2011 Annual Report - Chicago Lawyers` Committee for Civil Rights

CHICAGO LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW, INC.
chicago’s partnership for equal justice
2010 – 2011
highlights
chicago’s partnership for equal justice
The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, Inc. is the public interest law
consortium of Chicago’s leading law firms. From nineteen firms in 1969, the Chicago Lawyers’
Committee has grown to fifty member firms today. Each year, over 15,000 hours of
donated professional legal services, with a value of over $6 million are directed to challenge
discrimination and other violations of civil rights in both the public and private sectors.
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Message from the Executive Director & Board Chair
2010 - 2011 Project Highlights
Law Firm Involvement
Membership
Staff & Funders
Financial Report
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jay readey
executive director
paul greenwalt, iii
board chairman
message from the board chair and executive director
For forty-two years,
the Chicago Lawyers’
Committee for
Civil Rights Under
Law has embodied
the commitment
of the private bar to
bring its strength
and prestige to bear
on the problems of
For forty-two years, the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law has embodied the
commitment of the private bar to bring its strength and prestige to bear on the problems of urban
poverty and discrimination. The dedication of our member firms, our board members and pro bono
volunteers, which in many cases has stretched across the decades, has provided invaluable service to
disadvantaged members of society who would not otherwise receive legal representation. This
report is a useful place to reflect on all the good work that has made the Lawyers’ Committee an
institution in Chicago’s and the nation’s legal services communities.
Still, this is also a moment that calls for us to examine and reflect on the historic nature of the work
that we do. Chicago remains one of America’s most segregated metropolises. Wedges of poverty
and joblessness have been driven deeper into the population during this Great Recession, and gains
in income and wealth made by African-Americans and Latinos over decades since the Lawyers’
Committee was birthed by the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s have been wiped away in a few
short years of economic contraction. As we near a moment when the majority of babies born in
America each day are nonwhite, knowing that a social security system already staggering under the
weight of its future obligations will be supported by a workforce that is much more diverse than its
beneficiaries will be, we face critical questions about how we can envision a new tomorrow for our
communities. Simultaneously, we hear questions about whether civil rights are still relevant. Who are
the targets for our impact litigation? Where is the overt discrimination and injustice that for so long
has provided a steady caseload of matters for the dedicated lawyers of the Committee?
urban poverty and
discrimination.
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We face up to these questions during a great inflection point for the organization. Longtime
Executive Director Clyde Murphy and Law Project Director Susan Kaplan both retired in 2010, after
15 and 25 years of distinguished service, respectively. With new leadership in two other senior
positions and the creation of a Director-level position to run the Settlement Assistance Project,
we are now an organization in which over 75% of the senior staff members are new to their roles.
This gives us an unprecedented opportunity to envision a new future for civil rights and community
development work, one which we are embracing with the first comprehensive strategic planning
process the organization has undertaken in many years.
Some of the changes you see have been immediate. Our leadership moved decisively to
strengthen our existing programs: the Project to Combat Bias Violence, which has won dramatic
victories in the past year, including a $1.4 million judgment in Coiley v. Delawder et al; the
Employment Opportunities Project, which won a Seventh Circuit appeal in the Lewis firefighters
case; The Law Project (formerly the Community Economic Development Law Project), which serves
over 300 community organizations annually; the Settlement Assistance Project, which provides
trial bar experience for volunteer attorneys mediating cases in Federal District Court; and the Fair
Housing Project, which has returned to its status as a private enforcement agent for HUD by
winning a three year Fair Housing Initiative Grant totaling $1 million.
Thank you for
joining us as we
embark on a
new phase in
our advocacy for
civil rights and
community
development.
Leveraging the strength of our brand and our relationships with community groups, law firms,
and universities, we have also filled our offices with Law Fellows, Law Clerks, Legal Interns, and
Development and Marketing Interns. This reinvigorated level of human capital has enabled us to
revive dormant Lawyers’ Committee projects and explore emerging areas of practice. Over 25 people
each day work from our offices on civil rights and community development matters, including
renewed projects for Voting Rights and Educational Equity, and new projects addressing Environmental
Justice, New Markets Tax Credit investments, Incarceration, and Health Disparities. Furthermore,
we are developing our strength as a policy shop, using the skills of lawyers to advance initiatives
and policies for forward-thinking public and private institutions so that we can create communities
integrated by race and class and marked by open channels of opportunity.
The stellar attorneys that make up the membership of the Lawyers’ Committee contribute over
15,000 hours of pro bono time each year, at an estimated value of over $6 million. This strength
of community commitment is matched with new methods of outreach, outcomes tracking and
evaluation systems, coalition-building and partnership efforts. We are embracing our partners
and redoubling our efforts to bring justice and opportunity to disadvantaged communities.
