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Bryan Cave strongly encourages all of our lawyers to engage in pro bono work. Pro bono matters

are treated with the same care as any others we take on, and the service provided to our pro

bono clients is of the same quality delivered to all fi rm clients. Bryan Cave’s pro bono priority is

to offer legal services benefi ting persons and organizations of limited means and to advocate

for civil rights, human rights, civil liberties and public rights. Bryan Cave’s work includes civil

rights and public rights law, asylum and immigration cases, child abduction matters, health law,

real estate issues, death penalty and other criminal cases, counseling charitable organizations,

and many other areas involving the administration of justice. Referrals from local legal services

agencies and work for non-profi t organizations make up much of Bryan Cave’s pro bono time.

Bryan Cave strongly encourages all of our lawyers to engage in pro bono work Pro bono matters

Bryan Cave Pro Bono Review 2009


In 2009, Bryan Cave contributed those things we have in abundance – legal expertise, passion and a deep desire to help meet

the needs of underserved people. While it is impossible to describe all of the varied ways in which Bryan Cave has embraced pro

bono work, the matters outlined in this report illustrate our fi erce dedication to this cause.

Representing Underserved

Individuals and Communities

The fi rm takes pride in working to meet the needs of underserved segments of the population. Recent highlights of that work include:

Children in Foster CareMore than 1,500 children in the City of St. Louis are in foster care. Th e City cannot aff ord to provide legal advocates for children of parents who are unable or unfi t to care for them and who need permanent guardians. Bryan Cave helps fi ll that void by representing every child involved in guardianship proceedings in the St. Louis City Probate Court. Since November 2008, more than twenty-fi ve Bryan Cave attorneys from nearly every practice group have investigated proposed placements with relatives and other third parties by conducting home visits, performing background checks, and interviewing proposed guardians, educators, doctors, social workers, and other adults or agencies that have contact with the child. Bryan Cave attorneys then appear in court as guardian ad litem on behalf of the child, call and cross-examine witnesses, and make recommendations to the court about what is in the child’s best interests. In 2009, the fi rm handled 86 of these cases, work equal to approximately $90,000 in legal fees.

Veterans CourtIn July 2009, a team of Bryan Cave attorneys met with representatives of Kansas City’s local Veterans Administration to form a partnership to provide pro bono legal services to returning veterans in need. As part of this eff ort, Bryan Cave partnered with Judge Ardie Bland of the Kansas City Municipal Court to create a “Veterans Court”, designed to serve the needs of military veterans who fi nd themselves involved in the criminal justice system. Th is team of more than a dozen Bryan Cave attorneys is working to provide legal representation and counseling services to veterans, many of whom are returning from combat duty, in an eff ort to facilitate their transition back into civilian life.

Prisoner Habeas Corpus ActionsBryan Cave attorneys in St. Louis led the pro bono eff ort that resulted in the exoneration of Josh Kezer, age 34, who spent nearly half his life in jail for a murder he did not commit. Kezer was convicted in the 1992 killing of Angela Lawless, a 19-year-old college student. Despite having no witnesses, no motive and no physical evidence, a jury convicted Kezer, then just 17, of the murder. Bryan Cave attorneys were instrumental in discovering new evidence proving the man’s innocence. Th rough a referral from Th e American College of Trial Lawyer’s Access to Justice Committee, Partner Charlie Weiss reviewed the fi le and took the case. Th e Innocence Project, a national organization dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted people, was enlisted to help fund DNA testing. Th e fi rm has a team in our St. Louis and Kansas City offi ces that is working with the Midwest Innocence Project to help prisoners on several other habeas corpus petitions.

