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120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>From:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>                              </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia [Legal_Aid_Society_of_the_Distric@mail.vresp.com]<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-120.0pt;tab-stops: 120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>Sent:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>                               </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>Friday, September 25, 2009 9:27 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-120.0pt;tab-stops: 120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>To:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>                                   </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>Hays, Kathy<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:120.0pt;text-indent:-120.0pt;tab-stops: 120.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none'><b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>Subject:<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>                          </span></span></b><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Calibri; color:black'>Legal Aid DC September 2009 Newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><a href="http://hosted.verticalresponse.com/427019/5eb16690c7/1474000799/ef27170ed6/">Click to view this email in a browser</a></span> </p> <div align=center> <table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=650 style='width:487.5pt;mso-cellspacing:0in;border:solid #948671 1.5pt; mso-yfti-tbllook:1184;mso-padding-alt:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:0;mso-yfti-firstrow:yes'> <td colspan=2 style='padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><img border=0 width=636 height=207 id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/media/d/2/6/d26b502256/5eb16690c7/2a22d903c8/library/las_logo_RGB.jpg" style='height:162px;width:564px' alt="las_logo_RGB.jpg"><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:1'> <td colspan=2 style='border:solid #948671 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid #948671 .75pt; background:#948671;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'> <p align=right style='text-align:right'><strong><span style='color:white'>&nbsp;September 2009</span></strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; </p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:2'> <td width="45%" valign=top style='width:45.0%;border:solid #990033 1.0pt; mso-border-alt:solid #990033 .75pt;background:#CCCCCC;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><strong><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"'>Thank You</span></strong><b><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> <strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For Making The Generous Associates Campaign A Success</span></strong></span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span> </p> <p><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>The 2009 Legal Aid Generous Associates Campaign raised more than $675,000 in support of our work on behalf of individuals and families living in poverty. &nbsp;Across the District more than <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/e05d46ea2a"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>100 law firm associates at over 60 law firms</span></strong></a><span style='color:black'> reached out to their colleagues, firms and the firm's partners to ask for contributions.<br> <br> In these difficult economic times, we are truly grateful for the incredible outpouring of support that we received from the law firm community.&nbsp; We would like to extend particular thanks to the Campaign s Honorary Chair, Melvin White, and the outstanding </span><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/4e95bd1c81"><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>2009 Campaign Co-Chairs</span></strong></a>.</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <h3 style='margin-top:12.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:3.0pt;margin-left: 0in'><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>Leading Generous Associates Campaign Firms</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><br> </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; font-weight:normal'>The results for the top 5 firms in each size category ranked by amount raised are below. &nbsp;For more information </span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/44c5490333"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;color:black'>click here.</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><br> <span style='color:black'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1 - 50 ATTORNEYS</span></span><br> </span></span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;font-weight:normal'>Gilbert LLP</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Boies, Schiller &amp; Flexner LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bryan Cave LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Brown Rudnick LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP</span></span><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>&nbsp;</span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></h3> <h3 style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:13.5pt;margin-left: 0in'><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'>51- 100 ATTORNEYS</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; font-weight:normal'>Reed Smith LLP</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Epstein Becker &amp; Green, P.C.</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Van Ness Feldman, PC</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Fulbright &amp; Jaworski L.L.P.</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Vinson &amp; Elkins LLP</span></span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><br> <br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>101- 150 ATTORNEYS</span></span><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; font-weight:normal'>Baker Botts L.L.P.</span></span><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Dow Lohnes PLLC</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Miller &amp; Chevalier Chartered</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Kelley Drye &amp; Warren LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Alston &amp; Bird LLP</span></span><br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>151- 200 ATTORNEYS</span></span><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; font-weight:normal'>Mayer Brown LLP</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>O'Melveny &amp; Myers LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Sutherland Asbill &amp; Brennan LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Bingham McCutchen LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Gibson Dunn &amp; Crutcher LLP</span></span><br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>201- 250 ATTORNEYS</span></span><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; font-weight:normal'>Williams &amp; Connolly LLP</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Arent Fox LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jones Day</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>McDermott Will &amp; Emery</span></span><br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>251+ ATTORNEYS</span></span><br> </span><span class=headingtable4><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black; font-weight:normal'>Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";color:black;font-weight:normal'><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Crowell &amp; Moring LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &amp; Flom LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Latham &amp; Watkins LLP</span></span><br> <span class=headingtable4><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Hogan &amp; Hartson LLP</span></span></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></h3> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <hr size=1 width="33%" align=center> </span></div> <p align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'>&nbsp;<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pass It On. . .