Here’s how: Our client Mr. B was charged with Murder in the Second Degree for the stabbing death of another man in the Bronx. Despite the fact that he was not in the apartment where the incident took place, the judge remanded him at arraignments. Our Homicide Defense Task Force team spent months investigating the case, locating important witnesses and visiting the client weekly to gather information. Through those efforts, they discovered that witnesses lied in the grand jury to frame our client for the murder as a way of protect-ing their own family member responsible for the killing. The case against Mr. B was dismissed. Expertise propels us to challenge policies and practices that have been ingrained and accepted for too long.
In a momentous ruling, our Juvenile Rights trial team successfully challenged and changed NYC’s de-cades-old practice of seeking warrants for the arrest
of youth whose only infraction was running away from their foster care placements—recognizing the significant harm caused by arresting already-traumatized children. We also challenged NYC’s authority to return youth to juvenile facilities for alleged violations of the terms of their early release. Our success in this case forced the city immediately to release a dozen youth in NYC unlawfully held in juvenile detention. Our trial teams also worked to streamline the implementation of the Interstate Compact for the Placement of Children to ensure that New York upholds its policy of keeping biologi-cal families together. Expertise guides us as we respond immediately to new attacks on long-standing protections for our clients.
As our immigrant communities continue to come under attack from overtly hostile federal immigra-tion policies, we are the only organization in NYC with the capacity and expertise to provide them with the tireless defense they deserve. In response to an arbitrary policy change that restricted immi-grant youth aged 18-21 from filing for immigration relief, our immigration litigation team filed suit with pro bono co-counsel. In the first ruling of its kind, in March 2019, the federal court found in our favor and granted injunctive relief to more than 6,600 immigrant youth who were given the opportunity to seek permanent residence and citizenship. Advocate groups in California, Washington State, New Jersey, and Massachusetts have filed similar challenges.
Our clients who struggle with mental illness are among the most misunderstood and vulnerable people in the criminal justice system. I am proud to be part of a team of attorneys and social workers who specialize in humanizing, supporting and advocating for this group.
J E F F R E Y B E R M A N STA F F AT TO R N E Y, M I CA U N I T C R I M I N A L D E F E N S E P R ACT I C E
2322
M A K I N G A D I F F E R E N C E
Our 2019 ImpactEvery day, in every borough, The Legal Aid Society works in courtrooms and communities to deliver justice to New Yorkers. Our direct representation of thousands of individuals every year informs our impact litigation efforts and policy advocacy—providing us with a powerful perspective from which to begin dismantling the systemic barriers that keep our clients from thriving.
We stand with our clients, as we push beyond individual cases to effect change on a broader, societal level. In 2019, we were one of NYC’s first responders in times of legal crisis, mobilizing to use law and policy to fight mass deportations, violence in communities, homelessness, the separation of children from their families, and more.
This year, all across The Legal Aid Society, we forged meaningful partnerships with communities and organizations to launch new initiatives and improve our ability to serve new and existing clients.
$4.52Mtaxpayer dollars saved by the Time Saved Campaign, which works to ensure that our clients do not remain in jail because of an administrative error in a sentence calculation. 50 clients were served and 7,381 days in prison were saved.
6,343 clients served by the Parole Revocation Defense Unit. The work of the unit ensures that people who return to NYC and are on parole are able to remain in the community and reconnect with family and friends.
830general and special education consultations provided by our Education Advocacy Project on behalf of children in need of educational support, resulting in 365 new cases, and the facilitation of 20 substantive trainings presented to community groups, agencies, law schools and advocates.
34active Law Reform cases on the docket set to benefit millions of people across the city, state, and nation. These cases span the spectrum of social justice concerns from criminal justice reform to immigrant rights, health law, homelessness, housing, juvenile rights, prisoners’ rights, and public benefits.
>80%of all 16 year olds arraigned under the new Raise the Age law were moved from Criminal Court, where they would be treated as adults, to Family Court, where their cases belong. Served by integrated practice teams in all five boroughs, our experts in adolescent defense saw a rise in filings and achieved fairer outcomes for clients.
125,127 people served by our Civil Practice in over 50,484 cases across all five boroughs of NYC. Our Civil cases cover a diverse range of issue areas including housing, homelessness, employment, health, public assistance, education, immigration, and more.
2524
Setting The Record StraightDespite having never been convicted of any crime, our clients, such as Kyle, are often denied employ-ment due to purported criminal history. Kyle was denied employment with the NYC Department of Education because of two open juvenile offender ar-rests from 2007. Neither had been filed in court and both should have been sealed years earlier. After many failed attempts to resolve this matter on his own by contacting multiple city entities, our Special Litigation and Law Reform team successfully got his fingerprint record destroyed and sealed his open arrest records—clearing the way for Kyle’s future employment.
O U R 2 0 1 9 I M P A C T
Reforming DNA Case LawNYC maintains an unregulated and largely secre-tive databank containing the DNA profiles of more than 82,000 people that provides no protection to persons wrongly included in the databank. This year, our DNA Unit made new groundbreaking case law challenging NYC’s controversial local DNA index. In Samy F. v. Fabrizio, we defended Samy, who was 16 at the time of his arrest, and whose DNA sample was taken from him without parental consent. Despite our success in fighting his conviction and sealing his case, the prosecution would not expunge Samy’s DNA from the NYC index. We filed a motion arguing that under NYS law, because Samy’s case ended without a conviction, his DNA should not be stored in the NYC databank for the rest of his life. The judge denied the motion because the NYC DNA databank was not bound by NYS DNA laws.
Since Samy’s case was over and he had no further conviction to challenge, there was not an obvious path to correct this unfair ruling. Our attorneys did not give up. The DNA Unit went to the appellate court with a petition for a civil writ of mandamus, a procedure that had never been used before to challenge the denial of DNA expungement. The appellate court granted Samy’s petition, and ruled for the first time that NYC’s rogue DNA index must follow State genetic privacy laws. This precedent allowed other judges to protect the DNA of those not convicted of a crime and provided a new way to challenge other unfair genetic privacy rulings in the future.
Advancing Access to BenefitsAfter being denied seven dental implants from her Medicaid managed care plan, Ms. D contacted The Legal Aid Society through our Access to Benefits helpline. Her diagnosis of epilepsy with partial com-plex seizures made it unsafe for her to use dentures or any prosthetic. Missing nearly all of her molars, she was unable to eat solid foods and resorted to blending all of her food—against her doctor’s orders to eat solid, plant-based foods. We filed an appeal on Ms. D’s behalf and argued that her current man-aged care plan did not act reasonably with sound medical judgment, nor was it in Ms. D’s best interest. The appeal included several doctors’ letters, a narra-tive from the client, and academic articles examin-ing the relationship between epilepsy and prosthetic rehabilitation. A dental expert on behalf of the De-partment of Financial Services overturned the denial in full, approving all seven implants and related services. Ms. D will now have a full set of teeth.
Criminal justice issues are social justice issues.
T I M RO U N T R E E AT TO R N E Y- I N - C H A RG E Q U E E N S O F F I C E C R I M I N A L D E F E N S E P R ACT I C E
27
Creating a Seat at the Table for SurvivorsIn June 2019, the Criminal Defense Practice's Ex-ploitation Intervention Project celebrated the first anniversary of its Client Advisory Board. The Advi-sory Board was created in response to a joint study on prostitution-related offenses and trafficking survivors published with the Urban Institute, which recommended integrating survivor consultants or peer-mentors into organizations that represent criminalized people. The four-person Advisory Board has met with staff monthly, helping to address decisions about post-conviction representation, engagement with outside organizations, and policy efforts. As trafficking survivors, members are best equipped to guide our response to clients engaged in the sex trade. Board members also represent the Exploitation Intervention Project at commu-nity meetings, and help advocate for policy reform, improve training materials, and facilitate organiza-tional training. To date, the Exploitation Interven-tion Project has vacated over 1,750 convictions for 111 trafficking survivors. As one Board member observed, "We're just at the beginning...I know I'm doing something good and have faith in the work we're doing."
We have fought to make housing court a just and equitable place for our clients.
A I S SATO U BA R RY STA F F AT TO R N E Y H O U S I N G P R ACT I C E
Ensuring Affordable Housing Until recently, it was common practice when the rental market was soft for landlords in NYC to offer a "preferential rent" to rent-stabilized tenants. A pref-erential rent is a rent that is at "market" but below the legal rent. When the market improved or when the tenant complained about repairs, the landlord was able to raise the rent substantially. Our Housing Justice Unit recently helped Ms. S, a single, preg-nant mother of a seven-year-old child, maintain her apartment's low preferential rent despite the land-lord's concerted efforts to raise her rent dramatical-ly. With an amputated leg and prosthetic, Ms. S has limited mobility. She relies solely on Supplemental Security Income and public assistance, and her rent is paid through Family Homelessness & Eviction Pre-vention Supplement (FHEPS), a subsidy established for families facing homelessness created as a result of previous litigation by The Legal Aid Society.
The practice of increasing preferential rents was outlawed following the rent regulation reforms The Legal Aid Society helped secure in June 2019. Our Housing team leveraged the new reforms and was able to secure an advantageous preferential rent for Ms. S, along with the peace of mind that this new rent cannot be used as a threat to her tenancy. Ms. S now has a preferential rent lease for a one-year term starting November 1, 2019, with subsequent leases based upon that amount in accordance with the new law.
Reuniting Families in the Foster Care SystemMinimizing the impact of trauma on children and families is a heightened goal in all child welfare mat-ters. Our counsel and strategy on each case must balance the harm to children caused by removal from their home and placement in foster care with the goal of keeping children safe in their homes. We represented Michael in a child abuse matter-he was eight years old, autistic and deaf. Juvenile Rights advocates fought to have him returned home with supportive services, recognizing that a child with his needs would not thrive in a foster home. But when his parents gave birth to a newborn, Administration for Children's Services filed a petition to remove the new baby, stating that the baby would be released only if Michael was out of their home. Struggling with the unconscionable demand to choose be-tween two children, Michael's family worked with our team to resolve NYC's concerns. His child welfare attorney worked with the Education Advocacy Proj-ect to ensure Michael's home was an appropriate setting where he could have his educational, social, and emotional needs met. Our advocates made a compelling argument about the parents' gradual evolution to acknowledge the depth of their son's special needs and argued that the parents had the capacity to heighten their supervision and keep both children safely at home. Justice prevailed, and the judge released the baby home while also allowing Michael to remain at home with intensive services.
I fight to let our young clients have a voice in court.
