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Major Settlements ........................... 5, 6, 7, 15

Director’s Corner ............................................ 2

New Cases ............................................. 5, 7, 15

Wiley A. BrantonOutstanding Achievement Awards ..... 8-13

John Burke Memorial Fund .......................... 5

Arrivals ...................................................... 17-18

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The Honorable Nathaniel Jones, attorney Roger Warin, and theNational and Greater Washington Urban Leagues were honored by theWashington Lawyers’ Committee during its 2005 Branton AwardsLuncheon at the Grand Hyatt Washington Hotel on June 28. TheCommittee’s annual gathering of nearly 1000 supporters recognizesattorneys, clients and civil rights leaders for their contributions to the causeof equal rights.

Nathaniel Jones, former Judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for theSixth Circuit, and Roger Warin, a partner with Steptoe & Johnson andpast Committee Co-Chair, jointly received the 2005 Wiley A. BrantonAward for lifetime contributions to the cause of civil rights.

Judge Nathaniel Jones,Roger Warin and Urban Leagues

Honored at 2005 Branton Awards Lunch

Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, 2005 Wiley A. Branton Award recipient, addressesLuncheon attendees.

The Committee’s PublicEducation Projects have announcedplans to expand the highly successfulnetwork of law firm/public schoolpartnerships that now link over 40D.C. public schools with area lawfirms and companies. Thesepartnerships bring tutoring,mentoring and other enrichmentprograms to over 10,000 D.C.public-school students.

Under the leadership ofProject Director Iris Toyer and anAdvisory Committee headed by GuyCollier of McDermott Will &Emery LLP, Christine Ladd ofFannie Mae, and Stan Samorajczykof Akin Gump Strauss Hauer &Feld LLP, the Committee plans to

Plans Announced forSchool Partnership

Expansion and Supportfor D.C. Charter

Amendment

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Roderic V.O. BoggsExecutive DirectorWashington Lawyers’ Committeefor Civil Rights & Urban Affairs

Committee Governance and DevelopmentThe Committee today operates with a staff of nearly 30. They include six project directors, seven staff

attorneys, several senior lawyers and five paralegals. In addition, the Committee regularly benefits from the services ofa number of junior attorneys holding fellowships from local and national law firms and nonprofit organizations.

The Committee is governed by a 50-member Board of Directors. Board members are drawn from major arealaw firms and they are led by two Co-Chairs. The Directors and Co-Chairs are supported by a 90-member Board ofTrustees and a team of Firm Representatives from nearly 100 participating law firms.

The Committee’s operating budget for 2006 is approximately $2.7 million. Funding for this budget is expected tocome from a combination of law firm and individual giving, foundation funding, and the proceeds from the AnnualWiley A. Branton Luncheon, as well as attorneys’ fees and gifts of fees received in Committee litigation. TheCommittee’s 2004/2005 Funding Drive concluded September 30, 2005. It is expected to provide approximately $1million in law firm, individual and event funding. Nearly 100 firms and over 700 individuals have contributed to thistotal. Foundation funding is expected to provide approximately $250,000 by the end of the foundation fundraising year,which concludes December 31, 2005.

As the Committee begins its year-end funding cycle and announces its new campaign, it will make a special effortto secure increased funding through a year-end appeal to law firm partners and associates. In addition, the Committeewill also be expanding a special campaign to secure endowment funding for its general support and specific projects.

Individuals and firms interested in providing support for the Committee and participating in its fundraising effortsshould contact Da’aga Hill Bowman, Director of Foundation Outreach and Public Information at(202) 319-1000, ext. 155. Contributions to the Committee may also be made online at www.washlaw.org.

This issue of the Committee’sUpdate features a cover story on theawards presented at this year’s WileyBranton Luncheon. Throughout adistinguished career extending over 40years, including service as a judge onthe Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals andas General Counsel to the NAACP,Branton Award recipient NathanielJones has made an extraordinarycontribution to advancing the cause ofcivil rights in our country. In similar

fashion, Branton Award recipient RogerWarin has exemplified the standard ofcivil rights advocacy we associate withWiley Branton, as a leader in thesingular pro bono efforts of his law firmand through his personal commitmentas Committee Co-Chair and lead co-counsel with our staff in cases toonumerous to mention.

In honoring the National andGreater Washington Urban Leagueswith the Alfred McKenzie Award, theCommittee recognizes both the historicroles these organizations have played inour nation’s civil rights struggle and themany occasions when they have workedwith our organization on issues ofcommon concern. The notable effortswe have undertaken together in thefields of equal employment and supportfor public education represent some ofthe most significant work in theCommittee’s history. We look forwardto equally successful collaborations inthe future.

Among such efforts immediatelyahead are joint support for expandingpartnerships linking area law firms and

businesses with D.C. public schools,and an amendment to the D.C.Charter that includes a right to a high-quality public education. Both ofthese initiatives are prominently notedin this issue of our Update. As wemove forward on these fronts, we willseek the active support of ourcooperating firms and individualvolunteers. With the leadership of ournew D.C. Public SchoolsSuperintendent and a growingcoalition of community leaders, wehope to make this year one in whichmajor steps are taken to assure that allof our city’s children have the chanceto receive a high-quality publiceducation.

To reach our goal, we will needan unprecedented level of help. Forthis reason, we invite all Committeesupporters, old and new, to join us byhelping to create new school/firmpartnerships, by suggesting newpartner entities from among theirclients, and by adding their names tothe list of those supporting the D.C.Education Rights Amendment.

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From its inception in 1968, theWashington Lawyers’ Committee, a501(c)(3) organization, has seen itsbasic mission as mobilizing theresources of the private bar toaddress issues of discrimination andpoverty in our community. Theprimary motivating force behind thecreation of the Committee and itscounterparts in other cities was thepublication of the Report of theNational Advisory Commission onCivil Disorders, which had identifieddiscrimination and poverty as theroot causes of the riots that haderupted in cities around the nationduring the late 1960’s and inWashington, D.C. in April 1968following the assassination Dr. MartinLuther King, Jr.

