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2115 hours have been dedicated this fiscal year to pro bono representation

Recipients of Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest ACCOLADES


Brown Rudnick celebrates those at the Firm who have made an exceptionally noteworthy contribution to the mission of the Center. On rare occasions, the Pro Bono Committee and the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest recognize these individuals with the award of a Pro Bono Accolade. Accolades have been awarded to the following people for their special contributions.

 

 

Christian Rivera

Boston
May  2009

Sustained leadership of the Boston office's ongoing participation in the bi-annual legal clinics for the homeless in conjunction with the Boston Bar Association's Lawyers Clearinghouse Homeless Clinics.
 

 

Laura Weiss

New York
May  2009

Admirable leadership of the New York office's ongoing participation in the legal clinics for the German Ghetto (Holocaust) Workers.
 

 

Benjamin Welch

Boston
October  2008

Supervison of the Summer Associate Unemployment Benefit Insurance Appeals Project, 2008.
 

 

Diane Nardi

New York
October  2008

Supervison of the Summer Associate Unemployment Benefit Insurance Appeals Project, 2008.
 

 

Elise Busny

Boston
October  2008

Supervison of the Summer Associate Unemployment Benefit Insurance Appeals Project, 2008.
 

 

Margaret Pinkham

Boston
June  2007

Extraordinary, multi-dimensional leadership and supervision of pro bono efforts, especially on behalf of Rosie's Place, the Wrentham Association for Retarded Citizens in Ricci v. Okin and the Boston Housing Court Attorney for the Day Program.
 

 

Jeffery Keffer

Boston
June  2007

Extraordinary pro bono representation of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in acquiring the ownership of a new headquarters at 689 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA where the UUSC will be able to continue their work of advancing human right
 

 

John Feeney

Boston
June   2007

Extraordinary pro bono representation of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in acquiring the ownership of a new headquarters at 689 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA where the UUSC will be able to continue their work of advancing human right
 

 

Benjamin Welch

Boston
September  2007

For your commitment to making pro bono representation a regular and important party of your practice of law, and for your extraordinary professionalism and resolute manner in successfully trying your first case, Lawrence v. Laurent, a very challenging pro
 

 

Carl Axelrod

Boston
December  2007

For a career-long comittment to making pro bono representation a regualr and important part of your practice; to encouraging, supporting and mentoring pro bono legal representation within BR; and to the extraordinary contribution you have made to our comm
 

 

Nancy Wilsker

Boston
December  2007

For the leadership you provide and model you have established in serving as General Counsel (Pro Bono) to our international non-profit client, Facing History & Ourselves.
 

 

Susan Oldham

Boston
December  2007

Exceptional dedication to supporting and participation in pro bono legal representation in 2007.
 

 

Laura Rappaport

Boston
December  2007

Exceptional dedication to supporting and participation in pro bono legal representation in 2007.
 

 

Janet Wamsley

Boston
December  2007

Exceptional dedication to supporting and participation in pro bono legal representation in 2007.
 

 

Jonathan Schwartz

Boston
December  2007

Exceptional dedication to supporting and participation in pro bono legal representation in 2007.
 

 

Nancy Tinsley

Providence
December  2007

Exceptional dedication to supporting and participation in pro bono legal representation in 2007.
 

 

John Wadsworth

Boston
June  2007

Extraordinary pro bono representation of the Unitarian Universalist Service Committee in acquiring the ownership of a new headquarters at 689 Massachusetts Avenue in Cambridge, MA where the UUSC will be able to continue their work of advancing human right
 

 

Deborah Medeiros

Providence
December  2007

Exceptional dedication to supporting and participation in pro bono legal representation in 2007.
 

 

Danielle Bennett

New York
October  2006

Exemplary leadership and lawyering in helping the Firm to support, participate in and advance the Legal Services of NY Bankruptcy Assistance Project.
 

 

Chrissy Micchelli

Boston
April  2006

Outstanding leadership and volunteer effort in coordinating BR's 2004 & 2005 annual Lee Denim Day to elevate breast cancer awareness and to raise funds to benefit the Susan. B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
 

 

Kevin Nulton

Providence
April  2006

Leading the Firm with the department's outstanding effort toward meeting our Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge commitment by devoting more than 3% of department timekeeper's time to pro bono representation during the first four months of FY'07.
 

 

Rachel Lipton

Boston
August  2006

Outstanding leadership in helping to organize and supervise BR's 2006 Summer Associates' Unemployment Appeal Project.
 

 

Andrew Dash

New York
October  2006

Exemplary leadership and lawyering in helping the Firm to support, participate in and advance the Legal Services of NY Bankruptcy Assistance Project.
 

