A city-wide jeans day event to benefit the DC Bar Foundation's
Poverty Lawyer Loan Repayment Assistance Program (LRAP)
As part of the annual National Pro Bono Celebration (October 21–27, 2012), the DC Pro Bono Week Celebration Planning Committee is coordinating the 4th annual Go Casual for Justice jeans day fundraiser to benefit the DC Bar Foundation’s Poverty Lawyer LRAP (Loan Repayment Assistance Program).
What started three years ago with 30 law firms raising $30,000 has expanded to include more than 90 law firms, corporate law departments, banks, and other workplaces supporting legal aid for the poor. Employees at participating workplaces donate $5 (or more!) to wear jeans to work on Friday, October 26 (or any day the office designates). Last year, 96 workplaces of all sizes raised $84,000. The goal this year is for 100+ workplaces to raise $100,000! See who has already signed up.
All funds raised will support the DC Bar Foundation’s Poverty Lawyer LRAP (Loan Repayment Assistance Program). LRAP helps poverty lawyers meet their monthly law school loan payments while earning a public interest salary, allowing them to continue serving the District’s most vulnerable residents.
Participation is the key to making Go Casual for Justice successful, so feel free to customize your event to “suit” your workplace culture. See who has already signed up.
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2011 Go Casual for Justice participants
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(participating workplaces as of November 13, 2012)
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
American Psychological Association
AOL Legal
Arent Fox LLP
Arnold & Porter LLP
Aronson LLC
Ballard Spahr LLP
Banner & Witcoff, Ltd.
Beveridge & Diamond, P.C.
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Brown Rudnick LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
BuckleySandler LLP
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Catholic University of America, Columbus School of Law
Clifford Chance US LLP
Collaborative Practice Center of Greater Washington
Cozen O'Connor
Crowell & Moring LLP
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
D.C. Access to Justice Commission
D.C. Office of Bar Counsel
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Delaney McKinney LLP
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
The District of Columbia Bar Foundation
DLA Piper
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Dow Lohnes PLLC
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Duane Morris LLP
Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner, LLP
Fulbright & Jaworski LLP
Garofalo Goerlich Hainbach PC
Gilbert LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Goulston & Storrs
Groom Law Group, Chartered
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
Ivins, Phillips & Barker, Chartered
Jack H. Olender & Associates, PC
Jackson & Campbell, P.C.
Jenner & Block LLP
K&L Gates LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Law Offices of Andrea C. Ferster
Lewis Baach PLLC
Littler Mendelson P.C.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McDermott Will & Emery
Miller & Chevalier, Chartered
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP
O'Melveny & Myers LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Paul Hastings LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Pérez Halpern, LLC
Perkins Coie LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
The Raben Group
Reed Smith LLP
Richards Kibbe & Orbe LLP
Robbins, Russell, Englert, Orseck, Untereiner & Sauber LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Saul Ewing LLP
Schertler & Onorato, LLP
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP
Sidley Austin LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
SNR Denton
Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
Trial Lawyers Association of Metropolitan Washington, DC
Troutman Sanders LLP
U.S. Green Building Council, Inc.
Van Ness Feldman, LLP
Venable LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Washington Council of Lawyers
White & Case LLP
Wiley Rein LLP
Wilkinson Barker Knauer, LLP
Williams & Connolly LLP
WilmerHale
Winston & Strawn LLP
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice PLLC
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
Zuckert, Scoutt & Rasenberger, L.L.P.
For more information or to register your office, please contact Paul Lee at Dechert LLP: 202.261.3428 or by email.