H Y E J I K I M STA F F AT TO R N E Y J U V E N I L E R I G H TS P R ACT I C E
2928
O U R E X P E R T I S E
Practice Areas In 2019, threats to the safety and liberty of our clients propelled our Practice Areas to launch new initiatives, expand services, and develop strategies to hire new, dedicated staff. Our teams worked tirelessly across The Legal Aid Society to stand up and speak out on behalf of at-risk New Yorkers.
Civil Practice Our Civil Practice operates across a network of neighborhood and courthouse-based offices as well as indi-vidual citywide units and programs. Throughout all of our offices and initiatives, we provide comprehensive legal assistance to clients with problems involving housing, homelessness, and foreclosure prevention; family law and domestic violence; employment law; public assistance benefits; disability-related assistance; health law; HIV/AIDS and chronic diseases; elder law; tax; consumer law; education law; immigration; community development legal assistance; and reentry and reintegration matters for formerly incarcerated clients.
As a leader for marginalized individuals, we collaborate closely with the communities we serve by partner-ing with community organizations, social services and pro bono partners, law schools, and the legal services sector. Utilizing the unparalleled expertise of our staff and one of the largest civil caseloads in the nation—working on 50,484 individual cases and legal matters benefitting more than 125,000 low-income adults and children—we identify emerging trends and quickly respond to the needs of underserved populations in NYC. With decades of impact litigation, and legislative and policy advocacy work, we fight regressive policies and advance efforts that significantly improve the law.
Criminal Defense Practice The Legal Aid Society’s Criminal Defence Practice has been at the forefront of public defense in NYC since 1876—playing a major role in shaping the practice of criminal defense and the criminal legal system.
The Practice’s expansive reach spans from our client representation in courts across all five boroughs of the city to our ongoing, active presence and partnership in communities. As the primary public defender in NYC, we are committed to protecting the rights of the most marginalized and disenfranchised people in society. We provide representation on trial and post-conviction litigation on close to 200,000 direct legal matters, while our class action litigation and policy reform work address unjust laws and policies. This year we launched a Wrongful Conviction Unit to represent people on their claims of innocence and created our Cased Closed proj-ect to assist New Yorkers with the sealing of old convictions that bar housing and employment opportunities. Our scope as the country’s oldest and largest public defender goes beyond any single client or legal matter. Through community engagement and a focus on pre-entry, reentry, and wraparound services and resources for our clients, we do not wait for people to be arrested to help them. We are in communities throughout New York City working with our partners to prevent arrests from taking place altogether.
Juvenile Rights Practice The Legal Aid Society’s Juvenile Rights Practice ensures the health and welfare of NYC’s children in court-rooms and communities. For over 50 years, we have tenaciously defended the rights, needs, and interests of 90% of the children who appear in Family Courts in New York City on Child Welfare, Parental Rights, PINS, and Juvenile Delinquency matters.
The Juvenile Rights Practice specializes in meeting the unique legal needs of young people, with over 200 experts working with over 34,000 children each year to address the traumatic and emotionally-charged cases affecting our clients and their families. As trusted confidants and advocates, our attorneys for children, social workers, paralegals, and investigators provide comprehensive representation while navigating multiple sys-tems and challenges affecting our clients.
In addition to our direct representation, we continue to partner with law firms to advance impact litigation aimed at system-wide abuses within the juvenile justice, child welfare, and educational systems. Through our efforts to defend the rights, needs, and interests of our clients, we drive systemic changes and policy reforms in New York.
Pro Bono Practice Whether through individual representation of an at-risk client or bringing groundbreaking class action and civil rights litigation, the Pro Bono Practice provides over 3,500 volunteers with training, supervision, and men-torship each year. This allows us to deliver life-changing legal assistance to thousands of residents in every borough of NYC.
Our volunteers work in partnership with The Legal Aid Society staff to expand our ability to provide legal ser-vices to a greater number of clients and communities. All pro bono referrals are screened by our attorneys and legal professionals who are experts in the field. Those same experts remain on the case to provide mentorship and guidance throughout the representation.
Working with professionals from New York's major law firms, corporate law departments, and students from both local and national law schools, our pro bono volunteers help secure the legal rights of low-income New Yorkers in need of counsel who are unable to afford it. In the last year, our pro bono partners provided over 242,000 hours of legal assistance.
30 31
The Legal Aid Society Staff AwardsOur staff is our greatest asset at The Legal Aid Society.
The Sandra Scott Memorial AwardThe Legal Aid Society suffered a terrible loss on July 1, 2016, when our beloved Chief Financial Officer Sandra Scott lost her valiant struggle against cancer. Her cour-age, integrity, and dedication serve as her legacy. The Sandra Scott Memorial Award for Excellence recognizes the dedication and outstanding achievement of a mem-ber of our non-lawyer central administrative staff.
Jennifer Lewis, Talent Acquisitions Manager in Human Resources and the Juvenile Rights Practice, is the 2019 recipient of the Sandra Scott Memorial Award.
From left: Daniel K. Hsiung, Barbara Byrne, Juan Alonzo, Anne Callagy
The Marden AwardsWithout the people who dedicate themselves to the fight every day, pursuing our mission to deliver equal justice would not be possible. The Legal Aid Society’s Marden Awards cel-ebrate our hardworking staff and honor their commitment and achievements.
The Orison S. Marden Awards were established in 1976, The Legal Aid Society’s centennial year, to recognize the excellence and dedication of our staff. The awards honor the memory of Orison S. Marden, a leader of the organized bar, a partner at White & Case LLP, and a for-mer Chair of our Board of Directors. For over 40 years, Mr. Marden was a dedicated supporter of The Legal Aid Society, often traveling to the Harlem Neighborhood Office to volunteer as a pro bono attorney.
Each year, the awards are presented at our Annual Meeting. Recipients are selected by a committee comprised of management, exempt, and union representatives from nominations submitted by the staff.
Whether on the front lines providing direct client services or working on critical office opera-tions, this year’s recipients demonstrated efforts that went above and beyond to make a dif-ference in the lives of our clients. Marden Awards are conferred on: Staff Attorneys, Manag-ers, and Core Staff, including Paralegals, Social Workers, Investigators and Support Staff.
Below are the dedicated staff members honored with our 2019 Marden Awards.
ORISON S. MARDEN MANAGER AWARD
Barbara Byrne, Supervising Attorney, Queens Criminal Defense Practice
Anne Callagy, Director of Government Benefits, Civil Practice
Reginald Haley, Supervising Attorney, Brooklyn Criminal Defense Practice*
ORISON S. MARDEN STAFF ATTORNEY AWARD
Daniel K. Hsiung, Staff Attorney, Low Income Taxpayer Unit, Civil Practice
ORISON S. MARDEN STAFF AWARD
Juan Alonzo, Paralegal, Criminal Appeals Bureau
Eric Barreto, Support Staff, Administration (Shared Ser-vices)* *Posthumous
32 33
2019 Pro Bono Publico AwardsThe Legal Aid Society held the 2019 Pro Bono Publico Awards Ceremony at the Prince George Ballroom on Monday, October 28, honoring over 260 individual attorneys and 41 law firms for their outstanding and sustained achievements in pro bono services. The firms recognized were nominated by our staff in every borough for their exceptional commitment to ensure that no New Yorker is denied the right to equal justice. Judge Edwina G. Mendelson, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for Justice Initiatives for the NYS courts, presented the awards to the honorees.
The Public Interest Law Leadership Award was presented to Jennifer L. Kroman, of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP. Beginning in 2012, Jennifer’s collaboration with the Exploitation Intervention Project established a groundbreaking pro bono project representing survivors of human trafficking seeking vacatur of prior convictions. The work has become a calling, and Jennifer is now a nationally recognized advocate for survivors, assisting legal services organizations throughout the country with lobbying for legislation and establishing similar volunteer projects.
The 2019 Honorable Jonathan Lippman Pro Bono Law Firm Award was presented to Debevoise & Plimpton LLP, in recognition of its exceptional pro bono commitment to our organization and clients. Last year, nearly 100 Debevoise staff contributed over 4,600 hours of critical legal assistance to clients in areas as diverse as immigration de-fense, disability advocacy, civil rights litigation, criminal appeals, and the preservation of affordable housing.
2019 PRO BONO LAW FIRM HONOR ROLL
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Arnold & Porter LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer US LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Milbank LLP
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand Iason & Anello PC
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Penn Probono Alumni Consulting, Inc.
Petrillo Klein & Boxer LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
34 35
Our SupportersWe are deeply grateful to these law firms, corporations, foundations, and individuals for their support of The Legal Aid Society and our core principle that no New Yorker should be denied access to justice because of poverty.
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT
$500,000+Robin Hood Foundation
Single Stop USA, Inc.
$100,000-$499,999BNY Mellon
Fund For The City of New York
Bernard F. and Alva B. Gimbel Foundation, Inc.
The Joseph H. Flom Foundation
NoVo Foundation
$50,000 - $99,999Ambrose Monell Foundation
Assurant Foundation
Borealis Philanthropy
Center for Urban Community Services, Inc.
The Charles Evans Hughes
Memorial Foundation, Inc.
Henry & Lucy Moses Fund, Inc.
MAC AIDS Fund
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP
The Estate of Marcia Thompson
The Travelers Companies, Inc.
$25,000 - $49,999Allen & Overy LLP
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Charles A. Frueauff Foundation, Inc.
Cuomo Campaign Committee
Data & Society Research Institute, Inc.
EisnerAmper LLP
The Estée Lauder Companies, Inc.
The Lucius N. Littauer Foundation
Mastercard
National Basketball Association
National Basketball Players Association
Foundation
New York Jets Players and Coaches
$10,000 - $24,99940 Worth Associates LLC
The Alice Lawrence Foundation, Inc.
American International Group
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
CBRE, Inc.
Charles S. Keene Foundation
Estate of Constance Cohen
Crowell & Moring LLP
Nan and Richard Davis Family Fund
William and Tara Dougherty Gift Fund
Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP
Golin Charitable Fund
The David and Beth Greenwald Family Fund
Immigrant Justice Corps
The Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation, Inc.
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
The David Kornblau and Susannah Gardiner
Charitable Fund
Kurtz Family Foundation
Nancy and Alan N. Locker Philanthropic Fund
McCown Family Foundation
Morgan Stanley
Sara E. Moss Family Fund
National Football League Players Association
The New York Bar Foundation
John O'Connor Charitable Gift Fund
Panini America, Inc.
Patrikis/Trueblood Fund
The Peter Jennings Foundation, Inc.
Pfizer Inc.
