29th Annual William O. Douglas Award Dinner
Thursday, June 9, 2005
The Beverly Hilton
Thank
you!
The
Board of Directors and staff of Public Counsel thank our outstanding
honorees and generous contributors for making
this
year’s William O. Douglas Award Dinner a resounding success.
Over
$2.2 million was raised to support Public Counsel’s nationally
recognized programs serving nearly 25,000 clients annually throughout
the Los Angeles metropolitan region.
Every
dollar donated to Public Counsel will provide approximately twelve
dollars in pro bono legal
and other services.
See
event photographs here
William
B. Richardson, Governor of the State of
New Mexico (Full
Bio) will
be the recipient of the prestigious William
O. Douglas Award.
Governor Richardson was elected Governor
of New Mexico in 2002 by the largest margin
of any candidate since 1964. Governor Richardson
served
for 15 years as New Mexico's Representative
in the 3rd Congressional District. Governor
Richardson served in 1997 as the U.S. Ambassador
to the United Nations, and in 1998, he was
unanimously confirmed by
the U.S. Senate as Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Energy. Governor Richardson
has been nominated several times for the
Nobel Peace Prize.
Microsoft will
be the recipient of the Corporate Achievement Award for their global
leadership in technology innovation and corporate
citizenship. Accepting the Award will be Microsoft Senior Vice President,
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Bradford L. Smith. (Full
Bio)
Presenting
Mr. Smith with the Corporate Achievement Award will be the Attorney
General of the State of California Bill Lockyer (Full
bio).
Howrey LLP will
be honored with the Law Firm Pro Bono Award for their extraordinary
contributions of
time, expertise and resources on behalf of indigent, vulnerable
and victimized segments of our community. (Firm
bio) Accepting the
Award will be Joanne Caruso, Managing Partner of Southern California.
(Full bio) Presenting
the Award to Howrey LLP will be the Senior Vice President, Chief Legal
Officer
and General Counsel for Unocal, Samuel Gillespie. (Full
bio)
The J.
Paul Getty Trust will be receiving the Community
Leadership Award for establishing a world-class center
for the visual arts in Los Angeles and for
their extraordinary investments in the people
and institutions of our great city. The Award
recognizes their global leadership in collection,
research, scholarship and education, conservation
and philanthropy and your unwavering commitment
locally to outreach and educational programming
that engages students, schools and residents
from throughout our city. (Getty bio) Accepting
the Award will be the Director of the Getty Foundation, Deborah Marrow. (Full
bio) Steven Koblik, President of the Huntington Library, Art
Collections and Botanical Gardens, will be will be presenting the Award. (Full
bio)
Public Counsel Thanks Its Generous
Contributors
Guardians of Justice • $100,000
Microsoft • Anonymous
Millennium Founders • $50,000
Arnold & Porter LLP • Fish & Richardson P.C. • Howrey
LLP • Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP • Robins, Kaplan,
Miller & Ciresi LLP • Sidley Austin Brown & Wood LLP • Anonymous
Founders • $35,000
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP • Irell & Manella LLP • Latham & Watkins
LLP • Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP • O'Melveny & Myers
LLP • Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP • Lea & Barry
Porter • Proskauer Rose LLP • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom
LLP • Strange & Carpenter
Underwriters • $25,000
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP • Arden Realty, Inc. • Bingham
McCutchen LLP • The Citigroup Private Bank • Davis Wright
Tremaine LLP • DirecTV • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson
LLP • Girardi & Keese • Heller Ehrman LLP • Katten
Muchin Rosenman • Loeb & Loeb LLP • Oder & Stewart
Investment Management, LLC • Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliff
LLP • Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP • Simpson
Thacher & Bartlett LLP • Southern California Edison • Winston & Strawn
LLP
Benefactors • $15,000
Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP • The Capital Group
Companies, Inc. • City National Bank • Deloitte & Touche
LLP • FTI Consulting, Inc. • The J. Paul Getty Trust • Hogan & Hartson
LLP • Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP • Jones
Day • Kirkland & Ellis LLP • Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif
LLP • Los Angeles Times • Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw
LLP • McDermott, Will & Emery • Morrison & Foerster
LLP • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP • Preston Gates & Ellis
LLP • Reed Smith LLP • Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal
LLP • Tom & Janet Unterman • Vons Foundation
Partners • $10,000
Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, Drooks & Lincenberg • Buchalter,
Nemer, Fields & Younger • Eastwood-Stein Deposition Management • HBO • Kirkpatrick & Lockhart
Nicholson Graham LLP • LexisNexis • Molycorp, Inc. • Navigant
Consulting, Inc. • Perkins Coie LLP • Playa Vista • PricewaterhouseCoopers
LLP • Sullivan & Cromwell LLP • Thelen Reid & Priest
LLP • Union Bank of California, N.A. • Van Etten Suzumoto & Becket
LLP • Westfield Corporation, Inc.
Patrons • $7,500
Allen Matkins Leck Gamble & Mallory LLP • Arthur J. Gallagher & Co. • Comerica
Inc. • Greenberg Glusker • Greenberg
Traurig, LLP • Hennigan Bennett & Dorman LLP • Imaging
Presentation Partners • Morgan, Lewis & Brockius LLP • Rapp
Collins • Sidney Stern Memorial Trust • Stutman, Treister & Glatt
P.C. • Weissmann, Wolff, Bergman, Coleman, Grodin & Evall,
LLP
Sponsors • $5,000
Bruce and Nancy Newberg • Carlsmith Ball LLP • Countrywide
Financial Corporation • Folger
Levin & Kahn LLP • Fulcrum Financial Inquiry LLP • Erika
J. Glazer • Kaye Scholer, LLP • Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps
LLP • Mattel • McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP • Pachulski,
Stang, Ziehl, Young, Jones & Weintraub
P.C. • Rapkin,
Gitlin & Beaumont • Sempra Energy Utilities • Smith & Carson • Statistical
Research, Inc. • Sugerman Communications Group • Weston Benshoof
Rochefort Rubalcava & MacCuish LLP