In 2009, Bryan Cave contributed those things we have in abundance – legal expertise, passion and a deep

Overview of 2009 Pro Bono Projects


Victims of Domestic ViolenceAttorneys in Bryan Cave’s Atlanta offi ce obtained permanent residency for a Pakistani women by establishing her status as a victim of domestic abuse under the Violence Against Women Act. Under that Act, if it is proven that the individual came to this country legally as the spouse of an American and was then abused, that person can apply for permanent residence without the sponsorship of the abusive spouse. Th e individual must demonstrate a legitimate marriage and serious mental or physical abuse. In this case, the woman was a nurse who was persuaded to marry an American of Pakistani origin and leave her home of Karachi with promises of a wonderful life, and the opportunity to pursue her nursing career with the love and support of her husband’s family. Upon arrival to the United States, she was forced to work all day in the family’s cleaning business, was given no money, and was physically abused nightly by her husband. After six months of enduring this abuse, she fl ed in the middle of the night to a local shelter. Her husband and his family spent months trying to fi nd her while she sought help from Project Liberty, which assists people in obtaining residency without the otherwise necessary sponsorship of their American spouses. After nearly two years, Bryan Cave’s client was awarded her green card and she now works as a nurse in Atlanta.

Th is is not the only case in which Bryan Cave lawyers represented victims of domestic abuse. Each of our U.S. offi ces handle orders of protection matters. Th e St. Louis offi ce, for example, accepts referrals from Legal Services of Eastern Missouri and Legal Advocates for Abused Women and, since 2008, has represented clients in more than 50 protection hearings.

Civil Rights, Human Rights

and Public Rights

Bryan Cave handles numerous pro bono cases that deal with civil rights, human rights and public rights. Highlights from 2009 include:

Foster Children with DisabilitiesIn November 2009, a team of lawyers from Bryan Cave’s New York offi ce submitted an amicus curiae brief to the New York Court of Appeals on behalf of 16 public interest groups, in a cutting edge case involving the rights of children with disabilities in New York City’s foster care system. Th e case is viewed as signifi cant to whether children with disabilities will be able to use class actions to enforce their rights and try to remedy public agencies’ failings. At issue was an appeal of lower court decisions certifying a class of children with disabilities who claimed they had not received adequate services, such as needed therapy while in foster care as well as adequate support in obtaining a long-term placement outside of foster care. Oral argument was heard by the court in early 2010.

Medicaid and Food Stamp ApplicationsBryan Cave’s New York offi ce provided signifi cant assistance to the Center for Law & Economic Justice in successfully representing indigent clients in class action litigation against Suff olk County, New York in seeking to change the County’s severe delays in processing applications for Medicaid and food stamps. Th e matter was settled with the County on favorable terms.

In addition, lawyers from multiple Bryan Cave offi ces teamed with lawyers from the National Center for Law and Economic Justice in fi ling a class action which sought to force the State of Indiana to process food stamp applications on a timely basis. Th e case was fi led in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Indiana. Th e class was comprised of Indiana residents who applied for or will apply for food stamps on or after April 1, 2008. Th e Court certifi ed a class of food stamp applicants and a sub-class of applicants eligible for expedited processing. On the fi rst day of a scheduled two-day hearing, the parties reached an agreement in principle on preliminary injunctive relief. Th ereafter, on

Did you know? Total hours Bryan Cave spent

performing pro bono legal services in 2009: 46,712


October 19, 2009, the Court entered a Consent Preliminary Injunction, requiring the State to meet improved timeliness targets under a Court imposed schedule, over the next 18 months. Th e injunction also requires the State of Indiana to improve its compliance with federal time frames, provide monitoring data to demonstrate the extent of its compliance, provide adequate notice to food stamp applicants, and create a mechanism for applicants to have individual problems resolved.

Request to Justice Department to Investigate Unlawful Prosecution of Former Governor Bryan Cave Attorneys in Santa Monica were lead representatives of 75 former state attorneys general from across the country who asked the U.S. Attorney General to investigate whether former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman’s corruption prosecution should stand. Following an amicus brief fi led in 2008, the bipartisan group signed a letter in April 2009 asking Mr. Holder to conduct an investigation similar to the one that led the Justice Department to drop its case against former Alaska Senator Ted Stevens.