Phalarope Foundation
Renaissance Associates Ltd
Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Sy Syms Foundation
United HealthCare Services, Inc.
Viacom Inc.
Willis Towers Watson
$5,000 - $9,999A & J Saks Foundation Inc.
Babbitt Family Charitable Trust
Berg & Androphy
Bernstein Litowitz Berger & Grossmann LLP
The Carroll Family Trust
Chubb Limited
Debra and Scott Edelman Family Fund
Edgeworth Economics, LLC
Equal Justice America
Gallagher
Goldfarb & Fleece LLP
Goldin Associates, LLC
Goldman Sachs & Co.
The Green Fund, Inc.
Patricia M. Hynes and Roy L. Reardon Foundation
Marjorie S. Isaac Charitable Lead Annuity Trust
Jack Resnick & Sons, Inc.
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
KLM Equities Inc.
Kurtzman Carson Consultants LLC
Ira N. Langsan & Lillian Langsan
Philanthropic Fund
The Liman Foundation
Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP
Mediacom Communications Corporation
MetLife Foundation
The Metta Giving Foundation
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Moses/Young Donor Advised Fund
Panasonic Corporation of North America
Pearson, Simon & Warshaw, LLP
Savitt Charitable Fund
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sidney and Judith Kranes Charitable Trust
The Staffaroni Family Fund
Lynn Stern and Jeremy Lang Family Foundation
Lise Strickler and Mark Gallogly Charitable Fund
UBS AG
Venable LLP
The Marc Wolinsky and Barry C. Skovgaard
Charitable Fund
$1,000 - $4,999The Abbey/Dietz Family Fund
Aetna Inc.
Anonymous
Bahler Family Fund
The Hilaria and Alex Baldwin Foundation, Inc.
Bank of America
Bard Family Charitable Fund
Richard and Kerri Bartlett Fund
Belson Family Fund
Daniel M. Berger & Elyse D. Echtman
Charitable Trust
The BP Group
Calico Fund
Center for Survivor Agency and Justice
The Cameron Clark Memorial Fund
Jacques & Emy Cohenca Foundation, Inc.
The Jonathan L. Cohen Foundation
Faith Colish Fund
Complete Equity Markets, Inc.
Cullman-Kirby Family Fund
Curtis Family Foundation, Inc.
Davidson, Dawson & Clark LLP
DeLaCour Family Foundation
Delicious Dessert Charitable Fund
Deutsche Bank AG, Filiale New York
Dolnick Family Fund
Edelman Combs & Latturner & Goodwin, LLC
Lawrence Engel Giving Fund
The Evangelakos Family Charitable Fund
Farber Fund
Michael S. Feldberg-Ruth Lazarus
Charitable Trust
The Florence V. Burden Foundation
Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu, P.C.
Furman Hecker Charitable Gift Fund
Aaron Garcia Giving Account
Gideon and Sarah Gartner Foundation
Winnie Gilmore Giving Fund
Max & Elisabeth Gitter Charitable Fund
The Estate of Anna Gold
Edward and Marjorie Goldberger Foundation
Goldey Giving Account
The Goldstone Family Foundation
The Goldstone Fund, Inc.
The Hanft Charitable Fund
Hanson Family Charitable Fund
The Howard Bayne Fund
The Hurwitz Starfield Fund
Jacobs/Walker Family Fund
JLB Charitable Fund
J.P. Morgan Private Bank
K. Hovnanian Companies, LLC.
The Rebecca and James Katz Fund
Kerr/Thomas Donor Trust
KLS Professional Advisors Group, LLC
Kornblau Family Foundation
Labaton Sucharow LLP
LH Leicher Giving Fund
The Hallie Leighton Tikkun Olam Fund
The Lincer Family Charitable Fund
The Maitri and Vivek Fund
Major, Lindsey & Africa
Malcolm Gibbs Foundation, Inc.
Mathews Family Fund
McCarter & English, LLP
DJ McManus Foundation, Inc.
Mertz Gilmore Foundation
Mintz & Gold LLP
Michael and Susan Nash Family Charitable Fund
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
New York Jets Foundation, Inc.
New York State Health Foundation
The O'Connell Family Fund
Outten & Golden LLP
Tavan L.R. Pechet Fund
The Pegram Family Fund
Point Harbor Fund
Posel Foundation
Posner-Wallace Foundation
Quinn Mayo Giving Fund
RG/2 Claims Administration
Rocchi Family Fund
Stephen Rogowsky & Valerie Salwen Gift Fund
Rosenthal Family Fund
The Alfred and Jane Ross Foundation, Inc.
The Ruckel Ulrich Charitable Fund
The Estate of Ruth Ryer
Satterlee Stephens Burke & Burke LLP
Schilit-McLaughlin Family Charitable Trust
The Shack Sackler Foundation
Shomstein Family Fund
Moses Silverman and Betty Robbins
Charitable Gift Fund
Garrett K. Smith Giving Account
Joan and Laurence Sorkin Charitable Fund
The Steptoe Foundation
Stolper Fertik Family Foundation
Strategic Claims Services
Take-Two Interactive Software Inc.
The Tow Foundation Inc.
The Tufenkian Foundation
Kenneth Vittor and Judith Aisen Charitable Fund
Murray and Phyllis Warschauer Fund
Wolf Run Foundation, Inc.
The Wonderful Foundation
Gro V. Wood and Jeffrey S. Wood Charitable Fund
The Zegar Family Fund
Lawrence J. Zweifach & Eleanor Grosz Fund
INDIVIDUAL SUPPORT
$25,000+Christopher W. Johnson
Jeffrey L. Kessler, Esq. and Regina D. Kessler
Stacey and Eric Mindich
$10,000 - $24,999Lara S. Buchwald, Esq.
John K. Carroll, III, Esq. and Elizabeth Carroll
Thomas M. Cerabino
William R. Dougherty, Esq. and Tara Dougherty
Daniel F. Kolb, Esq. and Ann C. Kolb
Stacey and Eric Mindich
Tariq Mundiya, Esq.
Clare O'Brien, Esq. and Peter M. Taubman, Esq.
Brian H. Polovoy, Esq.
William D. Savitt, Esq.
Bart R. Schwartz, Esq.
Robert C. and Elizabeth Sheehan
Audra J. Soloway, Esq. and David A. Green, MD
$5,000 - $9,999Peter A. Atkins, Esq. and Laurie Atkins
Jennifer J. Barrett, Esq.
Neena Barua, Esq. and Atif N. Khawaja, Esq.
Stuart J. Baskin, Esq. and Linda Lennon Baskin
Christopher D. Belelieu, Esq.
Jonine L. Bernstein, PhD and
Randy M. Mastro, Esq.
Mary Lu Bilek, Esq. and Aaron R. Marcu, Esq.
Douglas F. Curtis, Esq.
The Honorable Charlotte E. Davidson and
Alex Verbin Chachkes, Esq.
Nan and Rich Davis
June S. Dipchand, Esq.
Valerie L. Fitch, Esq. and Edward Flanders, Esq.
Christopher L. Garcia, Esq.
Bess Thrope Goldring, Esq. and
Stuart J. Goldring, Esq.
Linda C. Goldstein, Esq. and Guy S. Manuel, PhD
Mark P. Goodman, Esq.
Wade C. Guyton
Jason M. Halper, Esq.
Martha C. Hillyard, PhD and
Steven A. Hillyard, PhD
Victor L. Hou, Esq.
David G. Januszewski, Esq. and Kim Januszewski
Jaime L. Lavin, Esq. and Mark Astrachan
Susan B. and Art Lindenauer
Margery and Ted Mayer
J. Kevin McCarthy, Esq. and Kristen S. McCarthy
Thomas C. Meriam, Esq. and Susan Meriam
Perry A. Napolitano, Esq.
Charles C. Platt, Esq.
Katherine L. Pringle, Esq. and John P. McCormick
36 37
Sascha N. Rand, Esq.
Linda E. Ransom, Esq. and
James J. Capra, Jr., Esq.
Gary M. Rosenberg, Esq. and Denise Rosenberg
Andrew J. Rossman, Esq.
Susan Brooks Ruskin, Esq. and
Bradley I. Ruskin, Esq.
Jennifer M. Schneck, Esq.
William J. Schwartz, Esq.
L. Kevin Sheridan, Jr., Esq.
Steven R. Shoemate, Esq.
Charles Weinstein
Robert B. Wilson, Esq.
Peter S. Wilson, Esq. and Scott Sanders
Jamie L. Wine, Esq.
$1,000 - $4,999Debo P. Adegbile, Esq.
Noreen Weiss Adler, Esq. and
Derek J. T. Adler, Esq.
Roger E. Alcaly, PhD and Helen Bodian
Barry J. Alperin
Howard S. Altarescu, Esq.
Catherine M. Amirfar, Esq.
Anne Sargent Arcano, Esq. and
Stephen F. Arcano, Esq.
Ellen L. Asher
Diane Asiel and John H. Asiel
Karen R. Backus and Alan B. Goldberg
Christopher M. Barlow, Esq.
Roland Barral, Esq. and Lisa Principe
Maria Rocha Barros, Esq.
Lawrence N. Barshay, Esq.
Scott J. Behson, PhD
Marcia C. Bellows, Esq. and Allan S. Brilliant, Esq.
Judith E. Belsky, MD
Kathryn S. Benedict, Esq.
Rodman W. Benedict, Esq.
Sanjay Benegal
Michael I. Bernstein, Esq.
William B. Bice, Esq. and J.M. Cummings Bice
Peter A. Bicks, Esq. and Linda D. Bicks
Steven M. Bierman, Esq. and Jerrilyn Fleisher
Sheila L. Birnbaum, Esq.
Benjamin D. Bleiberg, Esq.
Markus P. Bolsinger, PhD and Cristin A. Bolsinger
Robin Bombardier
Jacqueline L. Bonneau, Esq.
Cynthia Borzumato-Cobb
Alvin L. Bragg, Esq.
Garth W. Bray, Esq. and Kathryn H. Baxter
K. Mallory Brennan, Esq.
John M. Briggs, Esq. and Jessica A. Bauman
Thomas R. Brome, Esq. and Mimi Brome
Danzey Burnham, Esq.
Andrea R. Butler, Esq. and Jeff E. Butler, Esq.
Mendell Calabia
Thomas R. Campbell
William F. Cavanaugh, Jr., Esq. and
Mary Ellen Cavanaugh
The Honorable Sarah L. Cave
Eugene L. Chang, Esq.
Sarah N. Chapman, Esq. and Barry A. Bohrer, Esq.
