The document is Latham & Watkins' 2013 Pro Bono Annual Review. It summarizes the firm's extensive pro bono efforts around the world in 2013. Some key details include: the firm provided over 190,000 hours of pro bono legal services valued at over $102 million to help individuals and nonprofits; pro bono work was conducted in many practice areas across the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East; and highlights are provided on pro bono activities and partnerships in various offices.

1. Doing Good, Hour by Hour 2013 PRO BONO ANNUAL REVIEW

2. 1 Letter from the Chair
2 Message from the Pro Bono Committee Chair
3 Report from the Public Service Counsel
4 2013 Office Overviews
12 Working Across Borders
15 Protecting Human Rights
19 Serving the Underserved
28 Encouraging Entrepreneurialism
32 Assisting Nonprofits
34 Supporting Our Communities
42 Congratulating Our Equal Justice Works Fellows
43 Pro Bono Challenge
45 Pro Bono Committee

3. Letter from the Chair
Dear Clients & Friends of the Firm:
I am proud to present our 2013 Pro Bono Annual Review.
At Latham & Watkins, we recognize that we are fortunate to
have both the ability and the duty to help ensure that the doors
of justice are open to all. By offering pro bono legal services to
low-income individuals and nonprofit organizations without the
means to pay, we take an active role in our communities and
make public interest issues integral to our practice of law.
Our firm’s commitment to pro bono is best reflected in the
dedication, compassion, and diligence our lawyers bring to
each of the hundreds of pro bono matters we take on every
year. Our program spans the globe, involving our offices in
the United States, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and
touches upon nearly every area of public interest law, including
veterans’ rights, asylum and immigration, domestic violence,
Holocaust reparations, anti-human trafficking, prisoners’ rights,
microfinance and entrepreneurialism, children, and civil rights.
This year’s review offers highlights from our pro bono program,
a glimpse into some of the ways in which our dedicated lawyers
and professional staff have meaningfully improved the lives
of people in need. In 2013 alone, we provided almost 191,000
hours of pro bono legal services, valued at approximately
$102.5 million. We are particularly proud of the growth of our
program in jurisdictions without a long tradition of pro bono,
including parts of Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.
The legal services needs of the world’s most vulnerable individuals
are staggering. In the pages that follow, you will read about some
of our many efforts to address those needs. Please join me in
recognizing the firm’s pro bono and community service initiatives.
Sincerely,
Robert M. Dell
Chair and Managing Partner
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4. Message from the
Pro Bono Committee Chair
“Latham Watkins is one of the largest providers of
pro bono legal services in the world, with a pro bono
program that spans nearly all areas of public interest
law. Day after day, matter after matter, our lawyers
and professional staff put their talents and skills to
the highest use, ensuring that everyone, regardless
of means or circumstance, has access to justice.
The enthusiasm and commitment to public service
throughout the entire firm are evident in our collective
efforts and accomplishments, all of which are a
great source of pride for everyone at the firm.”
—Abid R. Qureshi, Pro Bono Committee Chair
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1,770
1,743
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2013 Highlights
Total value of services:
$102,547,287
New matters opened in 2013
Matters to which time was logged
in 2013
Attorneys participating in pro bono
Participating summer associates
Participating paralegals, trainees,
and professional staff
Total pro bono hours:
190,972
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5. Report from the
Public Service Counsel
From the scale and geographic reach of our pro bono program to the
tireless efforts and advocacy of our lawyers and staff in support of our
pro bono clients, some of our brightest moments occur every day on
the pro bono front.
We experienced several significant victories and milestones in 2013,
including the commuting of a death sentence, our contribution to a
landmark report on child marriage, amicus support in US Supreme Court
matters addressing important issues of the day, continued work on one
of the largest human trafficking cases in US history, and the launching
of a new collaboration across our German offices in support of
social entrepreneurship.
While we take on large-scale projects that seek systemic change, most
of our pro bono efforts are devoted to the direct representation of indigent
individuals and families who are otherwise denied access to justice.
Our lawyers and professional staff approach each new matter thoughtfully
and diligently, with enthusiasm, devotion, and grace. Their commitment
reflects our firm’s values and a sincere appreciation for the opportunity
to engage in this way.
Also striking this year has been the sustained growth of our global efforts.
Although pro bono opportunities continue to proliferate in Europe,
Asia, and the Middle East, expanding our activity has required the
ingenuity and resourcefulness of our Pro Bono Committee members
based in these regions. Through their efforts, we are among the most
active pro bono contributors in every market where the firm operates,
working on important cross-border collaborations, as well as on behalf
of local charities and nonprofit organizations. In 2013, our Paris, Middle
East, and Hong Kong pro bono programs were awarded local honors.
Latham Watkins was also recognized by the Thomson Reuters
Foundation as the Legal Team of the Year—International Law Firm
for our global pro bono efforts.
While our pro bono program is vast and varied, its cohesiveness is
grounded in the enthusiasm, compassion, and professional excellence
our lawyers and professional staff bring to each matter. It is a great
pleasure to share with you some highlights from around the world
in this 2013 Pro Bono Annual Review.
Wendy Atrokhov
Public Service Counsel
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6. ASIA
Hong Kong
The concept of pro bono legal services is nascent but rapidly
expanding in Hong Kong. Coordinated by local Pro Bono
Committee member Eleanor Lam, lawyers from our Hong
Kong office enthusiastically support the firm’s pro bono
initiatives. Areas of pro bono involvement include an active
practice representing individuals before the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees and working with the Hong
Kong Refugee Advice Center, as well as advising nonprofit
organizations seeking to obtain charitable organization
and tax-exempt status in Hong Kong. Some of our newest
pro bono clients include Asia Community Ventures, which
supports impact investing and social entrepreneurship
in Hong Kong and Asia; PILnet HK, which focuses on
developing, supporting, and strengthening the rule of law
around the world through a variety of programs; and the
Hong Kong Panda Foundation, which promotes panda
conservation and aims to raise standards and develop
additional infrastructure related to education in rural areas
of China’s Sichuan Province. The Law Society of Hong
Kong recently honored Latham with its Distinguished Pro
Bono Law Firm Award, in honor of outstanding contributions
in the provision of pro bono counsel and community service.
To learn more about our pro bono work and community
service initiatives in Hong Kong, see pages 16, 18, 25, 28,
29, and 41.
2013 Office Overviews
Singapore
Over the last several years, our lawyers in Singapore have
established a varied pro bono program. Latham is one of
the most active participants in several initiatives by the Law
Society of Singapore’s Pro Bono Services Office (PBSO),
including its Prison Interview Programme and Pro Bono
Research Initiative. We also represent various not-for-profit,
social enterprise, and charitable organizations. For example,
we recently assisted a nongovernmental organization
based in the United States as it sought to understand the
requirements of applying for special status so that it may
receive tax-deductible donations from donors in Singapore.
We also produced a legal guide for the PBSO for
international not-for-profit organizations looking to establish
a presence in Singapore and contributed to a legal toolkit
that will provide an easily accessible, readable overview
of the laws that social entrepreneurs need to be aware
of when establishing a social enterprise in Singapore. In
March 2013, our Singapore office sponsored a pro bono
networking event attended by more than 70 lawyers and
members of not-for-profit organizations, and our local Pro
Bono Committee member, Maree Myerscough, gave an
address that discussed Latham’s pro bono activities and
encouraged other firms in their pro bono efforts. To learn
more about our pro bono work and community service
initiatives in Singapore, see pages 18, 24, 28, 31, 32, 38,
and 39.
Tokyo
Under the direction of local Pro Bono Committee member
Clifton Strickler, our lawyers in Tokyo have advised
various nonprofit organizations with respect to their
operations in Japan. In particular, our Tokyo team advised
the anti-trafficking organization Not For Sale in structuring
and incorporating its operations in Japan; performed
legal research for the anti-trafficking organization Polaris
Project on legal developments in Japan relating to human
trafficking; assisted Ashoka Japan, a global nonprofit that
invests in social entrepreneurs, with various corporate
matters; and worked with ShuR, an organization founded
by Japan’s first Ashoka Fellow that creates solutions for
the hearing impaired. Our lawyers and personnel are also
very active in the community, serving as selection panelists
for Ashoka Japan’s Youth Venture Program, among other
endeavors. To learn more about our pro bono work and
community service initiatives in Tokyo, see pages 16, 18,
31, 34, and 35.
Lawyers and staff in our Hong Kong office celebrate the firm’s annual Pro Bono Week.
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7. Eastern Europe. In addition, our Hamburg lawyers advised
Transparency International, an organization that works to
end corruption and promote transparency in government,
business, civil society, and the daily lives of people around
the world.
This year, our German offices worked together to commence
a partnership with startsocial, an organization that facilitates
the transfer of knowledge from business executives to
social entrepreneurs. This partnership has enabled Latham
lawyers across Germany to address the legal needs of more
than a dozen social start-ups. To learn more about our pro
bono work and community service initiatives in Germany,
see pages 12, 13, 15, 20, 29, and 41.
Italy
Our Milan and Rome offices have developed an active
pro bono practice over the past five years. Our work
primarily centers around the provision of legal assistance to
nongovernmental organizations, foundations, associations,
and nonprofit organizations. We represent, among
others, AGIRE (Agenzia Italiana Risposta Emergenze),
a network of 10 Italian nongovernmental organizations
that collaborate in times of crisis to ensure an effective
response and to mobilize funding; AVSI Foundation, a not-
for-profit, nongovernmental organization based in Milan
Latham’s delegation to the 2013 European Pro Bono Forum in Warsaw included
(from left to right) London associate Matt Schneider, Madrid associate Ignacio
Domínguez, Frankfurt counsel Mathias Fischer, Moscow associate Olga
Ponomarenko, Paris partner François Mary, Public Service Counsel Wendy
Atrokhov, Hamburg partner Jörn Kowalewski, Hong Kong counsel Eleanor Lam,
London partner Andy Kolacki, and Paris associate Laure Valance.
Brussels
In Brussels, our lawyers participate in pro bono matters
spanning numerous areas of European Union law and
international law, coordinated by local Pro Bono Committee
members Howard Rosenblatt and Styliani Sarma. We
counsel many nongovernmental organizations, such as
Save the Children, which promotes and defends children’s
rights, and Red Acoge, which assists immigrants. This
year, our Brussels office also advised UnLtd Spain,
an organization that supports social entrepreneurs, by
assessing the regulatory framework for social enterprises
in the European Union and by drafting a memo to lobby
the Spanish government to develop favorable legislation
relating to social entrepreneurialism. We also advised the
Humane Society, the largest animal protection organization
in the United States, on legal issues regarding a possible
moratorium by the European Commission on the sale of
horse meat from North America and any country that does
not comply with EU regulations. To learn more about our pro
bono work and community service initiatives in Brussels,
see pages 12, 28, 34, and 35.
Germany
Under the leadership of local Pro Bono Committee
members Mathias Fischer in Frankfurt, Jörn Kowalewski
in Hamburg, and Volkmar Bruckner in Munich, our offices
in Germany have developed one of the leading pro bono
practices in the country. Mathias is a co-founder and
member of the board of Pro Bono Deutschland e.V., an
association that aims to promote the culture of pro bono and
its regulatory framework in Germany.
Our Frankfurt office has long worked in support of inclusive
education for children with disabilities, including the
development of legislation to ensure the state of North
Rhine-Westphalia’s compliance with international human
rights obligations in this regard. Our Munich office works
with Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V., an organization
committed to combatting hunger and poverty around the
world, and the Multiple Sclerosis International Federation.
In Hamburg, our lawyers have participated extensively in
our Holocaust reparations program, as well as in counseling
charitable organizations focused on the education and
support of children. Highlights of this work include providing
ongoing legal advice to a children’s hospital as it expands,
counseling a charitable association dedicated to assisting
parents of newborns, and providing pro bono assistance
to an organization that aids children abducted from
EUROPE
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8. that supports social development in developing countries,
with more than 100 projects currently underway in Africa,
Latin America and the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, the
Middle East, and Asia; and Prometeo (Programa Médico de
Trasplante de Órganos), a nongovernmental organization
that helps patients recover after transplants via a team of
psychologists, volunteers, and staff. Our lawyers in Italy also
contributed to the International Models Project on Women’s
Rights, an innovative project initiated by the American Bar
Association in 2008 to establish a global collaborative
research database on de jure and de facto women’s rights.
Local Pro Bono Committee member Marco Leonardi works
closely with lawyers and staff in our Milan and Rome offices
to expand our pro bono practice in Italy. To learn more about
our pro bono work and community service initiatives in Italy,
see pages 12, 13, 34, and 35.
London
Our London office maintains a robust pro bono practice,
working closely with local and international charities, human
rights organizations, and public interest organizations.
Key partners include TrustLaw, the pro bono arm of the
Thomson Reuters Foundation; LawWorks, a charity that
provides free legal help to those who cannot afford to
pay; A4ID, which fights global poverty; and PILnet, which
focuses on developing, supporting, and strengthening the
rule of law around the world through a variety of programs.
The office also works closely with prominent UK charities,
including Cancer Research UK and Christian Aid, as well
as with the firm’s institutional pro bono clients, such as
Ashoka, a global nonprofit organization that invests in
social entrepreneurs, and BLUE Marine Foundation, which
promotes the protection of the world’s oceans. These
efforts are coordinated through local Pro Bono Committee
members Andy Kolacki, Matthew Schneider, and
Andrew Boyd. To learn more about our pro bono work and
community service initiatives in London, see pages 12, 13,
15, 16, 28, 29, 32, 33, 35, 39, 40, and 41.
Moscow
Under the direction of local Pro Bono Committee member
Olga Ponomarenko, our Moscow office continues to
develop an active pro bono practice, providing support to
charities, nonprofits, and nongovernmental organizations,
which are relatively new to Russia. The laws regulating these
entities abound with gaps and ambiguity, and are routinely
amended. As a result, much of our work in Moscow centers
around providing legal assistance to entities seeking to
register or re-register in Russia as charities, nonprofits, or
nongovernmental organizations, or in support of their day-
to-day activities and special projects. In addition, we work
with individuals seeking to set up new charities related to
various causes, including orphans, abandoned newborns,
disadvantaged youth and families, and the arts, as well as
on multijurisdictional comparative research projects with
other Latham offices around the world. Our Moscow lawyers
have also provided training to law students in support of
their efforts to launch legal clinic programs. To learn more
about our pro bono work and community service initiatives
in Moscow, see pages 13 and 29.
Paris
InParis,ourofficehasbeenactivelyinvolvedinprobonowork
for many years, coordinated by local Pro Bono Committee
members François Mary and Laure Valance. We act on
behalf of national and international charities, nonprofits,
and nongovernmental organizations. Key partners include
microfinance organization ADIE (l’association pour le
droit à l’initiative économique), TrustLaw, PILnet, and the
International Senior Lawyers Project.
“Latham Watkins led an extremely
well-received seminar for area nonprofits
on key intellectual property law issues
relating to social media. Your presentation
stood out for its clarity, and we truly
appreciated your team’s open, friendly
manner, which encouraged the participants
to engage. We are deeply grateful for
your generous help.”
—Machiko Sano Hewitt, Legal Referral Director,
Lawyers Clearinghouse
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9. THE MIDDLE EAST
Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, and Riyadh
Lawyers from our Abu Dhabi, Doha, Dubai, and Riyadh
offices, led by local Pro Bono Committee member Mohsin
Iqbal, continued to strengthen relationships with existing pro
bono clients in the region, including Grameen-Jameel Pan-
Arab Microfinance Limited and Balthazar Capital, an Arab
world-focused microfinance institution, this year. Latham’s
Middle East lawyers are also assisting FINCA International,
a global charitable microfinance organization, in connection
with potentially establishing a base of operations in the
United Arab Emirates to serve as a hub for FINCA’s Middle
East and South Asia microfinance activities.
We continued to participate in the Dubai International
Financial Centre Courts’ Pro Bono Programme, which
helps individuals who cannot afford legal representation
or assistance as they appear before the courts. We
have also worked closely with other Latham offices to
strengthen existing firm relationships with pro bono clients,
such as Ashoka, a global nonprofit that invests in social
entrepreneurs, for whom Middle East lawyers conducted
research on employment laws potentially affecting Ashoka’s
expansion in the Middle East.
Our offices in the Middle East were named the Pro Bono
Law Firm of the Year at International Financial Law Review’s
2013 Middle East awards ceremony. We were honored in
part for our collaboration with the Royal Bank of Scotland
and Equality Now to research and analyze legislation
implemented to combat the demand for prostitution and
the associated issue of human trafficking, specifically sex
trafficking, in multiple jurisdictions across the MENA region.
The project involved an analysis of applicable legislation
in Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali, Nigeria, Senegal,
Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Bahrain, Jordan,
Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates
with a view to identifying gaps in the applicable legislative
framework. To learn more about our pro bono work and
community service initiatives in the Middle East, see pages
14, 15, 29, 30, 31, 37, 40, and 41.
In 2013, we assisted the renowned French explorer Jean-
Louis Étienne with his new scientific expedition in Antarctica
and began advising the Edmond de Rothschild Foundations
on their Scale Up Program, designed to respond to the
challenges that social entrepreneurs face in growing their
businesses. We furthered our relationship with Droits
d’Urgence, through which 20 Latham lawyers manage
and participate in a bimonthly legal clinic that provides
assistance to low-income individuals. We continued to work
closely with Ashoka France, offering pro bono assistance to
five new Ashoka Fellows in addition to the several fellows
we already assist, and we were recognized with a Pro Bono
Trophy from the Paris Bar endowment fund. To learn more
about our pro bono work and community service initiatives
in Paris, see pages 12, 13, 15, 24, 28, 31, 33, 37, and 39.
