LeGaL Foundation 2010 Annual Dinner

Thursday, March 18th, 2010
Ritz-Carlton Battery Park
Cocktails: 6:00 - 7:30pm
Dinner: 7:30 - 10:30pm

This year's LeGaL Community Vision Awards will be presented to:

Michael Adams

Executive Director of SAGE (Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders)

Richard Socarides

Of Counsel to the firm of Brady Klein Weissman LLP

For more information on the award recipients, please click here.  For sponsorship and patron information, please click here.   For dinner journal advertising information, please click here or contact the office at 212-353-9118.

For a copy of the dinner invitation and reply card, please click here.  Individual tickets are available for purchase for $225.00 by returning the reply card to the LeGaL office.

LeGaL is proud to recognize the following supporters of our annual dinner (as of 3.01.10):

Platinum Benefactors

Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP

Davis Polk & Wardwell

Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Patton Boggs LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Gold Benefactors

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP

Silver Benefactors

Arnold & Porter LLP
Brady Klein Weissman LLP
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP

Hofstra Law School

Hunton & Williams LLP
Kahn & Goldberg, LLP

McCarter & English, LLP
Milberg LLP
O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP

Touro Law Center

Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz

Weiss, Buell & Bell

Individual Patrons

Stuart J. Beckerman

Christopher Bellanca

Susan L. Bender

Michael J. Franco

Paul A. Goetz
Dr. Stuart Kahn

Alan M. Koral
Professor Arthur S. Leonard

Hon. Charles D. McFaul
Tom Prol

Bruce R. Swicker

2010 Metro Area LGBT Legal Career Fair
for First Year Law Students

LeGaL is pleased to announce its 2010 New York City Metro Area LGBT Legal Career Fair, to take place on Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law in Manhattan. Click here for more information.

To register for this event, click here.

LeGaL Joins Amicus Brief on Judicial Compensation

LeGaL joined seven bar associations, representing thousands of attorneys and judges in an amicus brief in support of fair judicial  compensation  in the New York State Court of Appeals in Larabee v. Governor, Index no. 112301/07.  The other bar associations are the Asian American  Bar Association of New York, the Bronx Bar Association, the Dominican Bar Association, the Latino Lawyers of Queens, the Metropolitan Black Bar Association of New York, the Muslim Bar Association of New York, and the Puerto Rican Bar Association of New York.  The brief is attached here.

LeGaL Mentor Program

LeGaL is proud to announce its Mentor Program for LGBT lawyers and law students.  LeGaL encourages its lawyer members to recall their law student days and early years in the profession and to consider becoming a mentor for a local LGBT law student or new lawyer.  Law students and new lawyers should take advantage of this opportunity to meet experienced lawyers and build valuable professional networks.  This program is an easy opportunity to get involved and make a difference in the future of the New York area’s LGBT legal community.If you are interested in volunteering as a mentor, please click here to complete a form that can be sent as an attachment via e-mail to le_gal@earthlink.net.  Interested law students and new lawyers should click here.