Civil Rights LitigationBryan Cave represents a group of student journalists and neutral legal observers who were swept up in a mass arrest in Washington, D.C. carried out during the 2002 World Bank/IMF protests. In this unlawful arrest case, the District of Columbia conceded that there was not probable cause to arrest the group of individuals in Pershing Park, including the plaintiff s, whose arrests have now been declared null and void by Federal District Court Judge Sullivan. At a hearing before Judge Sullivan in 2009, involving plaintiff s’ motions for sanctions against the District of Columbia government, and certain individuals, for destruction of evidence, he ordered the DC Attorney General to submit a sworn statement explaining the disappearance of the documents. Th e Judge also threatened to bring in an independent prosecutor to determine the facts of the missing discovery. He instructed plaintiff s to resubmit their motions for sanctions and encouraged counsel to make them “innovative”. He urged the District Mayor to settle these cases on “reasonable terms” because otherwise it would be “very painful” to the taxpayers of the District of Columbia.

Naturalization ApplicantsBryan Cave attorneys in St. Louis, along with local immigration attorney James Hacking, represented a group of permanent residents seeking U.S. citizenship in a federal lawsuit challenging extraordinary delays in the processing of their naturalization applications. Among other claims, the plaintiff s asserted that the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service’s (USCIS) use of Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) “name checks” was not authorized by law and unreasonably delayed the naturalization process. Th e applicants sought class certifi cation on behalf of similarly situated citizenship applicants. Within months of the lawsuit’s fi ling, the FBI rapidly completed name checks for all of the plaintiff s, and the USCIS approved citizenship applications for all but four of them. Th e applications of the remaining four plaintiff s were remanded to USCIS for processing “as expeditiously as possible.” In addition, the legal team represents another group of permanent residents in a second lawsuit advancing similar claims.

Amicus MattersBryan Cave submitted an amicus brief for the ACLU of the National Capital Area of D.C. in an important Fourth Amendment case pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Th e case, United States v. Maynard, presents the question whether the Fourth Amendment requires police to obtain a warrant before covertly attaching a GPS tracking device to an individual’s vehicle and then tracking the vehicle for prolonged periods. Th e ACLU, joined by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, contend that citizens have a reasonable expectation of privacy to be free of prolonged technical surveillance of their every move, and that the Fourth Amendment therefore requires that police obtain a warrant for covert GPS tracking. Th e only other federal circuit to consider the issue to date (the Seventh Circuit) upheld the warrantless use of GPS tracking, but several state supreme courts (including New York and Massachusetts) have ruled under state constitutional provisions that a warrant is required for GPS tracking. Th is case argued in November 2009, has attracted considerable media attention, including an editorial in the New York Times and an article in the National Law Journal.


Going Home

Bryan Cave has successfully litigated numerous pro bono cases that have favorably affected the provision of services to person of limited means or low income communities. Below are examples of their work that allowed two families to return home.

Victimized Homeowners Bryan Cave lawyers in the Phoenix offi ce represented two Spanish-speaking brothers who purchased a family home in 1988 in Phoenix and worked for 20 years to build equity in the home until they fell victim to a mortgage fraud scheme. Th e brothers lost their home to an equity skimming fraud masquerading as foreclosure rescue. Th ey were introduced to a local company and told documents they were signing were for a short-term loan to assist with their mortgage payments. In reality, the documents transferred title of their home to the company which victimized hundreds of Arizona homeowners. Bryan Cave sued the two ringleaders of the scheme, one of whom declared bankruptcy the day before jury selection. After a nine-day trial, the remaining defendant, was found liable on all of the clients’ claims. Th rough Bryan Cave’s work, the clients got their home back and were awarded over $400,000 in damages.