Over the past 37 years, theWashington Lawyers’ Committee hasexpanded from a small staffaddressing a limited number ofmatters into a larger organizationoperating multiple projects thataddress a broad range of civil rightsand poverty issues. As part of itsgrowth, the Committee has constantlyevolved to meet new communityneeds and the emergence of new civilrights constituencies.

Equal EmploymentOpportunity Project

The Committee’s firstprogram—its Equal EmploymentOpportunity Project—wasestablished in 1971. At that time, theWashington area started constructionof its Metro system and Congresswas about to enact major newlegislation providing federal, state andlocal workers with their firstmeaningful protections againstemployment discrimination. Workingwith a coalition of communityorganizations, the Committee initiated

History of the Washington Lawyers’ Committeean extensive litigation campaignchallenging denials of training and jobreferrals by unions and contractorsthroughout the region. In addition,major lawsuits were filed seekingenforcement of affirmative actionplans covering federal and localgovernment construction projects.Committee cases, co-counseled byover a dozen area law firms, wonprecedent-setting victories againstmany of the region’s largest unionsand contractors, opening significantemployment opportunities forthousands of African-Americanworkers.

During the same period, theCommittee began a special outreachcampaign directed at minority andwomen federal employees. Workingwith employee task forces at scoresof agencies, the Committee providedrepresentation in dozens of majorcases winning many of the firstjudgments upholding the claims offederal workers under the newlyenacted provisions of the 1972 CivilRights Act. Over the past 35 years,the Committee has built on this earlyrecord to bring class actions affectingover 25 federal agencies, and dozensof private sector defendants, securingmillions of dollars of back pay anddamages, and injunctive relief forthousands of workers.

In addition to its successes inclass action litigation, the Committeetakes special pride in its role inwinning a set of landmark appellaterulings upholding the use of pairedtesters to investigate denials of equalemployment. The Committee’ssuccess in these cases brought onbehalf of the Fair EmploymentCouncil of Greater Washingtonpaved the way for the use of tester-generated evidence in a number ofother jurisdictions.

Fair Housing Project

In the mid-1970’s, theCommittee established its FairHousing Litigation Project to addressdenials of equal housing opportunity.Shortly thereafter, it played a key rolein working with a coalition of localclergy to create the Fair HousingCouncil of Greater Washington.

For the past 20 years, theCommittee represented the Counciland over 100 individuals in dozens ofcases that have established a nationalstandard for effective advocacy andsecured hundreds of thousands ofdollars and broad injunctive relief forvictims of housing discrimination.The Committee has won notablevictories in cases involving denials ofresidential sales and rentals, redliningpractices by lenders and insurancecompanies, and discriminatoryadvertising practices. By litigating oneof the first challenges todiscrimination against families withchildren, the Committee contributeddirectly to the passage of new federallegislation providing explicitprotections in this area. In many ofits cases, the Committee worked withthe Fair Housing Council in thatorganization’s groundbreaking effortsto utilize paired testers to investigateallegations of discrimination. In1999, the Fair Housing Council andthe Fair Employment Councilmerged to become the Equal RightsCenter.

Immigrant & RefugeeRights Project

In 1978, the Committee initiateda new project to address the pressingneeds of immigrants and refugees inthe D.C. area. Prior to this time, nolegal services program in the area

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Disability Rights


On June 22, the Committee,with co-counsel from Hogan &Hartson, settled a disability accesslawsuit under the Americans withDisabilities Act (ADA) againstRadioShack. The settlement appliesto the more than 5,000 RadioShackstores nationwide, and is the firstsettlement of its kind to address acrucial new issue in disability rights –access to interactive electronicdisplays, such as displays forcamcorders, PDAs, music keyboards,wireless phones, Internet centers,digital cameras and laptop anddesktop computers. The landmarksettlement ensures that individualswith disabilities will be able to useRadioShack’s products and servicesnationwide.

As a result of the settlement,RadioShack has agreed to makesubstantial changes to its stores andprocedures nationwide over anagreed-upon time period.

The changes include: (1) makingin-store interactive displays accessible;(2) requiring 36” wide aisles andkeeping aisles clear of merchandise;(3) surveying and making all 49 D.C.metropolitan area stores ADAcompliant; (4) having at least oneaccessible credit/debit card reader inevery store; (5) adopting a trainingprogram for managers and salesassociates that will include assistingcustomers with disabilities andkeeping store aisles and floor spacewheelchair accessible; (6) makingcompliance with ADA aisle-width

RadioShack SettlesDisability Access Case

requirements an element of eachmanager’s performance assessment;(7) establishing a nationwide customeraccessibility complaint system; (8)reviewing plans for future stores andrenovations, as well as policies,practices, procedures for existingstores, for ADA compliance; (9)retaining an ADA consultant,proposed by the Disability RightsCouncil (DRC), now merged withthe Equal Rights Center (ERC), toreview store plans, sales counters, andinteractive displays for ADAcompliance; and (10) providing ERCwith semi-annual reports regardingprogress of the changes, copies ofaccessibility complaints concerningD.C. area stores, and the right toinspect stores regarding these changes.

On June 22, the Committeesettled a complaint filed with the U.S.Department of Justice againstGreater Southeast CommunityHospital.

The complaint had alleged thatthe hospital failed to provide signlanguage interpreter services to apatient who was deaf.

The relief achieved against thehospital includes establishing detailedpolicies and procedures to ensureprovision of qualified sign languageinterpreter services to deafindividuals, and an award of $30,000damages to the individualcomplainant.

Greater SoutheastCommunity Hospital

Settles

On August 4, in a case referredby the Disability Rights Project toGoodwin Procter, Joseph S. Heard,a deaf man who was incarceratedwrongly for almost two years at theD.C. Jail, received a record-settingmonetary settlement of $1.1 millionfrom the District of Columbia. Aprivate medical service provider hiredby the District to provide care toinmates in the jail also agreed to payMr. Heard a significant undisclosedadditional amount. The amounts willbe held in a trust, providing lifetimesupport for Mr. Heard.

The settlements end litigationbrought by Mr. Heard alleging thatthe District and its employees andcontractors violated his rights underthe Civil Rights Act, unlawfullydiscriminated against him in violationof the Americans with DisabilitiesAct and Rehabilitation Act, andcommitted negligence.