Simultaneously, we are launching a new website and associated web tools to harness the power
of social media and communications technologies to serve our mission. These initiatives will position
us to capitalize on our status as a network of networks, working with dozens of the most prestigious
law firms in greater Chicago, hundreds of community-based organizations, and several affiliates of
the National Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights working on similar issues nationwide.
Thank you for joining us as we embark on a new phase in our advocacy for civil rights and
community development.
Jay Readey
Executive Director
Paul Greenwalt, III
Board Chairman
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2010 - 2011 project highlights
employment opportunities project
Through both advocacy and litigation, the Employment Opportunities Project (EOP) aims to
combat and reduce discrimination against minorities and women in employment and other
economic opportunities.
LEWIS V. CITY OF CHICAGO:
“THE CHICAGO FIREFIGHTERS CASE”
An important victory for the Employment Opportunities Project resulted in a
final court order that advances this nationally-known case towards its successful
conclusion. After more than a decade of litigation, The Chicago Lawyers’
Committee won a major court victory in the Lewis v. City of Chicago race
discrimination class action suit which resulted in the City being ordered to hire
111 by-passed black firefighter applicants by 2012 and award up to $20 million
in back pension, as well as pay at least $30 million in damages to nearly 6,000
others who will never get the chance to become a firefighter.
Lewis v. City of Chicago challenged the City’s use of a discriminatory test and
cut-off score in hiring the City’s firefighters in 1995. A 65 score was sufficient
to pass the test, but the City chose to hire only those who scored 89 or above,
a decision that had a severe disparate impact on African-American applicants,
without improving the quality of those chosen to be firefighters. The Chicago
Lawyers’ Committee and its co-counsel filed suit on behalf of the nearly 6,000
African-American class members who were not hired by the City between
1996 and 2002 because they scored below the 89 cut-off score.
Atty. Matt Piers (Hughes,
Socol, Piers, Resnick & Dym,
Ltd.), Annette Nance-Holt
(former President of African
American Firefighters Union),
Philippe Victor, Arthur C.
Charleston, III (plaintiffs),
Atty. Paul Strauss (Chicago
Lawyers’ Committee)
Back: Aldron Reed and
Bill Muzzall (plaintiffs)
After a federal district court found that the City’s hiring practice was discriminatory, the City tried to
evade liability for the finding by arguing that the plaintiffs’ claims were barred because they were not
filed within 300 days after the City first announced its hiring plan. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the
Seventh Circuit sided with the City, and the case subsequently went to the Supreme Court. The
Supreme Court reversed and ruled in favor of the plaintiffs, setting an important precedent for applying
the statute of limitations in Title VII disparate impact cases. Co-Director of Litigation Paul Strauss
presented oral argument in the Court of Appeals. The case went back to the District Court, and on
August 17, 2011 the trial court entered a final injunction, requiring the City to hire black firefighters
and pay millions of dollars in damages.
The Chicago Lawyer’s Committee litigated the case with co-counsel NAACP Legal Defense Fund, three
Lawyer’s Committee firms (Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.; Robinson, Curley & Clayton, P.C.; and Hughes,
Socol, Piers, Resnick & Dym, Ltd.), and Bridget Arimond (now at Northwestern Law School) and Patrick
Patterson (now a senior counsel to the chair of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).
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pro se litigants’ settlement assistance program
The Pro Se Litigants’ Settlement Assistance Program (SAP) has recently expanded into its
own project. Led by Project Director J. Cunyon Gordon, the SAP is a program through which
volunteer attorneys are recruited to guide and assist pro se litigants in settlement conferences
for civil rights cases. Cunyon is one of SAP’s first volunteers and has been highly active with
the Project since 2006.
Pro Se Litigants Settlement
Assistance Program Director
J. Cunyon Gordon
In addition to the completion of fifteen cases from 2009, 50 new cases were brought to the program in
2010. SAP deals with a variety of clients and of the new cases in 2010, 39 were related to employment,
six were prisoner cases, and five involved federal statutes. Of the 50 settlement conferences conducted
for these cases, 39 cases reached a settlement giving the program a 78% success rate. During these 2010
settlement conferences, the SAP received the participation of 65 volunteer attorneys from both CLC’s
member firms and non-member firms resulting in upward of 2500-3000 hours of pro bono legal services
valued at $1 to $1.2 million.
fair housing project
The Fair Housing Project combats housing discrimination by
investigating complaints of such discrimination throughout Chicago,
educating members of the protected classes about their right to
fair housing, and providing pro bono legal services to victims of
housing discrimination.
PARKER AND PIERCE V. NEW JERUSALEM
CHRISTIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP
The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee represented two first-time home buyers who sought to use their
Housing Choice Vouchers to buy houses. In February of 2011, the Chicago Commission on Human
Relations found that Chicago housing developer New Jerusalem Christian Development Corp.
discriminated against the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee “Choose to Own” clients Ms. Parker and
Ms. Pierce based on their source of income. The Commission awarded the women a total of $110,000
in damages, the highest damages amount the Commission has awarded to Fair Housing Project clients.