Child AbductionTh ree Bryan Cave associates in St. Louis represented Mireille Sita-Mambwene, a Congolese citizen and resident of Germany, in a successful eff ort to return her three children following abduction by their father. In early March 2008, the father abducted the children and brought them to the United States, frustrating Mireille Sita-Mambwene’s eff orts to locate them on multiple occasions. After the children’s address was uncovered in St. Louis more than a year later, and at the request of the U.S. State Department, Bryan Cave agreed to take the case pro bono. Th e Court rejected the father’s claims that the children were “well-settled” in the United States by the time the petition was fi led and were at “grave risk” from endemic racism in Germany. Judge Webber wrote, “While this court recognizes that racism is a serious social problem throughout the world ... it is unclear that the racism that apparently exists in Germany is more pervasive or problematic than the racism that unfortunately continues to plague the United States.” Mireille Sita-Mambwene’s petition under the Hague Convention was granted on August 28, 2009, and the children were tendered to Bryan Cave offi ces and then returned to Germany with their mother on August 31, 2009.

“Th is was a diffi cult process for our clients. Th ey hung in there and showed confi dence in us and faith in the courts. Th eir children kept asking when they would be able to go home.”

Bryan Cave Phoenix Partner Jay Zweig

“After what has been a frightening and emotionally trying 18 months for Ms. Sita-Mambwene, she is thrilled to fi nally be reunited with her children and eager to take them home,”

Bryan Cave St. Louis Associate Brent Roam


Innovation

Bryan Cave continually strives to fi nd innovative ways to provide volunteer legal services to underserved people and communities. The following are three examples of the fi rm’s inventive approaches to delivering pro bono services.

Pro Bono Partnership In 2009, Legal Services of Eastern Missouri, Bryan Cave and Monsanto Company (a Bryan Cave client) formed a partnership to provide free legal services to underprivileged persons in the St. Louis area. Lawyers from the three entities decided to focus the program on child welfare issues, including orders of protection, guardianship, and the development of educational plans for disabled children. In August of 2009, the partnership conducted a comprehensive continuing legal education program at Monsanto covering each of these areas.

Th is innovative initiative has already led to pro bono representation of children in several matters in the Circuit Courts of the City of St. Louis and St. Louis County. Th is work is continuing and expected to grow throughout 2010. Having lawyers from Bryan Cave and Monsanto appear jointly on behalf of an indigent child referred by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri has already created synergies between those involved – everyone wants to do more.

Fight Notario Fraud ProjectBryan Cave attorneys in Washington, D.C., successfully represented four immigrants in a civil action against a consultant for “immigration consultant fraud” or “notario fraud”. Th e groundbreaking case is the fi rst suit of its kind brought in Maryland, Virginia or the District of Columbia, and one of the fi rst such suits brought nationally.

As a result of the action, the consultant agreed to entry of a confessed judgment awarding $100,000 to the plaintiff s, and enjoining the consultant from future fraud or deception. Since then, Bryan Cave and the ABA Commission on Immigration have collaborated to establish the Fight Notario Fraud Project, a referral service encouraging consumer protection litigators to work with

immigration attorneys in bringing pro bono cases against fraudulent consultants. A new web resource supports attorneys in bringing cases modeled after the one fi led by Bryan Cave in all fi fty states and allows litigators to register their interest and receive referrals in their jurisdiction.


Affi nity Group Initiative Th roughout 2008, members of Bryan Cave’s LGBT Affi nity Group evaluated candidates for the One Group program – an initiative to select one non-profi t organization on which the group’s members could focus their pro bono eff orts. While the fi rm continues to take on pro bono matters in a wide variety of areas, this is the fi rst time a Bryan Cave affi nity group has focused so many of its resources on a single organization. Th e affi nity members considered non-profi t organizations that are LGBT focused, non-partisan, humanitarian, have a national footprint and are in need of pro bono legal services. Th ey fi nally selected the Family Equality Council (FEC), a national nonprofi t organization working to ensure equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender families.

Th e fi rm’s fi rst project for FEC was to undertake a comprehensive survey of federal laws aff ecting LGBT families. Th is ongoing project involves the review of federal forms and applications that defi ne the terms parent, child and family and identifi cation of the legal requirements for amending those forms to cover LGBT families. As a result of Bryan Cave’s ongoing eff orts, FEC is now working directly with the Obama Administration to make the changes needed to federal forms to include LGBT people and their families.