In November 1998, Mr. Heardwas arrested for trespassing byentering a George WashingtonUniversity academic building duringthe day. Nearly a year later, a judgeordered the charge dismissed and Mr.Heard released. Despite the order,Mr. Heard was illegally detained in theD.C. Jail for 670 additional days.

During his unlawfulimprisonment, Mr. Heard wassubjected to medical evaluation,

Goodwin Procter SecuresRecord SettlementAgainst D.C. Jail

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Fair Housing


Developer Bozzuto Suedfor Fair Housing Act

Design and ConstructionViolations

D.C. Area LandlordsSued for Discrimination

Against Section 8Voucher Holders

Far-Reaching AccordObtained in Sawyer

Realty Case

On September 22, theWashington Lawyers’ Committee,along with co-counsel GilbertHeintz & Randolph LLP, filed alawsuit in U.S. District Court inGreenbelt, Maryland, on behalf ofthe Equal Rights Center againstnationally known residentialapartment developer AvalonBayCommunities.

AvalonBay CommunitiesSued for Design and

Construction Violations

On September 15, theCommittee and co-counsel Fried,Frank, Harris, Shriver & JacobsonLLP, on behalf of the Equal RightsCenter, filed a Fair Housing Actdesign and construction action againstBozzuto and Associates and severalof its subsidiaries in U.S. DistrictCourt in Greenbelt, Maryland.

The complaint charges Bozzuto,one of the largest apartmentdevelopers on the East Coast, withcontinuous and systematic violationsof the civil rights of people withdisabilities in the design andconstruction of 55 apartmentcomplexes in 5 states and the Districtof Columbia.

The federal Fair Housing Actrequires all covered multi-familydwellings, built for first occupancyafter March 13, 1991, to be designedand constructed to incorporatefeatures of accessibility and adaptabledesign including usable doors,kitchens, and bathrooms, reinforcedwalls for grab bars and accessible andusable public and common use areas.

“Since 1991 the law has requireddevelopers to include basic featuresof accessibility,” said Isabelle M.Thabault, Director of the FairHousing Project at the WashingtonLawyers’ Committee.

“Fourteen years later, companieslike Bozzuto continue to buildapartment complexes that are difficult

On September 7, theWashington Lawyers Committee andco-counsel from Akin GumpStrauss Hauer & Feld LLP andSteptoe & Johnson LLP filedcomplaints on behalf of the EqualRights Center against HorningBrothers and Phifer Realty, Inc. inD.C. Superior Court, alleging that thetwo large area landlordsdiscriminated against Section 8housing voucher holders.

The Equal Rights Center (ERC)originally brought these two cases inthe D.C. Office of Human Rights aspart of the ERC’s Section 8 initiative.The landlords are owners and/orproperty managers of approximately3,000 rental units in the District ofColumbia.

In each case, testing conductedby the ERC disclosed that thelandlords either did not accept tenantsusing Section 8 Housing ChoiceVouchers for rent payment or limitedthe number of such tenants. Bothpractices violate the D.C. HumanRights Act prohibition on housingdiscrimination based on source ofincome.

On September 7, theWashington Lawyers’ Committeefiled an agreed settlement orderresolving a lawsuit alleging thatSawyer Realty Holdings, Inc., a largeD.C. area landlord, violated the D.C.Human Rights Act when it refused torent to tenants who use Section 8Housing Choice Vouchers.

Under the court’s order, Sawyerwill pay $130,000 in damages to theplaintiff Equal Rights Center (ERC),will accept tenants who use HousingVouchers, and train its employees onthe requirements of fair housing laws.The case was part of theCommittee’s and the ERC’s ongoinginitiative to address discriminationagainst low- income residents whouse Housing Vouchers to pay rent.

McDermott, Will & Emery,LLP served as co-counsel with theCommittee on this case.

if not impossible for persons whouse wheelchairs to access,” she added.“Through the use of narrowdoorways, steps, and insufficientfloor space, they have effectivelybarred from their apartments personswho use wheel chairs.”

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2005 OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS

Equal Employment Opportunity (L/R): Carolyn P. Weiss, StaffAttorney, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Susan E. Huhta, EEOProject Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Kehinde Ijaola,Paralegal; Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Roland G.Schroeder, Counsel, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Jasmine Miller,Paralegal; Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Quentin M. Baird,Attorney, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Katharine Baines, LegalAssistant, Shearman & Sterling LLP; Cynthia P. Abelow, Attorney,Shearman & Sterling LLP.

Equal Employment Opportunity

Fair Housing

Shearman & Sterling LLP

A team of attorneys from Shearman & Sterlingrepresented Mary Linklater, the former music director of alocal church who had been victimized — through sexualharassment, retaliatory harassment, wrongful termination andother tortious activity – by the church and its pastor. The caseraised important issues of first impression under Title VII, theFirst Amendment and Maryland law regarding whetherreligious institutions are immune from liability fordiscriminatory and tortious acts committed against theiremployees. Following a 2½ week trial in the Circuit Court forMontgomery County, Ms. Linklater was awarded damagestotaling $1,350,000 for intentional infliction of emotionaldistress, including $1,000,000 in punitive damages against thechurch’s pastor.

Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Toll, P.L.L.C.

Attorneys from Cohen, Milstein, Hausfeld & Tollrepresented the Equal Rights Center and several other nationaldisability organizations in a ground-breaking disability rightscase against Archstone Smith Trust, the seventh largestdeveloper of apartment complexes in the country. The case,filed last December in federal district court in Maryland, wasresolved by a consent decree approved by the Court on June8, 2005. The consent decree requires Archstone-Smith toretrofit as many as 12,000 inaccessible apartments at anestimated cost of over $20 million dollars and to pay anadditional $1.2 million dollars in damages and fees.

Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.

A team of attorneys from Hogan & Hartson successfullylitigated a ground-breaking fair housing lawsuit allegingdiscrimination against Section 8 voucher holders by a D.C.apartment management company. The lawsuit challengedBarac Co. Inc.’s practice of denying housing to persons whointended to use a Housing Choice Voucher, a federal rentsubsidy, to pay for part of their rent. The firm’s attorneys, asco-counsel with the Fair Housing Project of the Committee,represented the Equal Rights Center and a woman who, aftermany years on the waiting list, finally obtained a voucher onlyto find she could not use it at any Barac property. Thecomplaint, filed in D.C. Superior Court, alleged discriminationon the basis of source of income in violation of the D.C.