Victories like this provide an advocacy lever with which we can increase pressure on parties like Cook
County to make the policy changes that are needed to promote equality. Fair Housing staff attorney
Rachel Marks, along with Kirkland and Ellis LLP attorneys Paul Collier and Aaron Goodman, represented
Ms. Parker and Ms. Pierce.
The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee entered a contract with the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) last year
to assess housing discrimination in CHA’s Housing Choice Voucher Program, Senior Developments, and
Family Developments. Along with other fair housing organizations in Chicago, the Fair Housing Project
staff conducted over 300 tests on the HCV Program and Senior Developments to check for housing
discrimination and, along with subcontractors, examined the data gathered to issue a report to CHA.
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In addition to its wins in the courtroom, the Fair Housing Project has been busy educating residents of
Chicago about their rights in hopes of getting more residents to identify housing discrimination. The
Project initiated a media campaign to help enforce the familial status component of the Fair Housing
Act. Staff engaged in a variety of outreach activities and conducted numerous fair housing training
sessions, reaching landlords, tenants, condo owners and associations, and the general public. We are
especially proud of our partnership with CAN TV, which ran a month-long advertisement campaign on
behalf of fair housing.
project to combat bias violence
CLC’s Project to Combat Bias Violence both provides pro bono legal
representation to victims of hate crime and serves as a community educator
for the general public and professionals on the Illinois Hate Crime Act and the
rights of hate crime victims. The Project to Combat Bias Violence is the Midwest’s
only comprehensive resource center on hate crime prevention and response.
KENYON COILEY, ET AL., V. LARRY DELAWDER, ET AL.
On January 31, 2011, the three African-American Coiley brothers were awarded
$1.44 million in compensatory and punitive damages after a brutal racially motivated attack in Kankakee
County. The brothers were represented by the Chicago Lawyers’ Committee and Katten Muchin
Rosenman LLP. The attack, which occurred in February 2005, involved nearly 20 white men attacking
the three Coiley brothers unprovoked, causing enduring physical and emotional suffering. Four of the
attackers were found legally liable for the attack. This shocking crime has done much to raise the profile
of ongoing hate crimes against African-Americans and the need for the legal community to remain
involved affirming civil rights. Plaintiff Kenyon Coiley said, “Despite the judgment, we’ll always remember
that horrible day. We thank the Katten Muchin law firm and Chicago Lawyers’ Committee lawyers, who
did a wonderful job. We hope that this judgment deters people from thinking and acting the way the
people who attacked us did.” Betsy Shuman-Moore served as Co-counsel along with Monica J. Mosby,
Laura A. Brake, Brian J. Poronsky and Sonja Clayton-Pedersen from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP.
OTHER HIGHLIGHTS OF 2010 - 2011
In December of 2010, the
Chicago Lawyers’ Committee
Executive Director
Jay S. Readey was named
a Distinguished Alumnus
of the Public Interest Law
Initiative (PILI), and in
July 2011 was chosen to be
part of the 2012 class of
Leadership Greater Chicago.
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In June 2010 the Mexican
American Legal Defense and
Educational Fund bestowed
its Award for Excellence in
Legal Services on CLC attorney
and then-Director of the
Employment Opportunity
Project Laurie Wardell for
her “tireless and effective
advocacy on behalf of the
Latino community.”
Betsy Shuman-Moore,
Director of the Fair Housing
Project, was invited to speak
about the law regarding
internet fair housing
advertising for the United
Nations Human Rights
Council’s Civil Society
Consultation Universal
Periodic Review and at John
Marshall Law School’s Fair
Housing/Fair Lending
conference.
Law Project Director
Jody Adler has been selected
as a Wasserstein Public Interest
Fellow at Harvard Law School
for the 2011-12 academic year.
the law project
The Law Project (TLP, formerly the Community Economic Development Law Project, or
CEDLP) provides pro bono legal assistance to nonprofit organizations working in low income
communities in the greater Chicago area and to emerging entrepreneurs on a wide variety
of transactional/business issues. In doing so, TLP encourages community development in
disadvantaged areas throughout Chicagoland and creates a link between major law firms
and budding social service initiatives.
Last year, TLP provided free legal representation to 221 Chicago area nonprofits, 61 low-income
first-time homebuyers, and 41 small business entrepreneurs. 444 volunteer attorneys contributed
10,737.75 hours of pro bono legal services to TLP clients, which represents a monetary value of
approximately $4.4 million.