Th e second project involved the review of statues, regulations, policies and internal guidance of Health and Human Services to see if there may be terms that can be used to deny services to or discriminate against LGBT parents or children of or adopted by same-sex parents. In particular, the regulations for the Medicare and Medicaid programs were reviewed and the context analyzed to identify potential problems that the use of the terms may engender. Th e review also generated alternatives to the potentially discriminatory terms.

Another project involved a review of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Serve Administration (SAMHSA) regulations for any use of the term “family”. Th e fi rm sought to ascertain whether the defi nition of “family” proposed by the FEC could be adopted within the context of the regulations, and what actions may need to be taken for this defi nition of “family” to be applied for the particular regulation.

Th e fi rm’s most recent project involved a review of certain Sate Department forms that contain the terms “mother” and/or “father” and the impact of those terms on children with same-sex parents. In order to ascertain the impact of the form

and the steps that need to be taken to change the form, the authorizing statutes and regulations related to the form were reviewed. Th is project was a precursor to a broader project covering forms from other executive agencies. Th e project originated from eff orts by the FEC to provide equal access to LBGT families of government services.


Bryan Cave strives to make a difference in our local

communities. Each of our domestic offi ces have ongoing pro

bono projects with a wide range of local non-profi t groups and

charitable organizations. Examples include:

New YorkFor many years, Bryan Cave’s New York offi ce has handled asylum applications referred to the fi rm by human rights organizations, including Immigration Equality, Human Rights First and the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children. In 2009, Bryan Cave lawyers successfully prepared an asylum application for and represented an LGBT, HIV positive man from Ecuador in the asylum process.

DallasAttorneys in Bryan Cave’s Dallas offi ce continually work with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program (DVAP). DVAP is an alliance of the Dallas Bar Association and Legal Aid of Northwest Texas. DVAP arranges for volunteer attorneys to provide free legal services to the poor. Bryan Cave lawyers staff the DVAP Housing Crisis Center on days that the center off ers pro bono legal advice to the poor regarding foreclosure and landlord/tenant issues and staff the Garland Legal Clinic for DVAP, where the lawyers meet with the clients to pre-screen cases for DVAP.

Santa MonicaLawyers in Bryan Cave’s Santa Monica offi ce work with children’s rights organizations on residency and adoption matters. Th e fi rm represents immigrant children seeking residency in the US for the National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children. Th e fi rm has also works with the Alliance for Children’s

Rights, a non-profi t legal aid organization that assists with adoptions and guardianships of children who are in foster case.

Kansas City A team of Bryan Cave attorneys in the Kansas City offi ce represent victims of human traffi cking from the Dominican Republic, Jamaica and the Philippines. A Kansas City-based human traffi cking ring lured victims to the United States under the guise of legitimate jobs and a better life, only to treat them as modern-day slaves under the threat of deportation. Th e victims work for less than minimum wage and lived in substandard conditions.

Washington, D.C.Bryan Cave attorneys in the D.C. offi ce continue their work with the YWCA of the National Capital Area of D.C. in a variety of real estate, tax status, corporate governance and employment matters. In addition to direct legal support, the fi rm sponsors the YWCA’s Washington Area Women in Trades program that has trained over 200 unemployed and underemployed women from the three poorest wards of Washington, D.C.

Examples of Ongoing Pro Bono Projects

“From meeting the day to day legal needs of our business to providing in-depth and strategic analysis on policy issues, Bryan Cave’s pro bono support of FEC has transformed our organization.”

- Family Equality Council Executive Director Jennifer Chrisler


Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Gerald R. Ortbals Outstanding Law Firm Award 2009: Th is award recognizes a law fi rm that has distinguished itself with its commitment to pro bono service. Bryan Cave’s St. Louis offi ce earned this honor for its dedication to provide pro bono legal services to a wide range of organizations and individuals in the St. Louis community.

Th e Daily Record ‘Law Firm Pro Bono Legal Leader’ 2009: Bryan Cave Kansas City offi ce was selected for having worked more than 5,000 pro bono hours and for their work on behalf of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council to rehabilitate abandoned houses. Since 2006, Bryan Cave has worked with the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council to pursue abandoned houses in the urban core. More than 31 Bryan Cave lawyers have assisted to date on the project. Lawyers have worked with the Neighborhood Council on 65 properties, helping to rehabilitate some and working with residents to resolve abandoned housing.