Spain
Led by Pro Bono Committee member Ignacio Domínguez,
our Madrid and Barcelona offices expanded their pro
bono activities in 2013. New and existing clients—such
as Save the Children, Oxfam International, and Doctors
Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières—have relied
on our Spanish lawyers to provide legal support on several
multijurisdictional projects. In addition, our offices in Spain
continue to develop their expertise in the field of social
entrepreneurship through projects involving Impact Hub
Madrid, which empowers participants to develop ideas that
lead to sustainable impact, and UnLtd Spain, which trains,
advises, and encourages social entrepreneurs. To learn
more about our pro bono work and community service
initiatives in Spain, see pages 12, 15, 28, 34, and 35.
Madrid associates Ignacio Domínguez (second from right) and Ana Gonzalez
(far left) and paralegal Natalia Cabeza (far right) meet with executives from Save
the Children, including director general Alberto Soteres (third from right) and staff
members Áurea Ferreres (second from left) and Almudena Escorial (third from left).
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10. Chicago
This year, our lawyers in Chicago offered pro bono counsel
in such areas as immigration and asylum, prisoners’ rights,
guardian ad litem, representation of nonprofit organizations,
and representation of victims of domestic violence,
coordinated through local Pro Bono Committee members
Mike Faris, Zak Judd, Margrethe Kearney, and Katie
Walton. The Chicago office provides free legal services to
and runs long-standing programs with a variety of public
interest and nonprofit organizations, including the National
Immigrant Justice Center; Cook County Domestic Violence
Court; A Better Chicago, a local venture philanthropy fund;
Restoring the Path, which gives kids support and skills to
help them avoid gangs and improve their communities; and
the REACH Institute, which provides training and therapies
to institutions and individuals in order to assist the 10
million kids in the United States who have behavioral and
emotional challenges. To learn more about our pro bono
work and community service initiatives in Chicago, see
pages 22, 23, 26, 32, 38, and 39.
Houston
Our Houston office continues to expand its involvement and
participation in pro bono and community service matters, led
by local Pro Bono Committee members Rebecca Brandt,
Divakar Gupta, and Elizabeth More. In 2013, several
of our Houston lawyers represented clients in submitting
Violence Against Women Act petitions and advised
wounded veterans applying for Combat-Related
Special Compensation. The Houston office also
collaborated with Latham offices across the globe on
pro bono cross-border benchmarking and comparative
research projects. Examples include researching child
protection and welfare issues in the United States for
Save the Children and researching legal and regulatory
issues affecting social enterprises in the United States
for UnLtd Spain, which trains, advises, and encourages
social entrepreneurs. For the third year, we also welcomed
several students from Cristo Rey Jesuit, a local high school
that offers a rigorous college preparatory education for
students from economically disadvantaged families, as part
of a work-study program to empower youths to reach their
full potential. To learn more about our pro bono work and
community service initiatives in Houston, see pages 12, 24,
28, 32, 37, 39, 40, and 41.
Boston
Since opening in March 2011, our Boston office has engaged
on an array of pro bono matters, ranging from advocating for
the civil rights of juveniles to advising local and international
charitable organizations on corporate law and licensing.
For example, in 2013, lawyers in our Boston office filed
an amicus brief in a case currently pending before the
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts seeking to have
mandatory life sentences for juvenile offenders declared
unconstitutional under Massachusetts law. Latham’s
Boston-based corporate lawyers also began working with
Accion, a longtime Latham pro bono client, advising on
a variety of international microfinancing transactions in
eastern Africa, as well as with Third Sector New England,
an organization that provides management and leadership
resources to nonprofits. We continue to work with Year Up,
which provides professional development to young adults,
advising the organization on corporate governance matters.
In addition, our Boston office has teamed up with several
local pro bono legal services organizations, including
Lawyers Clearinghouse, the Boston Bar Association, and
Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts, to build and strengthen
relationships within the Boston community. These efforts
were coordinated by local Pro Bono Committee members
Kenneth Parsigian and Alexander Lazar. To learn more
about our pro bono work and community service initiatives
in Boston, see pages 28, 32, 33, and 39.
THE UNITED STATES
Matters undertaken for veterans and
veterans’ organizations in the US
Matters undertaken on behalf of
victims of domestic violence in the US
Matters undertaken for victims of
human trafficking and anti-trafficking
organizations in the US
Matters undertaken for children and
children’s organizations in the US
Matters undertaken on behalf of
asylum seekers in the US
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264
71
129
143
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11. New York
In New York, our office has established a large practice
across the public interest spectrum, undertaking significant
work in such areas as First Amendment law, death penalty
litigation, human rights and asylum matters, civil rights,
microfinance, company formation, and domestic violence.
Under the leadership of local Pro Bono Committee members
Tony Del Pino, John Giouroukakis, Kevin McDonough,
Jennifer Greenberg, Daniel Adams, and Joanne Lee, our
New York lawyers participate in pro bono matters spanning
almost every area of public interest law. While our lawyers
are encouraged to bring in appropriate pro bono matters
of interest to them, the office also runs several successful
“in-house” programs in coordination with various New York-
based public interest organizations and courts, including
our Violence Against Women Act and U visa programs
with Sanctuary for Families to assist immigrant victims of
domestic violence, our Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
and Dream Act programs with the Legal Aid Society of
New York, our Holocaust reparations program, and our
Krimstock automobile seizure program.
Our transactional lawyers have represented small
businesses through NYC Business Solutions (a division
of the NYC Department of Small Businesses), provided
guidance at the inaugural NYC Small Business Legal
Academy, supported start-ups in cooperation with Start
Small Think Big, engaged in microfinance work through
longtime partner Accion, helped combat human trafficking
with Not For Sale, and continued to offer legal support
to Ashoka, a global nonprofit organization that invests in
social entrepreneurs. Our litigators have battled housing
discrimination alongside the Fair Housing Justice Center,
defended residents of the Bronx facing family, housing, and
criminal matters with the Bronx Defenders, fought human
trafficking on behalf of Indian laborers, supported families
displaced by Superstorm Sandy, and opposed animal
cruelty on behalf of the Humane Society, the largest animal
protection organization in the United States. To learn more
about our pro bono work and community service initiatives
in New York, see pages 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23,
24, 25, 27, 30, 33, 36, 38, 39, and 41.
Los Angeles
Under the leadership and guidance of local Pro Bono
Committee members Manny Abascal, Kim Posin, Michael
Lundberg, Monica Klosterman, and Josh Mausner, as
well as our many pro bono community partners, our Los
Angeles lawyers worked on a variety of pro bono matters
in 2013. The office remains deeply involved in protecting
the rights of children and those who have been denied
equal access to justice. In fact, thanks to the efforts of our
lawyers and staff this year, more than 30 foster children
were adopted into loving homes and several foster families
were granted legal guardianship over the children they care
for, while several other children received green cards or
special juvenile immigrant status to permit them to remain
in the United States. Other children were given access to
the services necessary to address their physical or mental
disabilities that were previously denied.
Further pro bono highlights in 2013 for the Los Angeles
office that embody the diversity of our work include securing
dismissal of a litigation matter filed against Public Counsel,
the largest pro bono law firm in the United States; assisting
a homeless veteran in his struggle to retain his housing and
fight identity theft; obtaining restraining orders for several
clients suffering from domestic violence; and helping many
clients achieve asylum to protect them against persecution
suffered in their home countries. This year, we also advised
the Rape Foundation, which, among other activities,
operates the only emergency room in the entire United
States dedicated exclusively to rape victims, and provides
prevention and education programs to reduce incidents
of sexual violence and abuse. To learn more about our
pro bono work and community service initiatives in Los
Angeles, see pages 13, 15, 17, 19, 20, 21, 24, 29, 33, 34,
36, 37, and 41.
Members of our Pro Bono Committee in Los Angeles include (from left to right)
associate Josh Mausner, partner Manny Abascal, associate Monica Klosterman,
partner Kim Posin, associate Michael Lundberg, and manager of attorney
recruitment and development Jamie Frick.
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12. San Diego
We continue to work closely with such San Diego-area
referral organizations as Casa Cornelia Law Center, the
American Bar Association’s Immigration Justice Project,
and the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program. Through
these partnerships, our San Diego lawyers have successfully
represented indigent clients seeking asylum, withholding
of removal, and relief under the Violence Against Women
Act, and successfully engaged in pro bono appellate work
before the Ninth Circuit and the Board of Immigration
Appeals. Our lawyers have also assisted dozens of
motivated young people brought to the United States as
children, in determining their eligibility for relief under the
federal government’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
program. In addition to immigration matters, and under the
leadership of local Pro Bono Committee members John
Wehrli, Valerie Torres, and Jennifer Casler-Goncalves,
our San Diego office has provided a wide spectrum of
pro bono legal services, including advocating for victims
of domestic violence in restraining order proceedings and
participating in new partnerships with the Legal Aid Society
of San Diego and the National Veterans Legal Services
Program, through which our lawyers provide mediation
services to young people in juvenile detention and counsel
disabled veterans applying for Combat-Related Special
Compensation, respectively.
Our San Diego office also continues to work closely with
the California Innocence Project in reviewing capital appeals
for the wrongfully convicted. We took the lead in preparing
a model clemency petition and assisting with individual
clemency petitions for several wrongfully convicted inmates
with compelling claims for relief. Twelve clemency petitions
were ultimately hand-delivered to the governor of California
this year.
As in the past, in 2013, our lawyers continued to
advise Ashoka, a global nonprofit that invests in social
entrepreneurs; Big Brothers Big Sisters, a youth mentoring
organization; Human Options, a multiservice agency
dedicated to helping battered women and children escape
domestic violence; United Through Reading, a nonprofit
organization that uses reading aloud to help separated
military families; the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights
Under Law on civil rights litigation; and other organizations
on corporate governance, real estate, insurance coverage,
and intellectual property matters. To learn more about our
pro bono work and community service initiatives in San
Diego, see pages 22, 24, 29, 37, and 41.
Orange County
The pro bono program in our Orange County office
primarily focuses on providing assistance to domestic
violence victims and immigrants who have been the victims
of serious crimes. We have long-standing relationships
with several local domestic violence shelters, including
Human Options, Interval House, and Laura’s House.
Another major part of our Orange County pro bono work
involves immigration and asylum matters, and for years
the office has played a leading role in the community
by taking on immigration matters and human trafficking
cases. In 2013, we began working with California Rural
Legal Assistance, which offers legal services to more
than 27,000 low-income farmworkers, individuals with
disabilities, immigrants, members of the LGBT community,
and families in rural areas.
Under the leadership of local Pro Bono Committee
members Paul Konovalov, Dina Randazzo, and Rob
Dickson, our lawyers in Orange County work closely with
the Public Law Center to provide counsel in many areas,
including assisting nonprofit organizations with corporate
formation and governance, as well as representing
individuals and organizations in employment discrimination
and wrongful termination cases, landlord-tenant matters,
conservatorship cases, guardianship matters, veterans’
benefits matters, and land use and environmental issues.
To learn more about our pro bono work and community
service initiatives in Orange County, see pages 17, 18, 23,
29, 32, 35, 36, 37, and 41.
Silicon Valley partner Terry Kearney (left) discusses pro bono matters with associates
Allison Davidson (center) and Yina Dong (right) at one of the monthly Silicon Valley
Pro Bono Committee meetings.
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13. San Francisco
In San Francisco, our office maintains a vibrant pro bono
program, led by local Pro Bono Committee members Sadik
Huseny, Kathy Lee, Chris Carlberg, and Andrea Cheuk.
We have long-standing relationships with several Bay
Area public interest organizations, including Asian Pacific
Islander Legal Outreach, Legal Services for Children, Legal
Services for Entrepreneurs, the AIDS Legal Referral Panel,
the East Bay Community Law Center’s Neighborhood
Justice Clinic and Debt Collection Defense Clinic, and the
Justice Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San
Francisco. We also regularly participate in the Second
Chance Legal Clinic, held monthly by the San Francisco
Bay Area chapter of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil
Rights. The clinic helps clients who are struggling to find
jobs or housing due to, among other things, their arrest and
conviction records.
In 2013, we began working with Swords to Plowshares,
which provides services and care to more than 2,000 US
veterans in and around San Francisco, and we took on
several matters advocating for veterans who are seeking
service-related disability benefits and discharge status
upgrades. We continued to build on our strong partnership
with Not For Sale, an organization devoted to ending
human trafficking and slavery, and we have an active civil
litigation matter representing a victim of human trafficking.
Additionally, a San Francisco-based team has partnered
with the American Civil Liberties Union to represent a
plaintiff in a civil rights matter before a federal court in
Utah. The office also has a robust immigration pro bono
practice, representing clients on such matters as asylum
applications, U visa and T visa applications, and Violence
Against Women Act petitions. To learn more about our
pro bono work and community service initiatives in San
Francisco, see pages 16, 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 26, 27, 32, 33,
37, 38, 39, and 41.
Silicon Valley
Local Pro Bono Committee members Terry Kearney,
Allison Davidson, and Yina Dong oversee the pro
bono program in our Silicon Valley office, which includes
U visa, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Violence
Against Women Act, asylum, guardianship, civil rights,
and corporate transactional matters. We work closely with
local organizations, such as Community Legal Services in
East Palo Alto, Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, Legal Aid
Society of San Mateo, and Next Door Solutions to Domestic
Violence, to assist individuals, including immigrant victims
of domestic violence and undocumented young people,
with applying for immigration relief and work authorization
in the United States.
Our lawyers participate in guardianship and housing clinics,
and our transactional lawyers assist such community
and public service organizations as California Parenting
Institute, which supports Sonoma County-area families,
Mississippi Center for Justice, an organization devoted
to advancing economic and racial justice, and the anti-
trafficking organization Not For Sale. This year, our Silicon
Valley office forged new partnerships with Rural Justice
Collaborative, which provides legal services to underserved
rural or isolated communities in the San Francisco Bay
Area, and Swords to Plowshares, which provides services
and care to more than 2,000 US veterans in and around
San Francisco. To learn more about our pro bono work and
community service initiatives in Silicon Valley, see pages
16, 17, 18, 23, 25, 32, and 39.
Washington, D.C.
Our Washington, D.C. office works with many local referral
organizations, including the Children’s Law Center, the
Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia, and the
Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and
Urban Affairs, as well as national referral organizations,
including the Humane Society, the largest animal protection
organization in the United States; the National Law Center
on Homelessness and Poverty; and Polaris Project, which
seeks to end modern-day slavery. Led by local Pro Bono
Committee members Elizabeth McCrillis, Kevin Metz,
Matt Murchison, Christine Rolph, Rami Turayhi, and
CJ Bickley, lawyers in our Washington, D.C. office assist
asylum seekers, advise small businesses, and resolve
complex guardianship and child custody issues, among
other pro bono work.
In recent years, our litigators have filed amicus curiae
briefs in high-profile US Supreme Court cases and worked
to secure tenants’ rights and benefits for veterans. Our
transactional lawyers have advised nonprofit organizations
on many matters, such as board formation and governance
standards for citywide charter schools, financial regulations
affecting nonprofit operations, compliance standards, and
advisory work with respect to other nonprofit corporate
governance issues. To learn more about our pro bono work
and community service initiatives in Washington, D.C., see
pages 12, 13, 14, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 26, 27, 29, 30, 32,
36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41. n
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14. Expanding CARE’s Reach
CARE is a humanitarian organization that fights global
poverty worldwide and provides emergency relief,
especially in war-torn areas, conflict zones, and regions
impacted by natural disasters. When these crises happen
in places subject to US trade and economic sanctions, or in
areas controlled by groups subject to sanctions, providing
aid requires navigating complex regulations and issues.
Since 2011, a team of Latham Watkins lawyers led by
Washington, D.C. partners Bill McGlone and Les Carnegie
have worked alongside CARE’s in-house counsel to help
make sure CARE can get aid to those who need it.
During the recent famine in Somalia, CARE came to Latham
for advice. Large parts of the country are controlled by Al-
Shabaab, which is identified as a specially designated global
terrorist group and sanctioned by the US government. By
virtue of this designation, no US organization is allowed to
deal in any way with Al-Shabaab. CARE was concerned
that it was going to have to deal with the group in some
way in order to get aid into
the area, and desired legal
protection if it had to do so.
It took months to secure
the appropriate guidance
and clearance from the
US State and Treasury
Departments, but CARE
was eventually able to help
Somalis in need.
CARE also turned to Latham
for counsel regarding its
relief operations in Sudan.
In this instance, Latham
helped CARE bring in the
hardware and software
required to manage its
operations there, such as supply chain management
software to track the grains and goods being brought into the
country. Much of this hardware and software is subject to US
sanctions administered by the US Treasury Department’s
Office of Foreign Assets Control and the US Commerce
Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security. Export or
re-export of US-regulated products to countries that are
embargoed, like Sudan, can be particularly challenging
and subject to tight restrictions, and Latham’s work often
requires interfacing with various US government agencies.
