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2009 Associates’ Campaign

Under the leadership of associates at leading New York law firms, The Legal Aid Society’s Associates’ Campaign raises awareness and vital funds for the Society’s Civil Practice which depends on private funding to provide legal assistance to the most vulnerable New Yorkers. In fact, individual gifts raised through this campaign account for nearly one-third of all individual contributions raised for our Civil Practice each year.

Since its inception in 1939, funds raised through this campaign have helped our Civil Practice provide unequaled access to justice for its clients, which include senior citizens, disabled and chronically-ill children and adults, survivors of domestic violence, unemployed workers, immigrants fleeing oppression, persons living with HIV/AIDS, low income wage earners, and homeless and imminently homeless children and adults.

Associates who begin their relationship with Legal Aid by contributing through the Associates’ Campaign continue to support our mission for years to come. In fact, some of our biggest volunteers and supporters, including many of our past and current board members, were introduced to Legal Aid by participating in this campaign.

We are proud of the exceptional accomplishments of the past participants of our Associates’ Campaigns, and we are always grateful for the unwavering support of the New York legal community as a whole. Of course, there is always more work to be done, and more clients in desperate need of our help. In fact, while our Civil Practice handled over 32,000 matters last year alone, we are still only able to help 1 out of every 7 individuals who come to us for help. Your support can make all the difference.

We hope that you will join us for the 2009 Associates’ Campaign.

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For more information about the Associates’ Campaign, please contact Laura Lytton, Assistant Director Special Events & Annual Fund, at The Legal Aid Society, 212-577-3574.

Special thanks to the following firms for their participation in the 2008 Associates’ Campaign:

Arnold & Porter LLP
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Clifford Chance LLP
Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Fitzpatrick, Cella, Harper & Scinto LLP
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
Jones Day
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kornstein Veisz Wexler & Pollard LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Linklaters LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pomerantz Haudek Block Grossman & Gross LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Wilmer, Cutler, Pickering, Hale & Dorr LLP