2017 Access to Justice Benefit

Saturday, November 4, 2017 at 6:00 PM
Mütter Museum, 19 S 22nd Street, Philadelphia PA 19103

Event Details

THANK YOU! 

We appreciate everyone's attendance at the Access to Justice Benefit. See you next year! 

Event Co-Chairs: 

Mary F. Platt, Esq., Philadelphia Bar Association Chancellor-Elect and Counsel, Fineman Krekstein & Harris, P.C.

Meredith S. Auten, Esq., Partner, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Featured Speakers + Award Presenters: 

Philadelphia Mayor, James F. Kenney 

Stephen A. Cozen, Esq., Cozen O'Connor - co-presented the Honorable Louis H. Pollak Champion of the Public Interest Award to Richard C. Glazer, Esq. 

JoAnne A. Epps, Temple University Provost - co-presented the Honorable Louis H. Pollak Champion of the Public Interest Award to Richard C. Glazer, Esq.

Sozi Pedro Tulante, City Solicitor - presented the Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award to Ayodele Gansallo, Esq. 

Kenneth C. Frazier, Merck & Co. - presented the Pro Bono Award of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation to Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP 

 

ATTENDEES: 

People from these firms, companies, and organizations attended our event: 

Attendee Firms/Companies/Organizations
-Ballard Spahr LLP
-Boni, Zack & Snyder LLC
-Brookman, Rosenberg, Brown & Sandler
-Comcast Corporation
-Commercial Dispute Solutions
-Court Reporting Cost Containment, Inc.
-Cozen O'Connor
-Dechert LLP
-DLA Piper
-Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
-Duffy + Partners
-Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellott, LLC
-Eisenberg, Rothweiler, Winkler, Eisenberg & Jeck, P.C.
-Emmanuel Law Firm, LLC
-Feldman Shepherd Wohlgelernter Tanner Weinstock Dodig LLP
-Fineman Krekstein & Harris P.C.
-Fox Rothschild LLP
-Gay Chacker & Mittin, P.C.
-Gibbons Legal, P.C.
-Glaxosmithkline
-Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller
-Independence Foundation
-Kleinbard LLC
-Kline & Specter, PC
-Kovler & Rush, P.C.
-Landau, Hess, Simon & Choi
-Lavin, O'Neil, Cedrone & DiSipio
-Law Office of Jeffrey M. Lindy, P.C.
-Law Offices of Joseph Mitchell
-Margolis Edelstein
-Marks, O'Neill, O'Brien, Doherty & Kelly, P.C.
-Marshall Dennehey Warner Coleman & Goggin, P.C.
-Mincey & Fitzpatrick, LLC
-Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
-PECO
-Pepper Hamilton LLP
-Pietragallo Gordon Alfano Bosick & Raspanti, LLP
-Post & Schell, P.C.
-Raynes Lawn Hehmeyer
-Reed Smith
-Ricoh USA, Inc.
-Saul Ewing Arnstein & Lehr LLP
-Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
-Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney, Ltd.
-Tactix Real Estate Advisors, LLC
-The Beasley Firm, LLC
-The Haverford Trust Company
-The MCS Group, Inc.
-Wapner, Newman, Wigrizer, Brecher & Miller
-Weir & Partners LLP
-White and Williams LLP
-Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP

 

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Event Highlights

2017 Award Honorees:

Richard C. Glazer of Cozen O'Connor and founder of the Pennsylvania Innocence Project - Honorable Louis H. Pollak Champion of the Public Interest Award

Ayodele Gansallo of HIAS Pennsylvania - Philadelphia Bar Foundation Award

Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP - Pro Bono Award of the Philadelphia Bar Foundation

Featured Speakers + Award Presenters: 

James F. Kenney, Mayor of the City of Philadelphia
Stephen A. Cozen, Esq., Cozen O'Connor
JoAnne A. Epps, Temple University Provost
Sozi Pedro Tulante, City of Philadelphia City Solicitor
Kenneth C. Frazier, Merck & Co.

Featured:

Live painting auctioned off at the end of the evening by Alloyius Mcilwaine.

Alloyius Mcilwaine

Catering By Design presented gourmet buffet dinner and exotic beverages

Big House Band featuring Jimi Milligan and DaNica Shirey from NBC's hit show "The Voice"