Alfred McKenzie Award recipients (L/R): Stephanie J. Jones,Executive Director, National Urban League and Maudine R.Cooper, President and Chief Executive Officer, GreaterWashington Urban League.

(L/R): Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, 2005 Wiley A. Branton Awardrecipient with Benjamin F. Wilson, Partner, Beveridge &Diamond, P.C. and Washington Lawyers’ Committee Co-Chair.

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Fair Housing


Disability Rights

Patton Boggs LLP

The firm of Patton Boggs represented the NAACP and 13individual plaintiffs in a highly successful lawsuit challenging thediscriminatory policies applied to African-American guests by aleading hotel in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, during Black BikeWeek. The terms of the settlement of the case included broad-reaching injunctive relief and the creation of a special fund tocompensate victims. More than 400 individuals will participate inthis fund.

Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP

The firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton, workingsince 2001 with the Disability Project on a major access caseagainst the May Company, parent to the Hecht’s and Lord &Taylor department store chains, obtained an important settlementensuring wheelchair navigable aisles to most merchandise at 15Hecht’s and Lord & Taylor stores in the D.C. metropolitan area.Periodic audits will be performed to ensure that such access ismaintained. The Agreement also provides for removal ofarchitectural and other barriers in fitting rooms and restrooms,and installation of accessible merchandise checkout facilities, aswell as accessible bridal and baby registry computers.

Goodwin Procter LLP

Goodwin Procter won a precedent-setting settlement in achallenging case on behalf of a deaf man who was incarceratedwrongly, for well over a year, at the D.C. Jail. The case resultedin a record-setting monetary payment of $1.1 million to theplaintiff.

Hunton & Williams LLP

Last year, the barriers faced by shoppers using wheelchairsat National Wholesale Liquidators stores were twofold. Manystores had completely inaccessible entrances due to cart corralswith locked swing gates, and cluttered aisles and displays impededaccess to store merchandise. A dedicated team of attorneysfrom Hunton & Williams assisted the Committee’s DisabilityRights Project in negotiating nationwide relief from this growingdiscount retail chain, including: staff training; an accessibilitysurvey of all its stores; readily achievable barrier removal;removal of cart corrals; and an assurance of accessible pathwaysthroughout all stores.

Public Accommodations (L/R): Carolyn P. Weiss, StaffAttorney, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Anne E. Langford,Attorney, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP; Susan E.Huhta, EEO Project Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

Public Accommodations (L/R): Carolyn P. Weiss, StaffAttorney, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Steven M. Wellner,Partner, Kirkland & Ellis LLP; Susan E. Huhta, EEO ProjectDirector, Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

Public Accommodations (L/R): Carolyn P. Weiss, StaffAttorney, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; William A.Geoghegan, Attorney, Reed Smith LLP; Susan E. Huhta,EEO Project Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee;Stephen P. Murphy, Partner, Reed Smith LLP; David L.Tanenholz, Attorney, Reed Smith LLP.

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Immigrant and Refugee Rights

Disability Rights (L/R): Sean D. Corey, Attorney, Cleary,Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP; Alyson J. Dais, Attorney,Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP; Daniel B. Silver,Senior Counsel, Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton LLP; E.Elaine Gardner, Disability Rights Project Director,Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Effective communication for deaf patients at area hospitalshas been a major focus of the Disability Rights Project’s work inthe past year. This award to Morrison & Foerster recognizes thefirm’s work in a difficult case against a suburban hospital in whichthe firm achieved an important settlement that will ensure thatdeaf patients at the hospital receive sign language interpreterservices.

King & Spalding LLP

Since early 2004, attorneys from King and Spalding havecontributed over 700 pro bono hours to providing representationfor asylum seekers from Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republicof Congo, and Sierra Leone. They have won political asylum forseven individuals. In the past year, attorneys successfully litigatedtwo challenging cases in Immigration Court. Attorneys alsosucceeded in a case before the Arlington Asylum Office involvinga minister from Sierra Leone who had been severely traumatizedas a result of his detention with rebel soldiers during his country’sviolent civil war.

Crowell & Moring LLP

Attorneys from Crowell and Moring have gained asylumover the past few years for seven individuals from Burma,Cameroon, Colombia and Russia, and are currently representinga man from Cameroon. One of the cases granted asylum bythe Arlington Asylum Office involved a Christian Burmese mantargeted by the government because of his ethnicity and hisreligion. Attorneys from Crowell and Moring also represented awoman from Colombia who had long been targeted by right-wing paramilitary groups, and won her affirmative asylum case.

Public Accommodations (L/R): Carolyn P. Weiss, Staff Attorney, WashingtonLawyers’ Committee; Benjamin C. Eggert, Attorney, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP;Charles A. Jones, Partner, Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP; Susan E. Huhta, EEOProject Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Teah Lupton, Attorney,Ross, Dixon & Bell, LLP.

Public Accommodations (L/R): R. Brian Hendrix, Attorney,Patton Boggs LLP; Michael R. Roberts, Senior Paralegal,Patton Boggs LLP; Susan E. Huhta, EEO Project Director,Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Matthew D. Cutts, Attorney,Patton Boggs LLP; Charles E. Talisman, Partner, PattonBoggs LLP; Susan E. Baldwin, Attorney, Patton Boggs LLP.

Disability Rights (L/R): Paul R. Friedman, Counsel, GoodwinProcter LLP; Ann Lee, Attorney, Goodwin Procter LLP;Daniel O. Hanks, Attorney, Goodwin Procter LLP; Adam M.Chud, Attorney, Goodwin Procter LLP; E. Elaine Gardner,Disability Rights Project Director, Washington Lawyers’Committee.

