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LSC'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 2014 PHOTO GALLERY

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LSC 40th Anniversary Kick-Off Conference Photo Galley To kick off our 40th anniversary, LSC brought together thought leaders from across the legal profession, the private sector, and government in a three-day event to work toward fulfilling America’s promise of equal justice under the law.

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  • 1. LSC'S 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCESEPTEMBER 2014PHOTO GALLERY

2. LSC 40TH ANNIVERSARY CONFERENCE WELCOME REMARKS SUNDAYThe first day of the 40th Anniversary Conference began with welcoming remarks fromLSC Board Chairman John G. Levi (Left), and LSC President Jim Sandman (Right).SEPTEMBER 14 3. PANEL: CREATION OF LSCPanelists included:(L-R)* Thomas Ehrlich, first President of LSC, Visiting Professor Stanford Graduate School of Education* Justice Earl Johnson (retired), 2nd Director Office of Equal Opportunity Legal Services Program and historian,Visiting Scholar USC School of Law* Alexander Forger (Moderator), former President LSC* Terry Lenzner, former Director Legal Services Program of the Office of Economic Opportunity* Judge David Tatel, former General Counsel LSC, U.S. Court of Appeals District of Columbia Circuit 4. REMARKS BY UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ELENA KAGAN 5. JUSTICE JESS DICKINSON AND THE BLUEGRASS APPEALSupreme Court of Mississippi Justice Jess Dickinson (far left) performed at the reception with his folk band,the Bluegrass Appeal. 6. PANEL: CURRENT CONGRESSIONAL MONDAY CLIMATESEPTEMBER 15Panelists included:(L-R)* Carol Bergman (Moderator), Director Government Relations and Public Relations LSC* Tom Culligan, Legislative Director for Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA)* Norberto Salinas, Minority Counsel House Judiciary Committee* Shannon Hutcherson Hines, Minority Clerk Senate Appropriations Committee on Commerce, Justice & Science* Stacy Cline Amin, Minority Counsel Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions 7. PANEL: STIMULATING INNOVATION TO INCREASE ACCESS TO JUSTICEPanelists included:(L-R)* David Stern (Moderator), Executive Director Equal Justice Works* Martha Bergmark, Executive Director Voices for Civil Justice* Alex Gulotta, Executive Director Bay Area Legal Aid, California* Bonnie Rose Hough, Managing Attorney Judicial Council* Alison Paul, Executive Director Montana Legal Services Association* Ed Marks, Executive Director New Mexico Legal Aid 8. PANEL: EXPANDING AND DIVERSIFYING SOURCES OF FUNDINGPanelists included:(L-R)* Jim Sandman (Moderator), President LSC* Michael Brown, Co-founder and CEO City Year* Steve Gottlieb, Executive Director Atlanta Legal Aid Society* Mary McClymont, President Public Welfare Foundation* Karen Lash, Acting Senior Counsel Department of Justice Access to JusticeOffice/Legal Aid Interagency Roundtable* Betty Torres, Executive Director Texas Access to Justice Foundation 9. PANEL: NON-PROFIT LEADERSHIP IN CHALLENGING TIMESPanelists included:(L-R)* Father Pius Pietrzyk, O.P. (Moderator), Board Member LSC* Lindsey Buss, Senior Officer for Community Outreach World Bank, former President & CEO, Marthas Table* Julie Reiskin, Board Member LSC* Rhodia Thomas, Executive Director MidPenn Legal Services 10. REMARKS BY UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT JUSTICE ANTONIN SCALIA 11. REMARKS BY TONY WEST, MARK FILIP,LISA MADIGAN, AND GREG ZOELLER(L-R)* Tony West, Associate Attorney General of the United States*Mark Filip, former Deputy Attorney General of the United States, Partner at Kirkland Ellis* Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General* Greg Zoeller, Indiana Attorney General 12. PANEL: STATE SUPREME COURT CHIEF JUSTICES AND JUDGESPanelists included:(L-R)* Chief Judge Diane Wood (Moderator), the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit* Chief Justice Ronald Castille, Pennsylvania Supreme Court* Justice Jess Dickinson, Mississippi Supreme Court* Chief Justice Nathan Hecht, Texas Supreme Court* Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman, New York Court of Appeals* Chief Justice Ralph Gants, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts* Senior Justice Petra Jimenez-Maes, New Mexico Supreme Court* Chief Justice Mark Recktenwald, Hawaii Supreme Court* Chief Justice Michael Heavican, Nebraska Supreme Court 13. PANEL: LAW SCHOOLS AND ACCESS TO JUSTICE(L-R)* Jim Sandman, President LSC* John G. Levi, Chairman Board of Directors LSC* Peter Keisler (Moderator), former