2016 Servant of Justice

The 27th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner

April 28, 2016
JW Marriott
1331 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC

6:00 pm – Opening Reception
7:15 pm – Dinner, Awards Program & Dessert Reception

Servant of Justice Award Honorees

 Marian Wright Edelman
Children’s Defense Fund

Presented by the Honorable Patricia M. Wald
United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (Retired)

 Thomas S. Williamson, Jr.Covington & Burling LLP

Presented by Eric H. Holder, Jr.,
Covington & Burling LLP

Klepper Prize for Volunteer Excellence Honoree

Brendan Carroll
Alston & Bird LLP

Presented by Arlene Fine Klepper

2016 Servant of Justice Awards Dinner Sponsors

Support Legal Aid’s 2016 Servant of Justice Awards Dinner – see sponsorship opportunities here. Legal Aid expresses its deepest appreciation to the generous law firm and corporate sponsors of its 27th Annual Servant of Justice Awards Dinner.

Champion of Justice

Leader of Justice

Defender of Justice

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Arent Fox LLP
Gilbert LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Guardian of Justice

Arnold & Porter LLP
Dentons US LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Wilkinson Walsh + Eskovitz LLP

Advocate of Justice

Bailey & Glasser LLP
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Blank Rome LLP
BuckleySandler LLP
Cooley LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Jones Day
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Northrop Grumman Corporation
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
The Steptoe Foundation
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Venable LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wiley Rein LLP
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP

Steward of Justice

Bloomberg Philanthropies
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Citi Private Bank
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Cushman & Wakefield
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Ernst & Young, LLP
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Katz Marshall & Banks, LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Martin and Arlene Klepper
Kutak Rock LLP
Miller & Chevalier Chartered
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox PLLC
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Weisbrod Matteis & Copley PLLC
Williams & Connolly LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation

Dinner Co-Chairs

Michael E. Nannes
Blank Rome LLP

Jonice Gray Tucker
BuckleySandler LLP

Dinner Host Committee

Dinner Steering Committee