C. Michael Chitwood, Esq.
Barbara L. Chutroo and Tom Rivers
Lisa Elaine Cleary, Esq.
Steven E. Clemens, Esq.
Eric L. Cochran, Esq. and Stacy S. Cochran
Sarah E. Cogan, Esq. and Douglas H. Evans, Esq.
Andrea H. Cohen, Esq. and Steven B. Cohen
Barbara and H. Rodgin Cohen
J. Peter Coll, Jr., Esq.
Barbara S. B. Collins
Roger A. Cooper, Esq. and Samira Kawash
Sean F. Corrigan, Esq. and Karen Corrigan
Amelia A. Cottrell, Esq.
Elena M. Coyle, Esq.
Heather S. Cruz, Esq.
James Wilson Dabney, Esq.
Debra A. Dandeneau, Esq. and Jeffrey Matchen
George A. Davidson, Esq. and
Annette L. Davidson
Jessica K. Delbaum, Esq.
Mylan L. Denerstein, Esq.
Yafang Deng, Esq.
Henry J. DePippo, Esq. and Kathleen C. DePippo
Patrick A. Devanney
Alexandra Diamond, Esq. and
Jeffrey A. Fuisz, Esq.
Sue A. Dillport, Esq.
Molly M. Donovan, Esq.
Timothy W. Donovan, Esq.
Margaret H. Douglas-Hamilton, Esq.
Ellen M. Dunn, Esq. and Lawrence D. Appel
Ryan J. Dzierniejko, Esq. and J. Whitney Pizale
Mary J. Eaton, Esq.
Joshua T. Ebersole, Esq.
Paul M. Eckles, Esq.
Elizabeth M. Ehrenfeld, Esq.
Martin Elias
Michael S. Elkin, Esq.
Morgan D. Elwyn, Esq.
Pamela L. Endreny, Esq. and Ray Endreny
Jane Engelhardt, Esq. and
Timothy K. Beeken, Esq.
Jose A. Esteves, Esq.
Paul M. Fakler, Esq.
Michael S. Farber, Esq.
Steven Lawrence Fasman, Esq.
Andrew M. Faulkner, Esq. and Emily A. Fraenkel
Ellen L. Federman-Conklin, Esq.
Warren L. Feldman, Esq.
Cynthia Fernandez Lumermann, Esq.
Eileen and Andrew Fisher
Douglas E. Fleming, III, Esq.
Kristen R. Fournier, Esq.
Melissa B. Francis, Esq. and David Mackler, Esq.
Marilyn M. Frank and William P. Frank
Joan M. Frankel, Esq. and Michael I. Frankel, Esq.
Thomas H. French, Esq.
Eric J. Friedman, Esq. and Lori O. Friedman
Matthew E. Funk, Esq.
Joy K. Gallup, Esq. and Alan M. Knoll, Esq.
John L. Gardiner, Esq. and Julia Peck
Andrea Gede-Lange, Esq.
David R. Gelfand, Esq. and Katherine M. Gelfand
Marie L. Gibson, Esq.
Edward Scott Gilbert, Esq. and Judy E. Gilbert
Daniel K. Gillmor
Franklin M. Gittes, Esq. and Marie H. Gittes
Steven R. Glaser, Esq.
Amy Glickman, Esq. and Andrew P. Kuritzkes, Esq.
Jay M. Goffman, Esq. and Susan Goffman
Bruce J. Goldner, Esq.
David J. Goldschmidt, Esq. and
Ellen Goldschmidt
Katherine K. Goldsmith
Hector Gonzalez, Esq. and Aimee E. Gonzalez
Matthew B. Goodman, Esq.
Julie R. Gorla, Esq.
Jason S. Gould, Esq.
Philip L. Graham, Jr., Esq. and
Eileen Chiu Graham
Ward A. Greenberg, Esq. and
Marlene Van Dyk Greenberg
Maura B. Grinalds, Esq. and
Drummond R. Grinalds
William A. Groll, Esq.
Joan B. Gross, Esq. and Stuart J. Gross, Esq.
Marjorie E. Gross, Esq.
Morton E. Grosz, Esq.
Christopher J. Gunther, Esq. and Alice M. Gunther
Eric B. Halper, Esq.
Jane L. Hanson, Esq.
Philip H. Harris, Esq. and Judith S. Grossman
Naheem J. Harris, Esq.
Christopher S. Harvey, Esq.
Jonathan H. Hatch, Esq.
Zheng He, Esq.
Betsy and Jack Hellmann
Matthew P. Hendrickson, Esq. and
Karen Hendrickson
Mary E. Henning
Thomas J. Henry, Esq.
Angela K. Herring, Esq.
Barry B. Herzog, Esq. and Margaret Herzog
Tracy Richelle High, Esq.
David G. Hille, Esq. and Marcella Hille
Jon A. Hlafter, Esq.
Crystal K. Ho, CFP
Michael K. Hoffman, Esq. and Marian H. Hoffman
Mary E. Hogue and Robert S. Morgenstern
Vicki Z. Holleman, Esq. and
Craig D. Holleman, Esq.
Steven L. Holley, Esq.
Wade S. Hooker, Jr., Esq. and Susan L. Hooker
Ralph P. Huber, Esq.
Elizabeth A. Hurry and Thomas R. Warren
James Eric Ivester, Esq.
Richard T. Joffe, Esq.
Thomas Kahn, MD and Simi Kahn
James L. Kainen, Esq. and Theresa E. Kleinberg
Stacy J. Kanter, Esq. and Eric M. Kornblau, Esq.
Michael H. Kaplan, MD
Robert M. Kaufman, Esq.
Adam K. Keith, Esq.
David N. Kelley, Esq.
David H. Kellman, MD
Kevin C. Kelly, Esq.
Charles L. Kerr, Esq. and Heather Thomas
David A. Kerschner, Esq.
Alison I. Kessler and Andrew Z. Kessler
Robert M. Kessler, Esq.
Louis B. Kimmelman, Esq. and Joy B. Kimmelman
Alison McKinnell King, Esq.
Mary Bellini Kinslow and Thomas P. Kinslow
Mark A. Kirsch, Esq.
Michael A. Kleinman, Esq.
Alan M. Knoll, Esq.
Michelle Chi-Hsun Ko, Esq.
David A. Kotler, Esq.
Brian D. Krause, Esq.
Mark J. Kronman, Esq. and Barbara Kronman
Gary W. Kubek, Esq.
Jonathan S. Kubek, Esq.
Lea Haber Kuck, Esq.
Amy B. Kuhn, Esq. and Stuart L. Rosow, Esq.
Harvey Kurzweil, Esq.
Natalie Lamarque, Esq.
David M. Lamb, Esq.
Arthur Lander, MD, PhD
Lisa G. Laukitis, Esq.
Marta Jo Lawrence
Michael Lebowitz
Helena Lee, Esq. and Richard H. Klapper, Esq.
Walter F. Leinhardt, Esq.
Sarah Gibbs Leivick, Esq. and
S. Christopher Szczerban, Esq.
Karen Hoffman Lent, Esq.
Gillian L. Lester, JSD
Andrew J. Levander, Esq. and Carol A. Loewenson
Stuart D. Levi, Esq. and Jordana Schein-Levi
Lynn E. Levine and Fred L. Levine
Michael A. Levy, Esq. and Tara Walpert Levy
Joseph A. Lipari, Esq. and Louise E. Tranford
Louise L. Locke
Ilona Logvinova, Esq.
Cynthia A. Loomis, MD, PhD and
Joseph Emmanuel Neuhaus, Esq.
Paola Lozano, Esq. and Brooks A. Olbrys, Esq.
Ajanaclair N. Lynch, Esq.
Janice M. MacAvoy, Esq.
Christopher P. Malloy, Esq.
Kayalyn A. Marafioti, Esq. and
David R. Marshall, Esq.
Nancy J. Marchand, Esq.
Rebecca Marchioni, CPA
Janet Mardfin
Michael A. Maria, III, Esq. and
Jennifer Gaynes Maria
Neil R. Markel, Esq.
Rebecca L. Martin, Esq.
Ellen M. M. Martin and Michael M. Martin
The Honorable John Sherwood Martin
Steven J. Matays, Esq.
Maxim Mayer-Cesiano, Esq.
Mary M. McCord, MD and Alexander L. Okun, MD
Alexandra J. McCormack, Esq.
Michael A. McCormack, Esq. and
Myra McCormack
Mark A. McDermott, Esq.
Gerard J. McGowan, Jr., Esq.
Karen A. McLaughlin and Mark I. Schubin
Matthew E. McLeod
Joan McPhee, Esq.
David T. McTaggart, Esq.
Jonathan L. Mechanic, Esq.
Robin Hirtz Meltzer, PhD and Roger Meltzer, Esq.
Barbara R. Mendelson, Esq. and
David W. Brody, MD
Margaret E. Miller
Jonathan B. Miller, Esq. and Nancy J. Workman
Jeffrey A. Mishkin, Esq. and Patricia J. Clarke
Daphna H. Mitchell, Esq.
Robert P. Mollen, Esq.
Matthew J. Moses, Esq.
The Honorable Michael B. Mukasey
Margaret M. Mulqueen, PhD
Monica Murphy and Bill Wasik
Scott D. Musoff, Esq. and Cindy Ellen Musoff
Emily C. Nagle, Esq. and Bryan J. Lowrance, PhD
Patrick J. Naughton, Esq.
Andrea L. Nicolas, Esq. and Vinh P. Pham
Rise B. Norman, Esq.
Martin Nussbaum, Esq. and Kane Nussbaum
Kathleen O'Connor, Esq. and
Matthew L. Larrabee, Esq.
Christine A. Okike, Esq.
Sean A. O'Neal, Esq.
Maria-Leticia Ossa Daza, Esq.
Marc R. Packer, Esq.
Valerie and Jeffrey Paley
Vincenzo Paparo, Esq.
Carol J. Patterson, Esq.
Jason B. Pearl, Esq.
Walter C. Perrin, III, Esq. and Jenny R. Tolan
Caroline M. Pignatelli, Esq.
Roger E. Podesta, Esq.
Pearl Polifka, Esq. and Robert Polifka, Esq.
Stephen E. Poltrack, Esq. and Gael H. Poltrack
Adam Proger
Vered Rabia, Esq.
Stephen S. Rabinowitz, PhD, Esq.
Linda E. Rappaport, Esq. and
Leonard Chazen, Esq.
Corey A. Reis, Esq.
Sharyl A. Reisman, Esq.
Deborah Jo Rennels
Daniel C. Reynolds, Esq.
