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Thank You from VOLS!

At the New York, Together 2022 Gala, VOLS community came together to celebrate VOLS’ work providing free, civil legal services to New Yorkers in need and to honor pro bono leadership. Thank you to all who joined us in person and virtually!

As our city recovers from the effects of the pandemic, New Yorkers continue to face pressing legal needs. Since 1984, VOLS has been here to help, and we will continue to do so where, when, and for those who need it most. To each of the young immigrants, seniors, older veterans, small business owners, workers, children, and families we have had the privilege to serve – thank you.

“We can all be very proud of the part VOLS played and continues to play in trying to make our community a better and more survivable place for so many.”
Karen Artz Ash, Chair, Board of Directors
VOLS’ New York, Together 2022 Gala

VOLS’ partnerships distinguish and define us: Thank you to our phenomenally dedicated community partners, volunteer attorneys, and staff. We are enormously grateful as well to our Board of Directors and Pro Bono Advocates Council, our host committee and sponsors, and our Chair and honoree, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, for their exemplary pro bono leadership. Finally, thank you to Cynthia Bookhart Adams (Jefferies), Erica Blau (AIG), Yuliana Kletsun (Bloomberg LP), and Maryana Zubok (Pfizer, Inc.), for engaging us in a compelling conversation on corporate pro bono.

I hope you’ll consider becoming part of the VOLS community. A donation to VOLS extends a lifeline.

With Gratitude,
Abja

Abja Midha
Executive Director
Volunteers of Legal Service

Kirkland & Ellis: Pro Bono Leadership
Spotlight: Community Partners
Full Program Video

THANK YOU TO OUR 2022 SPONSORS

CHAIR

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

ADVOCATES

AIG
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Arnold & Porter
Bloomberg LP
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
Morgan Stanley
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Thomson Reuters
WilmerHale

STEERING COMMITTEE

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP
Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkin, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

PARTNERS

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenmann LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Pfizer Inc.
Proskauer Rose LLP

CONTRIBUTORS

Covington & Burling LLP
Judy & Jamie Dimon
DLA Piper LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Hogan Lovells
Millbank LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Schulte Roth & Zabel LLP
Shearman & Sterling LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP

VOLS NEW YORK, TOGETHER 2022 GALA

HONORING

KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP

FEATURING CORPORATE PRO BONO LEADERS

ERICA BLAU, AIG

Pro Bono Director & Associate General Counsel

YULIANA KLETSUN, BLOOMBERG LP

Technology Licensing Counsel

MARYANA ZUBOK, PFIZER INC.

Assistant General Counsel, Litigation

IN CONVERSATION WITH

Managing Director and General Counsel-Litigation, Regulatory & Employment
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