Advocating for Children
A team of Latham lawyers from around the globe jointly
advised Save the Children, a leading global advocate
for children’s rights worldwide, as it lobbies the Spanish
Parliament and seeks to improve the Spanish legal
framework regarding child abuse and violence, with the
ultimate aim of developing comprehensive legislation
that offers all forms of legal protection to children. The
Latham team—including Madrid partner Antonio Morales,
associates Ignacio Domínguez and Ana Gonzalez, and
paralegal Natalia Cabeza; Brussels associates Robert
Hardy and Claire-Marie Carrega; London partners
Sean Finn and Ayesha Waheed, associates Alexander
Cosgrove, Felipe Alviar-Baquero, and Adeola Adeyemi,
trainee solicitor Augustus Robinson, and paralegal
David Hallett; Milan counsel Marco Leonardi, associate
Isabella Porchia, and trainees Sara Pedrotti and Erika
Brini Raimondi; Munich partner Volkmar Bruckner,
associates Fabian Jürgens, Philipp Giessen, and
Sebastian Pauls, and referendar Barbara Stodal; Paris
partner Etienne Gentil and associate Guénaëlle
Taroni; and Houston counsel Rebecca Brandt
and associate Ryan Lynch—collaborated on a
benchmarking study examining the regulatory
regimes implemented in other countries in the
European Union and the United States to address
the problem of violence against children.
Protecting Education Integrity
The Centre for International Law and Justice
(CILJ),aUkrainiannongovernmentalorganization,
asked Latham to analyze several questions in
connection with the protection and guarantee
of scientific freedom, the level of integration of
the European Educational Area (including the
requirements agreed to as part of the so-called
Bologna Process), and the regulation of post-
graduate education in the legal systems of France,
Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Our analysis also
dealt with the question of how judgments of the European
Court of Human Rights (ECHR) are implemented into these
legal systems.
The cross-border benchmarking and analysis provided
by Latham, which CILJ intends to translate and publish,
will enable CILJ to contribute to discussions regarding
the reform of Ukraine’s higher education system and the
preparation of related legislation, as well as Ukraine’s plan
to improve the enforcement of ECHR judgments.
“When you can offer the firm’s
expertise in export controls
and economic sanctions
to a terrific humanitarian
organization like CARE, you
really do feel like you are
making a difference.”
—Les Carnegie, Washington, D.C. partner
Latham Watkins is a “one-firm” firm. As is the case with our commercial work, our lawyers and
professional staff share knowledge, expertise, and resources about pro bono matters across
departments and offices. This cross-border, team-oriented approach helps us effectively
and efficiently represent our pro bono clients and achieve the greatest impact.
Working Across Borders
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15. Among the Latham lawyers participating in this project
were Frankfurt partner Roland Maass and associates
Daniel Schlösser and Olexiy Oleshchuk; Paris partners
Valérie Bouaziz Torron and François Mary and associates
Anne Laredo, Viktoriya Bukina, and Timothée Brunello;
Milan associates Cesare Milani, Daniele Migliarucci,
and Andrea Taurozzi and trainees Anna Garon and
Marta Pradella; and London associates Felipe Alviar-
Baquero, James Parry, Michael Huertas, and Richard
Kitchen, trainee solicitor Joanna Gorska, and paralegal
David Hallett.
Pursuing Strategic Litigation
Thanks to a referral from PILnet, which focuses on
developing, supporting, and strengthening the rule of law
around the world through a variety of programs, lawyers in
our Paris, Moscow, Milan, and Frankfurt offices worked with
an Armenian nongovernmental organization to research
strategic public interest litigation in their respective
jurisdictions. This research has helped inform Helsinki
Citizens’Assembly (hCA) as it advocates for new legislation
that would support and facilitate strategic litigation. It also
formed the core of an analysis that was sent to theArmenian
Ministry of Justice. Currently hCA is drafting an amendment
concerning the rights of persons with disabilities.
Strengthening Women’s Rights
This year, Latham assisted the Thomson Reuters
Foundation and the World Bank with a research project
designed to better understand the ability of women to
access resources—in particular, legal and cultural barriers
to securing land rights—in several countries around the
world: Bangladesh, Brazil, China, India, Kenya, Nigeria,
North Sudan, and Zambia.
The firm acted as lead counsel, coordinating research
conducted by local lawyers that analyzed laws, regulations,
and institutions that affect women’s access to resources,
including women’s ability to earn and control income and
to own, use, and dispose of assets, such as land. Local
counsel prepared brief reports that looked beyond the
law and into what happens in practice—considering, for
example, whether social, cultural, or religious barriers
exist that prevent women from recognizing their enshrined
rights. Each report also addressed whether the country’s
constitution includes nondiscrimination clauses and whether
women and men have the same statutory rights in relation
to marriage, divorce, inheritance, property ownership, and
labor laws. As coordinating counsel, Latham assisted with
the preparation of a summary paper that was delivered at
the Clinton Global Initiative in September 2013. This project
was nominated for the Collaboration Award at the 2013
TrustLaw Connect Awards.
In addition, Moscow partner Mikhail Turetsky, associate
Olga Ponomarenko, and trainees Ksenia Koroleva
and Svetlana Emelyanova worked with Milan partner
Maria Christina Storchi, associates Isabella Porchia
and Cesare Milani, and trainee Anna Garon, and
London associates Phillip Stoup, Amy Taylor, and Tyler
Waltman, and trainee solicitor Elizabeth Purcell on a
comparative analysis of de jure and de facto women’s
rights in Russia, Italy, and the United Kingdom as part
of the International Models Project on Women’s Rights.
Begun in 2008, this American Bar Association-sponsored
project seeks to gather and share information about the
status and opportunities of women in different countries, in
order to empower citizens and strengthen enforcement and
reform efforts.
Helping Holocaust Survivors
Latham Watkins has a long-standing partnership with
Bet Tzedek Legal Services and the Holocaust Survivors
Justice Network, assisting Holocaust survivors in securing
reparations and pension payments from the German
government for work performed in Nazi-controlled ghettos
during World War II. Under the German Ghetto Work
Payment (GGWP) program, eligible applicants receive a
one-time payment of €2,000 in recognition of work performed
in Nazi-occupied ghettos. Under a second program known
by its German acronym ZRBG, eligible applicants receive
monthly pension payments for the remainder of their lives,
as well as a lump-sum payment to account for back pay
while an application is pending.
Since the inception of the programs, Latham lawyers have
represented hundreds of clients and secured more than
€1.7 million in lump-sum payments, with thousands more in
ongoing monthly payments for the remainder of our clients’
lives. While no amount of money can compensate our
clients for the horrors they endured, the funds our lawyers
help secure provide meaningful support for survivors,
most of whom are in their 80s or older and living below the
poverty line.
In 2013, lawyers from our Los Angeles, New York,
Washington, D.C., Frankfurt, and Hamburg offices
participated in our Holocaust reparations program,
coordinated by retired partner Bruce Prager (who has
also served as co-chair of the Holocaust Survivors Justice
Network), Los Angeles associate Josh Mausner, and New
York attorney support coordinator Anna Bravo. Our offices
continue outreach to new clients, and we have a significant
number of cases still pending. n
“Advising Holocaust survivors has been
the best professional experience I’ve had
at any job. To see these people who have
survived unthinkable tragedy have such a
positive outlook on life is inspiring. We’re
happy to be able to provide a degree of
assistance and security for our clients
and their families.”
—Josh Mausner, Los Angeles associate
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16. Firm Named Legal Team of the Year
Latham Watkins was recognized as Legal
Team of the Year—International Law Firm by
the Thomson Reuters Foundation at the 2013
TrustLaw Connect Awards. The award honors
the firm’s “outstanding commitment [to] and
enthusiasm [for] pro bono . . . as well as [its]
hard work . . . supporting pro bono clients over
the last year on projects undertaken through
TrustLaw Connect.” In the past two years,
Latham has taken on close to 40 matters
referred by TrustLaw. This partnership has
enabled broader engagement of our lawyers
around the world by matching supply of and
demand for pro bono services globally.
Latham Named to
2013 Pro Bono Hot List
The National Law Journal named Latham
Watkins to its 2013 Pro Bono Hot List, in
recognition of the firm’s work with the anti-
slavery organization Not For Sale (NFS). The
list identifies, in part, “firms that are deploying
highly sophisticated corporate and intellectual
property skills to do good on a global level.”
Latham has worked with NFS to develop
economic solutions to human trafficking,
including structuring a unique social
enterprise called REBBL Tea, a beverage
company that debuted in fall 2012. Profits
from REBBL Tea (for “Roots, Extracts, Berries,
Bark, and Leaves”) go toward stabilizing
and revitalizing a region in the Peruvian
Amazon that is vulnerable to forced labor and
human trafficking.
ThomsonReutersFoundation/RyanRunstadler
Latham Wins Pro Bono Law Firm of the Year
At its 2013 Middle East awards ceremony in October,
International Financial Law Review honored Latham as its Pro
Bono Law Firm of the Year, in part for the firm’s collaboration
with the Royal Bank of Scotland and Equality Now to research
and analyze legislation implemented to combat the demand
for prostitution and the associated issue of human trafficking,
specifically sex trafficking, in multiple jurisdictions across the
MENA region, including Benin, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Mali,
Nigeria, Senegal, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco,
Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United
Arab Emirates, with a view to identifying gaps in the applicable
legislative framework.
Firm Honored with 2013 Partner in Justice Award
In May 2013, Latham received the 2013 Partner in Justice
Award from the Center for Justice and Accountability, in
recognition of our demonstrated commitment to civil rights,
including serving as pro bono co-counsel on Ahmed v.
Magan. After speaking out against the Somali government
in 1988, Abukar Hassan Ahmed, a law professor and human
rights activist, was detained for three months and tortured
by the Somali National Security Service (NSS) Department
of Investigation. In November 2012, more than 20 years
later, a federal judge found Colonel Abdi Abden Magan, the
former NSS investigations chief, liable for Ahmed’s arbitrary
detention, torture, and cruel and inhumane treatment and
punishment. Following a damages hearing, in October
2013, the District Court entered judgment in the amount of
$15 million—awarding our client $5 million in compensatory
damages and $10 million in punitive damages. The decision
sends the message that those who violate international law
will be held accountable. Washington, D.C. partner Rick
Bress, associate Katya Cronin, and paralegal Uchenna
Anikwe, and New York senior paralegal Amy Chambers
and legal secretaries Micheline Large and Jacqui Foresta
worked on the case.
Latham Receives Best International Firm for
Pro Bono Award
At the Euromoney Women in Business Law Awards in June
2013, the firm was recognized as the best international firm for
pro bono. In addition to commending the more than 176,000
hours of pro bono legal services provided by our lawyers
in 2012, the award ceremony noted that Latham provided
11,000 hours of pro bono support to over 200 victims of
domestic violence last year.
Firm Receives 2013 Safe Haven Award
In recognition of our work advising LGBT and HIV-positive
immigrants and asylum seekers, Latham received a 2013
Safe Haven Award from Immigration Equality and the
Immigration Equality Action Fund. For more than 15 years, we
have worked with Immigration Equality to help their clients,
such as a gay, HIV-positive man from Peru and a transgender
woman from El Salvador, secure asylum in the United States.
Chair of the Pro Bono Committee at Latham Watkins and Washington, D.C.
partner Abid Qureshi (right) receives the Legal Team of the Year—International
Law Firm award from Monique Villa (left), CEO of Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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17. Prosecuting Traffickers
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, Gulf Coast marine
fabrication company Signal International used labor
recruiters to bring hundreds of Indian welders and pipefitters
to the United States, promising that it would assist the
workers in applying for and obtaining green cards. Instead,
Signal sought temporary worker visas that rendered the
workers ineligible for permanent residency for as long as
they worked for Signal. Signal’s agents collected up to
$25,000 from each worker based on these false promises.
Signal then housed the workers in a guarded compound
containing squalid, overcrowded trailers with inadequate
restroom facilities, served them rotten food, failed to provide
adequate medical care, and subjected the workers to
random searches, discriminatory treatment, and dangerous
working conditions. When workers complained, Signal
threatened them and their families with arrest, deportation,
and physical violence. Many of the workers eventually fled
the camp and sought protection from US authorities.
After class certification was denied in a putative class
action on behalf of all the Indian workers, Latham filed a
civil complaint in the Southern District of Mississippi against
Signal and its agents on behalf of 47 plaintiffs, asserting
violations of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, the Civil
Rights Act, and Mississippi state common law. Several other
law firms have joined the cause and filed similar complaints
on behalf of other plaintiffs. The Latham team includes
New York partners Miles Ruthberg, Benton Campbell,
and Christopher Harris; associates H. Gregory Baker,
Jennifer Greenberg, Daniel Adams, Elizabeth Rowland,
and Aaron Safane; and paralegal Marcelino Melendez, Jr.
Advocating Against Child Marriage
Equality Now is an international human rights organization
dedicated to the civil, political, economic, and social rights
of girls and women. One of its many initiatives includes
advocating for the eradication of child marriage, through
constitutional and legal means. Assisted by local counsel
and experts, Latham Watkins conducted research
and prepared a report on the laws and legal landscape
relating to child marriage in 18 jurisdictions: Afghanistan,
Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chad, Eritrea, Guatemala, India,
Mauritania, Morocco, Pakistan, Panama, Papua New
Guinea, Saudi Arabia, Swaziland, Tajikistan, Thailand,
Uganda, and Yemen. Our research report is intended to
support Equality Now’s presentation to the United Nations
High Commissioner for Refugees, in response to its request
for information on child marriage. The firm’s research will
also play a central role in the publication of the first-ever
compendium on the laws related to child marriage.
Supervised by New York partner Courtenay Myers Lima
and counsel Ellen Creede, the Latham team included New
York and Doha associate Mohammed Al-Khater; New
York associates Dylan Conn, Sadie Diaz, Gitanjali Pinto
Faleiro, Demetra Karamanos, Ali Koenig, Gail Neely,
Jennifer Saionz, and Federico Soddu; New York attorney
Marta Talarek; London associate Elizabeth Stuart; Los
Angeles associate Amber Haywood; and Munich associate
Anne Löhner.
Aiding Syrian Asylum Seekers
A team of lawyers in our Madrid and Paris offices
collaborated on a study carried out by the European
Council on Refugees and Exiles comparing country
practices within Europe regarding the situation of Syrians
claiming asylum. This study helps lawyers better represent
clients and provide recommendations to the European
Union on how to improve the situation of Syrian refugees
in its territory. Latham examined asylum claims in Spain
and France from Syrian nationals, assessed protection
needs (both at the initial administrative level and upon
appeal), studied the treatment of non-Syrian refugees
fleeing Syria and seeking refuge in Spain or France,
analyzed statistical data, and investigated issues regarding
returns and family reunification.
Protecting Human Rights
Over the decades, lawyers throughout our firm have represented hundreds of asylum seekers fleeing
persecution in their homelands based on their political views, religion, ethnicity, gender, or sexual
orientation. In recent years, our pro bono work in the area of human rights has grown to encompass
human trafficking, one of the world’s most rapidly growing criminal enterprises. Today, there are
more than 30 million slaves in the world, more than at any other point in human history. Latham
is committed to fighting human trafficking and modern-day slavery in all their manifestations.
A small sampling of our matters and partnerships follows.
New York associate Dave McElhoe accepts a 2013 Safe Haven Award from
Immigration Equality in recognition of our work advising LGBT and HIV-positive
immigrants and asylum seekers.
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18. from sources of sustainable produce vetted by NFS.
HEMA is a Dutch retail chain with more than 650 locations
in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany. Following the
successful launch and sale of the soups, we worked with
NFS on a similar project to introduce a line of coffee products
into HEMA stores, with the majority of the coffee beans
being sourced from core NFS-cleared suppliers. Latham
assisted NFS by drafting and negotiating agreements and
advising on brand protection and commercial aspects of
the relationships, as part of NFS’s overall strategy to work
with grassroots suppliers and retailers to ensure a supply
chain that is free of human trafficking violations and to
broadcast NFS’s message more widely. NFS expects to
continue to expand the range of products and the number
of commercial outlets for these products over time.
A Latham team out of New York, including partners Ray
Lin, Steve Betensky, and Bradd Williamson and
associates Hayley Gladstone, Abby Russell, Kevin Kay,
Keith Cantrelle, Patrick Mitchell, and John Holman,
also continued efforts to assist the founders of NFS with
the launch and operation of REBBL, a bottled-tea company
formed to fight poverty by creating jobs in at-risk Amazonian
communities. REBBL’s tea, which first hit US stores in late
2012, is produced with ingredients grown in the Amazonian
jungles of Peru and harvested by indigenous Peruvians at
risk of being lured by human trafficking rings. REBBL also
is party to a licensing agreement with NFS that provides
NFS with a portion of revenue generated by REBBL’s
sales. This year, Latham assisted NFS and REBBL with
matters involving venture financing, intellectual property,
employment contracts, and supplier contracts.
Tokyo partner Joe Bevash, Hong Kong partner Bryant
Edwards, and London partner Bill Voge travelled to
Chiang Rai in northern Thailand to introduce the Thai law
firm of Chandler Thong-ek to representatives of Not for
Sale in Thailand who run a home for children. The Thai
operations of Not for Sale are directed by Kru Nam, who
has been fighting human trafficking in Thailand for more
than a decade. At the time of Latham’s visit, Kru Nam
had approximately 180 children enrolled at the home.
Latham and Chandler lawyers worked together on the final
steps needed to create a nonprofit entity in Thailand to
accommodate the growth of Not for Sale’s operations there.