CHICAGO BLACK INVENTORS’ ORGANIZATION
In 2010, The Law Project matched Timothy Kincaid, a volunteer attorney from Winston & Strawn LLP, to
the Chicago Black Inventors’ Organization (CBIO), an organization assisting minority entrepreneurs from
underprivileged communities in the processes of obtaining patent and trademark protections for their
budding initiatives. With Kincaid and The Law Project’s assistance, CBIO was able to expand its structure
and, therefore, expand its reach to individuals in need outside of Chicago. Not only does this expansion
benefit CBIO and the individuals served by the organizations, but the gains become cyclical when those
individuals start small business with the help of CBIO and are referred to The Law Project’s Small Business
Program for guidance in legal matters; it is a system of mutual benefit.
COMMUNITY MALE EMPOWERMENT PROJECT
The Law Project also worked with the Community Male Empowerment Project
in 2010, an organization that rehabilitates and sells dilapidated buildings in
Chicago while reaching out to ex-offenders and other members of hard-toserve communities in the city by allowing them to work alongside contractors
and gain employable skills. CMEP came to The Law Project a few years ago to
get help in addressing the legal problems that come along with an expanding
non-profit organization. In 2010, however, the relationship was brought fullcircle when one of TLP’s volunteer attorneys was asked to represent a client in a
real estate closing for one of the houses that CMEP has renovated; the sale of this
property marks one of the first Neighborhood Stabilization Project transactions
in the city of Chicago.
Melvin Bailey, CMEP Executive Director and Derrick Elliott
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LAW FIRM INVOLVEMENT
FAIR HOUSING
Cordis Law Firm
Daniel M. Cordis
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Michael M. Conway
The Franklin Law Firm
Jamie S. Franklin
Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP
Jonathan Baum
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Paul D. Collier
Aaron B. Goodman
Latham & Watkins, LLP
Meghan M. Hansen
Meredith E. Monroe
Kevin A. Russell
Jessica Lee
Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C.
Jeffrey I. Cummings
Meites, Mulder & Glink
Michael M. Mulder
Reed Smith, LLP
Thomas M. Levinson
Eileen Callahan
Schiff Hardin, LLP
Paula Ketcham
Xiaorong Jajah Wu
Sidley Austin, LLP
Linton J. Childs
Stephen Collins
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom, LLP
Andre LeDuc
Oren Sachar
Jason T. Manning
Megan J. Baier
Joseph Miron
Uptown United
Alyssa Berman-Cutler
Wildman Harrold
Allen & Dixon, LLP
Deborah Beltran
Jonathan W. Young
Alan Boudreau
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HATE CRIME
PROJECT
Noelle Brennan & Associates
Noelle Brennan
Sarah Brown
Katten Muchin Rosenman, LLP
Alexander Vesselinovitch
David Benson
Kara Ervin
Blake Mills
EMPLOYMENT
OPPORTUNITIES
PROJECT
Allstate Insurance Company
Kent Absalonsen
Bartlit Beck Herman
Palenchar & Scott, LLP
Katherine Minarik
Andrew Polovin
DLA Piper, LLP
Elizabeth Thompson
Chris Williams
Eimer Stahl Klevorn &
Solberg, LLP
Alexis Chardon
Amanda Wendorff
Hughes Socol Piers
Resnick & Dym, Ltd.
Jose Behar
Josh Karsh
Matt Piers
Mary Rowland
Christopher Wilmes
Wildman Harrold
Allen & Dixon, LLP
Elizabeth Peters
Allen Woolley
Jenner & Block, LLP
Duan Fu
Keith Porapaiboon
Joe Saltiel
Working Hands Legal Clinic
Alvar Ayala
Katten Munchin Roseman, LLP
David Benson
Mike Durnwald
Dan Lange
Alyx Pattison
PRO SE
SETTLEMENT
ASSISTANCE
PROGRAM
AT&T
Daniel Kazlauski
Bruggeman and
Hurst & Associates
Alan Bruggeman
Central States
Ed Bogle
Cohen Milstein
Sellers & Toll, PLLC
Cathy Rath
CSF Fund
James Condon
DLA Piper, LLP
Liz Bartls
Joe Collins
Steve Landsman
Roger Longtin
Environmental Law
and Policy Center
Howard Learner
Fox Law & Associates
Ed Fox
Latham & Watkins, LLP
Qasim Jami
Jami J. Mickelsen
Lyndsay Speece
Law Office of Marcia Harris
Gabe Wintner
Loevy & Loevy
Roshna Bala Keen
Cindy Tsai
Mayer Brown, LLP
Matthew Provance
Kevin Deshamais
Shantell Feeser
Mike Gill
Erin Gladney
Jaimy Hamburg
Marian Haney
Gretchen Helfrich
M. Kadish
Melissa Manning
Matthew Provenance
Alexandra Shea
Jason Wagenmaker
Matthew Wargin
Meckler Bulger Tilson
Marick and Pearson, LLP
Chad Main
Law Offices of
Christopher C. Kendall
Christopher Kendall
David Capizzi
R. Friedman Howrey, LLP
Scott Mendelhoff
Renee Friedman
Mansi Shah
Miner, Barnhill and Galland, P.C.