Patrick G. Rideout, Esq.
David M. Rievman, Esq. and Anne Oh
Joseph A. Riley, Esq. and M. Catherine Riley
Timothy A. Robert
The Honorable Stephen C. Robinson
Victor J. Rocco, Esq. and Barbara J. Rocco
Neil L. Rock, Esq. and Marla Rock
Rebecca N. R. Rodal, Esq.
Anthony M. Roncalli, Esq.
Elana S. Rosenberg, MD and Gregory A. Litt, Esq.
Stanley R. Rosenberg, Esq. and Ruth Rosenberg
Joan and Steven B. Rosenfeld
E. Joshua Rosenkranz, Esq.
William A. Roskin, Esq. and Elayne Roskin
Scott H. Rothstein, Esq. and Elizabeth P. Troop
Alyssa A. Rower, Esq.
Bradley K. Sabel, Esq. and Nancy J. Sabel
Judith and Kenneth Sagat
Christina Guerola Sarchio, Esq.
Merideth Schlesinger and Kenneth J. Schlesinger
Allison R. Schneirov, Esq. and Steven Fisch
Peter H. Schuck, Esq. and Marcy L. Schuck
Kenneth B. Schwartz, Esq.
Michael J. Schwartz, Esq.
Steven C. Schwartz, Esq.
38 39
Andrea J. Schwartzman, Esq.
Helfried J. Schwarz, Esq.
Howard Seife, Esq. and Amy Seife
Robert F. Serio, Esq.
Karen B. Shaer, Esq. and
Benjamin E. Rosenberg, Esq.
Avinash Sharma
David J. Sheehan, Esq.
David Silverstrom, DDS
Reed A. Smith, Esq.
Spencer G. Smul, Esq. and Karen Smul
Orin S. Snyder, Esq.
Audrey L. Sokoloff, Esq. and Tim Hosking
Sarah D. Solomon and Howard L. Solomon
Matthew O. Solum, Esq.
Joseph L. Sorkin, Esq.
Lawrence S. Spiegel, Esq. and Lori A. Spiegel
Susan F. Springer
Brian M. Stadler, Esq. and Suzanne Stadler
Erik J. Stapper, Esq. and Antoinette Stapper
Ann B. Stebbins, Esq. and
Robert B. Stebbins, Esq.
Neil A. Steiner, Esq. and Amy S. Steiner
James Lamont Stengel, Esq. and
Beverly J. Bartow
Eric P. Stephens, Esq. and Emily A. Bormann
Jocelyn E. Strauber, Esq.
James S. Stringfellow, Esq.
Ragini Subramanian, Esq.
Timothy F. Sullivan, Esq.
Laura Swihart, Esq.
Ivan Taback, Esq.
Blair T. Thetford, Esq.
Mark E. Thierfelder, Esq. and Courtney A. Lederer
Sally A. Thurston, Esq. and Mark T. Power, Esq.
Tracey A. Tiska, Esq. and Peter W. Tomlinson, Esq.
Christopher J. Torrente, Esq.
Joshua Traube
Dina G. Traugot, Esq.
Conray C. Tseng, Esq. and Jennifer Lee
Julie A. Turner, Esq.
David E. Vann, Esq.
A. Paul Victor, Esq. and Ellen G. Victor
Daniel R. Walfish, Esq.
Susan C. Waltman, Esq. and Thomas M. Barry
Andrew M. Wasserman, Esq. and
Donna Wasserman
Dan K. Webb, Esq.
David J. Weinberger, Esq. and
Bettina Weinberger
Michael L. Weiner, Esq. and Lucille Weiner
Katherine G. Weinstein, Esq.
Kenneth A. Wolff, Esq.
Elise A. Yablonski, Esq. and Ralph M. Stone, Esq.
Dwight S. Yoo, Esq.
Joanna M. Zdanys, Esq.
Nazim Zilkha, Esq. and Gabrielle G. Zilkha
George A. Zimmerman, Esq. and
Cathy Zimmerman
Scott M. Zimmerman, Esq. and
Vivian M. Zimmerman
David M. Zornow, Esq. and Martha Zornow
MATCHING GIFT SUPPORTERS
American Express Foundation
Employee Gift Matching Program
Bank of America Charitable Foundation
BNY Mellon Community Partnership
(Powering Potential)
Capital One Bank, N.A.
Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Citizens Bank Charitable Foundation
Gap Inc.
GE Foundation
GlaxoSmithKline plc.
Google, Inc.
The Hartford
JPMorgan Chase Foundation
Matching Gift & Volunteer Programs
Kirkland & Ellis Foundation
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
LexisNexis Group
Liberty Mutual Foundation Match
Mastercard
The McGraw-Hill Companies
Community Partners
McKinsey & Company Matching
Mutual of America Foundation - Matching Gifts
NFL Foundation
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pfizer Foundation
The Prudential Foundation
Matching Gifts Program
The Rockefeller Foundation
TPG Special Situations Partner
Viking Global Foundation
The Walt Disney Company Foundation
40 41
Servant of JusticeSPONSOR
Cleary Gottlieb Steen
& Hamilton LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver
& Jacobson LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Milbank LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton
& Garrison LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Simpson Thacher
& Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Wachtell, Lipton,
Rosen & Katz
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
PARTNER
Arnold & Porter LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Emery Celli Brinckerhoff
& Abady LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis
& Frankel LLP
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &
Sullivan, LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
COUNSEL
Activision Blizzard, Inc.
Allen & Overy LLP
Cadwalader Wickersham
& Taft LLP
Cooley LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
National Basketball
Association
National Basketball Players
Association
Patterson Belknap Webb
& Tyler LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop
Shaw Pittman LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Travelers
Wilmer Cutler Pickering
Hale and Dorr LLP
ADVOCATE
Berg & Androphy
Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
Dechert LLP
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Eversheds Sutherland
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goldin Associates
Jones Day
Katten Muchin
Rosenman LLP
Luskin, Stern & Eisler LLP
MasterCard
Morgan Stanley
Morvillo Abramowitz Grand
Iason & Anello PC
National Football League
Players Association
Pearson, Simon
& Warshaw, LLP
Pfizer, Inc.
Saul Ewing Arnstein
& Lehr LLP
Viacom Inc.
Panasonic Corporation of
North America
Willis Towers Watson
FRIEND
Bank of America
Kerri and Richard Bartlett
Alvin Bragg
Rocco B. Commisso
Nan and Rich Davis
Deutsche Bank
EisnerAmper
Hunton Andrews Kurth
Patricia M. Hynes
and Roy L. Reardon
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Kasowitz Benson Torress LLP
Chet Kerr
Jeffrey L. Kessler
KLS Professional Advisors
Group LLC
Harvey Kurzweil
McCarter & English LLP
Mintz & Gold
Sara Moss and
Michael Gould
Renaissance Associates Ltd
Elizabeth and
Robert Sheehan
David Silverstrom and
Shannon Aronson
UBS
Dan K. Webb
Zegar Family Fund
FIN FOGG MEMORIAL FUND
Arnhold Foundation, Inc.
Peter A. Atkins, Esq.
and Laurie Atkins
Felice Axelrod
Lawrence G. Babin
Elinor B. Balka
and Sigmund Balka
Jodi Saposnick Balsam,
Esq. and Craig I.
Balsam, Esq.
Ronald C. Barusch, Esq.
Jeffrey L. Berenson
Marilyn Olin Berger and
Richard Berger
Rosalind M. Bernheimer and
Walter S. Bernheimer
Rachel Bijou, MD
Marcelle Bijou-Shacknai
Wendy L. Black
and Hillel M. Black
Natalie T. Blaney, Esq. and
John R. Blaney
The Blau Family Fund
Miriam and Michael Boublik
Hayat H. Brancheau
Sharon M. Bronte
Andrew R. Brownstein, Esq.
and Elise J. Brownstein
Stephen L. Burns, Esq. and
Stacy Burns
Louis C. Cardinal III
Matthew A. Carpenter
Jeanette G. Cohen
Jamie R. Cohen
and Michael S. Cohen
Amanda S. Coleman, Esq.
Stuart E. Cotton, Esq. and
Betty Cotton
Crosby Giving Fund
Jennifer M. Crowley and
Scott A. Crowley
The Ken and Bonnie Davis
Fund
Warren L. Feldman, Esq.
Robert A. Fippinger, Esq. and
Ann F. Kaplan
Julie North, Esq. and
William V. Fogg, Esq.
Stanley O. Forman, MD
David J. Friedman, Esq. and
Joyce Friedman
Eric J. Friedman, Esq. and
Lori O. Friedman
Barry H. Garfinkel, Esq. and
Gloria L. Garfinkel
The Honorable Yousif B.
Ghafari and Mara K.
Ghafari
Rae E. Gilson
and Robert E. Gilson
Judith M. Goldman and
Robert T. Goldman
Phebe S. Goodman and
Louis A. S. Goodman
Griffon Corporation
Nicholas M. Grumbach, MD
and Elizabeth S.
Grumbach
Laurence S. Harris, MD
and Rita Harris
Jennifer L. Hichme, MD and
Michael A. Hichme
Michael K. Hoffman, Esq. and
Marian H. Hoffman
Howard I. Hurtig, MD and
Mary W. Hurtig
Amanda B. Isenberg and
Jeremy S. Isenberg
Jane L. Johnston
Jay Brooke Johnston, Jr. and
Marjorie H. Johnston
Nicole M. Klein
and Frederick R. Klein
Sharon and
Mitchell Kleinhandler
Stephanie and
Ronald J. Kramer
Alice and Douglas Kraus
Charitable Fund
Patrick K. Leahy
Judith P. Lewis
Nancy A. Lieberman, Esq.
Patricia S. Grant, Esq. and
Ronald Litowitz, Esq.
Nancy and Alan N. Locker
Philanthropic Fund
Peter A. Lund
Brian S. Millman
Susan D. Milmoe
Ruth A. Mirbach
Jeremy E. Moss, MD
and Susan Moss
Stephanie R. Mutchnick and
Michael B. Miller
Michael S. Nelson, Esq. and
Joan Nelson
Nessim Rahmey Giving Fund
Carol H. Neuberger and
David S. Neuberger
Albert C. Oehrle, Esq.
Joan R. Oestreich and
Howard I. Oestreich
Marc R. Packer, Esq.
Randy S Perskin, Esq.
Pincus Family Fund
Susan B. Plum, Esq.
Benita O. Potters and
Stephen M. Potters
Rahm Family Fund
Luis Ramon Redondo
Heidi M. Rendall and
Paul F. Rendall
Stephen J. Riker and
Margery Baker Riker
Joan and Steven B.