Immigrant & Refugee Rights (L/R): Tom Jawetz, ActingImmigrant & Refugee Rights Project Director, WashingtonLawyers’ Committee; Tracey A. Roman, Partner, Crowell &Moring LLP ; George D. Ruttinger, Partner, Crowell & MoringLLP; Denise L. Gilman, former Immigrant & Refugee RightsProject Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Susan M.Hoffman, Partner, Crowell & Moring LLP; Ruth Spivack,Paralegal, Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

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Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges contributed to the Committee’ssuccessful attempts under the Freedom of Information Actto obtain documents that were improperly withheld from theattorneys representing Malik Jarno in his asylum case. As aresult of litigation in the United States District Court for theEastern District of Virginia, the Project obtained an award ofattorney fees from the Department of Homeland Security.Over the past few years, attorneys from the firm haverepresented a juvenile from El Salvador who had fled hiscountry because of threats from gang members. The case iscurrently on appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Public Education

Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP

Lawyers from Sidley Austin Brown & Wood worked withCommittee staff and a panel of civic leaders to prepare acomprehensive report assessing the quality of public education

Disability Rights (L/R): A. Neal Barkus, Partner, Hunton &Williams LLP and E. Elaine Gardner, Disability Rights ProjectDirector, Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

Latham & Watkins LLP

Latham & Watkins attorneys have been working with theCommittee for several years on the matter of Malik Jarno, anorphaned juvenile asylum seeker from Guinea with mentalretardation. The attorneys provided legal representation inthe political asylum case, currently on appeal to the Board ofImmigration Appeals after having been denied twice by theImmigration Judge, and are currently involved with efforts togain legal status for the asylum-seeker through a private billrecently introduced in the House of Representatives byCongressman Van Hollen. Attorneys from Latham alsogained political asylum recently for an economist fromCameroon.

Immigrant & Refugee Rights (L/R): Tom Jawetz, Acting Immigrant &Refugee Rights Project Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee;Joel Israel, Attorney, Latham & Watkins LLP; Denise L. Gilman,former Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Director, WashingtonLawyers’ Committee; Edo Banach, Attorney (formerly of Latham& Watkins); Ruth Spivack, Paralegal, Washington Lawyers’Committee.

Immigrant & Refugee Rights (L/R): Tom Jawetz, Acting Immigrant &Refugee Rights Project Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee;Denise L. Gilman, former Immigrant & Refugee Rights ProjectDirector, Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Andrew McCormack,Attorney, King & Spalding LLP; Amy Byrnes Metzel, Attorney,King & Spalding LLP; Ruth Spivack, Paralegal, WashingtonLawyers’ Committee.

Disability Rights (L/R): John P. Corrado, Partner, Morrison & Foerster LLP;Brett A. Walter, Attorney (formerly with Morrison & Foerster LLP, now withBaach Robinson & Lewis PLLC) and E. Elaine Gardner, Disability RightsProject Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee.

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Special Programs


Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P.

With a team of law students and faculty at AmericanUniversity, lawyers at Fulbright & Jaworski undertook a majorresearch project examining state constitutional provisionsgoverning standards for public education guaranteed to theircitizens. The results of their research, which were noted in areport issued by Parents United in March, established that theconstitutions of virtually every state in the country mandate aminimum standard of public education. In many instances,state courts have issued decisions requiring adequate fundingand specific levels of instructional support.

Special Programs

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

In April 2005, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorrsecured a landmark en banc decision from the District ofColumbia Court of Appeals upholding the constitutionality ofthe District of Columbia’s Assault Weapons ManufacturingStrict Liability Act. The decision was issued in a case broughtin June of 2000 on behalf of nine individuals who werevictims or surviving family members of gun violence in theDistrict of Columbia.

Immigrant & Refugee Rights (L/R): Tom Jawetz, Acting Immigrant &Refugee Rights Project Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee;David J. Taylor, Attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP; AliciaCate, Attorney, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP; Denise L. Gilman,former Immigrant & Refugee Rights Project Director, WashingtonLawyers’ Committee; Ruth Spivack, Paralegal, WashingtonLawyers’ Committee.

Special Programs (L/R): Michael Mugmon, Attorney, Wilmer CutlerPickering Hale and Dorr LLP; R. Kevin Bailey, Counsel, WilmerCutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Karen C. Daly, Attorney,Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; John Payton, Partner,Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; Michelle Brice,Senior Paralegal, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP; A.Stephen Hut, Jr., Partner, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and DorrLLP; Susan E. Huhta, EEO Project Director, Washington Lawyers’Committee; Eric J. Mogilnicki, Partner, Wilmer Cutler PickeringHale and Dorr LLP; David S. Molot, Counsel, Wilmer CutlerPickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

Public Education (L/R): Patrick F. Linehan, Attorney, Sidley Austin Brown &Wood LLP; Iris J. Toyer, Public Education Legal Services Project Director,Washington Lawyers’ Committee; Ronald S. Flagg, Partner, Sidley AustinBrown & Wood LLP.

in Washington fifty years after desegregation. The report,“Separate and Unequal: The State of the District of ColumbiaPublic Schools Fifty Years After Brown and Bolling”,documented a myriad of problems in the schools, many ofwhich relate to chronic underfunding and inadequatecommunity support. The study received substantial mediaattention and has stimulated a public campaign to build a civicconsensus for school reform and needed funding.

Public Education (L/R): Rena S. Scheinkman, Attorney, Fulbright& Jaworski L.L.P.; Iris J. Toyer, Public Education Legal ServicesProject Director, Washington Lawyers’ Committee;

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Immigrant and Refugee Rights

The Committee’s Immigrant andRefugee Rights Project and co-counselhave won several recent asylum casesin Immigration Court and in theArlington, Virginia Asylum Office.

In August 2005, attorneys fromHeller Ehrman LLP responded toa request for assistance and providedlegal advice to Reston Interfaith, anorthern Virginia nonprofit socialservices organization, in support of apermit to create an employmentcenter for day laborers. Attorneysfrom the firm presented informationon Virginia’s immigration laws to theHerndon Town Council in advanceof a public hearing and Council voteon the issue.

The Town Council voted togrant a conditional use permit toProject Hope & Harmony, thenonprofit organization that seeks tocreate the center.

Following the vote, several townresidents, represented by JudicialWatch, sued the Town of Herndon.Although Reston Interfaith has notbeen named as a defendant in the suit,Heller Ehrman has agreed tocontinue its representation of RestonInterfaith.

