Legal Services NYC on December 4th honored the work of pro bono attorneys and other volunteers throughout the Legal Services at our 2009 Pro Bono Recognition Awards Breakfast, held at Reed Smith LLP. The event included a Special Address from the Honorable Fern Fisher, Deputy Chief Administrative Judge for the New York City Courts. Above, LS-NYC Executive Director and President Andrew Scherer with John Aerni (Partner at Dewey & LeBoeuf, accepting a Visionary Award on the firm's behalf and a Leadership Award recipient himself) Jeffrey S. Trachtman (Partner at Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel, accepting a Visionary Award on the firm's behalf), LS-NYC Board President Mark G. Cunha, and LS-NYC Board Member and Reed Smith Partner John P. Hooper.

View Event Program (PDF).

The Legal Services NYC 2009 Pro Bono Leaders are Brown Rudnick LLP (Manhattan Legal Services/Brown Rudnick Summer Unemployment Insurance Pro Bono Program), John Aerni and Emily Saffitz (Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP Local Law 10 Project with South Brooklyn Legal Services), Katherine Greenberg, NYU School of Law 3L (The NYU Law/South Brooklyn Legal Services NYCHA Project), Raff & Becker, LLP (for its support of the Unemployment Insurance Coalition), Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP and Columbia Law School (LS-NYC-Bronx Low Income Taxpayer Clinic), and Ilann Maazel and Elizabeth Saylor, Emery Celli Brinkerhoff & Abady LLP (Staten Island Legal Services Homeowners Defense Project).

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP, and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP were honored as 2009 Pro Bono Visionaries for sponsoring externships with Legal Services NYC offices; the NYC Bankruptcy Assistance Project Steering Committee was also honored as a 2009 Pro Bono Visionary.

Read more about our Pro Bono Leaders and Visionaries, and the work they do on behalf of low-income New Yorkers, by viewing the Event Program (PDF).