Ensuring Justice for a Victim of Trafficking
Lawyers in our San Francisco and Silicon Valley offices
successfully reached a civil settlement for our client,
a victim of human trafficking. Latham attorneys filed a
complaint in the Northern District of California alleging
that the defendants, an Italian consular employee and his
wife, trafficked our client into the United States from South
America with a false promise of a lucrative job, forced her to
work long hours with virtually nonexistent pay, and subjected
her to intimidation, assault, and involuntary servitude. The
complaint included claims for human trafficking under the
Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act, wage
and hour violations, and various torts. Latham also assisted
in the related criminal investigation, which resulted in a
guilty plea to visa fraud by the defendants and restitution to
our client. Our client is ecstatic with the settlement result,
and looks forward to pursuing her dream of being a nurse.
Kru Nam (left), director of Not For Sale Thailand, speaks with David Batstone (right),
co-founder and president of Not For Sale, about the children she has rescued from
the streets of Thailand and their vulnerability to falling prey to traffickers. The top
photo features some of the children of Not For Sale Thailand under Kru Nam’s care.
Working with Not For Sale
Operating in more than a dozen countries, Not For Sale
(NFS) seeks to end human trafficking and slavery through
“open source activism”—educating, training, and mobilizing
“smart activists” to combat the slave trade in their own
communities. Our relationship with NFS is led by London
partner Bill Voge, San Francisco Office Managing Partner
Karen Silverman, and San Francisco associate Andrea
Cheuk, and involves lawyers across Latham offices in the
United States, Europe, and Asia. Since January 2011, we
have participated in several NFS initiatives and donated
more than $2 million in pro bono hours in support of NFS’s
mission to end slavery in our lifetime.
Latham works directly with Not for Sale to advance its
mission of combating human trafficking through establishing
social enterprises. This year, more than 75 lawyers and
staff across 12 Latham offices in the United States, Europe,
and Asia provided support on 15 matters for NFS. Several
of these projects involve new ventures being developed
and incubated by NFS to bring commerce and economic
opportunity to communities vulnerable to human trafficking
and to support businesses and industries seeking to ensure
their use of slave-free supply chains.
Silicon Valley associates Kate Hillier, Heather Bromfield,
and Corinna Liebowitz worked with NFS in support of its
effort to develop a line of soups that are now available at
HEMA stores, in collaboration with Kleinste Soepfabriek, a
small soup manufacturer, which sources all its ingredients
NotForSale
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19. Rafiq
Rafiq, a homosexual man from Lebanon who is
living with HIV, suffered beatings and other forms
of verbal, physical, and sexual abuse in Lebanon
and other Middle Eastern countries from those
who sought to “cure him of his gayness,” including
his own family members. He was also told he
would be killed to “cleanse the family name.”
Lawyers in our San Francisco office established
Rafiq’s well-founded fear of future persecution,
and he was granted asylum in the United States
this year. Rafiq was recently asked to appear
before select members of the US Congress and
their staffs to speak about his experiences.
Rosa
In February 2008, our Los Angeles office took
on a matter referred to us by the National Center
for Refugee and Immigrant Children. Rosa, a
citizen of Guatemala, was in removal proceedings
when Latham stepped in and filed for asylum,
withholding of removal, and relief under the
Convention Against Torture (CAT) on her behalf.
Rosa had been targeted and tortured by human
traffickers while en route from Guatemala to the
United States. Even after she was able to escape,
the traffickers threatened her family in Guatemala.
In June 2013, an immigration judge found that our
client was entitled to relief under CAT.
Felipe, Ricardo, and Florencia
Lawyers in our Silicon Valley office are preparing
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) self-
petitions on behalf of three undocumented minor
children—Felipe, Ricardo, and Florencia—after
their mother was shot and stabbed multiple times,
allegedly by her boyfriend, who subsequently fled
to Mexico to avoid arrest and prosecution. When
partner Robert Phillips and associates Katie
Boolukos, Allison Davidson, and Stephanie
Wells learned about this case, the children had
been taken into foster care and were at risk of
being sent to Mexico to live with their estranged
father. We offered to evaluate our clients’ potential
immigration options and are now pursuing SIJS,
which, if successful, will provide Felipe, Ricardo,
and Florencia with legal permanent residence in
the United States.
Cristina
In 2010, Cristina, a Filipina national, left her
family to travel to Dubai to work as a nanny.
When Cristina arrived in Dubai, the family
confiscated her passport, would not pay her
previously agreed upon wages, and threatened
to have her arrested if she tried to leave. The
family brought Cristina to Orange County to care
for their children while they were on vacation—
and it was then that Cristina managed to escape.
Eventually, she was referred to Public Law
Center (PLC), which provides legal services
to victims of human trafficking through its work
with the Orange County Human Trafficking Task
Force, and PLC referred the case to Latham.
Orange County associates Sarah Diamond
and Shadi Ghaffarzadeh and recently retired
partner Jon Anderson successfully petitioned
the US government for a T visa for Cristina and
derivative applications for Cristina’s husband and
five children. Cristina now resides legally in the
United States and awaits reunification with her
family, whom she has not seen for more than
two years.
Our client and her sons celebrate being reunited in the United States after
receiving U visas with their Latham team, including San Francisco legal
secretary Sergio Almaguer (far left) and Silicon Valley associates Heather
Bromfield (second from left) and Yina Dong (far right).
*All client names are pseudonyms
Our Clients’ Powerful Stories*
Around the world, Latham Watkins safeguards the rights of immigrants and refugees through direct
legal services and advocacy. For example, lawyers in Orange County, with the assistance of colleagues
in Washington, D.C., successfully argued before the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal and the immigration
court to win asylum and freedom for a Nigerian citizen, a Christian, and a member of the Igbo tribe, who
fled his homeland after suffering from ethno-religious persecution and had been detained by the US
government for over four years. Another client, an HIV-positive man from the Middle East, was asked to
speak about his experiences before members of the US Congress just two weeks after Latham secured
his asylum. Read on for more of our clients’ powerful stories.
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20. Preserving Victims’ Rights
Working in conjunction with the Thai Community
Development Center, lawyers in our Orange County
office have helped a number of Thai nationals who were
essentially enslaved on farms throughout the United States
achieve temporary legal status under the Trafficking Victims
Protection Act of 2000. Over the past few years, these
clients have worked hard to rebuild their lives—including
paying off the massive debts they were fraudulently induced
to incur as part of the trafficking scheme that brought
them to the US—and to become productive members of
their communities, while simultaneously assisting the US
Department of Justice in the investigation and prosecution
of their traffickers.
In 2013, Orange County associates Dave Troutman, Dina
Randazzo, Kristin Murphy, and Drew Capurro, under
the supervision of partner Chris Norton, helped a number
of these trafficking victims achieve a very significant
milestone: the adjustment of their immigration statuses
to that of lawful permanent resident. The Latham team
helped five Thai clients navigate the complicated process
of gathering documentary evidence, conducting interviews
and preparing declarations from character witnesses,
completing the necessary paperwork, and submitting
persuasive application packets detailing the reasons why
each applicant warranted an adjustment of immigration
status. As a result of such efforts, these clients and some
of their immediate family are now free to pursue work,
education, and other activities without fear of deportation,
retribution, or re-victimization from their traffickers abroad.
Shielding an Outspoken Critic
In conjunction with Human Rights First, New York associates
Jennifer Greenberg, Daniel Adams, and Kate Whipple
and partner Benton Campbell represented the former chief
of general staff of the Albanian military in his application for
political asylum. The client sought asylum for himself and
his family to escape persecution by high-ranking members
of Albania’s government due to his well-publicized stance
against corruption. In retaliation, our client was convicted in
absentia of dereliction of duty in a highly politicized trial, and
faced threats to his life and the lives of his family members.
These threats further intensified after WikiLeaks published
a confidential US State Department cable exposing
conversations between the client and US officials. Latham
became involved in the case after the client and his family
arrived in the United States on humanitarian parole visas.
In September 2012, Latham filed an affirmative asylum
application on behalf of the client and derivative applications
for his family members, a brief, and voluminous evidence
in support of the asylum application, worked with the US
State Department to coordinate its support of the client’s
application with the Department of Homeland Security,
and helped the client and his family secure employment
authorization renewals while the asylum application was
pending. Asylum was granted in October 2013.
Supporting Polaris Project
Latham Watkins has enjoyed a strong partnership with
Polaris Project, a Washington, D.C.-based not-for-profit
organization dedicated to eradicating human trafficking and
to helping its victims and survivors using comprehensive,
community-based approaches. Among Polaris’s many
initiatives is the National Human Trafficking Resource
Center and Hotline, a toll-free hotline that victims of human
trafficking and their family members, witnesses, tipsters,
and others can call to report instances of human trafficking,
give information to investigators, or request assistance. This
year, our Tokyo, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Beijing offices
conducted research on human trafficking, employment, and
labor laws in Japan and Singapore to assist Polaris as it
seeks to expand this hotline.
Polaris also works with industry, government, and law
enforcement to identify and advocate for the improvement
of state and federal legislation relating to anti-trafficking
laws and victim assistance programs. Lawyers in our
Washington, D.C. office have helped Polaris with a number
of pro bono projects, including seeking immigration relief
and pursuing civil litigation on behalf of trafficking victims,
reviewing and developing its confidentiality policies and
hotline procedures, updating the Polaris State Ratings
Map (which ranks US states based on the strength of their
anti-trafficking legislation and programs), assisting with
intellectual property concerns, and developing consulting
contracts. We also undertook a significant project to create
and populate a state-by-state human trafficking database
that lists all the publicly available state prosecutorial actions
involving allegations of human trafficking or related crimes
over the past five years.
Securing Asylum in Hong Kong
Our Hong Kong office maintains an active pro bono asylum
practice. We work closely with the Hong Kong Refugee
Advice Centre, a nongovernmental organization that
offers legal aid to refugees seeking protection from the Office
of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
For example, this year, our lawyers assessed the merits
of a Central African Republic asylum seeker, a member
of the Kwa Na Kwa party who had been abducted,
imprisoned, and tortured; evaluated the risk of persecution
faced by Yemeni asylum seekers; and analyzed political
developments in, as well as cases involving similarly
situated asylum seekers from, Togo. n
Lawyers from our San Francisco, Silicon Valley, New York, and Washington, D.C. offices
celebrate at the annual Not For Sale Gala, which raised almost $500,000 for the anti-human
trafficking organization this year.
NotForSale
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21. CHILDREN
Helping Baby Veronica
In June 2013, the US Supreme Court decided a custody
dispute styled Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl et al., more
commonly known as the Baby Veronica case. Washington,
D.C. partner Lori Alvino McGill led the team that
represented Baby Veronica’s birth mother in the Supreme
Court, and later represented her adoptive parents on
remand. The team also included partner Greg Garre,
associate Katya Cronin, and paralegals Olga Baeza and
Rachel Jaffe.
The case involves the federal Indian Child Welfare Act
(ICWA) of 1978, which the US Congress passed in response
to concern about child welfare practices that had resulted
in the separation of large numbers of Native American
children from their families and tribes through adoption or
foster care placement. Baby Veronica is classified as an
Indian child under ICWA because her biological father is
approximately 2 percent Native American and is a member
of the Cherokee Nation.
While Veronica’s birth mother was still pregnant, the
biological father told her, via text messages, that he wanted
to terminate all his parental rights. Already a single mother
of two children, Veronica’s birth mother hand-picked
adoptive parents for her baby. Veronica was raised by her
adoptive parents from birth until, at the age of two, a South
Carolina family court held that ICWA required Veronica to
be immediately transferred to her biological father. The
Supreme Court of South Carolina affirmed that result “with
a heavy heart,” in a 3-2 decision, believing that federal law
required that result.
Latham filed a brief on behalf of Veronica’s birth mother,
urging the US Supreme Court to grant review of the case.
The Court granted review in January 2013 and heard oral
argument in April. In June, in a 5-4 decision, the Court
reversed the South Carolina Supreme Court and ruled in
favor of our client and the adoptive parents, holding that
ICWA did not give Veronica’s biological father a right to
interfere with the adoption. The case then returned to the
South Carolina Supreme Court on an expedited basis, and
the Latham team filed another brief in the South Carolina
Supreme Court. In July, the South Carolina state courts
finalized the adoption and ordered a transition plan that
focused on reuniting Veronica with her adoptive parents in a
way that was sensitive to her best interests. What followed
in the ensuing seven weeks captured national headlines as
the biological father, assisted by Cherokee Nation officials,
moved Veronica to an undisclosed location on tribal trust
lands and refused to return her.
The Latham team led the post-adoption effort to reunite
Veronica with her adoptive parents. The team secured
favorable rulings in Oklahoma courts in three counties
and the support of the governors of South Carolina and
Oklahoma. The biological father and the tribe then sought
and obtained an emergency stay from the Oklahoma
Supreme Court, and the court ordered briefing over the
weekend and set argument for the next business day. Lori
Alvino McGill argued the case, and also represented the
adoptive parents in a court-ordered week-long mediation
while the stay was in effect. In late September, the
Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled in favor of our clients,
issuing a published decision lifting the stay. Oklahoma
law enforcement officials facilitated the peaceful return of
Veronica to her adoptive parents that same day.
Standing Up for a Minor
Latham Watkins was approached by the country of Mexico,
via Human Rights Watch, to submit an amicus brief on
Mexico’s behalf to the California Supreme Court in People
v. Gutierrez, a case involving a Mexican juvenile contesting,
on constitutional grounds, his criminal sentence of life
without the possibility of parole. Submitted in September
2013, our amicus brief addressed the interplay between
the constitutionality of the juvenile defendant’s sentence of
life without parole and Mexico’s right, under international
law, to have its consular officers assist the juvenile through
the sentencing process. Los Angeles associate Anthony
Bruno authored the brief, with assistance from associates
TJ Finley and Leigh Richart and legal secretary Johana
Gomez. The case is currently pending.
Central to Latham Watkins’ pro bono program is the belief that justice should be accessible to all.
Our direct advocacy on behalf of the underserved includes representing parents and guardians in
adoption and custody matters, ensuring that veterans of the US Armed Forces receive the benefits
to which they are entitled in recognition of their service and sacrifice, and assisting in prisoner
civil rights matters. Read on for highlights from our varied work in this area.
Serving the Underserved
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22. Maintaining a Family
A litigation team from our Washington, D.C. office, including
associates Sarah Gragert, Elizabeth Richards, Katya
Cronin, and Natalie Rao, paralegal June Elliot, and partner
Kevin Metz, secured a significant victory for a foster father
seeking to adopt his foster son. Removed from his home
when he was three years old due to allegations of child
abuse, the child had been living with our client since 2009.
Over the years, our client formed a strong bond with the
child and decided that he wanted to adopt him and provide
him with a stable and loving home. Although the birth mother
consented to the adoption, the birth father contested it,
despite having no interest in parenting the child, primarily
because he disagreed with our client’s sexual orientation.
The team argued in a trial before the D.C. Family Court that
the birth father’s consent was not required for the adoption
because he had abandoned the child under the law and that
the court should waive the birth father’s consent because
he was withholding it contrary to the child’s best interests.
The team called numerous witnesses who demonstrated the
child’s significant improvement in behavior and emotional
stability while in our client’s care and testified to the extensive
bond between the child and the client. The magistrate judge
granted our client a complete victory.
Furthering Inclusive Education
For more than six years, lawyers in our Frankfurt office have
been working on a project promoting inclusive education in
Germany. With our longtime pro bono client Gemeinsam
leben – gemeinsam lernen, a nonprofit organization
supporting parents of children with disabilities, we drafted
a comprehensive bill to ensure that the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of Persons is implemented in
Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany’s most populous state.
The proposed bill is intended to bring the state law into full
compliance with international requirements for inclusive
education and was presented at a press conference in
Düsseldorf. It received considerable attention in the media,
from parents of children with disabilities, and from the state
government, and has put inclusive education on the political
agenda in this part of Germany. Frankfurt partner Marcus
Funke leads the team, which includes associates Kristin
Ziegeler, Jan Schubert, Oliver Krauss, Andreas Feith,
and Lisa Sönnichsen.
Evaluating NYC’s Public Schools
A team of New York-based lawyers is currently working
with New York Appleseed to produce a report regarding
resource distribution in New York City’s public schools.
Latham collected data from elementary schools across the
city concerning poverty levels, demographics, and a range
of other variables reflecting resource distribution. Latham
Watkins is now collaborating with Edgeworth Economics
to identify trends and analyze relationships among these
variables. Following the data analysis, we will draft a report
summarizing the findings, and New York Appleseed will use
the report to heighten awareness about and advocate for
equality across schools in New York City.
Forging an Alliance
Our Los Angeles office has taken on a significant number
of cases through the Alliance for Children’s Rights, acting
on behalf of low-income families in guardianship matters;
unaccompanied, abused, abandoned, or neglected minors
seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS); and
foster children who are eligible to receive special education
services and monetary benefits. Since 2007, we have
donated more than 20,000 hours of pro bono services to this
organization in support of its adoption, special education,
benefits, and guardianship/SIJS cases.
Advising Charter Board Partners
In Washington, D.C., almost 40 percent of the school-
age population attend one of the city’s 120 independently
run charter schools. While the schools’ founders have
a great deal of educational expertise, they often lack the
business experience required to effectively manage large
institutions with multimillion-dollar budgets. A principal at
the Carlyle Group had the idea to match individuals with
such skills to charter school boards that can best utilize their
expertise, and Charter Board Partners (CBP) was formed
in September 2010.
In 2013, CBP launched its inaugural “Fellows” program
whereby a select group of young professionals, including
Washington, D.C. associates Christopher Cronin,
Deeptha Mathavan, Cory Tull, and Rami Turayhi, under
the supervision of partner David Dantzic, were assigned
to various charter school boards throughout the district.
