UJC Founder and Executive Director, Doug Lasdon, writes Op-Ed in Albany Times Union regarding the current stalemate in Albany
Albany Times Union:
"Tyranny of the majority,"
June 21, 2009
THANK YOU!
To the hundreds of young professionals representing New York City's
leading law firms who joined together with us on June 17th at this year's Beer, Blues and
BBQ! It was a great evening with Blue Smoke BBQ, Brooklyn Brewery and
the Marvin Sewell Group providing the blues. All proceeds will go to
help low income people in New York City.
Please visit our gallery page
for pictures from the event.
Join us next year for the 24th Annual Beer, Blues and BBQ!
Event Sponsors
Platinum Sponsors – $10,000
- Ann & Mitch Lowenthal
- Mayer Brown LLP
Corporate Patron – $5,000
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- WilmerHale
Corporate Sponsor – $2,500
- Alston + Bird LLP
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
THANK YOU!
To everyone who supported and attended this year's 5th
Annual Community Justice Awards Luncheon. Through all of your efforts,
we surpassed last year's fundraising mark! Your dedication to helping
low-income and disenfranchised people is inspiring and we look forward
to working with you in the near future to improve the lives of all New
Yorkers.
Honorees
Edward P. O'Keefe, Esq.
On behalf of the Bank of America Legal Department
Community Leadership Award
Robert Crane
President, JEHT Foundation
Social Impact Award
Please visit our gallery page
for pictures from the event.
Benefactors
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Goodwin Procter LLP
- Kaye Scholer LLP
- Loeb & Loeb LLP
- O'Melveny & Myers LLP
- Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
- Sidley Austin LLP
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Investors
- Arnold & Porter LLP
- Bingham McCutchen LLP
- Bressler, Amery & Ross, P.C.
- Barasch McGarry Salzman & Penson
- Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP
- Clifford Chance LLP
- Credit Suisse
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP
- Hunton & Williams
- Jones Day
- Katten Muchin Rosenman
- Latham & Watkins LLP
- Liebler, Gonzalez & Portuondo, PA
- Linklaters
- Mayer Brown LLP
- Maynard, Cooper & Gale, PC
- McGlinchey Stafford, PLLC
- Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- Parker, Hudson, Rainer & Dobbs LLP
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, LLP
- Proskauer Rose LLP
- Reed Smith LLP
- Riemer & Braunstein LLP
- Severson & Werson
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Zeichner Ellman & Krause LLP