Chicago Legal Clinic Charles J. O’Laughlin Award 2009: Th is award recognizes outstanding eff orts by a law fi rm or legal department to make legal services available to the poor. Bryan Cave’s Chicago offi ce demonstrated that they are dedicated to making legal services available to the poor and has an established program or policy regarding pro bono work or other sponsorship of similar activities

Midwestern Innocence Project Innocence Award 2009: St. Louis Partner Charlie Weiss was honored by the Midwestern Innocence Project for leading the pro bono eff ort which resulted in the exoneration of Josh Kezer.

Missouri Bar Pro Bono Publico Award 2009: St. Louis Partner Charlie Weiss was selected as one of three honorees for his outstanding pro bono service to indigent or low-income persons in need of legal assistance, specifi cally for his work on the Kezer case discussed above.

Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona 2009: Phoenix Partner George Chen and Associate Robert Reder were selected as two of the 50 recipients of this award in recognition of the time they devoted to assisting Arizonans who otherwise would have no legal resources. Chen was nominated by Community Legal Services Volunteer Lawyers Program (VLP) for the help he gave in screening VLP applicants and coordinating quarterly pro bono legal clinics for the Asian community in Arizona on behalf of the Arizona Asian American Bar Association, in collaboration with the Asian Pacifi c Community in Action. Reder was nominated by VLP for his work with guardianship and adoption cases. In 2007, Reder was named the Adoption Attorney of the Year by VLP.

Forty at Fifty Judicial Pro Bono Recognition 2009: Bryan Cave’s Washington offi ce was praised by chief judges of the federal district and appellate courts for its dedication to providing pro bono legal services in 2009. Bryan Cave was one of 31 fi rms honored this year.

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri’s Gerald R. Ortbals Outstanding Law Firm Missouri Bar Pro Bono Publico Award 2009: St. Louis Partner Charlie Weiss

Bryan Cave Pro Bono Recognition 2009


Bryan Cave LLP was a recipient of the 2010 American Bar Association’s (ABA)

Pro Bono Publico Award. The award was given to Bryan Cave for our ongoing

commitment to pro bono work.

Th e Pro Bono Publico Award is given annually to fi ve individual lawyers or law fi rms that have enhanced the human dignity of others by improving or delivering volunteer legal services to persons of limited means and the organizations that serve them. To be considered for the award, candidates may be nominated by third parties or may nominate themselves. Bryan Cave was nominated by Legal Services of Eastern Missouri and was supported by a number of other pro bono organizations the fi rm has assisted through the years.“We have a special obligation to make our professional skills and other resources available to those who cannot aff ord to pay for legal services,” said Don G. Lents, Bryan Cave’s chairman. “Hopefully, this award will draw attention to the need for pro bono legal representation for low-income and disadvantaged individuals and families and nonprofi t groups.”Bryan Cave has a long history of commitment to pro bono eff orts. Attorneys in the fi rm’s U.S. offi ces spent nearly 47,000 hours in 2009 performing pro bono legal services, up from a little over 36,000 hours in 2008.“Th e number of hours we spend on pro bono matters has risen greatly,” Lents said. “More signifi cant than the amount of time, however, is the impact of our work.”In 2009, Bryan Cave handled cases that reunited families, revitalized neighborhoods and kept families in their homes.“In a time when grim economic circumstances have rendered more and more people in need of legal assistance just to preserve their most basic rights, Bryan Cave’s consistent willingness to provide critical pro bono services has been exemplary and makes them a very worthy recipient of this prestigious award,” said Daniel K. Glazier, executive director and general counsel of Legal Services of Eastern Missouri.