Heller EhrmanVolunteers Advise

Nonprofit onDay Laborer Site

Committee VolunteersProvide AsylumRepresentation

In Immigration Court, CooleyGodward LLP gained asylum for ashopkeeper from Cameroon whowas detained because of her supportof the Anglophone movement thatadvocates for the rights of theEnglish-speaking minority in thecountry. Steptoe & Johnson LLPobtained asylum for a career militaryman from Cameroon who wasarrested because of his politicalactivities on behalf of the English-speaking minority in his country.

In the Asylum Office, Bunkerand Associates aided a youngwoman from the Cabinda provinceof Angola who was detained by thepolice when she tried to investigatethe disappearance and possible arrestof her husband and parents becauseof alleged anti-government activities.Cleary Gottlieb Steen & HamiltonLLP helped a student from Haitiwho was attacked by an anti-Aristidegang. Crowell & Moring LLPassisted a man with disabilities fromCameroon who was targeted becauseof his activities in support of therights of people with disabilities.Steptoe & Johnson LLP enabled awoman from Guinea, who facesfuture persecution because of herfamily’s opposition to the currentpresident of the country, to gainasylum. Also, Williams & ConnollyLLP helped gain asylum for astudent from Côte D’Ivoire who wastargeted because of her religion andethnicity.

Other firms are working onnew political asylum cases and newcases have come to our attention.

The lawsuit alleges continuousand systematic civil rights violationsby AvalonBay against persons withdisabilities in the design andconstruction of more than 85apartment complexes in Maryland,New York, Rhode Island, Virginia,Washington, and the District ofColumbia. These complexes includemore than 24,000 individualapartment units.

AvalonBay, a real estateinvestment trust, headquartered inAlexandria, Viriginia, has beenidentified as one of the 25 largestdevelopers of multifamily housingunits in the United States. This actionis one of three lawsuits broughtagainst major developers in recentmonths as part of the Equal RightsCenter’s efforts to eliminate disability-based discrimination in the housingindustry.

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Asylum Training ProgramScheduled for November

Successful cases will behighlighted at the Project’s annualpolitical asylum law training. The all-day training will be held on Tuesday,November 15, 2005, at the D.C. Bar.The training is open to volunteerswho agree to accept two pro bonomatters. There is a charge of $25 forthe comprehensive manual used at thetraining. Pre-registration is required.For more information, please contactthe Project at (202) 319-1000, ext.120. To register, seewww.washlaw.org/pdf/political_asylum_training2005.pdf.

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Equal Employment Opportunity

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The Washington Lawyers’Committee, working with co-counselPillsbury Winthrop Shaw PittmanLLP, recently filed a second lawsuiton behalf of Melvin Porter in a racediscrimination and retaliation lawsuitagainst his employer, the U.S. Agencyfor International Development(USAID). Mr. Porter is an African-American, senior employee atUSAID who alleges that USAID hascontinuously refused to promote himbeyond the GS-14 level, despite yearsof exemplary performance, becausehe came forward several years ago toreport discrimination within theagency. Mr. Porter already hasprevailed against the Agency on anear-identical claim. In an earlierlawsuit in which he was representedby the Committee and Covington &Burling, a jury found that USAIDtwice retaliated against Mr. Porterwhen it denied him two promotionsin the late 1990’s. In that case, the juryawarded him $30,000 in damages.

USAID EmployeeCharges Retaliation

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In September 2005, theCommittee and co-counsel Heller,Huron, Chertkof, Lerner, Simon& Salzman, PLLC, working withthe EEOC, settled a lawsuit broughtagainst the Sheraton National Hotel inArlington, Virginia, on behalf ofJesus Romero, a Spanish-speakingformer dishwasher at the hotel whowas fired when the hotel instituted anEnglish-fluency requirement.

Mr. Romero had been a loyal,10-year employee when, in 2001, thehotel changed its policy and adopteda new rule requiring all employees tobe proficient in English. Because Mr.Romero is not proficient in English,Sheraton discharged him.

The lawsuit, in which the EEOCwas a co-plaintiff with Mr. Romero,was resolved by a settlement andconsent decree that included paymentof $50,000 in damages and back payto Mr. Romero, as well as attorneys’fees. The consent decree alsorequired Sheraton to rescind itsEnglish-fluency requirement, and totrain its managers on “Title VII’sprohibition of discrimination on thebasis of national origin,” including“the potentially discriminatory natureand impact of English fluencyrequirement policies.” Under theagreement, the defendant is alsorequired to report periodically to theEEOC regarding its complianceefforts.

Landmark SettlementAchieved in

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Public Education

Special Projects

As it has done for nearly 20years, this summer, Hogan &Hartson L.L.P. coordinated theWashington Lawyer’s Committee’sIntroduction to Legal Reasoning”program for entering Washingtonarea law school students who aremembers of groups traditionallydisadvantaged or under-representedin the practice of law.

The program is designed toprepare students for the first year of

Hogan & HartsonCoordinates Committee’sLegal Reasoning Program

law school by providing a taste ofthe highly analytical, argumentativestyle of learning to which somestudents have had little or noexposure. The course also provides apreview of some basic legalterminology and the fundamentals ofthe American judicial system. Thecourse does not teach studentssubstantive law. Rather, it emphasizesthe process and procedures involvedin law school.

The program enables thestudents to gain a basic familiaritywith legal reasoning and legal writing,and culminates in a moot court. Thestudents are also introduced to basic

legal research methods. In the lastdecade, nearly 1,000 students planningto begin their legal studies atAmerican University, CatholicUniversity, the District of ColumbiaSchool of Law, GeorgetownUniversity, George WashingtonUniversity, Howard University,George Mason University and otherlaw schools participated in theprogram.

The firms of Covington &Burling, Hogan & Hartson L.L.P.,Miller & Chevalier Chartered, andSteptoe & Johnson LLP providedinstructors for this year’s program.

School Partnership Expansion(continued from front cover)

invite additional law firms as well asarea corporations, non-profits andreligious organizations to join in thiswork.