Our associates have assisted their respective boards by
engaging in a variety of legal tasks, including drafting and
negotiating charter agreements with the D.C. Public Charter
School Board, drafting and editing bylaws, negotiating
financing or lease terms, and assisting with school
reorganizations and expansions.
Frankfurt partner Marcus Funke (left) and associate Jan Schubert (center) hold a press
conference with Bernd Kochanek (right), chairman of Gemeinsam leben – gemeinsam lernen
Nordrhein-Westfalen, to announce draft legislation for inclusive education in Germany.
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23. US VETERANS
Supporting the National Veterans
Legal Services Program
This year, Latham Watkins continued its collaboration
with the Lawyers Serving Warriors program of the National
Veterans Legal Services Program (NVLSP). Since 1980, this
independent nonprofit organization has worked to ensure
that 25 million veterans and active duty personnel, as well
as their families, receive the benefits they have earned
through their service to the United States.
Through its Lawyers Serving Warriors
program, NVLSP matches veterans with
active duty benefits claims directly with
volunteer lawyers. Across all of our US
offices, Latham partners, associates, and
staff are assisting approximately 70 veterans
with applications for Combat-Related Special
Compensation (CRSC), a benefit available
to veterans who served in Operation Iraqi
Freedom or Operation Enduring Freedom
and have been medically retired for combat-
related disabilities, including post-traumatic
stress disorder. CRSC can provide hundreds
of dollars per month in additional tax-free compensation to
eligible veterans. As government lawyers are not available
to assist disabled veterans in completing and supporting
CRSC applications, our lawyers play an important role
in helping eligible veterans navigate the claims process
and procure these benefits.
Proving a Case of Wrong Identity
Our client is a homeless veteran with severe disabilities.
His struggles with homelessness ended, however,
when he was issued a housing voucher through the VA
Supportive Housing (VASH) program. Thereafter, the Los
Angeles County Housing Authority threatened to revoke
his VASH voucher on the basis that he underreported
income from jobs he had previously held in Indiana. Under
the supervision of Los Angeles partner Jim Barrall, Los
Angeles associate Kate Rykken, San Francisco associate
Julie Crisp, and legal secretary Jenea Rivas worked with
lawyers at Inner City Law Center to prove that our client’s
identity had been stolen several years ago and used
to obtain employment in several different states, and that
our client had been accurately reporting his income.
Ultimately, the Housing Authority agreed and did not revoke
our client’s VASH voucher, enabling our client to retain his
housing arrangement.
ANIMALS
Criminalizing Cruelty to Animals
New York associate Sam de Villiers and Washington, D.C.
partner Scott Ballenger represented the Humane Society of
the United States as amicus in support of federal prosecutors
in a Fifth Circuit appeal defending the constitutionality of a
federal statute banning the sale of “crush” videos over the
internet. Crush videos feature scantily clad women crushing
small animals to death with their feet, either barefoot or in
high heels, and are marketed to individuals with a sexual
fetish for this behavior. Although the brutality to animals
depicted in crush videos is illegal in every state, it is almost
impossible to prosecute the actual creation of crush videos
because the videos are made in secret and often do not
show the face of the perpetrator, diminishing the possibility
of identification. Even when a suspect can be identified,
it is often impossible to prove where and when the
videos were made in order to
establish jurisdiction and that
the crime occurred within the
relevant statute of limitations.
The US Congress therefore
concluded that the only effective
way to prevent the crimes
depicted in the videos is to
target their sale in interstate
commerce. In 2010, the US
Supreme Court struck down
the original version of the
statute as invalid under the First
Amendment, finding the statute’s
language overbroad because it could be read to suppress
speech unrelated to crush videos, such as depictions
of lawful hunting or the humane slaughter of livestock.
Congress then amended the statute in an effort to
address the Court’s concerns by specifically limiting
its application to crush videos.
The revised statute was subjected to judicial scrutiny for the
first time this year in US v. Richards, in which two purveyors
of animal crush videos were charged with violating the statute
in a Texas federal court. This court struck down the amended
statute as unconstitutional on the basis that crush videos
do not fit into any of the historical categories exempting
certain types of speech from First Amendment concerns.
The Latham team is challenging this holding on appeal
on behalf of the Humane Society. The case is ongoing.
THE INDIGENT
Ensuring Due Process
Through our New York office’s Krimstock automobile
seizure program, Latham provides pro bono representation
in administrative due process hearings for low-income
individuals whose vehicles have been seized by the police.
For many clients, their vehicle is their most valuable
possession and is critical to their livelihoods. In one standout
victory for a client whose due process rights were ignored
and violated, associates Michael Raine and Kevin Weber
expertly argued and persuaded the administrative law judge
to find that illegible evidence was insufficient to establish
that the dual notice requirement was provided to the client,
which led to the release of the client’s vehicle. Moreover,
the judge went on to provide dicta on the rarely addressed
issue of discovery suggesting that attempts to introduce
new evidence on the day of the hearing should be deemed
inadmissible. This case is especially significant for the impact
it will have regarding evidentiary burdens that will affect all
future Krimstock cases and settlement negotiations.
“We greatly appreciate all the
work that Latham Watkins
does to help serve homeless
and low-income veterans.”
—David Smith, Equal Justice Works
AmeriCorps Legal Fellow,
Inner City Law Center
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24. Developed by partner Chris Plaut in conjunction with the
New York City Office of Administrative Trials Hearings
(OATH), the Krimstock program is supervised and
coordinated by partner Benton Campbell and associates
Shervin Rezaie, Federico Soddu, and Alex Ziccardi.
Defending Homeowners
Our San Diego office is litigating in California Superior
Court on behalf of 16 plaintiffs harmed by a loan
modification and foreclosure avoidance scam perpetrated
by several defendants. Latham seeks to hold the scammers
accountable and prevent them from engaging in continued
targeting of vulnerable homeowners. Many of the plaintiffs
were the victims of foreclosure due in part to the defendants’
actions. After filing the complaint last year, the Latham
team, including associates Amy Hargreaves, Patrick
Justman, Andrew Yancey, Katherine McGrath, David
Greer, Amanda Betsch, and Kasey Branam, supervised
by partner Kathy Lauer and assisted by paralegal Karin
Sanders, obtained a permanent injunction and monetary
judgment against the lead defendant. Discovery is
continuing against the remaining defendant.
Fighting for Promised Benefits
New York associates Betsy Marks, Tom Giblin, and Sam
de Villiers, along with partner Noreen Kelly-Dynega,
worked with the Legal Aid Society of New York to challenge
the New York Human Resources Administration’s (HRA)
new sponsor liability policy. This policy seeks to collect
repayment of government assistance from alien sponsors
living near the poverty line. The case, Pelegrin v. New
York Human Resources Administration et al., is a putative
class action brought on behalf of our client and all others
similarly situated.
Our Chicago office hosted a third anniversary celebration of the Domestic Violence Division Pro Bono
Project, a collaboration among the Cook County Circuit Court, the Domestic Violence Legal Clinic,
a corporation, and 19 law firms, including Latham Watkins. The pro bono project aims to improve
legal representation in domestic violence cases. Among the attendees were (from left to right) Chicago
associate Margrethe Kearney, Judge Kate Moreland, Chicago partner Michael Faris, Judge Sebastian
Patti, Judge Ursula Walowski, Judge Patrice Ball-Reed, and Judge Thomas Clancy.
HRA’s pursuit of our client demonstrates the troubling issues
raised by its unilateral adoption of the sponsor liability policy.
Our client is an unemployed, single mother of three. When
she sponsored her mother’s immigration to the United
States in 2007, she had a long-term, stable job. She lost
her job in July 2011 and, with her three children, has since
subsisted on unemployment benefits until their expiration in
January 2013. Despite her current financial difficulties, HRA
is now demanding more than $16,000 from her, purportedly
on account of benefits provided to her mother. Our client was
told she was not eligible for any income-based exemption
from the policy, nor has she been able to challenge the
decision not to exempt her or to defend herself at all against
HRA’s demands—in part because HRA unilaterally adopted
the policy without publishing its terms in compliance with
the notice-and-comment procedures in New York City’s
Administrative Procedure Act. Indeed, HRA has never
published the terms of the policy or made its implementing
rules available to the public in any manner. This lack
of information has left our client and others struggling
against unknown rules. Latham’s petition contends
that HRA’s promulgation of the policy is arbitrary and
capricious and violates both the Administrative Procedure
Act and federal law. Our team was recently honored by
the Legal Society of New York for its work on this matter.
VICTIMS OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
Obtaining Orders of Protection
Our Chicago office, working closely with conflict specialists
and support staff throughout the firm, developed a domestic
violence clinic that was eventually adopted by the Domestic
Violence Division of Cook County Courts as its model for a
court-organized clinic. The clinic grew out of a partnership
between Latham Watkins and the City
of Chicago Mayor’s Office on Domestic
Violence. The goal was to devise a program
that would enable lawyers from private firms to
get involved in domestic violence cases on a
pro bono basis at the earliest possible stage—
when the victim is filing for an emergency
order of protection. Our clinic structure
allows lawyers to appear in court within
hours of taking on a case, bringing speed
and efficiency to domestic violence victims
seeking emergency orders of protection as
well as long-term protection. Today, more than
a dozen area law firms also participate. Led by
Chicago associate Margrethe Kearney and
partner Mike Faris, with help from paralegal
Lindsay Cutler, Latham lawyers participating
in this clinic go to the Cook County Domestic
Violence Courthouse and offer both on-the-
spot assistance to victims who have shown up
pro se to seek emergency orders of protection
and follow-up representation to those seeking
to obtain plenary orders of protection against
their abusers. Over the years, more than
150 Latham partners, counsel, associates,
and paralegals from all practice areas
in the Chicago office have represented
more than 100 domestic violence victims.
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25. *All client names are pseudonyms
Our Clients’ Powerful Stories*
Jaleh
An Orange County-based team represented
Jaleh in her domestic violence restraining order
matter against her husband. Jaleh escaped from
four decades of extreme physical and sexual
abuse suffered in both Iran and the United
States at the hands of her husband and, with
the help of her adult daughters, moved into a
comprehensive domestic violence agency. This
case was particularly difficult given the duration
of abuse, as well as the deep language and
cultural barriers involved. Jaleh was awarded
the maximum five-year restraining order.
Hoa
Hoa, a 40-year-old woman from Vietnam, was
a victim of tremendous physical, financial, and
emotional abuse perpetrated by her husband.
During their marriage, Hoa’s husband beat
her regularly to prevent her from, among other
activities, working, learning English, calling
her family in Vietnam, and making any friends
in the United States. On numerous occasions,
he threatened to deport her if she did not obey
him and his mother. An Orange County team
successfully represented Hoa in connection with
a petition for legal status under the Violence
Against Women Act, and Hoa now has a
permanent resident card.
Dominga
Our client, Dominga, had suffered persistent
physical and emotional abuse, sexual assaults,
and death threats at the hands of her domestic
partner, a former guerilla fighter, in El Salvador.
Lawyers and staff in our Silicon Valley office
helped secure asylum for Dominga. Since then,
they have helped bring her children to the United
States from El Salvador (through derivative
asylum applications). Most recently, we also
helped Dominga obtain her green card.
Amelia
A team of lawyers in our Chicago office helped
Amelia obtain emergency and plenary orders of
protection against her stepfather. The stepfather
pointed a gun and threatened to kill Amelia while
she was holding her four-month-old son. After
the Latham team obtained the emergency order
of protection, the stepfather moved to dismiss
or transfer the plenary order of protection
proceedings because of pending criminal
charges from the same incident. The Latham
team defeated the motion to keep the civil
proceedings in the domestic violence division,
and ultimately negotiated an agreed order with
opposing counsel that provided all the protection
that Amelia sought in her petition.
Marisol
Marisol, a mother of three from Ecuador,
endured over two years of severe abuse from her
husband, including beatings, near-strangulation,
and threats to her life. In December 2011,
Marisol sought the help of Sanctuary for
Families, a nonprofit organization that provides
legal assistance and other services to victims of
domestic violence and sex trafficking and their
children, who referred her to Latham. Because
Marisol had obtained conditional residence
based on her husband’s status as a United
States citizen in 2010, she was not eligible for
legal permanent residence unless her husband
applied for permanent residence on her behalf.
A New York team petitioned the US Citizenship
and Immigration Services to waive the joint-
filing requirement so that Marisol would not be
dependent on her abuser for her immigration
status, and Marisol was granted permanent
residence in February 2013.
In 2013, Latham Watkins provided direct pro bono representation to domestic violence victims across
almost all of our US offices. Our work included helping clients obtain emergency and permanent
restraining orders against their abusers, as well as assisting immigrant women who are victims
of abuse. The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) allows immigrant women who are married to
US citizens or permanent residents and have been victims of abuse to petition for US residency
without their spousal abusers. In addition, under the Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection
Act (VTVPA), noncitizen victims of certain violent crimes, including rape, incest, felonious assault,
domestic violence, trafficking, and kidnapping, who assist law enforcement authorities with their
investigations, can petition for a U visa. This year, our lawyers worked on more than 100 VAWA and
U visa cases, enabling many of these victims of criminal acts to obtain lawful immigration status in the
United States. Read on for some of our clients’ stories.
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26. THE INCARCERATED
Commuting a Death Sentence
After more than six years of post-conviction litigation on
behalf of a Louisiana death row inmate, Latham successfully
negotiated an agreement whereby our client was removed
from death row and re-sentenced to life in prison. This
result followed the firm’s filing of a 130-page petition for
post-conviction relief in Louisiana state court, subsequent
briefing on that petition and related issues, and 18 months
of settlement negotiations with the State of Louisiana. Our
petition asserted 17 independent claims for post-conviction
relief, including a Batson claim for prosecutorial misconduct
during jury selection, an Atkins claim based on our client’s
mental retardation, an Eighth Amendment claim that
Louisiana’s method of lethal injection constitutes cruel and
unusual punishment, and a claim that our client received
ineffective assistance of counsel before, during, and after
trial. New York partner Will Reckler led Latham’s efforts,
with assistance from New York partner Kevin McDonough,
associate Marianne Recher, and paralegal Damon
Gaynair, San Francisco associate Connie Sardo, and
Washington, D.C. associate Susan Ebersole.
Representing Prisoners
Many of our offices are involved in efforts to ensure that
prisoners are treated with dignity and receive the legal
protections to which they are entitled under the law. In
Singapore, for example, we have participated for several
years in the Criminal Legal Aid Scheme run by the Law
Society of Singapore. As part of this program, our lawyers
visit Changi Prison with an accompanying Criminal Legal
Aid Scheme officer and interview applicants for legal aid
on the charges and circumstances of the alleged offense,
as well as their financial means. After the interviews, we
prepare reports describing the applicants’ cases and make
recommendations as to whether legal aid should be given.
Examining Excessive Force in Jails
Latham played an integral role in the Citizens’ Commission
on Jail Violence’s investigation into allegations of excessive
force in Los Angeles County jails. Conducting more than
30 interviews with current and retired employees of the
Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department, the team concluded that
the sheriff and his team failed to actively manage the jails
and undermined the efforts of those who tried to address
the problems. These findings were publicly presented in
a report to the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
and ultimately led to the sheriff’s adoption of all 63 of
the commission’s recommended reforms. Lawyers from
Latham’s Los Angeles office won the 2013 American Civil
Liberties Union’s Community Service Pro Bono Award for
their work on this matter.
Working with the California Innocence Project
This year, lawyers and staff in our San Diego office
continued their involvement with the California Innocence
Project (CIP), a clinic at the California Western School of
Law dedicated to freeing wrongfully convicted inmates. CIP
receives more than 2,000 requests for assistance each
year from inmates incarcerated in California prisons, and its
work has led to the reversal of 11 convictions since 1999.
Overseen by associate Chris Olson and partner Kathy
Lauer, Latham lawyers and summer associates have
donated approximately 5,000 hours to CIP matters over
the past six years, including almost 1,500 hours in 2013,
preparing habeas and clemency petitions for cases that
are currently in litigation, performing research on complex
or novel legal issues, and screening inmate files for viable
claims of factual innocence, which can include newly
discovered evidence, faulty eyewitness identifications, or
DNA evidence that was never tested. This year, Latham
lawyers assisted CIP in preparing 12 clemency petitions
that were part of CIP’s 712-mile Innocence March from
San Diego to Sacramento, where the petitions were hand-
delivered to the governor of California.
CIVIL RIGHTS
Pioneering in Paris
In July 2012, our Paris office established a partnership with
Droits d’Urgence, which creates and manages legal clinics
for individuals and families in extremely difficult situations,
ensuring that they have access to the law and legal advice.
Latham has been entrusted with running a bimonthly clinic
located in a hospital in the north of Paris, through which
we advise on a wide range of issues, including immigration,
debt, and access to medical care. Led by partner Pierre-
Louis Cléro and associate Louis Paumier, the Latham
team is now composed of 20 lawyers from every department.
“Lawyers have the ability to help people.
We know how to read cases, we know
how to read statutes, and we know how
to advocate on behalf of individuals
and causes.”
—Alcide King III, Houston associate
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27. Law Society of Hong Kong Picks Firm for
Distinguished Pro Bono Law Firm Award
The Law Society of Hong Kong’s Pro Bono and
Community Work Recognition Programme honored
the firm at its annual awards ceremony in December
2013. Latham was given the Law Society’s
Distinguished Pro Bono Law Firm award, in honor
of outstanding contributions in the provision of pro
bono counsel and community service. Latham was
one of only two firms to be so recognized.