American Bar Association’s

2010 Pro Bono Publico AwardBryan Cave is a charter signatory to the Pro Bono Institute’s Law Firm Pro Bono ChallengeSM

, a unique global aspirational pro bono standard. The Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge articulates a unitary standard for the world’s largest law fi rms. Charter signatories acknowledge their institutional, fi rmwide commitment to provide pro bono legal services to low income and disadvantaged individuals and families and non-profi t groups.


The attorneys and legal professionals listed here recorded more than 50 hours of pro bono work in 2009.The attorneys and legal professionals listed here recorded more than 50 hours of pro bono work in 2009

Bryan Cave Pro Bono Attorneys 2009

Allen, Benjamin J.B.

Angelette, Benjamin J.

Annus, Taavi

Awerdick, Megan

Barbara, Emily S.

Barbaruolo, Christopher L.

Barrie, John P.

Baucom, Christopher D.

Bavinger III, William F.

Benitez, John-Paul

Biesterfeld, Lindsay V.

Blaesing, Christopher M.

Bliss, Ronald J.

Blumenthal, Susan G.

Boltz, Jr., Howard O.

Borgmann, Douglas P.

Boyce, Nathan M.

Boyd, Louis J.

Brennan, Mark W.

Brewer, Lindsay P.

Burby, R. Joseph

Burroughs, Harold R.

Bush, John C.

Butler, Tobias

Byers, Jane

Calloway, David A.

Campriello, Austin V.

Casey, Stephen R.

Chanin, Michael H.

Christensen, Brian J.

Cline, Amy D

Cohen, Lindsay E.

Cook, Edwin

Costello, Melissa R.

Covington, Ann K.

Crowder, Jennifer L.

Davis, Aaron E.

Davis, Robert S.

DeGroot, Chad R.

DeVita, James R.

Dill, Emma L.

Donnelli, Jennifer A.

Donnelly, Dennis C.

Dorman, Jay M.

Duvall, Michael J.

Fadlallah, Mahmoud I.

Falencki, Corinne A.

Faleti, Adeyinka A.

Fields, Denise F.

Firestone, David

Flower, Jordan Matthew

Forman, Erica R.

Fudge Jr., John W.

Gado, Ameer

Gajewski, Megan A.

Galvin, Gregory J.

Gebert, Kathryn E.

Gibson, James Jay

Gill, James F.

Gioia, Veronica A.

Giorgio, Jill H. Doverspike

Goldberg-Ragot, Elizabeth J.

Goldman, Heather S.

Harris, Beth F.

Harvath, Daniel F.

Hawkins, Peter G.

Hayden, Patrice M.

Herrick, Carrie E.

Hibsher, William J.

Hird, Kristin

Hodarkar, Nikhil J.

Holland, Derek S.

Holley, Joy L.

Howard, Brent Anderson

Hubbard, Th eresa Barrett

Hughes, James D.

Humphreys, Amy M.

Isabel, Sarah Emata Gohl

Iwarere, Oluseyi

Jackson III, George

Jalalipour, Shima

Javillonar, Christopher C.

Jeff rey, Craig D.

Joerger, Martha

Johnson, Matthew E.

Jones II, Allen R.

Jones, Amos N.

Jones, Molly M.

Kahn, Erik W.

Kaiser, Scott H.

Kane, Margaret

Kar, Arindam

Keaney, Colleen C.

Kearbey, Travis R.

Kehrer, Keith J.

Kies, Jennifer M.

Kim, David J.

Kircher, John D.

Klein, Maribeth M.

Knurek, Emily J.

Kolster, Ricardo A.

Kramer, Jacob A.

Kreamer, Th omas F.

Labelle, Erika S.

LaRocco, Chris M.

Lefkowitz, Bradley J.

Lehr, L. Anthony

Lennox, Megan I.

Levin, Jay J.

Levin, Michael T.

Linkous, William

Lorenz-Moser, Amy J.

Lowry, Bruce E.

Luaders, Rhiana A.

Maloney, William J.

Marshall, Kenneth Lee

Matthews, James M.

McKey, S. Patrick

Meitl, Philip J.

Meyers, Megan E.

Miller, Logan V.

Minogue, Elizabeth C.