Acting U.S. Attorney General and Assistant Attorney General Civil Division,Partner Sidley Austin* Dean Michael H. Schill, Dean and Harry N. Wyatt Professor of Law University of Chicago Law School* Dean William Treanor, Executive Vice President and Dean Georgetown Law* Dean Martha Minow, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law Harvard Law School* Dean Deanell R. Tacha, Duane and Kelly Roberts Dean and Professor of Law Pepperdine School of Law* Dean Margaret Raymond, University of Wisconsin Law School* Dean Ken Gormley, Dean and Professor Duquesne Law* Dean Robert Post, Dean and Sol & Lillian Goldman Professor of Law Yale Law School* Dean David Levi, Duke Law* Dean Blake D. Morant, The George Washington University Law School and Robert Kramer Research Professorof Law, and President-Elect of the Association of American Law Schools 14. RECEPTION: OPENING REMARKSDouglas Eakeley (Left), former LSC Board Chair delivered opening remarks for the evening reception.Harold Hongju Koh (Right), Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School, former Department ofState Legal Adviser, introduced former Secretary of State and former LSC chairwoman Hillary Clinton. 15. REMARKS BY FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE HILLARY RODHAM CLINTONFormer Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recalled her days as LSC Board Chairwomanand discussed the challenges and opportunities facing LSC in its 40th year 16. FORMER LSC BOARD MEMBER HERBERT GARTENThe final day of LSCs 40th Anniversary Conference opened with former LSC Board memberHerbert Garten introducing guest speaker Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD)TUESDAYSEPTEMBER 16 17. REMARKS BY SENATOR BEN CARDINSenator Ben Cardin (D-MD) 18. REMARKS BY WHITE HOUSE COUNSELSRemarks by former and current White House Counsels including:(L-R) W. Neil Eggleston, Harriett Miers, and Bob Bauer 19. PRESENTATION: RETHINKING LEGAL AIDPanelists included:(L-R)* Professor David Wilkins (far left), Harvard Law School* Robert Grey Jr. (Moderator), Board Member LSC, Partner Hunton & Williams* Lisa Colpoys, CEO Illinois Legal Aid Online* Professor Ronald Staudt, IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law* Professor Scott Cummings, UCLA Law School* Professor Deborah Rhode, Stanford Law School 20. PANEL: THE IMPORTANCE OFACCESS TO JUSTICE TO AMERICAN BUSINESSValerie Jarrett (Left), Senior Advisor to the President, introducedThe Importance of Access to Justice to American Business.Panelists included:(L-R)* Martha Minow (Moderator), Dean of Harvard Law School, Vice Chair LSC Board of Directors* Maria Contreras-Sweet, Administrator US Small Business Administration* Kenneth Frazier, CEO Merck* David Rubenstein, CEO The Carlyle Group* Arne Sorenson, CEO of Marriott International 21. PANEL: THE ROLE OF CORPORATE COUNSEL IN EXPANDINGACCESS TO JUSTICEPanelists included:(L-R)* Ronald Flagg (Moderator), Vice President Legal Affairs, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary LSC* Darryl Bradford, Senior Vice President and General Counsel Exelon* Mark Chandler, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary, Chief Compliance Officer Cisco* Brackett Denniston, Senior Vice President and General Counsel General Electric* Lucy Lee Helm, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Secretary Starbucks* Max Laun, Vice President and General Counsel Alcoa* Ivan Fong, Senior Vice President and General Counsel 3M 22. HONORABLE ABNER MIVKAHonorable Abner Mikva, introduced Vice President of the United States Joe Biden 23. REMARKS BY VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES JOE BIDEN 24. REMARKS BY ABA PRESIDENT WILLIAM HUBBARDWilliam Hubbard, President American Bar Association 25. PANEL: IMPACT OF PRO BONO LAWYERS ON JUSTICE GAPPanelists included:(L-R)* Mary Ryan (Moderator), Chair ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono, Partner Nutter McClennen & Fish* Ann S. Bergen, Law Offices of Ann Bergen* Tim Bertschy, Partner Heyl Royster* Dana Cornett, Law Offices of Dana Cornett* Kathryn Fritz, Managing Partner Fenwick & West* Craig Martin, Managing Partner Jenner & Block* Virginia Martin, Legal Services Director New Hampshire Bar Association* Lee Miller, Global Co-Chairman DLA Piper* Stephen C. Neal, Chairman Cooley* Steve Schulman, President of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, and Pro Bono Partner of Akin Gump* Virginia Seitz, Partner Sidley Austin, former Assistant Attorney General Office of Legal Counsel USDepartment of Justice 26. PANEL: REFLECTIONS ON THE PAST AND PREDICTIONS FOR THEFUTURE THE VIEW FROM THE FRONT LINESPanelists included:(L-R)* Jim Sandman (Moderator), President LSC* Jon Asher, Executive Director Colorado Legal Services* Colleen Cotter, Executive Director Legal Aid Society of Cleveland* Nan Heald, Executive Director Pine Tree Legal Assistance* Harrison McIver, Executive Director Memphis Area Legal Services* John Whitfield, Executive Director Blue Ridge Legal Services, Inc. 27. PRESENTATION: THE CLIENTS WE SERVE -PERSONAL ACCOUNTS OF THE IMPACT OF LEGAL AIDThis panel included personal accounts from clients who described how their lives were changedby the assistance they received from LSC-funded legal aid programs.