Jeff Cummings
Judd Miner
Grippo & Elden, LLC
Dan Hinkle
McDermott Will & Emery
Beth Herrington
Kristen Klawand
Rachael Philbin
Jeff Rossman
Hall, Prangle & Schoonveld, LLC
John Rogers
Neal, Gerber & Eisenberg LLP
Gray Mateo-Harris
Haynes & Boone LLP
Shimon Ben Kahan
Office of Jacob Meister
Katie Eder
Jacob Meister & Associates
Kate Eder
Reed Smith, LLP
Robert O’ Meara
Northwestern University
School of Law
Bridget Arimond
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP
Fitzgerald Bramwell
Robin Potter & Associates
Jennifer Purcell
LAW FIRM INVOLVEMENT
Alan F. Segal & Associates
Misty Martin
Sidley Austin
Scott Berliant
Skadden Arps Slate
Meagher, LLP
K. Bolanowski
Jerry Bramwell
Pamela Dangelo
Lisa Diaz
Chris Dressel
Eric Ivester
C. Jackson
Tom Kennedy
Su Ji Lee
Brad Wilson
SNR Denton
Jeff Davis
Irina Dashevsky
Wendy Enerson
Austin Kaplan
Richard Mus
Donna Vobornik
Stowell & Friedman Ltd.
Jasmine Simmons
Law Offices of Trent & Butcher
Jennifer Purcell
Troutman Sanders, LLP
John Hayes Krasnow
Wildman Harrold
Allen & Dixon, LLP
Erin Brechtelsbauer
Winston & Strawn, LLP
Marlon Lutfiyya
Private Attorneys
Janet Maxwell Wickett
Steve Stern
Amanda Yarusso
Rebecca MacMahon
THE LAW
PROJECT
A.C. Advisory, Inc.
Kelly Hutchinson
Allstate Insurance Company
Zack Raimi
Ancel, Glink, Diamond, Bush,
DiCianni & Krafthefer, P.C.
Brent O. Denzin
Applegate &
Thorne-Thomsen P.C.
Ben Applegate
Baker & McKenzie LLP
Joseph Bochenek
Christina Sajous Bullock
Barack Ferrazzano Kirschbaum
& Nagelberg, LLP
Sarah M. Bernstein
Karyn L. Doerfler
Anis H. Ha
Lynne D. Mapes-Riordan
Elias Craig Selinger
Kathy Zambrano
Caterpillar
Gary K. Wibracht
Chapman and Cutler, LLP
Paul D. Carman
Kaitlin L. Corkran
Philip M.J. Edison
Denitta German
Juliet Huang
Joseph P. Lombardo
Mark R. O’Meara
Rebecca Wallenfelsz
Daniel P Stokes,
Attorney At Law
Daniel Patrick Stokes
DLA Piper, LLP
Merle Teitelbaum Cowin
Gregory R. A. Dahlgren
Robert C. Davis III
Tonya Gauff
Richard F. Klawiter
Chi H. Song
Alison Zirn
Drinker Biddle & Reath, LLP
Aruna Subramanian
Stephanie Dodge Gournis
Erin K. L. Norby
David L Williams
Duane Morris, LLC
David B. Yelin
Dykema Gossett ,PLLC
Richard M. Bendix, Jr.
Laura M. Callahan
Sean P. Dudley, Esq.
Farzin Parang
Andrew Scott
Foley & Lardner, LLP
Erica S. Harris
Heidi H. Jeffrey
Belinda Morgan
Catherine B. Nelson
Wayne F. Osoba
Donna J. Pugh
George J. Schaefer III
Holland and Knight, LLP
Reetu Dua
Anthony Frink
Lisa Sterneck Katz
Tom J. Kinasz
Matthew E. Norton
David Shayne
Jenner & Block, LLP
Christine K. Bedi
Lee E. Dionne
Alexandra E. Dowling
Frank J. Eichenlaub
Gabriel A. Gutierrez
Eugene R. Hsia
Alexander J. May
Vito M. Pacione
Jonathan “Jon” Riley
Jones Day
Phillippe ”Phil” Holland
K & L GATES
David S. Wolpa
Michael F. Zundel
Katten Muchin Rosenman,
LLP Chris Atkinson
Geoff Auyeung
Kellye J. Bowers
David Cohen
Harris R. Eisenberg
Brooks Giles
Jason Gorczynski
Jonathan Graber
Andrew N. Hamm
Christian Hennion
Tye Klooster
Steve Lombard
Michael G. Melzer
Christopher H. Mendoza
Kyle A. Petersen
Howard M. Richard
David A Rosenberg
Blake E. Schulman
Mark Simon
Cari Stern
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Ian Nathaniel Ackerman
Ted Frankel
Kevin Green
Benjamin E. Levi
Polina Liberman
Marisa Murillo
Yaman Shukairy
Daniel Stolarsky
Kubasiak, Fylstra,
Thorpe & Rotunno, P.C.