The Committee is delighted tohave the strong support of the Officeof the D.C. Public SchoolsSuperintendent Clifford B. Janey forthis initiative and expects to workclosely with Michelle Walker, Chief ofStrategic Planning and Policy for theD.C. Public Schools, in moving aheadwith its plans. It also expects to workclosely with area foundations to obtainmuch need funding to addsupplemental staffing to help inrecruiting and nurturing new partners.

The Committee’s PublicEducation Projects will also be workingover the next year with community

partners on a proposed amendment tothe D.C. Charter. The D.C. EducationRights Amendment aims to bringWashington, D.C. into conformity withthe vast majority of states in theUnited States that guarantee aneducation for all students. Currently,the District of Columbia Charterprovides no such right.

Work on the proposedamendment to the D.C. Charter is adirect result of the expansive researchby a team of attorneys at Fulbright &Jaworski, along with students atAmerican University Law School, whocompleted a detailed analysis ofconstitutional provisions governingpublic education in states throughoutthe country. This work wasincorporated into the major studyissued by Parents United for the D.C.Public Schools, Separate and Unequal, theState of the D.C. Public Schools Fifty Years

After Brown and Bolling, released by theCommittee in March. The primaryauthor of the report was SidleyAustin Brown & Wood LLPpartner Ronald S. Flagg.

The Committee will serve ascounsel and staff to Citizens for theD.C. Education Rights Amendment,which is the primary sponsoringorganization seeking passage of theAmendment.

In addition to D.C. Public SchoolsSuperintendent Janey, many otherorganizations and individuals, includingMaudine Cooper, President of theGreater Washington Urban League; theCongress of D.C. PTAs; and MarianWright Edelman, Founder and CEOof the Children’s Defense Fund,support the D.C. Education RightsAmendment. In endorsing the


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L/R: Shirley Hsu; Wu Ge; Rod Boggs; and HeHairen at the Washington Lawyers’Committee’s offices.

Arrivals

New Board Members

New Staff Member

With the support of the U.S.-China Legal Cooperation Fund, theWashington Lawyers’ Committee hasbegun work on a special program tomake the U.S. civil rights experienceavailable to interested lawyers and legal

U.S.-China LegalCooperation Fund

Supports CommitteeInitiative

institutions in China. Herbert J.Hansell, Jones Day retired partner andCommittee board member, serves asChair of the Fund’s board of trustees.

The first part of this programinvolved a trip last December byCommittee Executive Director RodBoggs to Shanghai, where he discussedU.S. civil rights issues with groups ofChinese lawyers, law students and lawprofessors. In March 2005, theprogram expanded to include a three-week visit to the Committee’s officesby two leading Chinese civil rightslawyers, Mr. Wu Ge, Esq., and Mr. HeHairen, Esq.

Mr. Wu Ge, a lawyer in privatepractice in China, is Director of theConstitutional and Human RightsCenter of Tsinghua University, andDirector of the Constitutional &Human Rights Committee of the AllChina Lawyers’ Association. Mr. He isExecutive Director of Beijing DonfongPublic Interest and Legal Aid Law Firm.

While at the Committee, Mr. WuGe, Mr. He Hairen, and lawyer/interpreter Shirley Hsu, met with theCommittee’s project directors to learnabout the Committee’s civil rights casesand other project activities. They alsovisited several civil rights and publicinterest law organizations, including theEqual Rights Center, D.C. Prisoners’Legal Services Project, and AsianPacific American Legal ResourceCenter. In addition, they met withrepresentatives at the American BarAssociation’s D.C. office, AmericanUniversity, Georgetown University, andwith lawyers at several private lawfirms that work on Committee projects.

“I wish to convey my thanks tothe Washington Lawyers’ Committeefor this wonderful and uniquearrangement that has benefited us alot,” said Mr. Wu Ge.

“We have the same goal for bothof our countries – to fight for civilrights,” added Mr. He.

The Washington Lawyers’Committee recently welcomed threenew members to the Board ofDirectors: Douglas W. Baruch, BrianH. Corcoran, and David F. Williams.

Douglas W. Baruch

Douglas W. Baruch is a litigationpartner in the Washington, D.C.,office of Fried, Frank, Harris,Shriver & Jacobson LLP. Hecurrently serves as co-counsel withCommittee staff in a major fairhousing case. He received his J.D.from Georgetown University LawCenter and his B.A. degree fromJohns Hopkins University.

Brian H. Corcoran

Brian H. Corcoran is a partnerin the Washington, D.C., office ofKatten, Muchin Rosenman LLP,where he practices in the areas ofcommercial and business litigation.He has substantial experience in thefields of First Amendment andemployment discrimination, and hashandled significant pro bonoemployment discrimination litigationfor the Washington Lawyers’Committee. He received his A.B.degree from Dartmouth College,and his J.D. from the University ofVirginia Law School.

Alexandra C. Yannias

Ali Yannias recently joined theWashington Lawyers’ Committee as aParalegal with the Fair Housing

David F. Williams

David F. Williams is a partner inthe Washington, D.C. office ofCadwalader, Wickersham & Taft,LLP. He previously served as a FirmRepresentative to the Committee. Hereceived his B.A. degree from YaleUniversity, and his J.D. from theUniversity of Virginia School of Law.

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Branton Awards Lunch(continued from front page)

In presenting the award to JudgeJones, Benjamin F. Wilson, Co-Chairof the Committee and a partner withBeveridge & Diamond, said “Iconsider it a privilege to present thisWiley A. Branton Award to one whohas fought for this country and onewho fights for a cause. He is adefender, protector and supporter ofall of the citizens of this greatcountry.”

Jane Lang, founding partner ofSprenger & Lang, presented theaward to Roger Warin, stating that“he is among the most deserving ofan award that recognizes long-termcommitment to the mission of theLawyers’ Committee.”

John A. Payton, Jr., a partner atWilmer Cutler Pickering Hale andDorr and a 2004 Wiley A. BrantonAward recipient, presented the AlfredMcKenzie Award to the NationalUrban League and its affiliate, theGreater Washington Urban League,for the organization’s preeminent rolein advancing U.S. civil rights,particularly in the areas ofemployment, housing and education,for nearly 100 years. Stephanie J.Jones, Executive Director of theNational Urban League’s PolicyInstitute for Opportunity and Equalityand the daughter of Judge Jones,accepted the award for the NationalUrban League. Maudine R. Cooper,President and Chief ExecutiveOfficer of the Greater WashingtonUrban League, accepted the award onbehalf of the local affiliateorganization.