California State Bar Honors Firm
Latham was recognized by the California State Bar’s
Campaign for Justice for its work “help[ing] close the
justice gap in 2013 [and] increasing access to legal
services for those most in need.” The Campaign
for Justice raises money to help guarantee that
all Californians are given access to, and receive
fairness in, the court system.
Firm Inducted into Appleseed’s
Orchard of Justice
In June 2013, Latham was inducted into Appleseed’s
newly founded Orchard of Justice, a special group
of law firms that have given more than $1 million in
combined donations and pro bono hours over the
past five years. Latham has offered pro bono support
to Appleseed, a nonprofit network of public interest
justice centers and professionals in the United States
and Mexico dedicated to uncovering and correcting
injustices and barriers to opportunity through legal,
legislative, and market-based structural reform,
for many years.
Latham Named Pro Bono Firm of the Year
Latham Watkins was named Pro Bono Firm
of the Year by East Bay Community Law Center
(EBCLC). Our citation from EBCLC reads, in part: “In
recognition of pro bono legal services on behalf of the
Neighborhood Justice Clinic’s clients sued by debt
collectors. Your firm’s work has impacted the lives
of East Bay community members by making them
more secure, productive, healthy, and hopeful. Your
leadership demonstrates an unyielding dedication
to Justice through Education and Advocacy.”
Since its founding in 1988 by law students at
University of California—Berkeley’s Boalt Hall
School of Law, EBCLC has become the largest
provider of free legal services in the East Bay area.
Several lawyers in our San Francisco and Silicon
Valley offices have worked on EBCLC matters over
the years, including partners Ashley Bauer, Charlie
Crompton, Jim Day, Josh Holian, Niall Lynch,
and Al Pfeiffer; counsel Betty Pang; and associates
Evangeline Burbidge, Eric Chen, Jason Daniels,
Alan Devlin, Matthew Dickman, Kathy Lee, Riley
Lochridge, Kiki Namikas, Marcy Priedeman,
Graham Ravdin, Debbie Won, and Vanessa Wu.
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Chief Justice Geoffrey Ma (right) presents the Distinguished Law Firm award to Hong Kong Office
Managing Partner Michael Liu (left) and counsel Eleanor Lam (center).
Former California senator Joseph Dunn (far left) and retired judge Vaughn Walker (far right)
congratulate San Francisco associates Chris Carlberg, Andrea Cheuk, and Kathy Lee on Latham’s
recognition from the California State Bar’s Campaign for Justice.
New York partner Ray Lin (left) and Rebecca Lightsey (right), executive director of Texas Appleseed,
celebrate Appleseed’s 20th anniversary and Latham’s induction into the Orchard of Justice.
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28. Fighting Racial Profiling
In March 2008, our client was the victim of unlawful racial
profiling when the police, acting in coordination with
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials,
stopped and arrested him along with 14 other Hispanic men
in the parking lot of a Home Depot in Fremont, California.
While our client’s stop and subsequent arrest were under the
pretext of enforcing a municipal trespassing ordinance, the
police had neither reasonable suspicion nor probable cause.
Instead, the coordinated raid targeted Hispanic individuals,
whom the police and ICE assumed, based solely on their
race, were undocumented aliens looking for work.
After his unlawful stop and arrest, our client was brought
to a police station where he was interrogated by an
ICE agent and held in ICE custody for four days. Based
upon information obtained during his interrogation, ICE
immediately initiated removal proceedings against our
client, threatening to separate him from his wife and seven
children and deport him to Mexico, where he had not lived
for more than 17 years. This case was referred to Latham by
our pro bono partner Community Legal Services, a nonprofit
legal services provider in East Palo Alto. A team of lawyers
and staff in our San Francisco office represented our client
before the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration
Appeals. In March 2013, the government agreed to
administratively close our client’s case and terminate his
removal proceedings, finally extinguishing the looming
threat of deportation and separation from his family.
Appealing for Marriage Equality
Washington, D.C. partner Lori Alvino McGill was
tapped to file an amicus brief in the US Supreme Court
in two well-known cases addressing the rights of gay and
lesbian persons, United States v. Windsor (the Defense
of Marriage Act [DOMA] case) and Hollingsworth v. Perry
(the case involving California’s Proposition 8). Latham
represented a group of leading constitutional scholars,
including Bruce Ackerman, Lee Bollinger, and Laurence
Tribe, who argued that laws that discriminate on the
basis of sexual orientation—like DOMA and California’s
Proposition 8—should be subject to strict judicial scrutiny.
Although the Supreme Court did not reach the merits in
Perry, it struck down Section 2 of DOMA, ruling (5-4) in
Windsor that the federal law impermissibly discriminated
against same-sex couples who are legally married under
state law. This landmark decision means that all married
persons must be treated equally under federal law.
Preserving Innocence
Our client originally filed a complaint pro se in the Northern
District of Illinois against certain Chicago police officers
under Section 1983. Upon review of the case, the US
district judge appointed Latham to represent this man. The
Chicago-based team filed an amended complaint, alleging
that the city, in its quest to squeeze information from
our client about a very high-profile homicide, arrested,
charged, and prosecuted him for an armed robbery he did
not commit. On our client’s behalf, we brought claims for
a Brady violation, malicious prosecution, and several state
law causes of action. These claims survived a motion to
dismiss and remain pending. Since filing the amended
complaint, the team has undertaken substantial discovery,
including document production and depositions. We are
currently in mediation with the City of Chicago. n
“Latham Watkins took three of our debt
collection defense trials in one month
and knocked all three out of the ballpark.
They won dismissals on two of the cases
and settled the third for the filing fee.
The clients are thrilled.”
—Megan Ryan, Staff Lawyer Clinical Instructor,
Neighborhood Justice Clinic, East Bay Community Law Center
Several lawyers from our San Francisco office, including Chair and Managing
Partner Bob Dell and associate Evangeline Burbidge (pictured), attended the
97th annual luncheon of the Legal Aid Society–Employment Law Center.
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29. Washington, D.C. Office Wins Outstanding
Achievement Award
Latham Watkins was selected to receive the
Washington Lawyers’ Committee Outstanding
Achievement Award for its work with the D.C.
Prisoners’ Project on Isadore Gartrell v. Federal
Bureau of Prisons. Latham successfully litigated
a major case upholding the rights of a Muslim
client incarcerated at a federal prison in central
Pennsylvania. As a Muslim, our client is required
to pray five times every day at designated times,
set according to the calendar. Very often, these
designated times for prayer fall during the client’s
work, recreation, or school hours, and the federal
prison would not let him engage in his short
prayer during those activities. After more than
two years of hard-fought litigation and extensive
discovery, the defendants agreed to a settlement
with provisions that include a new policy allowing
all inmates to pray as required by their faiths.
New York Lawyers Honored by
the Legal Aid Society
Twenty-one Latham lawyers were honored at the
Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Awards Ceremony in
October 2013: partners Christopher Harris and
Noreen Kelly-Dynega; patent litigation lawyer Gina
Gencarelli; and associates H. Gregory Baker,
Gretchen Blauvelt-Marquez, Sarah Chandrika,
Thomas Giblin, Hayley Gladstone, Aaron
Goldberg, T. Alexandra Koenig, Elizabeth Marks,
Kurt Rajpal, Aviva Robin, Manasi Rodgers,
Jessica Rostoker, Elizabeth Rowland, Paul
Serritella, Aaron Singer, Kelli Sussman, Samuel
de Villiers, and Jooyoung Yeu. Each lawyer was
personally nominated by Legal Aid Society staff
members for his or her exceptional work on behalf
of low-income New Yorkers.
Firm Honored for Work Related to
Superstorm Sandy
In October 2012, a devastating storm landed along
the eastern United States, decimating homes and
causing an estimated $68 billion in damage. Our
New York office was honored by the New York Legal
Assistance Group (NYLAG) for its work aiding those
affected by Superstorm Sandy. NYLAG is a legal
services organization that provides access to justice
for low-income New Yorkers who cannot afford
private lawyers. Its specialized Storm Response
Unit—with more than 24 lawyers and other staff
members, supported by the private bar—has helped
over 5,800 storm victims, making it New York State’s
major provider of legal services to Sandy victims.
Latham Receives Justice H. Wes Walker
Pro Bono Award
In February 2013, LegalAid of Napa Valley presented
its Justice H. Wes Walker Award for extraordinary
pro bono legal services to a team of San Francisco
lawyers, including partner Chris Yates and associate
Mariam Missaghi, who obtained a significant victory
on behalf of low-income senior citizen residents
of a mobile home park. Last year, we provided more
than 1,000 hours of free legal assistance through
Legal Aid in connection with this case.
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(From left to right) Washington, D.C. associates Katherine Putnam, Kelsey McPherson, and Jonathan
Homer; Deborah Golden, staff lawyer at the D.C. Prisoners’ Project; and D.C. associates Natalie
Sanders and Laura Belmont receive the Washington Lawyers’ Committee Outstanding Achievement
award for their work on behalf of prisoners’ rights.
(From left to right) San Francisco associates Chris Carlberg and Matt Dickman, East Bay Community
Law Center Neighborhood Justice Clinic Director Elisa Della-Piana, and San Francisco partners Ashley
Bauer and Charlie Crompton celebrate Latham’s Pro Bono Firm of the Year award.
New York associate Jennifer Greenberg (center) accepts an award on behalf of the entire New York
office for pro bono work related to Superstorm Sandy from Abby Milstein (left), chair of New York Legal
Assistance Group’s board, and Yisroel Schulman (right), president and lawyer-in-charge of NYLAG.
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30. Coming Together for Social Entrepreneurs
Lawyers in our Brussels, Houston, London, Madrid, and
Paris offices are preparing a multijurisdictional report
analyzing regulations, policies, and actions aimed at
promoting social entrepreneurs, social enterprises, or
similar mission-driven enterprises in the United States,
Spain, the United Kingdom, France, and elsewhere in
the European Union for UnLtd Spain. This chapter of the
UK-based UnLtd supports social entrepreneurs and aims
to encourage innovative social investment in Spain, and
our report will assist in these efforts. Among the lawyers
who have worked on this matter are Brussels associates
Maria Eugenia Leoz Martin-Casallo and Júlia Samsó
Lucas; Houston counsel Rebecca Brandt and associate
Justin Skidmore; London associates Saad Mian and
Andrew Boyd and trainee solicitors Ian Dalton and
Matthew Bedrossian; Madrid partner Ignacio Pallarés,
associates Ignacio Domínguez, Rosa Espín, and Isabel
Borrero, and trainee Leticia Sitges; and Paris associates
Cyril Boulignat and Fanny Colson and stagiaire
Emmanuel Enrici.
Learning ‘LegaleSE’
In 2013, the Law Society of Singapore’s Pro Bono Services
Office produced a guidebook called “LegaleSE,” that serves
as a legal toolkit for social entrepreneurs in Singapore.
Singapore associates Dhiraj Joseph and Alex Ye, under
the supervision of partner Timothy Hia, researched and
drafted the chapters on franchising and cross-border
trade. The market for social enterprises is still in its
infancy in Singapore, and this guidebook will help facilitate
development by simplifying daunting legal issues.
Taking Action with Accion
This year, Latham Watkins continued its work with
Accion International, a nonprofit organization that provides
microloans, business training, and other financial services
to poor men and women who start their own businesses.
Accion partners with more than 30 microfinance
organizations throughout Latin America, the Caribbean,
Asia, Africa, and the United States, reaching a total of 3.9
million poor people through microfinance. Accion’s role in
facilitating the provision of capital to small entrepreneurs
enables its beneficiaries to afford basics like running
water, better food, and schooling for their children. The
Latham team—including Boston Office Managing Partner
Phil Rossetti and associates Alex Lazar and Josh
Rissmiller—advised Accion on a variety of international
microfinancing transactions in eastern Africa, including
an equity investment in a company that provides working
capital to small- and medium-sized consumer goods
businesses in Tanzania.
Advising ADIE
Under the guidance of Paris partner François Mary and
associate Laure Valance, more than 20 Paris lawyers
provided legal assistance in collaboration with ADIE
(l’association pour le droit à l’initiative économique), the
leading French organization for microfinance development,
which brings financial and operational support to
economically challenged businesses and individuals
through microfinance and other means. The Latham team,
via a free legal hotline managed by ADIE, responded
to requests from ADIE’s microfinance clients about
implementing and managing their microenterprises.
Partners Olivia Rauch-Ravisé and François Mary,
assisted by associate Mathieu Denieau, also advised ADIE
and certain of its affiliated entities in connection with the
structuring of their existing activities, while partner Fabrice
Fages and associate Cyril Boulignat advised ADIE on its
lobbying strategy in the context of certain new laws.
Commemorating the launch of Asia Community Ventures, a philanthropy
advisory firm, at Latham’s Hong Kong office are its co-founders, Philo Alto
(second from left) and Ming Wong (second from right), Hong Kong and
Singapore partner David Miles (far left), and Hong Kong associate
Wally Suphap (far right).
Latham Watkins maintains a strong commitment to the emerging areas of microcredit, microfinance,
and development finance, supporting projects and social entrepreneurs who utilize these innovative
tools to protect the environment, improve the status of women, and combat poverty, among other
meaningful causes around the world.
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31. Bolstering Social Entrepreneurship in Germany
About 10 years ago, then-chancellor Gerhard Schröder
determined that the German economy was not doing
enough to support charitable initiatives. With the help of
McKinsey Company, startsocial was founded. Adopting
the motto “Hilfe für Helfer” (“help for helpers”), startsocial
annually supports 100 social projects (selected out of
around 350 applications), providing training, information
about funding, and other types of coaching that facilitates
the transfer of knowledge from business executives to social
entrepreneurs. Latham began working with startsocial in
2013, with lawyers in our Frankfurt, Hamburg, and Munich
offices providing pro bono support on 14 separate projects.
Investing in East and Southeast Asia
Latham Watkins assisted Asia Community Ventures
(ACV), an independent, Hong Kong-based not-for-profit
organization supporting impact investing and social
entrepreneurship in Hong Kong and Asia. Working in
partnership with the Rockefeller Foundation, ACV has
launched the “Impact Economy Innovations Fund,” offering
unconditional grants of up to a total of $400,000 to fund
seed-stage enterprises to aid intermediaries that promote
the growth of impact investing and social enterprise work
in East and Southeast Asia.
Supporting FINCA
Lawyers in our Moscow, Los Angeles, and London offices
worked together to assist FINCA International, which offers
financial services to entrepreneurs in the world’s lowest-
income countries and plans to set up three regional data
centers to house client account data, donor information,
and employee data. The Latham team reviewed data privacy laws and banking regulations
in 23 jurisdictions where FINCA has financial institutions. Lawyers in our Doha and Dubai
offices have also been assisting FINCA in connection with potentially establishing a base
of operations in the United Arab Emirates for FINCA’s Middle East and South Asia
microfinance activities.
Creating Green Banks
The Coalition for Green Capital (CGC) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing
policies that encourage investments in clean energy. A team led by Washington, D.C. partner
Michael Gergen, with contributions from Orange County counsel Joshua Bledsoe, D.C.
counsel Jared Johnson and associates Eli Hopson, David Pettit, Benjamin Lawless,
Miles Farmer, Devin O’Connor, and Ashianna Esmail, San Diego associate Andrew
Yancey, and summer associate Sara Perez, helped CGC work with stakeholders to
develop a new state-level green bank in Hawaii, the first
to combine utility tariff-based bond financing and on-bill
repayment for clean energy infrastructure. In New York,
CGC and Latham lawyers met with key officials and
other stakeholders to design, develop, and implement
a new green bank located within the New York State
Energy Research and Development Authority, initially
capitalized with approximately $210 million with a goal
of ultimate capitalization of approximately $1 billion. In
addition, Latham has advised CGC on establishing green
banks in a number of other states, including California
and Maryland, working with CGC and stakeholders to
identify and find solutions to overcome regulatory barriers
to the successful creation and implementation of green
bank financing models, to analyze potential funding
sources to capitalize green banks, and to advise on
financial mechanisms to lower the cost of clean energy.
Among the start-ups based in
Germany that we have advised
through our relationship with
startsocial are:
• Kinder Afrikas e.V., a nonprofit
organization that provides humanitarian
aid to children in Africa, with a focus on
increasing educational opportunities
• Stadtsichten, whose querstadtein
project offers tours of Berlin by formerly
homeless guides, to help people
understand homelessness and to
offer a perspective on the city
outside of established norms
• Politik zum Anfassen e.V.,
a nonprofit organization that teaches
students about politics, the media,
and communications
• Kultur für ALLE e.V., which seeks
to increase access to cultural events
for the underprivileged
• LegaKids, a nonprofit organization
that helps people with dyslexia learn
to cope with this condition, including
how to read and write
“The support Latham Watkins
has provided and continues
to provide is invaluable. Your
contribution has a direct
impact on the work we are
doing in the MENA region to
help alleviate poverty.”
—Julia Assad, General Manager,
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32. Promoting Microfinance in the Middle East
Our Dubai office continues to grow its long-standing
relationship with Grameen-Jameel Pan-Arab Microfinance
Limited, which seeks to eradicate poverty by providing
technical and financial assistance to microfinance
institutions. Throughout 2013, Dubai partner Andrew
Tarbuck, associates Christian Adams and Victoria
Honey Kachel, and trainee solicitor Suhad Yazbak
assisted the organization with its regional microfinance
initiatives, including structuring funding arrangements
between Grameen-Jameel and its microfinance partners,
establishing standard form microfinance loan agreements
and ancillary documentation, and creating microfinance
programs in Cambodia and Sudan.