Michael J. Quinn
Mayer Brown, LLP
K. Robin Abraham
Richard Assmus
Amanda Baker
James Barry
Courtney R. Barth-Green
Lindsay Blohm
Paul Chandler
Mark Dempsey
Thomas Durham
Wendy Gallegos
Steven Garden
Jacob Glazeski
Andrew Gorman
Xiaoyi Guo
Darius Horton
Erika Ribeiro Ituassu
William R. Kucera
Stuart Litwin
Gregory Manter
Christine S. Matott
Howard McCue
Matthew McDonald
Olajumoke Onibokun
Laura Richman
Stephanie Roark
Cecilia Roth
Matthew Schimka
Thomas Shinnick
Jeffrey Taft
Lorraine Tyson
Jessica M. Waller
Bradley West
Benjamin Williams
McDermott Will & Emery
Joe Adams
Michael F. Anthony
Anne Becker
Michael Boykins
Bernadette M. Broccolo
Larry Bronska
Ralph DeJong
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LAW FIRM INVOLVEMENT
Menna Eltaki
Michael R. Fayhee
Kevin Feeley
Elen Firedli
Nancy Gerrie
Michael T. Graham
Jeanna Palmer Gunville
Kristen E. Hazel
Jeanette S. Hunter
Brett Johnson
Jeffrey A. Jung
Gary Karch
Neil Kawashima
Latonia Haney Keith
Chuck Levin
Elizabeth P. Lewis
Robert Louthian
Andrew McCune
Patrick McCurry
Maggie McTigue
Bill Merten
Michael Fine
Jennifer Mikulina
Kevin Miller
Tom Murphy
Susan Nash
Randall Ortmann
Greg Palmer
Michael Peregrine
Sean Piemote
Joan Polacheck
Patrick D. Ryan
Takashi Saito
Elizabeth Savard
Susan Schaefer
Kerrin Slattery
Todd A. Solomon
Keely James Stewart
Lynette Stewart
John P. Tamisiea
Edward Tuerk
Suzanne Wallman
Tom Ward
Kimberly West
Corey M. Wise
Lowell Yoder
Dan Zucker
McDonald’s Corporation
Lorraine Fortelka
Shelly Hurta
Kathleen Kuta
Rafael Medina
Daniel Moons
Ruth Schoenmeyer
Ken Shiner
Jeremy A. Silva
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, LLP
Saghi “Sage” Fattahian
Much Shelist Freed Denenberg
Ament & Rubenstein, P.C.
Michael Goldstein
James M. Kunick
Neal Gerber & Eisenberg, LLP
Erica R. Alva
Anne F. Hemmings
Gray Mateo-Harris
Nicholas M. Miller
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Justin Swindells
Wayne L. Tang
Brad Taub
Paul, Hastings,
Janofsky & Walker, LLP
Mark A. Biggar
Kimberly Newmarch
Perkins Coie, LLP
Siddesh Bale
Proskauer Rose, LLP
Monte Dube
Elizabeth M. Mills PC
Quarles & Brady, LLP
Krupa Shah
Reed Smith, LLP
Cathay A. Smith
Morley S. Fortier, III
Schiff Hardin, LLP
Larry Jacobson
Diane M. Soubly
Lynn J. Watkins
Alexander B. Young
Sears Roebuck & Co
J. Kal Gibron
Marianne L. Simonini
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Seyfarth Shaw, LLP
David S. Baffa
Tracy Billows
Danielle Bochneak
Violet Borowski
Joshua N. Dalley
Paul S. Drizner
Maureen B. Farrell
Lawrence J. Moss
Natascha Riesco
Jeffrey K. Ross
Christine Ruich
Katherine J. Utz
Sidley Austin, LLP
Cyrus Afshar
Jonathan C. Babb
Molly Brooks
Les Carter
Robert K. Clagg, Jr.