As part of the program, theCommittee presented the Vincent E.Reed Award to the law firms ofMcDermott Will & Emery andFried, Frank, Harris, Shriver &Jacobson for the firms’ long-termcommitment to the District ofColumbia public schools and students.The award is given in the name of thedistinguished educator and formerD.C. Schools Superintendent, VincentE. Reed, who encouraged theCommittee to establish its publiceducation support programs.

Twenty other law firms wererecognized at the luncheon withOutstanding Achievement Awards fortheir successful pro bono legal work onbehalf of the Committee’s clients.For more information about the lawfirm awardees and their achievements,see pages 8 – 13.

Judge Nathaniel R. Jones, over adistinguished career of nearly 40years, served as Assistant GeneralCounsel to President Johnson’sNational Advisory Commission on

Civil Disorders (KernerCommission), and as GeneralCounsel to the NAACP from 1969-1979, when he played a leading rolein landmark civil rights cases, workingclosely with the National andWashington Lawyers’ Committees.Appointed by President Carter, heserved from 1979 until his retirementin 2002 on the U.S. Court of Appealsfor the Sixth Circuit, where hechampioned the cause of equal justiceand an expansive view of civil rightsprotections. He is now Of Counselto the law firm of Blank Rome.

Reflecting on Wiley Branton’smany contributions to advancing civilrights, Judge Jones said, “I am trulyhumbled that the WashingtonLawyers’ Committee deems meworthy to receive this award namedfor Wiley Branton who was my verydear friend and my hero. I amprofoundly grateful.”

Roger Warin, who joinedSteptoe & Johnson in 1979 and nowserves as Chair of the Firm’sExecutive Committee, hascontributed his legal talents andleadership to the WashingtonLawyers’ Committee for over 30years. He introduced the subject ofcivil rights attorney’s feerepresentation, a field in which he hasbecome a preeminent authority,having represented the Committeeand other civil rights claimants in over40 cases since 1975. His firm,Steptoe & Johnson, has served as co-counsel in major federal sectoremployment class actions, successfullychallenged denials of fair housing,brought litigation on behalf of clientswith disabilities, and supportedschool reform through D.C. schoolpartnerships and successful litigationinvolving thousands of fire codeviolations at hundreds of D.C. schoolbuildings. Roger Warin has alsoserved on the Committee’s Board of

Project. She received her B.A. degreefrom Wellesley College, and alsostudied at Oxford University,England.

Arthur Liman Fellow

Tom-Tsvi M. Jawetz

Tom Jawetz joined theWashington Lawyers’ Committee lastfall as an Arthur Liman Public InterestFellow working with the Immigrantand Refugee Rights Project. He alsocurrently serves as Acting Director ofthe Project. Previously, he served aslaw clerk to The Hon. Kimba M.Wood at the U.S. District Court forthe Southern District of New York,and as law student intern with theImmigrants’ Rights Project at theAmerican Civil Liberties Union inNew York. He received his A.B.degree from Dartmouth College, andhis J.D. from Yale Law School.

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Washington Lawyers’ Committeefor Civil Rights and Urban Affairs

UPDATE

Board of Directors

James N. Bierman

Benjamin F. WilsonCo-Chairs

Roderic V.O. BoggsExecutive Director

Susan E. Huhta, Project Director Equal Employment Opportunity ProjectIsabelle M. Thabault, Project Director

Fair Housing ProjectE. Elaine Gardner, Project Director

Disability Rights ProjectTom Jawetz, Acting Project Director

Immigrant and Refugee Rights ProjectMary M. Levy, Project DirectorPublic Education Reform Project

Iris J. Toyer, Project DirectorPublic Education Legal Services Project

Da’aga Hill Bowman, DirectorFoundation Outreach and Public Information

Paula Jones, Administrative Assistant

11 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 400, Washington, DC 20036(202) 319-1000 (VOICE) • (202) 319-1010 (FAX)

(202) 319-1075 (TDD) • WWW.WASHLAW.ORG

CORPORATE & FOUNDATION CONTRIBUTORS

The Washington Lawyers’ Committee acknowledges thefollowing corporations and foundations for theircontributions and commitments this year:

Black Entertainment Television, Inc.The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation

Children’s Charities FoundationCommunity Foundation of the National Capital Area

D.C. Bar FoundationD.C. Chartered Health Plan, Inc.

Dimick FoundationFannie Mae FoundationFreddie Mac Foundation

Aaron & Cecile Goldman FoundationThe Hanley Foundation

Health Right, Inc.Corina Higginson TrustKiplinger Foundation

Anthony Lucas-Spindletop FoundationGeorge Preston Marshall Foundation

Mead Family FoundationThe Meyer Foundation

Reich Family FoundationGeorge Wasserman Family Foundation

James N. Bierman, Co-ChairBenjamin F. Wilson, Co-ChairMary L. AzcuenagaDouglas W. BaruchDavid R. BerzQuinton V. BowmanThomas W. BrunnerG. Brian BuseyPatrick S. CampbellBrian H. CorcoranDavid J. CynamonJohn M. FaustMargaret FeinsteinRonald S. FlaggMarc L. FleischakerMary E. Gately

Karen T. GrisezJonathan D. HackerHerbert J. HansellPeter B. Hutt IIRobin E. JacobsohnJames W. JonesAnn M. KapplerAndrew T. KarronJohn C. KeeneyBenjamin B. KlubesWilma A. LewisIgnacia S. MorenoStephen P. MurphyJohn A. PaytonJohn Townsend RichJeffrey D. Robinson

George D. RuttingerMatthew D. SlaterPaul M. SmithRichard W. Snowdon IIIMark A. SrereGary S. ThompsonLeslie M. TurnerDenise A. VanisonRoger E. WarinSteven M. WellnerMelvin WhiteLewis S. WienerDavid F. WilliamsThomas S. WilliamsonAlan M. Wiseman

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