Rosenfeld
Thomas J. Schwarz Esq.
Robert C. and Elizabeth
Sheehan
Donald and Sylvia Simon
Fund
Binoy K. Singh, MD
Ann B. Stebbins, Esq. and
Robert B. Stebbins, Esq.
Michael L. Stein
Stober Lafer Family
Foundation
Maureen C. Sullivan and
Kevin F. Sullivan
George D. Sussman
Elizabeth L. Grayer, Esq. and
Aidan Synnott, Esq.
Susan L. Talbott and
Basil B. Talbott
Toshiko and
Joseph G. Tompkins
Deborah S. Tuchman, Esq.
and Kenneth I. Tuchman,
Esq.
The Linda and Henry
Wasserstein Foundation
Philip R. Weinstein, MD and
Jill A. Weinstein
Seldon V. Whitaker Jr.
Dwight S. Yoo, Esq.
Rafael and Dale Zaklad
Philanthropic Fund
NEW LEADERSHIP PROGRAM BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Kathryn S. Benedict
Sanjay Benegal
Joshua T. Ebersole
Natasha F. Fapohunda
Melissa B. Francis
Terence C. Hagerty
Crystal K. Ho
Andrew Jarrell
Kevin C. Kelly
David A. Kerschner
Michael A. Kleinman
Jaime L. Lavin
Ilona Logvinova
Rebecca Marchioni
David T. McTaggart
Omar Mirza
Matthew J. Moses
Caroline M. Pignatelli
Patrick J. Reinikainen
Katherine A. Rocco
Alyssa A. Rower
Alexander Synkov Garcia
S. Christopher Szczerban
Conray C. Tseng
Julie A. Turner
Elie J. Worenklein
Joanna M. Zdanys
In Appreciation of Our Corporate Sponsors
42 43
Financial Summary For the fiscal year ending June 30, 2019
STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL POSITION
2018 2019
AssetsCash and cash equivalents 26,165,376 11,758,397
Receivables from grants and 41,985,598 69,667,428 governmental contracts, and other
Investments, at fair value 24,178,987 24,907,275
Deferred charges and other assets 7,050,314 6,661,377
Property and equipment, at cost, net 5,514,794 4,917,705
Total Assets $104,895,069 $ 117,912,182
Liabilities and Net AssetsLiabilities
Accounts payable and accrued expenses 2,940,058 5,203,578
Loan payable 2,128,222 -
Accrued payroll and other employee expenses 32,249,063 32,324,388
Program advances 513,036 -
Accrued postretirement health and benefits cost 52,375,870 58,332,320
Pension liability 10,187,122 14,999,944
Deferred lease incentives and lease obligations 18,967,803 17,854,821
Total liabilities $119,361,174 $128,715,051
Commitments and ContingenciesNet Assets
Without donor restrictions (20,144,724) (17,071,187)
With donor restrictions
—Purpose and time restricted 3,612,596 4,202,295
—Perpetual in nature 2,066,023 2,066,023
Total with donor restrictions 5,678,619 6,268,318
Total net asset deficiency (14,466,105) (10,802,869)
Total liabilities and net asset deficiency $ 104,895,069 $ 117,912,182
0
500M
100M
150M
200M
250M
300M
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
REVENUES
2018 2019
Criminal Defense Practice 160,636,826 172,563,261
Juvenile Rights Practice 46,439,432 47,993,771
Civil Practice 66,927,616 69,093,012
Contributions (net of direct expenses related to the benefit) 14,870,225 14,183,747
Return (loss) on investments, net 358,946 801,850
Court awards 278,010 14,722
Other income 1,659 2,886
Total Revenue $ 289,512,714 $304,653,249
2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Criminal Defense Practice 153,103,977 160,074,752 157,633,083 160,636,826 172,563,261
Juvenile Rights Practice 42,322,535 43,031,074 43,607,277 46,439,432 47,993,771
Civil Practice and Other 45,601,159 54,612,631 64,525,412 82,436,456 84,096,217
Total Revenue $241,027,671 $257,718,457 $265,765,772 $ 289,512,714 $304,653,249
Please visit www.legalaidnyc.org for the full financial report.
Revenue over 5 years 2019 Revenue
C R I M I N A L 5 6 . 6 %J U V E N I L E
1 5 . 8 %
C I V I L 2 7. 6 %
2 4 1 M 2 5 8 M 2 6 6 M
2 9 0 M3 0 5 M
Please visit www.legalaidnyc.org for the full financial report.
44
Lewis, Aisha Lewis-McCoy, Tashi Lhewa, Diana Li, Olivia Li, Cynthia Li, Joseph Licitra, Laura Lieberman-Cohen, Susan Light, Vicki Light, Justin Lim, Margaret Lin, Jessica Linda, Martha Lineberger, Amanda Lipari, Aviv Lipman, Richell Lisboa, Susan Litt, Nancy Little, Paul Liu, Elizabeth Loebman, Melissa Loehr, David Loftis, Elizabeth Logan, Catherine Logue, Kalah Lomax, Niasia Lomax, Michele Lombardo, Digna Lopez, Michael Lopez, Eileen Lopez, Alejandra Lopez, Armando Lopez, Katherine Lopez, Mayzabeth Lopez, Melinda Lopez, Zoraida Lopez, Israel Lopez Alderete, Tania Lopez-Zaldivar, Sharon Lowe, Marianna Lowenfeld, Caroline Lowry, Allison Lowy, Luke Lu, Sheree Lukowicz, Emily Lundgren, Shirley Luong, Justine Luongo, Megan Luzier, Julie Ly, Douglas Lyons, Erwin Ma, Ying-Ying Ma, Keri Mabry, Alexandra MacDougall, Lorraine Maddalo, Jacob Madubuko, Alma Magana, Jillaine Maillet, Shavonn Mainor, Zoie Mair, Amina Majeed, Evelyn Malave, Leah Maloney, Keith Malonis, Eileen Malunowicz, Jordan Manalastas, Monika Manchanda, Luis Mancheno, Andrew Mandel, Melissa Mandor, Romel Mangru, Leigh Mangum, Sarah Manley, William Mantlo, Gabriela Manzanares, Aurora Maoz, Alyssa Marcinak, Maud Maron, Lissette Marquez, Carlos Marquez Salazar, Brunilda Marrero, Nizaly Marrero, Amber Marshall, Torey Marston, Brad Martin, Leah Martin, Vanita Martin, Antonio Martinez, Maria Martinez, Jocelyne Martinez, Helen Martinez, Luis Martinez, Mariella Martinez, Pauloma Martinez, Avery Martinez, Jose Martinez, Mildred Martinez, Katheryne Martone, James Martorano, Hallie Marx, Lori Masco, Alicia Mason, Bobette Masson-Churin, Amee Master, Titus Mathai, Nancy Matos-Rodriguez, Alexandra Matta, Julia Mattson, Natalie Maust, Prudencio Maysonet, Isha Mazumdar, Perry Mc Aninch, Thomas Mc Call Jr, Edward Mc Carthy, Colette Mc Crae, Zachary Mc Dermott, Dorothy Mc Donald-Starace, Lorraine Mc Evilley, Irmin Mc Kenzie, Sheneka Mc Kenzie Sage, Lena Mc Mahon, Thomas McCall, Heather McCarthy, Julia McCarthy, Margaret McClean, Jonathan McCoy, Megan McCoy, Elizabeth McCullough-Sanden, Anjole McDermott, Jaquanna McDonald, Deborah McGee, Amelia McGovern, Caroline McGrath, Michelle McGrath, Sarah McHenry, Kathleen McIlraith, Sirica McIntosh, Leeanne McIntyre, Christine McKeithan, Tiffany Mckellar, Caitlin McLaughlin, Julia McNally, Tracy McNeil, James McQueeney, Aarron McWillie, Steven Mechanic, Demaris Medina, Samuel Medina, Alice Meehan, Eric Meggett, Laura Meigh, Stacy Meisner, Bryant Mejia, Galina Melamed, Maria Melchor, Irene Melendez, Luisa Melian, Rosa Mendez, Meghan Mendez, Giovanni Mendez, Arthur Mendola, Donovan Mendoza, Jean-Gladys Mensah, Margarita Menuar, Sonia Mercado, Lindsey Mercer, Madeleine Mercer, Fern Merenstein, Claire Merkine, Henry Meyer, Kathleen Meyers, Ajene Meyers, Richard Meyerson, Jennifer Michaelson, Barbara Michalska, Kevin Michels, Justyna Mielczarek, Spencer Migotsky, Maria Milin, Ezra Miller, Caitlin Miller, Caroline Miller, Ryan Miller, Tasaion Miller-Veitch, Lynette Miller-Volel, Guy Mills, Saundra Mills, James Mingo, Jenna Minor, Tatyana Mints, Sharon Miodovsky, Steven Miraglia, Jean Miranda, Shayan Mirzahaidar, Heather Misterka, Dawne Mitchell, Peter Mitchell, David Mitchell, Neville Mitchell, Kacie Mitterando, Renee Mittler, Donie Mixon, Robert Moeller, Ronald Mohan, Jusselia Molina, Cynthia Molina-Santos, Marie Mombrun, Edgar Monasterio, Curtis Moner, Lauren Monosoff, Edwin Montano, Isi Montero De Oleo, Mollie Montgomery, Paul Montgomery, Claudia Montoya, S Moody, Hermine Moore, Geno Moore, Michael Moore, Daniel Moore, Brianna Moore, Mara Moradoff, Melanie Morales, Jessica Morales, Shante Morales, Hellen Moreira, Lorca Morello, Shaquara Morgan, Florence Morgan, Tameka Morris, Antoine Morris, Martin Morris, Susan Morris, Roslyn Morrison, Theresa Moser, Jennifer Moses, Christelle Moussignac, Aaron Moyne, Atusa Mozaffari, Edwin Muarip, Allan Muchnik, Autumn Mukhopadhyay, Nicole Mull, Katherine Mullen, Videsh Mungaroo, Vanity Muniz, Fay Munro-Cole, Jonathan Munro-Hernandez, Helen Munro-Singleton, Gabriel