(L-R)* Julie Reiskin (Moderator), Board Member LSC* Jane Doe, Pennsylvania* Harold Anderson, Georgia* Juliette White, New Mexico* Ilah Adkins, Ohio 28. REMARKS AT THE 40TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION(L-R)Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA), John Walsh, United States Attorney District of Colorado,and Donald Verrilli Jr. United States Solicitor General 29. 40TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION DINNERThe Urban Youth Choir of D.C. sang the national anthem 30. 40TH ANNIVERSARY RECEPTION DINNERRemarks from United States Attorney General Eric Holder (Left), andMartha Minow (Right), Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School 31. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDS(L-R)* Steve Gottlieb, Executive Director Atlanta Legal Aid Society* Wilhelm H, Joseph Jr., Executive Director Legal Aid Bureau Inc.* Cesar Torres, Executive Director Northwest Justice Project* Monika Langdleft, Board Chair Northwest Justice Project* Jim Sandman, President LSC* Alison Paul, Executive Director Montana Legal Services Association* C. Kenneth Perri, Executive Director Legal Assistance of Western New York, Inc.* Michael O'Connor, Executive Director Prairie State Legal Services, Inc.* Sheila Hubbard, Executive Director Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association* Silvia Argueta, Executive Director, Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles* Anita Santos-Singh, Executive Director Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center* Anne Milne (not pictured), Executive Director Utah Legal Services, Inc.* Jon Asher (not pictured), Executive Director Colorado Legal Services 32. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Steve Gottlieb, Executive Director Atlanta Legal Aid Society 33. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with C. Kenneth Perri, Executive DirectorLegal Assistance of Western New York, Inc. 34. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Cesar Torres, Executive Director Northwest Justice Project andMonika Langfeldt, Board Chair Northwest Justice Project 35. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Anita Santos-Singh, Executive Director Philadelphia Legal Assistance Center 36. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Jon Asher, Executive Director Colorado Legal Services 37. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Sheila Hubbard, Executive DirectorVolunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association 38. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Wilhelm H. Joseph Jr., Executive Director Legal Aid Bureau Inc. 39. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Anne Milne, Executive Director Utah Legal Services, Inc. 40. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Silvia Argueta, Executive Director Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles 41. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Michael O'Connor, Executive Director Prairie State Legal Services Inc 42. PRO BONO INNOVATION FUND AWARDSJim Sandman, President LSC with Alison Paul, Executive Director Montana Legal Services Association 43. SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR LSC-GRANTEEEXECUTIVE DIRECTORS WHO HAVE SERVED FOR 40 YEARS(L-R)* Steve Gottlieb, Executive Director Atlanta Legal Aid Society* Greg Knoll, Executive Director Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of San Diego* Neil Dudovitz, Executive Director Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County* Jon Asher, Executive Director Colorado Legal Services* David Hall, Executive Director Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, Inc.* Richard Austin, Executive Director Legal Services of the Virgin Islands, Inc.* Ben Cole, Executive Director North Mississippi Rural Legal Services, Inc.* Robert V. Racunas, Executive Director Neighborhood Legal Services of Pennsylvania* Wilhelm H. Joseph Jr., Executive Director Legal Aid Bureau, Inc.* Bob Cohen, Executive Director, Legal Aid Society of Orange County, Inc.