Mike Clark
Whitney A. Cox
Stephanie C. Jacobs
Denise M. Kerschhackl
Geoffrey M. King
Susan E. McHugh
Brett H. Myrick
Elizabeth M. Schubert
Richard M. Silverman
Tracy D. Williams
Skadden Arps Slate
Meagher & Flom, LLP
Craig T. Alcorn
Mark S. Creer
Joydeep Dasmunshi
Laura Ferrell
Joe Graves
Rebecca Hartstein
Laverne F. Horton
Sara Igdaloff
Collin Janus
Evan Kanter
Jack Kanter
Tom Kennedy
Denis Klimentchenko
Matthew N. Kriegel
Gerald Meyer
Joseph A. Miron
Joe Noel
Lance J. Phillips
Suma U. Shah
Amber Sturrus
Christine M. Szafranski
Carl Tullson
Valerie L. Valenzo
Justin M. Winerman
SNR Denton
Alejandro Alex Amezcua
Yinka Owolabi
Omer Rafatullah
Takeda
Julia Jackson
Tews Theisen & Theisen
Mike Theisen
Vedder Price
Chris Barrett
William K. Hadler
Wildman Harrold
Allen & Dixon, LLP
Jeffrey P. Gray
David P. Resnick
Winston & Strawn, LLP
Derek G. Barella
Andrea Briski
Tiana Nell Evans
Gregory Gartland
Mary Christine Graff
Christopher D. Lalonde
Jeffrey J. Shebesta
Susan Wyse
Private Attorneys
Jeffrey R. Esser
Anne Hirstein
Charles Krugel
Jonathan Strauss
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE & MEMBERSHIP
2010 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
2011 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Edward W. Feldman CHAIRMAN
CHAIRMAN Paul E. Greenwalt, III
Paul E. Greenwalt, III CO-CHAIR
Paul W. Mollica SECRETARY
Paul R. Diamond TREASURER
Applegate & ThorneThomsen Attorneys at Law
Bennett P. Applegate
Bartlit Beck Herman
Palenchar & Scott LLP
Sidney N. Herman*
Steven E. Derringer Noelle Brennan &
Associates, Ltd
Noelle C. Brennan
Caffarelli & Siegel Ltd.
Alejandro Caffarelli
Central States Southeast
and Southwest Areas
Health and Welfare and
Pension Funds
Cathy L. Rath
Cohen Milstein
Sellers & Toll PLLC
Joseph M. Sellers
Cornfield and Feldman
Attorneys and Counselors
Gilbert A. Cornfield
Despres, Schwartz &
Geoghegan Ltd. Thomas H. Geoghegan
DLA Piper, LLP Ann Geraghty Helms
Eimer Stahl
Klevorn & Solberg LLP
Nathan P. Eimer *
Andrew G. Klevorn
Ronit C. Barrett
Foley & Lardner LLP
Mary Kay Martire*
Myles D. Berman
Ed Fox & Associates
Edward M. Fox
CO-CHAIR Paul R. Diamond
SECRETARY Cynthia H. Hyndman
TREASURER Max A. Stein
Friedman & Maguire, P.C.
Gregory A. Friedman
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Barry E. Fields*
Schiff Hardin LLP
Paul E. Greenwalt, III*
Futterman Howard Ashley
Watkins & Weltman, P.C.
Mr. Robert C. Howard
Langdon & Emison
Robert Langdon
Stephen G. Seliger
Stephen G. Seliger
Latham & Watkins LLP
Kenneth G. Schuler *
Sidley Austin LLP
Linton J. Childs*
Law Offices of
Robert E. Lehrer
Robert E. Lehrer
Skadden, Arps, Slate,
Meagher & Flom LLP &
Affiliates
Eric J. Gorman*
Grippo & Elden LLC
Maile H. Solis-Szukala
The Law Office of
Al Hofeld Jr. LLC Al F. Hofeld, Jr.*
Hoffman Watts
Christopher A. Watts*
Jordan T. Hoffman
Hughes Socol Piers
Resnick & Dym Ltd.
Joshua Karsh*
Matthew J. Piers
Jacobs, Burns, Orlove &
Hernandez
Joseph Jacobs
Jenner & Block LLP
Elizabeth Davidson
Joseph Gromacki
Johnson, Jones, Snelling,
Gilbert & Davis, P.C.
Thomas E. Johnson
Mayer Brown LLP
Stuart M. Litwin*
F. Narefsky
Meites, Mulder & Glink
Thomas R. Meites
Miller Shakman
& Beem LLP
Edward W. Feldman*
Diane F. Klotnia
The University of Chicago
Law School
Geoffrey R. Stone, Professor
Stowell & Friedman, Ltd.
Linda D. Friedman
Miner, Barnhill & Galland
Jeffrey I. Cummings *
Nancy L. Maldonado
Thompson Coburn LLP
Joel A. Haber *
Susan M. Lorenc
The Monte Law Firm, Ltd.
Ines M. Monte
Wildman Harrold
Attorneys & Counselors
Paul R. Diamond *
Deborah Morgan
Paul Hastings
Robert Clarke*
Katten Muchin
Rosenman, LLP
Alexander S. Vesselinovitch*
Jonathan K. Baum
Progressive Law Group LLC
Mark A Bulgarelli *
Ilan Chorowsky
Anita Dellaria
The Law Office of
Christopher C. Kendall, P.C.