Munson, Tomoeh Murakami-Tse, Aaron Murdock, Donald Murphy, Joyce Murphy, Claudine-Annick Murphy, Michael Murphy, Eileen Murphy-Zadoff, Michael Murray, Kathryn Murray, Stephen Myers, Toni Myers, Sharon Naipaul-Gopaul, Daniel Nakos, Anyika Nance, Shanti Narra, Bharati Narumanchi, Beth Natale, Angela Navarro, Marie Ndiaye, John Needham, Erin Neff, Michael Nelson, Kenwyn Nelson, Kirsten Nelson, Dalourny Nemorin, Noelle Nero, Edda Ness, Todd Neuhaus, James Neville, Diana Nevins, John Newbery, Brett Newman, Lucy Newman, Robert Newman, Janee Newsome, Elizabeth Newton, Caroline Ng, Kensing Ng, William Nicholas, Alice Nino, Dajehne Nisbett, Jamie Niskanen-Singer, Yvonne Nix, Thomas Nixon-Friedheim, Michelle Noah, Sunny Noh, Ariane Nolfo, Sateesh Nori, Linda Norona, Ilan Norwood, Russell Novack, Lillian Novak, Rebecca Novick, John Novoa, Felix Nunez, Tyrone Nurse, Makeda Nyabingi, Grace Oboma-Layat, David O'Brien, Thomas O'Brien, David Ocasio, Judy Ocasio, John O'Connell, Ryan O'Dell, Randi O'Donnell, Niamh O'Flaherty, Oona O'Flaherty, Kelli Ogbuzuo, Anna Oguntimein, Elizabeth Oh, Lisa Ohta, Clarissa O'Konsky, Nadia Okraku, Jubril Oladiran, Sarah O'Leary, Ward Oliver, Milagros Oliveras, Michelleann Oliveros, Efrain Olmo, Olayemi Olurin, Margaret O'Marra, Kristy O'Neill, Anne Oredeko, Migdalia Orengo, Eliza Orlins, Rosalie Orta, James Ortiz, Michele Ortiz, Maria Ortiz, Miguel Ortiz, Orlando Ortiz, Wilberto Ortiz-Batista, Kiarra Osorio, Karla Ostolaza Ortiz, Benigno Otano, Allison Ottley, David Ourlicht, Lynexa Owens, Zulay Oyarvide, Japheth Ozaeta, Janet Ozarchuk, Juni Ozzengett, Eliza Pacheco, Melissa Padilla, Aadhithi Padmanabhan, Yvonne Pagan, Will Page, Christina Paliogiannis, Rashmi Panchal, Girish Panchal, Damjan Panovski, Ivan Pantoja, Philip Papiasvili, Franklin Parache, Brian Parcon, Crystal Parham, Eun Hai Park, Sean Parmenter, Norman Parrish, Michael Pate, Umesh Patel, Carina Patritti, Vanessa Paugh, Melissa Paul, Emily Paul, Diane Pazar, Rebekah Pazmino, Robert Peck, Rachel Pecker, Arthur Peeples, Natalie Peeples, Christopher Pelletier, Rebeka Penberg, Khadeya Penson, Mary Peppito, Damelsa Peralta, Joshua Perez, Roberto Perez, Ricardo Perez, Sebastian Perez, Julia Perez Rosales, Michael Perkins, Chavonte Perkins, Cornelius Perry, Tiffany Pesante, Haley Pessin, Kyle Peters, Pamela Peters, Mykiel Peterson, Teers Peterson, Renato Petocchi, Polixene Petrakopoulos, Gislaine Phillip, Vance Phillip, Vincent Phillips, Valeria Philpot, James Pierce, Joel Pietrzak, Hayley Pine, Michael Pineiro, Jade Pinero, Mary Pinto, Hannah Pinto, Christopher Pisciotta, James Pitt, Lisa Pitts, Soula Platis, Lisa Podemski, Taylor Poe, Stephen Pokart, Ramzia Polizzi, Deborah Pollack, James Pollock, Katherine Ponce, Amy Pont, Tyron Pope, Stephanie Pope, Ronald Popo, Allen Popper, Emily Poppish, Terrome Porter, Marvin Posada, Linda Postell, Meagan Potter, Laura Potter-Cahn, Eric Poulos, Ashwani Prabhakar, Frederic Pratt, Zenobia Prattis-Montgomery, Anton Pribysh, Risa Procton, Timothy Pruitt, Angelica Puente-Soto, Noel Purcell, Enrico Purita, Nina Puro, Robert Quackenbush, Jennifer Quijano, Michelle Quinn, Alice Quinn, Veronica Quinones, Ruben Quiterio, Nelson Rabaza, Ivette Rabeiro, Sara Raftery, Kristal Ragbir, Laboni Rahman, Christina Raj, Amber Ramanauskas, Stephanie Ramdhari, Edwin Ramirez, Heather Ramirez, Marlene Ramirez, Jasmine Ramirez-Burgos, Jadera Ramirez-Garcia, Ushadevi Ramjit, Stephanie Ramos, Aida Ramos-Herrera, Timothy Ramsammy, Rolston Ramsammy, Omar Rana, Kristie Ranchurejee, Jess Rao, Michael Raskin, Nicholas Raskin, Kyla Ratliff, Michelle Rattoballi, Georgia Rattray-Gray, Philip Rauch, Kai-lin Rausch, Ora Raymore-Kenlock, Natalie Rea, Alexander Redlins, Katherine Redmon, Morgan Reed, Gretchen Reeser, Brandon Reim, Marcus Reina, Sara Reisberg, Alison Reisner, Brendan Relyea, Jane Remler, Wendy Remy, Beth Rennekamp, Lauren Restivo, Frances Resto, Ekaterina Revia, Kenny Rey, Marie Reyes, Susan Reyes, Alex Reznik, Alexandra Rhodd, Rania Riad, Victor Richards, Joseph Richardson, Robin Richardson, Cassandra Richardson, Tasha Ricks, Elizabeth Rieser-Murphy, Alfonzo Riley, Nakeisha Riley, Lillian Ringel, Katie Ringer, Jennifer Ritter, Diego Rivera, Nicholas Rivera, Alfredo Rivera, Janet Rivera, Arlene Rivera, Cynthia Rivera, Jeffrey Rivera, Joseph Rivera, Ricardo Rivera, William Rivera, Yevgeniya Rivkina, Corey Robert, Kendell Roberts, Rodney Roberts, Lauren Roberts, Samuel Roberts, Justin Robinson, Melanie Robinson, Stacey Robinson, Whitney Robinson, Kasandra Robinson, Yolanda Robles, Jesseyka Roche, Jacqueline Rodriguez, Heidy Rodriguez, Lia Rodriguez, Alijah Rodriguez, Ana Rodriguez, Angelica Rodriguez, Edwin Rodriguez, Elizabeth Rodriguez, Emil Rodriguez, Felesia Rodriguez, Maria Rodriguez, Miriam Rodriguez, Shelly Rodriguez, Jose Rodriguez-Gonzalez, Raisa Rodriguez-Torres, Raymond Rogers, Patricia Rogers, Rory Rohan, Daniella Rohr, Jacob Rolls, Luis Roman, Rosemary Roman-Hare-Bey, Claudia Romano, Cristina Romero, Michael Rooney, Alexander Roos, Angela Rosa, Jose Rosado, Krystal Rosado, Jane Rosales, Mignon Rosales, Angel Rosario, Sylvia Rosario, Magda Rosa-Rios, Jeffrey Rose, Tamar Rosen, Cheyenna Rosenbaum, Scott Rosenberg, Emma Rosenberg, Mimi Rosenberg, Terri Rosenblatt, Rebecca Rosenfeld, Emily Rosenfield, Lydia Ross, Alana Roth, Timothy Rountree, Joy Royaux, Gail Rozansky, Michael Ruben, Paulette Rubinsky, Scott Rudnick, Elisha Rudolph, Ishrat Ruhi, Hector Ruiz, Shaliyah Ruiz, Deborah Rush, Laura Russell, Dawn Ryan, Delia Ryan, Alexander Ryley, Joelle Ryu, Theodora Saal, Margaret Saalfield, Janet Sabel, Steven Sacco, Ellen Sacks, Erin Sage, Megumi Saito, Melissa Salce, Diana Salierno, Bulban Salim, Desiree Salomone, Jamshid Saloor, Lori Salyer, Victoria Salzano, Jane-Roberte Sampeur, Syshawn Samuel, Jacqueline Samuels-Jaffee, Christine Sanchez, Kevin Sanders, Ronald Sanders, Sara Sanders, Gloria Sanders, Darius Sanford, Nilsa Saniel, Carol Santangelo, George Santiago, Darleen Santiago, Donovan Santiago, Edda Santiago, Iliana Santiago, Joseph Santiago, Sasha Santiago, Jorge Santos, Priyadarshni Sapru, Melvin Saravia, Eugene Sarchiapone, Louis Sartori, Heather Saslovsky, Martha Saunders, Lauren Saunderson, Matthew Scarcella, Debra Scarlett, Randall Schaefer, Regina Schaefer, Kenneth Schaeffer, Lizabeth Schalet, Sophia Schall, Marguerite Schauer, Julie Schaul, Charlie Scheel, Joshua Scheier, Kimberly Schertz, Nicole Schill, Tara Schiraldi, Jeremiah Schlotman, Joel Schmidt, Cynthia Schmits, Stacy Schneider, John Schoeffel, Jeanne Schoenfelder, Mark Scholl, Caryn Schreiber, Nicolas Schumann-Ortega, Michelle Schwartz, Steven Schwarz, Kristina Schwarz, Ryan Schwarz, Rachel Schwarz, Katarina Schweitz, Adrienne Scott, Jean Scott, Eric Scott, Matthew Scott, Stephen Scott, Zaida Scott, Marcia Seckler, Samantha Seda, Jacob Segall, Raul Segundo, Benjamin Seibel, Keith Seidman, David Seman, Julie Sender, Jeffrey Senter, Amy Serlin, Susan Sevin, Melina Sfakianaki, Hasan Shafiqullah, Soelma Shagdarova, Taramanie Shakur, Daequan Shane, Taylor Shann, Stephanie Shapiro Marden, Shawn Shariati, Irwin Shaw, Angela Shaw, Yuval Sheer, Syeda Sheikh, Michelle Shen, Hardeep Shergill, Desiree Sheridan, Tariquzzaman Shikdar, Alexandra Shookhoff, Stefen Short, Diana Shum, Cynthia Sichenze, Diana Sidakis, Nakeeb Siddique, Fazeela Siddiqui, Naila Siddiqui, Debra Siegel, Sarah Siegel, Isabelle Siegel, Eli Siems, Luis Sierra, Isabel Sierra Velazquez, Daniel Silberger, Elana Silberman, Jennifer Siletti, Carolyn Silvers, Anna Sim, Clark Simpkins, Christina Simpson, Kayla Simpson, Jagmeet Singh, Reshamjeet Singh, Gurmeet Singh, Riti Singh, Chantel Singleton, Kimberly Skadan, Shana