Modisett, Jeff rey A.

Moll, Brian K.

Moore, Mary Margaret

Morgan, Katie A.

Mostajelean, Bahareh

Muranaka, Maureen M.

Murphy, George F.

Nadler, Angela L.

Nall, Ashley H.

Nanney, Th omas E.

Nash, Kelly M.

Neumeyer, Coree E.

Nowakowski, Sharon R.

Ochoa, Richard C.

O’Connor, Daniel T.

Oliver, Kristina

Olson, William E.

Opaska, Walter P

Ormsby, Stacey Terry

O’Toole, Terrence J.

Ott, Nikki A.

Ott, Rodney W.

Pai, Jackson C.

Parekh, Amit S.

Patton, John C.

Pearce, Matthew Justin

Peiser, James

Phelps, Jason W.

Pink, Jonathan Stuart

Polhemus, John T.

Polk, Jr., Jimmy L.

Prywes, Daniel I.

Rayl, Melody L.

Recor, Brian J.

Reder, Robert S.

Rieder, Eric

Rincon, Carolyn K. Brooks

Rispoli, Frederick A.

Roam, Brent E.

Robinson, Kristin

Rogatnick, Howard Moss

Romans Bower, Beth

Rosen, Adam J.

Rucker, Heather Boelens

Samuels, Robert J.

Schell, Th omas J.

Schmidt, Christopher J.

Schoenberger, Carina H.

Schroeder, Eric P.

Schwartz, Daniel C.

Schwartz, Michael A.

Seale, Mariangela M.

Seymour, Adwoa Ghartey-Tagoe

Shah, Purvi M.

Shelton, Christan E.

Simon, Beth

Simon, Patrick

Snodgrass, Stephen R.

Snyder, Ivan J.

Solish, Jonathan C.

Soodek, Caroline S.

Staulcup, Jr., James M.

Stearns, Paul V.

Strianese, Christopher R.

Strunk, Emily K.

Suresh, Vyas

Swider, Aniela D.

Tornay, Chaeri

Turner, Jamanda

Turoff , Brian J.

Tyler, Wilhemina J.

Uckert, Colin W.

Urias, Peter D.

Van Voorhees, Robert F.

Vandeginste, David R.

Vizzie, Rosario L.

Wainscott, Kip F.

Walker, Krishna A.

Walsh, Ryan

Walterbach, Maureen A.

Wang, R. Randall

Ware, Jordan M.

Warren, Jay P.

Weaver, Mark T.

Webb, James

Weil, Paul P.

Weisbrod, Abigail S.

Weiss, Charles A.

Wells, Jared

Werich, Michael J

Werner, Patricia L.

Wicks, James T.

Wolff , Carolyn

Woodfi eld, Wendy

Wright, Keitha Monet

Wyrsch, James R.

Zeidel, Adam

Zetoony, David A.

Zweig, Jay A.


ACLU of the National Capital Area of D.C.

Advocates for Children of New York

Anti-Defamation League

American Council of Young Political Leaders

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law

Th e Bronx Defenders

Catholic Charities USA

Children’s Law Center

Children’s Rights Inc.

Citizens’ Committee for Children of New York

Community Legal Services - Phoenix

Court Appointed Special Advocates, Inc.

Disability Advocates, Inc.

Empire Justice Center

Family Equality Council

Human Rights First

Innocence Project

Lawyers Alliance for New York

Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law

Legal Advocates for Abused Women

Legal Aid of Western Missouri

Legal Services of Central New York

Legal Services of Eastern Missouri

Mental Disability Law Clinic at Touro Law Center

MFY Legal Services, Inc.

National Center for Law and Economic Justice

National Center for Missing and Exploited Children

National Center for Refugee and Immigrant Children

National Disability Rights Network

New York Civil Liberties Union

New York Legal Assistance Group

Urban Justice Center

Valley of the Sun Jewish Community Center

Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts

Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Aff airs

YWCA of the National Capital Area

Representative List of Organizations

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Bryan Cave performed pro bono legal services for a variety of organizations in 2009 including:

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