We also advised Balthazar Capital, an Arab world-focused
microfinance institution, in relation to microfinance lending,
convertible debt investments, and related regulatory
matters, as well as the structuring of its investment advisory
services in the MENA microfinance sector. Balthazar
intends to enter into strategic partnerships with microfinance
debt providers and provide fund management services.
Helping Small Businesses
For the past three years, lawyers in our New York office,
led by partner Greg Rodgers and associates Colin
Bumby and Navin Pal, have partnered with the New
York City Department of Small Business Solutions to work
with low-income entrepreneurs as they commence,
maintain, and grow their businesses, including an internet-
based business that is creating a ride-sharing platform
and a sign installation business owned and operated by
a minority woman.
In October 2013, associates Alexandra Croswell and
Colin Bumby coordinated a delegation of more than 20
Latham lawyers who volunteered at the Small Business
Legal Academy, hosted by the Association of Pro Bono
Counsel, in New York City. This one-day event, held at
the Apollo Theater in Harlem, brought together corporate
law firms, financial services consultants, city and state
agencies, and other legal service providers to offer legal
workshops and one-on-one legal counseling to small and
low-income business owners.
Our lawyers in Washington, D.C., including associates
Douglas Bushey, Monica Clark, Shagufa Hossain,
Natalie Rao, Rami Turayhi, Janice Wang, and Jared
Stark, led by partner Joel Trotter, have participated in
the small business clinics sponsored by the D.C. Bar Pro
Bono Program, whose Community Economic Development
Project aims to provide legal assistance—including
business formation, tax, intellectual property, real estate,
and other commercial legal advice—to community-based
nonprofit organizations and small business entrepreneurs
serving low-income communities or who are economically
disadvantaged. To date, this project has matched more
than 340 nonprofit organizations with pro bono counsel for
ongoing legal representation and assisted over 430 small
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“Nothing beats knowing that
you have played a small but
meaningful role in revitalizing
your community.”
—Rami Turayhi,
Washington, D.C. associate
Latham Watkins has advised Ashoka for
more than 30 years. What has been the
firm’s most important contribution?
The holistic services the firm provides, by far.
I feel as if I could reach out to Latham
Watkins on any issue. You have done a great
job trying to address questions directly or
immediately putting us in touch with other
resources. Whenever our Ashoka Fellows
have issues or need access to local counsel,
someone within the Latham network has been
able to assist us.
Having a go-to, all-inclusive, holistic pro bono
partner has been invaluable for Ashoka as
an organization.
From a project perspective, perhaps
Latham’s most significant contribution has
been advising on an in-depth labor survey.
It was a complete analysis of the various
employee versus contractor issues, and the
firm’s work included drafting agreements.
This very comprehensive document has
been extremely helpful for us at Ashoka.
What does the future of social
entrepreneurship look like?
In general, the primary trends are the
continued blurring of the lines between the
nonprofit and for-profit sectors, and the
combination of diversified revenue streams
and earned income strategies with traditional
grants and donations. From a process
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33. Ashoka is a global nonprofit organization that invests in social entrepreneurs, known as “Ashoka
Fellows,” helping them to positively transform communities and develop innovative solutions to
society’s most pressing issues. Latham Watkins is proud to have partnered with Ashoka for more
than three decades. This year, as in years past, we advised Ashoka and its field offices around the
world, as well as Ashoka Fellows and their organizations, on a number of matters that spanned several
practice areas, including finance, litigation, technology, intellectual property, corporate, employment,
and regulatory advice.
Employment Survey
In 2010, Ashoka commissioned a survey of labor
laws and legislation covering more than 20 countries
in which it has local employees or contractors, a
project Latham took on as lead law firm, involving
several of our offices. This year, Ashoka embarked
on a second phase for an additional 24 countries,
partnering with legal counsel around the world to
gather information about employment laws affecting
Ashoka’s presence in each of the relevant countries,
to facilitate compliance reviews, and to serve as a
reference for the organization. Lawyers in our Doha
and Singapore offices continue to answer questions
about and research a number of topics, including
employment contracts, working hours, salary
regulations, income tax regulations, temporary or
part-time workers, annual leave, disability or sick
leave, social security, and termination rights.
Kinomé
Kinomé is a French nonprofit organization that
promotes tree planting as a solution to environmental
degradation, deforestation, and global poverty.
Latham began working with Kinomé in 2012, after
its founder, Nicolas Métro, a 2012 Ashoka Fellow,
decided to raise funds from new investors. In October
2013, the Barreau de Paris Solidarité, the Paris Bar
Association’s endowment fund, recognized our Paris
office for its work with Kinomé.
Mozaïk RH
Founded by Saïd Hammouche, a 2007Ashoka Fellow,
Mozaïk RH helps young underprivileged graduates
find jobs by connecting them with companies. Our
Paris office assisted Mozaïk RH with preparing
partnership agreements, with adapting its legal
structure, and on various corporate and tax matters.
ShuR
This year, lawyers in our Tokyo office advised ShuR,
a nonprofit organization founded by Japan’s first
Ashoka Fellow to develop and provide IT services
to the hearing impaired, such as a web-based
sign language motion-picture dictionary and a sign
language translation service provided on mobile
devices. Our ongoing counsel primarily concerns
advising ShuR with respect to its customer contracts.
Vitamine T
Vitamine T is a French not-for-profit association
founded by an Ashoka Fellow that provides training
and opportunities to the unemployed. One of those
programs is Envie 2E, a business that collects,
decontaminates, and recycles electronic devices.
Envie 2E sought Latham’s advice with regard to
structuring new sources of financing. In addition,
our Paris office advised Vitamine T on developing its
legal and tax structure in view of such investments.
How does this focus on for-profit social
entrepreneurship impact pro bono?
We need a smarter, more nuanced
approach when it comes to for-profit social
entrepreneurship, an approach that preserves
the integrity of what pro bono is meant to do,
but also concentrates those finite resources on
individuals in the social entrepreneurship space
who are making the greatest impact. To put that
in more concrete terms, pro bono legal services
might first be offered to help a social enterprise
with infrastructure—advising on things like legal
entity formation, initial contracts, intellectual
property filings, and so on. Once a social
enterprise is established and developing,
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operations standpoint, the major trend is
start-up social entrepreneurs beginning as
for-profit organizations. And we’re seeing a
greater push to diversify revenue streams
beyond the traditional charity model of
grants and donations.
What’s interesting with these trends is that
the pro bono mindset tends to be stuck in
nonprofit land. We assume that nonprofit
equals doing good, so we often assume
that any for-profit endeavor is purely just
for profit and doesn’t qualify as pro bono.
That’s definitely not the case; there are many,
many worthy clients who have a for-profit
component but who still greatly need pro bono
legal services, because their profit component
is really a means to sustain their organization
to become more financially sustainable.
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34. Advising Little People of America
Little People of America (LPA), a nonprofit organization
of 6,000 members, provides support and information
to people of short stature and their families. Latham
Watkins’ Orange County office conducted a full analysis of
LPA’s corporate and organizational documents. As a result
of this analysis, LPA asked Latham to draft revised articles
and bylaws, recommend a board structure, and inform
the membership regarding the changes for the vote. The
revised corporate documents and board structure were
approved by a membership vote in July 2013.
Illuminating the World
Mera Gao Power (MGP) builds, owns, and operates
microgrids in Uttar Pradesh, India, offering high-quality,
dependable lighting and mobile-charging services to off-
grid villages. Lawyers in our Singapore office represented
MGP in negotiating an investment agreement with an
impact investing firm focused on investments in companies
that have the potential to fundamentally improve the lives
of low-income families in emerging countries. To date, this
investment has allowed MGP to reach more than 13,000
households in nearly 600 villages.
Inspiring Thought
The Williams Institute, at the University of California—
Los Angeles School of Law, is the preeminent think tank
dedicated to legal and policy issues important to the
lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community.
Our Washington, D.C. office recently researched and
summarized allegations of discrimination or harassment
against LGBT law enforcement personnel within their
departments. Reports were drawn from the media,
legislative histories, legal and academic journals, case law,
and governmental and nongovernmental reports, among
other sources. The Williams Institute will use the research
to inform police departments’ policies and practices.
Helping Kids Learn
In Boston, our corporate and technology transactions
lawyers worked with Third Sector New England, an
organization that provides management and leadership
resources to nonprofits, to help one of its partner programs
negotiate a manufacturing and distribution relationship with
a manufacturer of children’s educational materials. This
relationship will facilitate the distribution of highly acclaimed
learning tools to preschool and kindergarten classrooms
throughout the United States.
Promoting Healthy Eating
Founded in 2012, the Food Education Project promotes
healthy eating habits and environmental awareness in Bay
Area public schools. In early 2013, the San Francisco-
based organization asked lawyers in our San Francisco and
Silicon Valley offices for assistance revising its employee
handbook. Since then, the scope of our involvement has
expanded to include the drafting of binding educational
services agreements with two schools and an affiliation
agreement between the organization and the University of
San Francisco’s Master of Public Health program, which is
providing interns to work with the project at school sites.
Endorsing the Monarch Model
The Monarch Institute for Neurological Differences
is dedicated to enabling individuals with neurological
differences to move from dependence to interdependence
and to make more meaningful contributions in life. Lawyers
in our Houston office advised Monarch as it establishes a
consortium of schools that have completed a specialized
training program based on Monarch’s methodology, and
are working with Monarch to structure and document the
relationships between the schools and program to ensure
that the Monarch model can be re-created in locations
throughout the world.
Keeping Kids Out of Gangs
Lawyers in our Chicago office have advised Restoring
the Path (RTP), an organization based in Englewood, on
the South Side of Chicago, one of the most troubled and
violent areas of the United States. RTP offers opportunity
and alternatives to gang activity by providing boxing
training, mentoring, counseling, and other services to
the neighborhood’s young men. The team advised on an
organizational restructuring to create a liability-remote
subsidiary and help facilitate future expansion.
Protecting the Oceans
The BLUE Marine Foundation promotes marine
conservation through targeted investment and strategic
communications, working to share best practices globally
in order to halt the decline in marine biodiversity, increase
protection of the world’s oceans, and ensure restoration
and renewal of vital marine ecosystems. A team from our
London office advised BLUE on a partnership with donors
and other charitable foundations, tax and legal implications
of various fundraising initiatives, and the preparation of
sponsor agreements and deeds.
Around the world, Latham Watkins has developed meaningful partnerships with charities, nonprofit
groups, and nongovernmental organizations. By assisting our nonprofit partners with their legal needs,
we enable them to achieve greater impact—and we are able to indirectly reach larger segments of
society in need of support. What follows is a small sampling of our work on behalf of nonprofits.
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A nonprofit organization dedicated to improving Los
Angeles, CicLAvia develops spaces for active recreation,
healthy living, and social engagement. The organization’s
goals include improving public health, increasing public
space, promoting comprehensive and accessible public
transportation, enhancing community and economic
development, and supporting bicycle and pedestrian
advocacy. CicLAvia’s main event is called “CicLAvia.”
Inspired by ciclovía, a weekly street closure event in Bogotá,
Colombia, CicLAvia closes certain streets to car traffic,
opening them for activities, such as bike riding, skating, and
walking. To date, there have been eight CicLAvias. Lawyers
in our Los Angeles and Boston offices assisted CicLAvia in
achieving federal and state tax-exempt status.
Encouraging Exploration
A team based in our Paris office advised Jean-Louis
Étienne, a renowned French explorer who has conducted
many expeditions to the Arctic and Antarctica, with respect
to the drafting and negotiation of partnership agreements
in relation to the funding of his new Polar Pod expedition.
This project includes the construction of an oceanographic
platform, which will drift around the Antarctic Circumpolar
Current in the Southern Ocean, measuring atmosphere-
ocean exchanges and other data.
Finding Solutions in South Africa
African Solutions for African Problems (ASAP) is a charity
that supports grassroots community-based organizations
that run drop-in centers for orphans and children affected by
AIDS in South Africa. ASAP helps the women who run these
centers develop their activities into mature and sustainable
organizations, which, in turn, improve the health and
education of the children they serve. A team of lawyers from
our London office provided a variety of general corporate
and finance advisory services to ASAP, including drafting
its successful Charity Commission registration application.
Expanding Creativity on the Web
For several years, Latham has worked with Creative
Commons, a nonprofit organization founded in the early
2000s with the goal of mediating between internet content
and copyright laws. Our lawyers in San Francisco have
consulted on a number of the organization’s major projects,
including offering strategic guidance and legal advice
on cutting-edge issues of copyright and licensing law in
multiple jurisdictions around the world. Creative Commons
licenses are now the leading legal tools for sharing web
content, governing some of the largest and most influential
sites around the world, from Wikipedia to the Public Library
of Science to Al Jazeera. n
Latham Honored by Paris Bar
Association
In October 2013, the Barreau de Paris
Solidarité, the Paris Bar Association’s
endowment fund, recognized Latham
Watkins for its work with Kinomé, a French
nonprofit organization that promotes tree
planting as a solution to environmental
degradation, deforestation, and global
poverty. Latham began working with Kinomé
in 2012, after its founder, Nicolas Métro, an
Ashoka Fellow, sought to raise funds from
new equity investors.
Firm Wins Jeremy G. Epstein Award
for Pro Bono Service
The City Bar Justice Center launched the
Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project
in 2003 to provide low-to-mid-income
microentrepreneurs with the legal services
needed to get their businesses started. In
October 2013, the Justice Center honored
the firm with the Jeremy G. Epstein Award for
Pro Bono Service for our work on this project,
led by New York partner Greg Rodgers.
Paris associate Laure Valance (center) and partner François Mary (left)
are congratulated by Yvon Martinet (right), vice president of the Paris Bar
Association, upon receiving an award from its endowment fund.
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36. Athletics
• Climbed nearly 1,700 stairs (75 stories) to the top
of the US Bank Tower in Los Angeles, the tallest
building west of the Mississippi, to support Ketchum-
Downtown YMCA’s programs for youth, families,
and senior citizens in downtown Los Angeles.
• Joined 36 other international law firms for the
20-kilometer Legal Run in Brussels, benefiting
‘t Vosje, a Brussels-based organization that
facilitates athletic activities for people with
intellectual disabilities. This year marks our fifth year
of involvement, and we raised more than €22,000.
• Entered Avon Running 2013 in Milan, a
noncompetitive race that raises money in support of
Project HIFU, a new method being studied to help
defeat breast cancer.
The spirit and commitment that inspire our pro bono work extends into our
community service. Around the world, our personnel are committed to offering
their time, money, and talents to the causes that matter most where we live
and work. The pages that follow describe some of the many community
service initiatives undertaken by lawyers and staff this year.
Lawyers and staff from our Los Angeles-area offices climbed to the top of the tallest building west of the Mississippi River to raise money for
community programs as part of the 20th annual YMCA Stair Climb for Los Angeles.
Kaitlyn Glennon congratulates her dad, Los Angeles partner Brian Glennon, after he raced up almost 1,700 steps to the top of the West Coast’s
tallest building.
Friends of the firm (from left to right) Alvaro Bassy, Carlos San Felix, Manuel Moreno, and Marino Gómez-Santos join the Latham Runners Club
at the Carrera Liberty in Madrid.
Financial analysts Pawel Kropinski (left) and Agnieszka Alexandrowicz (right) prepare for the 20-kilometer Legal Run in Brussels.
Madrid deputy office managing partner Antonio Morales ran in the Carrera Liberty on behalf of Run4Smiles, which benefits sick children in Spain.
(From left to right) Guest services receptionists Giada Lignelli, Camilla Quadrelli, and Simona Patanella and secretaries Daria Giampetruzzi and
Stefania Redaelli take a break along the Avon Running 2013 route in Milan.
(From left to right) Associate Daniel Senger, paralegal Aki Ikeda, office technology supervisor Chirag Batavia, and operations specialist Taiki
Tsutsumi get ready for the Palace Loop Run in Tokyo, a charity run for Refugees International Japan.
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37. • Fielded teams in the Carrera Liberty, a 10-kilometer
race in Madrid that benefits the International
Paralympic Committee, which sponsors the summer
and winter Paralympic Games, and the Carrera
de la Ciencia, a 10-kilometer race in Madrid that
benefits Fundación Deporte y Desafío, a private,
nonprofit organization whose primary objective is
the social integration of physically, mentally, visually,
or hearing-challenged people through specially
adapted sports and outdoor activities.
• Pedaled from London to Paris and back on stationary
exercise bikes, as part of Tour de Law. This event
raises money for Breast Cancer Care in the United
Kingdom. Latham’s London office was the top
firm fundraiser, donating almost £12,800.
• Raised more money than any other participating
team as part of the Palace Loop Run in Tokyo.
This money will be used by Refugees International
Japan to support Syrian children attending school
in Jordan.
• Went “A Mile for Maddie,” as part of a
fundraising walk that benefits the Maddie James
Seaside Learning Center at the Ocean Institute in
Orange County.
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38. Many lawyers and staff from our Washington, D.C. office participated in AIDS Walk Washington this year, including (from left to right)
associates Patrick English, Matt Telford, and Katie Schettig, counsel Ann Claassen, and friends of the firm Morgan Maddoux and
Sally Claassen.
Friend of the firm Caddy Faircloth is still too young to walk, but her mom and dad pushed her in this year’s AIDS Walk Washington.