Skaletsky, Sherine Skariah, Elizabeth Skeen, Maureen Slack, Brian Slater, Joanna Slater, Shervon Small, Marsha Smalls, Samantha Smalls, Dorothy Smalls, Julian Smalls, Jason Smallwood, Ariel Smallwood, Tamir Smart, David Smiley, Sondra Smith, Heather Smith, Alexander Smith, Alexandra Smith, Chanel Smith, Elizabeth Smith, Jodi Smith, Spencer Smith, Todd Smith, Clay Smith, Denzil Smith, Edwina Smith, Theresa Smoot-Robinson, Marvin Sobers, Marisa Soghoian, Christopher Sokoloski, Gary Solomon, Adan Soltren, Savendra Somdat, Robert Soriano-Hewitt, Paul Sparks, Shirelle Spencer, Jessica Spiegel, Ian Spiridigliozzi, Scott Spivak, Heather Squatriglia, Dan-Devarha St Juste, Christian St. Claire, Kirk Stadnika, Anna Stallmann, Scott Stamper, Katherine Stanton, Adam Starritt, Laura Stasior, Robert Staten, Rebecca Stegman-Hadar, Kerry-Ann Stephen, Sade Stephenson, Fernando Sterling, Judith Stern, Daniel Stern, David Stern, Susan Sternberg, Nereen Stewart, Gwnasia Stewart, Bess Stiffelman, Barbara Stock, Jonathan Stonbely, Andrea Stone, Alexander Stone-Tharp, Tyesha Storey, Claire Stottlemyer, Catherine Stover, Lucille Stroup, Carolyn Stuart, Lisa-Ann Stuart, Maureen Stutzman, Jennifer Suarez, Stacy-Ann Suckoo, Evan Sugar, Jeffrey Sugarman, Katherine Sullivan, Rachel Summer, Thomas Summers, Yakira Summers, Dian Susilowati, Alice Swenson, Amy Swenson, Abigail Swenstein, Andrew Sy, Sean Sykes, Dorine Sylvester, Pauline Syrnik, Veronika Tadros, Tracey Tae, Amanda Tagore, Tanya Talaba, Sabrina Talukder, Rachel Tamaroff, Jose Tapias, Michelle Tarangelo, Elva Tavarez, Dahiana Tavarez Nanda, Carla Taveras, Bret Taylor, Cynthia Taylor, Margaret Taylor, Maria Taylor, Nicketta Taylor, Michael Teitel, Patricia Telfort, Victor Tello, Nathan Tempey, Amanda Tenerella-Brody, Richard Terrazas, Dodd Terry, Stephen Terry, Doralee Then, Mikos Theodule, Kathryn Thiesenhusen, Alvin Thomas, Alicia Thomas, Ashley Thomas, Jessica Thomas, Megan Thomas, Anthony Thomas, Frances Thomas, Cynthia Thompkins, Mikila Thompson, Cheryl Thompson, Germain Thompson, Shanice Thompson, Raynita Thornton, Adela Tiburcio, Elizabeth-Ann Tierney, Razvan Tohanean, Casandra Tolentino, Erin Tomlinson, Marilyn Toro, Carmen Torres, Azalia Torres, Grace Torres, Joseph Torres, Victor Torres, Jason Tortora, Daniele Tortoriello, Eugene Toussaint, Shushana Tracey, Meredith Trainor, Aline Traphagen, Lisa Trentacosti, Casey Trimble, Marla Catherine Trinidad, Rekha Trivikram, Carl Tropnas, Matthew Tropp, Danielle Troumouliaris, Jared Trujillo, Andrew Tso, Lisa Tuntigian, Alexander Turbin, Howard Turman, Garvey Turnier, Kristopher Tyndall, Roseanne Tzitzouris, Ferdinand Ubozoh, Ebele Udeogalanya, Louis Ullrich, Beth Unger, Mia Unger, Rufus Urion, Liliana Vaamonde, John Vacanti, Jennifer Vail, Devi Vairavan, Massiel Valdez, Jennifer Valentin, Sandrine Valentine, Rosa Valiente, Diane Valle, Laura Van Wyk, Matthew Vance, Louis Varela, Magdalena Varela-Hand, Jeremy Varon, Paola Vasquez, Marlene Vasquez, Shakisha Vaughan, Diana Vaynshenker, Anna Vaysleyb, Colleen Vecchione, Edwin Vega, Alexandria Vega, Pedro Vega, Veronica Vela, Ana Velez, Keanu Velez, Rosemary Vellucci, Margie Victor, Mitze Vigo Luzquinos, Vlada Viktorenko, Valeria Villa, Antonio Villaamil, Elaine Villanueva, Hernsica Vincent, Charanya Viswanathan, Alice Voller, Beverly Vu, Oxana Vusova, Brittany Waddy, Jill Wade, Rachel Wagner, Kathleen Wahl, Jill Waldman, Jackie Walker, Candice Walker, Randal Walker, Sade Walker, Patrick Wall, Ryan Wall, Albert Wall, Peniniah Wallace, Meghan Walsh, Andielynn Walters, Joy Wang, Nicholas Wanger, Shomari Ward, Cody Warner, Rosalyn Warren, Marie Washington, Jerry Washington, Roy Wasserman, Steven Wasserman, Zwi Wasserstein, Laura Waters, Senora Watkins, Joshua Watson, Joel Watson, Meggan Ways, Javious Weather, Diamond Weaver-Bey, Alison Webster, Jill Wechsler, Jamien Weddle, Jenny Weekes, Carolyn Weeks, Elizabeth Weiner, Hilary Weiss, Danielle Weiss, Sophia Welbeck, Susan Welber, Danielle Welch, Adrienne Wells, Kyla Wells, Haley Wen, Zimei Weng, Mary Werlwas, Lorna West, Nina Westmoreland, Sara Weston-Shea, Anna Wettstein, Mark Whalen, Takiya Wheeler, Francis White, Jane White, Lois White, Timothy White, Katie White, Danielle Whiteman, Paul Wiener, Allison Wilcox, Royce Wilder, Dale Wilker, Allison Wilkinson, Diana Wilks, Edlyn Willer, Imari Williams, LaToya Williams, Jennifer Williams, Lisa Williams, Ashley Williams, Deborah Williams, Deborah Williams, Eric Williams, John Williams, Yanique Williams, Alexis Williams, Bria Williams, Donald Williams, Ebonie Williams, Gregory Williams, Tiffany Williams, Evan Willner, Ramon Willoughby, Victoria Willoughby, Tyease Wilson, Nicholas Wiltsie, Emily Winograd Leonard, Angela Winston, Genitha Wint, Kimberly Winther, Catherine Wise, Michael Wittman, Frank Witty, Jason Wohlford, Emily Woisin, Liron Wolff, Andrea Wolff, Cynthia Wolpert, Helen Wonahu Adam, Jennvine Wong, Kathryn Wood, Reda Woodcock, Makeysha Woodman, William Woods, Latoya Woods, Susan Woodward, Kerri-Ann Wright, Emma Wright, John Wroblewski, Jason Wu, Jin Wu, Catheranne Wyly, Jamal Wyse, Andrea Yacka-Bible, Boris Yakubzon, Karen Yazmajian, Ho-Sang Nelson Yeung, Kacy Sung Hyun Yoo, Sarah Young, Susan Yousefi, William Yukstas, Johanna Zacarias, Emmanuel Zamor, Johanna Zapateiro, Mary Zaslofsky, Carlos Zea, Taylor Zelony, Camille Zentner, Manuel Zevallos, Andrei Ziabkin, Marnie Zien, Nickeitta Zimmerman, Beck Zucker, Kenneth Zwerin
EXPENSES
CRIMINAL JUVENILE TOTAL TOTAL 2019 2018 DEFENSE RIGHTS CIVIL PROGRAM ADMIN/ TOTAL TOTAL PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE EXPENSES FUNDRAISING EXPENSES EXPENSES
Employee Expenses
Professional staff salaries 73,485,183 21,526,684 27,774,700 122,786,567 5,311,080 128,097,647 122,039,068
Support staff salaries 19,553,336 5,257,892 8,239,465 33,050,693 4,077,050 37,127,743 34,887,650
Fringe benefits and 43,980,455 12,970,632 19,477,539 76,428,626 4,394,060 80,822,686 77,650,031 other employee costs
Total employee 137,018,974 39,755,208 55,491,704 232,265,886 13,782,190 246,048,076 234,576,749 expenses
Other Expenses
Occupancy costs 11,461,418 2,601,053 6,756,550 20,819,021 1,422,099 22,241,120 21,453,840
Communications 653,685 165,322 285,952 1,104,959 95,627 1,200,586 1,036,563
Office operating 822,276 260,498 367,667 1,450,441 442,204 1,892,645 1,819,044
Purchases and leases of 2,853,015 910,406 1,522,814 5,286,235 1,037,474 6,323,709 2,160,261 furniture and equipment
Law books and 624,851 139,587 500,993 1,265,431 12,800 1,278,231 1,340,384 reference materials
Trial minutes 488,093 196,138 18,979 703,210 1,914 705,124 574,728
Cost of investigations 1,491,115 48,802 629,129 2,169,046 32,214 2,201,260 1,805,015 and expert witnesses
Professional services 111,825 47,575 3,899,656 4,059,056 947,555 5,006,611 1,318,189
Transportation 945,218 82,094 237,072 1,264,384 45,185 1,309,569 1,090,830
Insurance 411,016 125,850 176,454 713,320 42,567 755,887 713,869
Depreciation 339,201 88,016 274,649 701,866 141,992 843,858 922,802 and amortization
Other 593,444 151,089 889,859 1,634,392 2,685,635 4,320,027 3,166,853
Total other expenses 20,795,157 4,816,430 15,559,774 41,171,361 6,907,266 48,078,627 37,402,378
Total expenses, $157,814,131 $44,571,638 $71,051,478 $273,437,247 $20,689,456 $294,126,703 $271,979,127 excluding other than net periodic costs
Please visit www.legalaidnyc.org for the full financial report.
C R I M I N A L 5 3 . 7 %
J U V E N I L E 1 5 . 1%
C I V I L 2 4 . 2 %
P R O G R A M9 3 . 0 %
A D M I N 6 . 6 %
F U N D R A I S I N G 0 . 4%
A D M I N & F U N D R A I S I N G 7. 0 %
We spend 93 cents of every dollar on our programs.
2019 Total Expenses 2019 Financial Efficiency