</span></strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>If you know someone who may be interested in receiving this newsletter, please feel free to forward or contact us at </span><a href="mailto:lasdc@legalaiddc.org"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>lasdc@legalaiddc.org</span></a></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;text-align:center'>&nbsp; </p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;text-align:center'><strong><span style='color:black'>Visit Our Blog:&nbsp; </span></strong><span style='color:black'><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/338d6c51c0"><strong>Making Justice Real</strong></a><br> <br> <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/ca8f9708aa"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=144 height=44 id="_x0000_i1027" src="http://proxy.pcdn.vresp.com/a1350aca1/mjrdc.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/image002.png" alt=image002 class="alignnone size-full wp-image-32" title=image002></span></a>&nbsp;&nbsp; <a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/27369690aa" title="Twitter / Home" id=logo><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline: none'><img border=0 width=155 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Our lawyers help clients meet their most basic human needs: shelter, nutrition, health care, freedom from violence, and security in family relationships. &nbsp;Three afternoons each week Legal Aid offices are open for new clients to come and seek help.&nbsp;&nbsp;Over the last year more than 3,000 clients were interviewed by a lawyer and given advice, brief assistance or a referral.&nbsp; In more than 700 matters, a Legal Aid staff member took the case to court or before an administrative agency.<br> <br> Behind each of these numbers is a person or a family.&nbsp; Each is a story of lives changed, disasters averted and human pain avoided because a Legal Aid advocate made the difference. &nbsp;Amanda Slater, an attorney on loan to Legal Aid from Steptoe &amp; Johnson, recently wrote about one success in our blog, </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"'><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/517d027fb5"><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Making Justice Real</span></strong></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>.&nbsp; Her client could never have successfully navigated the complex court processes related to paternity and child support on his own.&nbsp; It is a compelling example of why justice can be achieved in many cases only with the help of a lawyer.</span><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;<img border=0 width=119 height=84 id="_x0000_i1029" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/media/d/2/6/d26b502256/5eb16690c7/2a22d903c8/library/SMITH%20SIGN.JPG" style='height:66px;width:97px' alt="SMITH SIGN.JPG"> </span></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jonathan M. Smith<br> Executive Director</span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></p> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'> <hr size=1 width="33%" align=center> </span></div> <p>&nbsp;<strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Pro Bono Profile: Crowell and Moring LLP</span></strong><strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'> </span></strong><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br> </span><br> </b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>With the encouragement and mentoring of Public Service Partner Susan Hoffman and Legal Aid Board Member and Crowell &amp; Moring Partner David Florin, Crowell &amp; Moring attorneys regularly represent clients referred through Legal Aid s Pro Bono Program.<br> <br> Crowell attorneys recently took on two different eviction cases on the same day.&nbsp; Both tenants reported that they had been withholding their rent because their respective landlords had not made necessary repairs.&nbsp; The court scheduled bench trials in each of the cases only a few weeks after evictions suits were filed alleging nonpayment of rent.&nbsp; The attorneys successfully settled the cases in short order.</span><span style='font-family: "Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><br> <br> </span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'>Attorneys at the firm also recently agreed to represent a non-custodial mother who reports that the father of her eight-year-old daughter has been denying her regular visits with her daughter in alleged violation of a court order.&nbsp; Others at the firm are representing a mother seeking Supplemental Security Income benefits for her four-year-old child who suffers from severe asthma.&nbsp; And, earlier this year, Crowell secured a $20,000 settlement for a tenant who was renting a room in a house where the utilities had been turned off and the bathroom was not functional.&nbsp; <br> <br>  Our attorneys find representation of clients referred by the Legal Aid Society quite rewarding because they are able to help them with compelling legal needs, such as housing or legal custody of their children, said Public Service Partner Susan Hoffman.&nbsp;  The dedicated and experienced Legal Aid staff attorneys provide excellent mentoring and support enabling our attorneys with no background in poverty law to take on these deserving clients. Our Firm and its pro bono program are proud to be part of the Legal Aid referral network. </span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <div> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; color:black'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> </div> <div> <div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman";color:black'> <hr size=1 width="33%" align=center> </span></div> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><strong><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'>&nbsp; </span></strong><span style='mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"'><o:p></o:p></span></p> </td> </tr> <tr style='mso-yfti-irow:3;mso-yfti-lastrow:yes'> <td colspan=2 style='border:solid #990033 1.0pt;mso-border-alt:solid #990033 .75pt; background:#CCCCCC;padding:7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt 7.5pt'> <p align=center style='text-align:center'><a href="http://cts.vresp.com/c/?LegalAidSocietyofthe/5eb16690c7/ef27170ed6/cb00cc6aed/aid=14462"><span style='text-decoration:none;text-underline:none'><img border=0 width=116 height=48 id="_x0000_i1032" src="http://img.pcdn.vresp.com/media/d/2/6/d26b502256/5eb16690c7/2a22d903c8/library/donate%20now.jpg" alt="donate now.jpg"></span></a><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>&nbsp;</span> </p> <p class=MsoNormal align=center style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom: 12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>1331 H Street, N.W., Suite 350<br> Washington, DC&nbsp; 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