This year’s AIDS Walk New York participants included (from left to right) New York counsel Virginia Tent and her daughter, Helena,
associate Gretchen Blauvelt-Marquez, discovery technology project manager Warren Singh, and associates Chelsea Osborne,
Sean Weisberg, Kara Scheiden, and Ali Koenig.
Along with her son, Ronan, global technology support analyst Melanie Baird raised money for AIDS Project Los Angeles as part of
AIDS Walk Los Angeles.
Friend of the firm Lois Lazzarino (right) joins legal secretaries Jovon Smallwood (center) and Lyvia Rivera (left) at the American
Cancer Society’s annual Making Strides Against Breast Cancer walk in New York’s Central Park.
Los Angeles facilities clerk Christian Portillo (right) greets Best Buddies representative Michelle Homami at the Best Buddies
Friendship Walk in Long Beach, California.
(From left to right) Human resources assistant Christina Lundquist, senior paralegal Karen Long, legal secretary Robin Diestel, and
technology support trainer Linda Ward walked “A Mile for Maddie” to benefit the Maddie James Seaside Learning Center at the
Ocean Institute in Dana Point, California.
• Stepped, strode, and
trod in the 29th annual
AIDS Walk Los Angeles,
raising over $42,000—
more than any other
participating law firm—
for AIDS Project Los
Angeles, one of the main
providers on the West
Coast of critical health
care, food delivery, and
social services to persons
living with HIV and AIDS.
We also fielded a team in AIDS Walk New York,
which raises money for over 40 organizations in
the New York City area that work with people who
have or have been affected by HIV and AIDS, and
participated in AIDS Walk Washington for the 17th
year in a row. This walk benefits Whitman-Walker
Health, a nonprofit community-based health
organization that provides dependable, high-
quality, comprehensive, and accessible health
care and legal services to those infected with
or affected by HIV or AIDS. In addition, we have
advised this organization in a pro bono capacity.
• Leapt over parked cars, climbed the “Hollywood”
sign, and swung over the La Brea Tar Pits
in Los Angeles as part of Concrete Hero,
an athletic event that also benefits AIDS Project
Los Angeles.
• Put together a team for the Juvenile Diabetes
Research Foundation (JDRF) Walk to Cure
Diabetes, for the 16th year in a row. JDRF is
the largest private funder of diabetes research
in the world, with more than 85 cents of every dollar
used for research to cure and prevent diabetes
and its complications.
• Participated in the Best Buddies Friendship
Walk in Long Beach, California, a celebration of
Best Buddies’ mission of creating life-changing
employment opportunities, leadership development,
and friendships for individuals with and without
intellectual and developmental disabilities.
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39. • Raised more than $84,000 in our Washington,
D.C. office during the annual “Generous
Associates” campaign, the largest amount raised
by any participating law firm. The money goes
to the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia,
which provides free legal assistance to clients
in civil cases.
• Purchased and donated school supplies to the San
Diego Unified School District’s Office of Children
and Youth in Transition, which supports students
and their families who are living in shelters,
in hotels/motels, or on the streets.
• Competed in Law Rocks!, a battle of the bands
charity event. Lawyers and staff from our Los
Angeles and Orange County offices formed the band
Diversion, previously known as Willful Misconduct,
and played on behalf of the Good Shepherd Center,
a facility assisting homeless women and children.
• Wore jeans to benefit a variety of organizations.
For a $5 or $10 donation, personnel in many of
our offices can wear jeans on select Fridays, with
proceeds going to the American Heart Association,
Mid-Atlantic D.O.G.S. Search Rescue, Leukemia
Lymphoma Society, and Human Rights First,
among others.
• Vied with other Los Angeles-area law firms to raise
the most money in support of regional food banks
in southern California. All told, Latham raised more
than $80,000 for the Los Angeles Food Bank as part
of the annual Food from the Bar campaign.
• Grew moustaches as part of Movember, a month-
long charity initiative that asks men to grow facial hair
to raise awareness of and money for testicular and
prostate cancer. Fourteen associates in our Houston
office grew, groomed, and sported moustaches for
the month—and raised approximately $7,000.
• Donated more than AED 29,000 to Adopt-a-Camp,
a Dubai-based charity that works to improve the
lives of men living in Dubai’s labor camps. Our
donation will help provide 230 workers with basic
household supplies and hygiene products.
• Coordinated a Not For Sale pop-up store in our
San Francisco office, which offered lawyers the
chance to learn more about this organization’s
pioneering efforts to end slavery in our lifetime
and to get involved via pro bono opportunities.
The shop sold merchandise made by individuals
who were rescued from or who are at risk of
human trafficking.
• Held a Chili Cook Off, in which lawyers, summer
associates, and staff competed to see who
could make the tastiest, spiciest, and best-named
chili, to benefit the San Diego Food Bank.
• Collected bottle tops in our Paris office for Les
Bouchons d’Amour, a nonprofit organization
that sorts and sends millions of bottle tops to be
recycled at a facility in Belgium. Proceeds are
given to several not-for-profit organizations.
Manager of attorney recruitment and development Liz Forrest (left) and business development manager Ericka Cunningham (right)
serve chili at their office’s annual fundraising Chili Cook-Off, which benefited the San Diego Food Bank.
Fourteen associates in our Houston office grew moustaches as part of Movember, a month-long initiative that raises awareness of
and money for testicular and prostate cancer.
Sara Hundt, project assistant in our San Francisco office, shops the Not For Sale pop-up store run by NFS staffers Mary Elliott (left)
and Jodi Montoya (right).
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40. Personnel in our Singapore office, including (from left to right) associate Lyndon Tan, business development senior coordinator Anjli Davda,
accounting manager Chionh Lay Khim, accounting assistant Rosalind Au, business development assistant Anouchka Forey, associate Howe
Min Wee, and associates Maree Myerscough and Zhu An Lu, host a private screening of “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2” for members
of MINDS (Movement for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore).
(From left to right) HR generalist Nickey-Ann Leon, former HR coordinator Diane Grogan, and New York Blood Center representative Elisa
Cavaliere welcome people to the 2013 New York Summer Blood Drive in our New York office.
Eighth graders Daniel Seavers (left) from Williams Prep Academy and Sydney Cusic (right) from St. John De La Salle Catholic Academy won
the 2013 Do the Write Thing Essay Contest, judged in part by Latham’s Chicago lawyers and staff.
Latham’s chief officers, directors, and office administrators spent an afternoon delivering meals to homebound senior citizens in New York City.
As part of our San Francisco office’s Community Service Day, several staff members and lawyers volunteered in a local park, weeding,
mulching, and doing general cleanup.
In Washington, D.C., (from left to right) manager of global attorney development Emma Filstrup, research librarian Megan Kuhagen, facilities
supervisor Gabriela Rodriguez, and business development coordinator Stephanie Heyworth accepted clothing donations at Dress for Success.
Our San Francisco office held a mock trial workshop for students from the All Stars Project’s Development School for Youth, a leadership
training program that connects teens and young adults with people in the business community.
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41. • Printed flyers in our Paris office for, and donated
office supplies to, Le Rire Médecin, which
sends clowns to entertain hospitalized children.
• Sponsored the 15th annual Do the Write Thing
citywide essay contest for middle-school students in
Chicago. Latham partner Robin Hulshizer serves
as co-chair of the board, and many Chicago lawyers
and staff serve as board members and volunteers.
The 2013 challenge received more than 1,000
essays from students at approximately 30 inner-
city schools describing how violence has impacted
their lives and offering solutions to address
youth violence.
• Weeded, landscaped, and cleaned St. Mary’s
Square, in downtown San Francisco, alongside staff
from the city’s Department of Recreation and Parks.
Personnel in our Washington, D.C. office also got
their hands dirty for a good cause, by volunteering
at a local farm.
• Welcomed ninth graders from Thurgood Marshall
Academy, a public charter school that offers a
standards-based curriculum with a focus on the
law, democracy, and human rights. Its “Law Day”
program brings students to law firms, including our
Washington, D.C. office, where lawyers lead mock
trials and discussions on advocacy, negotiation, and
other legal issues.
• Accepted and sorted clothing donations for Dress
for Success, in Washington, D.C. and Silicon Valley.
This international not-for-profit organization has
promoted the economic independence of more
than 700,000 women since 1997 by offering them
professional attire, a support network, and career
development tools.
• Put on a mock trial workshop for students from
the All Stars Project’s (ASP) Development School
for Youth (DSY) in our San Francisco office. ASP
works to better the lives of inner-city young people
through supplemental educational and performing
arts programs, and runs DSY, a leadership training
program that connects teens and young adults with
people in the business community.
• Organized a blood drive for the New York Blood
Center, one of the major nonprofit blood collection
and distribution organizations in the United States.
It provides almost 1 million blood components
to 200 hospitals in New York City, New Jersey,
the Hudson Valley, Long Island, and parts of
Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
• Hosted a private screening of Cloudy with a Chance
of Meatballs 2 for members of MINDS (Movement
for the Intellectually Disabled of Singapore)
and their families as part of the American
Chamber of Commerce’s Corporate Community
Day, the largest one-day employee volunteer
event in Singapore.
• Painted the streets surrounding City Hall in Houston
as part of the Via Colori Street Painting Festival,
featuring over 200 artists. This year’s weekend
of creativity and fun benefited the Center for
Hearing and Speech, which helps children
with hearing impairments.
• Alphabetized books, organized shelves,
and prepared annual reports for mailing at
More Than Words, a nonprofit bookstore and
café that empowers youth who are in the foster
care system, court-involved, homeless, or out
of school in Boston. We volunteered as part of “Tech
Gives Back,” the biggest day of service in Boston’s
tech community.
• Delivered meals to homebound senior citizens in
New York City with Encore Community Services,
which has provided assistance and care to the
elderly since 1977.
• Slept out for Centrepoint, a charity in the
United Kingdom that provides emergency
accommodations, support, information, and
training to homeless young people. In November
2013, lawyers from our London office joined
almost 1,000 other participants in braving the cold
to take part in Centrepoint’s “Sleep Out” to raise
money and awareness, spending the night on
boxes in London’s Exchange Square and helping
Centrepoint raise more than £350,000.
Volunteering
To raise money for homeless young people in the United Kingdom, London associate Geoff Earl settles down for the night on boxes in
London’s Exchange Square.
Houston legal secretary Candy Willard enjoys the art at Via Colori, a street painting festival in Houston that raised money this year for
the Center for Hearing and Speech, which helps children with hearing impairments.
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42. Lawyers and staff in our Middle East offices held a fundraising holiday dinner to raise money for Mararianta School, in Masai Mara, Kenya.
Pictured here are first and second graders.
For the past few years, our London office has raised money to purchase supply-filled shoeboxes for extremely poor families in Romania.
Lawyers and staff in our Houston office collected 1,985 toys to donate to the local Marines Toys for Tots Foundation.
Volunteer “Santas” from our Washington, D.C. office deliver their contributions to the staff of the Children’s Law Center for its annual
Holiday Hope Drive.
Every December, our offices around the world purchase gifts and raise money to ensure that the underprivileged in their communities
have a happy holiday season.
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otherwise have gone without presents during
the holiday season, through Share Our Selves.
Lawyers and staff purchased clothes, gift cards, and
housewares, and donated money. In addition, the
office provided gifts to 35 senior citizens through the
Council on Aging’s SmileMakers Guild.
• Sponsored a pie-eating contest and held a raffle
to benefit Miriam’s Kitchen. This organization not
only feeds meals to the chronically homeless in
Washington, D.C., but also provides the support
and services its clients need in order to address the
underlying causes of homelessness and transition into
permanent housing.
• Packed and distributed bags of food to underprivileged
families in conjunction with St. James’ Settlement, a
nonprofit, multiservice organization in Hong Kong that
runs a food bank, assists the homeless, and offers
daycare and support services to low-income children,
among other programs.
• Purchased 1,985 toys in Houston to donate to the local
Marines Toys for Tots Foundation. The office was so
excited to participate that it donated roughly 18 toys for
every person who works there.
• Held a raffle during our Hamburg office’s holiday party
to benefit Mentor Hamburg e.V., which connects adults
with children to practice reading skills.
• Sold baked goods, crafts, and raffle tickets in New York
as part of the annual Winter Festival. A portion of the
proceeds went to the Wounded Warrior Project.
• Captured Christmas in a shoebox in our Frankfurt
office, which collected money for toys and sweets,
then packed the gifts into boxes to distribute to
residents of children’s homes as part of Weihnachten
im Schuhkarton.
• Held a benefit for Christian Aid’s São Paulo Urban
Project in Brazil, which seeks to raise the living
standards of the city’s poorest residents by improving
their job prospects and housing. For every £1 donated,
personnel in our London office could buy one vote
for a partner to wear holiday-themed costumes at the
office’s Winter Party; £20,000 was donated.
• Granted winter wishes through New York Cares, a
nondenominational umbrella organization for several
charities in the New York area that collects letters from
underprivileged children and teenagers asking for a gift
that their families would be unable to provide. All told,
the office donated more than 200 gifts.
• Collected gifts in our LosAngeles and San Diego offices
to distribute to needy families through the Northeast
Community Clinic and to homeless students and their
families through the San Diego Unified School District’s
Office of Children and Youth in Transition.
• Celebrated “Eidsgiving” in Doha. This annual Latham
tradition commemorates both Thanksgiving and Eid al-
Adha. This year, the fundraising dinner benefited the
Mararianda School in Masai Mara, Kenya.
• Hand-delivered much-needed supplies, such as
toothbrushes, gloves, and lanterns, to impoverished
families with the charity Link to Hope. Counsel Simon
Graham spearheads Latham’s participation in this
annual initiative, including coordinating gifts and
donations in our London office, and he traveled to
Gherla, Romania, to distribute the gifts.
Holiday Initiatives
Recruiting manager Jen Larsen oversees collections in our San Francisco office for the local bar association’s annual Head Start Holiday Gift
Program for underprivileged youth.
Personnel in our Frankfurt office, including (from left to right) human resources assistant Larissa Möser, legal secretary Susanne Adam,
human resources coordinator Janine Erber, records coordinator Benjamin Coons, legal secretary Iris Krimmel, guest services receptionist Lai
Ming Shum, and legal secretary Kristina Jerke, collected toys and sweets as part of Weihnachten im Schuhkarton, which distributes holiday
presents to local children’s homes.
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44. Keith Hoffmann
Equal Justice Works Fellow
2014–2016
New York Legal Assistance Group
New York, New York
Keith, our newest Equal Justice Works
Fellow, will begin his fellowship in
2014. Working with the New York Legal
Assistance Group, in New York City,
Keith will advise veterans through legal
clinics at Department of Veterans Affairs
(VA) medical centers. Returning home
from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,
many veterans have sustained significant
physical and mental disabilities, and may
be further disadvantaged by poverty or
a lack of knowledge of their legal rights.
To educate these veterans about their
rights and represent them in legal and VA
benefits claims, Keith will offer direct legal
services and representation to veterans
who are a part of the VA medical system.
He will work with veterans who have been
erroneously denied discharge upgrades
and disability benefits claims in order
to restore their access to life-changing
services and benefits. Keith will also
assist clients in matters involving housing,
estate, and consumer and family law, and
will seek opportunities to develop impact
litigation that will broadly affect the VA’s
provision of veterans’ benefits. Keith will
also provide training to medical staff at VA
medical centers, focusing on the medical-
legal issues faced by VA patients.
Anne Hudson-Price
Equal Justice Works Fellow
2013–2015
Public Counsel
Los Angeles, California
Since she began her fellowship in
September 2013, Anne has worked at
Public Counsel in Los Angeles, California,
providing civil legal services to justice-
involved veterans. In particular, Anne
works with service members involved
with the Veterans Treatment Courts—
specialized dockets that offer alternatives
to incarceration for veterans suffering
from trauma, substance abuse, or mental
health problems resulting from combat-
related trauma. Despite the sacrifice
many veterans have made, their civilian
lives are disproportionately characterized
by homelessness, unemployment,
addiction, depression, and family
conflict. In turn, despite the efforts of the
treatment courts to provide mental health
services, many vital legal needs remain
unmet. Anne works to ensure that justice-
involved veterans in the Los Angeles
area secure the government benefits to
which they are entitled and receive legal
representation to overcome the barriers
they face in reentering the workforce,
procuring medical support services, and
maintaining their housing. She also works
with neighboring community groups and
national organizations to promote
the treatment-court model on a local
and national scale.
Catherine Longkumer
Equal Justice Works Fellow
2012–2014
Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan
Family Services
Chicago, Illinois
Catherine began her fellowship in 2012.
She works at the Legal Aid Society of
Metropolitan Family Services in Chicago,
Illinois, assisting sex-trafficking victims.
It is estimated that there are thousands
of women and children in the Chicago
area who are victims of trafficking. All
too often, those responsible for the
trafficking or those benefiting from it are
never held accountable. Catherine’s
project works to change that by using the
Illinois Predator Accountability Act (PAA),
which allows victims of sex trafficking
to sue their trafficker and third parties
that were involved with or benefited
from the trafficking. Partnering with the
Cook County State’s Attorney’s office,
LexisNexis, law firms, and social service
agencies, Catherine has developed a
comprehensive approach that allows
for an innovative and coordinated effort
to deliver justice for these victims. The
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to service all their legal needs while
helping them connect to appropriate
social service agencies to ensure their
continued support and safety. In addition
to co-counseling cases with local firms,
Catherine has assisted in training
others on PAA and trafficking issues.
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