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The City Bar Justice Center’s 2023 Gala Powers Pro Bono, Raising Over $1 Million to Support New Yorkers in Need
by Samantha Darris April 19, 2023
On Tuesday, April 4, 2023, the City Bar Justice Center held its 18th Annual Gala, “The Power of Pro Bono,” at the New York City Bar Association. We were proud to honor BNY Mellon and Mayer Brown LLP with 2023 City Bar Justice Awards for their commitment to promoting racial, social, and economic justice through a range of pro bono legal services and other philanthropic commitments.
Featuring Broadway talent with live music and dance performance, the program included remarks and award acceptances from special guests: Susan J. Kohlmann (NYC Bar Association President), Kurt M. Denk (City Bar Justice Center Executive Director), Cassandra Celestin (City Bar Justice Center Pro Bono Director), Kevin McCarthy (BNY Mellon General Counsel), and Matthew Ingber (Mayer Brown LLP’s New York Office Managing Partner.)
With deep gratitude, we thank our 2023 Gala Benefit Committee (listed below), along with advocates for justice who made a personal contribution. Thanks to our partners’ generosity, the Gala raised nearly $1.1 million to power pro bono and further fuel the Justice Center’s capacity to help 25,000 New Yorkers facing poverty and other systemic barriers each year.
2023 Gala Benefit Committee
Benefactors
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Bloomberg
Bortstein Legal Group
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Kirkland & Ellis
Labaton Sucharow LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pfizer Inc.
Proskauer
UBS
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
WilmerHale
Sponsors
American International Group, Inc.
Arnold & Porter
Barclays
Citigroup Inc.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Deloitte
DLA Piper LLP
Emmet, Marvin and Martin, LLP
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
JPMorgan Chase & Co.
King & Spalding LLP
Kramer Levin
MetLife
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Morgan Stanley
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Selendy Gay Elsberg
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Vladeck, Raskin & Clark, PC
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Supporters
Blank Rome LLP
BNP Paribas
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Carter Ledyard & Milburn LLP
Chubb
Crowell & Moring LLP
Dechert LLP
Faegre Drinker
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Goodwin
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Mizuho Americas
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Advocates
Akerman LLP
Analysis Group, Inc.
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
EisnerAmper
Esquire Deposition Solutions
Grant Thornton LLP
Hogan Lovells
Kobre & Kim LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Riker Danzig LLP
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Stout Risius Ross, LLC
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America
Venable LLP
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