Christopher C. Kendall*
Pugh, Jones & Johnson, P.C.
Stephen H. Pugh*
Kinoy, Taren and
Geraghty, P.C. Jeffrey L. Taren*
Joanne Kinoy
SNR Denton
Harold C. Hirshman*
Margo Weinstein
Reed Smith LLP
Max A. Stein*
Robinson Curley
& Clayton, P.C.
Cynthia H. Hyndman*
Fay Clayton
Winston & Strawn LLP
Gregory A. McConnell *
Working Hands Legal Clinic
Christopher J. Williams
Zaideman & Esrig, P.C.
Jerry A. Esrig
* Board of Directors
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STAFF & FUNDERS
STAFF
Jay Readey
Executive Director
John Knoff
Director of Administration
Elesha Jackson-Drain
Office Manager
Debra Walker Johnson
Director of Development &
External Affairs
Chris Furuya
Development Associate
Gabriela Russek
Development Associate
Betsy Shuman-Moore
Co-Director of Litigation
Paul Strauss
Co-Director of Litigation
Josefina Navar
Fair Housing Project Testing
and Outreach Coordinator
Jody Adler
Director of The Law Project
Angela Hall
Staff Attorney, The Law Project
Erica Spangler-Raz
Staff Attorney, The Law Project
Molly Brooks
Staff Attorney, The Law Project
FUNDERS
CHICAGO
LAWYERS’
COMMITTEE
Sidley Austin Foundation
Polk Bros. Foundation
Illinois Bar Foundation
Katten Muchin Roseman
Alphawood Foundation
CAFLS/CBF Advancing Justice
Chicago Bar Foundation
Field Foundation
Allstate Foundation
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Angela Dear
Administrative Assistant,
The Law Project
Jessica Schneider
Staff Attorney,
Fair Housing Project
Rachel Marks
Staff Attorney,
Fair Housing Project
Cunyon Gordon
Director of Settlement
Assistance Program
Yaw Asare
Community Development
Fellow
Christine Hammer
Civil Rights Fellow
Marissa Liebling
Civil Rights Fellow
Michael Norton
Civil Rights Fellow
Josh Pasquesi
PILI Fellow
Katie Pelech
Civil Rights Fellow
Peter Turney
Civil Rights Fellow
INTERNS /
EXTERNS /
PARALEGALS
Kari Anderson
Rachel Brady
Monica Carmean
Rachel J. Choi
Sun Hee Choi
Rhonda Coleman-Greene
Sarah Herlihy
Nate Ingliss-Steinfeld
Randall Johnson
George Kennedy
Sharon Kim
Jesse Kugler
Jordan Marschke
Valerie Michelman
Candace Moore
Eunsong Grace Park
Naida Said
Sahiba K. Sindhu
Emily Standen
Aaron Stubbs
Embassie Susberry
John Tracy
Catherine Yin
Chelsea Zhang
Ivana Del Real, Paralegal
THE LAW
PROJECT
Anonymous
Community Development
Block Grant
Lawyers Trust Fund
Polk Bros. Foundation
Local Initiatives Support
Corporation (LISC)
F.B. Heron Foundation
Eleanor Foundation
Bank of America Foundation
Harris Bank
Richard Driehaus Foundation
Chicago Bar Foundation
MB Charitable Foundation
JP Morgan Chase
Chicago Community Trust
Walter & Mary Tuohy
Foundation
DLA Piper Foundation
financial report
The Chicago Lawyers’ Committee 2010 financial report reflects a 3% decrease
in operating expenses compared to 2009. Member law firm contributions
remain one of the chief sources of support for the Committee. Chicago area
foundations also responded affirmatively and generously to requests for support for the broad range of civil rights programs supported by the Committee.
CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF ACTIVITIES FOR THE YEAR ENDED DECEMBER 31, 2010
REVENUE
Public Support
Law Firm Contributions $ 304,900
Foundation Grants 224,649
Government Grants
4,121
Individuals
36,050
Fundraising Events (net)
59,424
Released from Restriction 250,904
$970,048
Other Support
Court Awards, Attorney Fees
$ 368,874
Fee for Services
51,195
Investment Gains/ (Losses)
4,717
Interest Income
8,183
Miscellaneous
229
$433,198
TOTAL REVENUE
$1,403,246
EXPENSES
Program Services
$1,165,596
Management, Fundraising
and General 340,837
TOTAL EXPENSES
Change in Net Assets
Net Assets—Beginning of Year
Net Assets—End of Year
$1,506,433
$ (103,187)
$ 601,026
$ 497,839
CHICAGO LAWYERS’ COMMITTEE
FOR CIVIL RIGHTS UNDER LAW, INC.
100 N. LASALLE STREET, SUITE 600 • CHICAGO, IL 60602-2403
phone: 312.630.9744 • fax: 312.630.1127
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