 

Dan Saval

New York
October  2006

Exemplary leadership and lawyering in helping the Firm to support, participate in and advance the Legal Services of NY Bankruptcy Assistance Project.
 

 

Dawn Maxey

Boston
April  2006

Outstanding leadership and volunteer effort in coordinating BR's 2004 & 2005 annual Lee Denim Day to elevate breast cancer awareness and to raise funds to benefit the Susan. B. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
 

 

Erika Holmes

Boston
August  2006

Outstanding leadership in helping to organize and supervise BR's 2006 Summer Associates' Unemployment Appeal Project.
 

 

Carol Ennis

Boston
October  2005

Volunteering your professional talent as part of a new initiative to provide individual legal representation to several Boston area artists facing a common problem; difficulty collecting fees owed to them for their work or accessing other artistic resourc
 

 

Alison Hayes

Providence
January  2005

Demonstrated leadership in working with Reach Out and Read including proactively volunteering to help establish a successful working relationship w/one of Reach Out and Read's Providence sites, the Fox Point Health Center; organizing and participating in
 

 

David Golden

Hartford
June  2005

Demonstrated leadership in all three areas of the Center by continuously seeking out opportunities to provide pro bono legal representation to clients in need and by serving for several years as a mentor to students at Hartford's Breakthrough Magnet Schoo
 

 

Jennifer Ryan

Boston
August  2005

Extraordinary dedication in your first year of practicee to providing pro bono representation in a wide variety of matters which include individual client representation, class action litigation and legislative advocacy; leadership in helping to organize
 

 

John Elstad

Boston
October  2005

Volunteering your professional talent as part of a new initiative to provide individual legal representation to several Boston area artists facing a common problem; difficulty collecting fees owed to them for their work or accessing other artistic resourc
 

 

Steven Pohl

Boston
October  2005

Volunteering your professional talent as part of a new initiative to provide individual legal representation to several Boston area artists facing a common problem; difficulty collecting fees owed to them for their work or accessing other artistic resourc
 

 

Meghan Walt

Boston
October  2005

Volunteering your professional talent as part of a new initiative to provide individual legal representation to several Boston area artists facing a common problem; difficulty collecting fees owed to them for their work or accessing other artistic resourc
 

 

Brian Lamoureux

Providence
  2005

For his work with the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest in addition to regularly seeking outo and undertaking pro bono legal opportunities, and for demonstrating leadership in working through his steady and enthusiastic personal and professiona
 

 

Kenneth Goldberg

Boston
December  2005

Recent supervisory efforts which have allowed BR associate's to gain pro bono experience and to pursue access to justice on behalf of low-income clients and non-profit organizations
 

 

Catherine Ng

Boston
October  2005

Volunteering your professional talent as part of a new initiative to provide individual legal representation to several Boston area artists facing a common problem; difficulty collecting fees owed to them for their work or accessing other artistic resourc
 

 

Erika Holmes

Boston
May  2004

Co-leading Spring, 2004 Citizen Schools Mock Trial Team
 

 

Jennifer L. Brooks

Providence
January  2004

Organizing and participating in BR visits to Providence Head Start to read to children at the McMichael Center during 2002-2003.
 

 

Jerome Tichner

Boston
January  2004

Providing extensive and successful pro bono legal representation to an indigent individual in her conflict with the MA Dept. of Mental Retardation.
 

 

Michael Paris

Boston
January  2004

For service as Chairman of the Brown Rudnick Pro Bono Committee 1999 - 2004.
 

 

James McGuire

Boston
March  2004

Extraordinary encouragement and mentoring of BR attorneys in public interest, community service and pro bono matters; support for the establishment of the Brown Rudnick Center for the Public Interest; and championing of children, education and mock trial
 

 

Carla Salvucci

Boston
May  2004

Co-leading Spring, 2004 Citizen Schools Mock Trial Team
 

 

Carol Ennis

Boston
August  2004

Extraordinary due diligence in pursuing pro bono opportunities.
 

 

M. Robert Dushman

Boston
September  2004

Demonstrated leadership in supporting and supervising the pro bono work of Brown Rudnick associates.
 

 

Michael Hickey

Boston
November  2004

Demonstrated leadership and maturity in making pro bono activity an integral part of your professional life by leading a BR team at the Boston Housing Court Attorney of the Day Program; by participating multiple times in the Boston Bar Association Legal C
 

 

Samantha Gerlovin

Boston
March  2004

For consistent incorporation of pro bono representation into your legal practice and willingness to take on significant pro bono engagements on an expedited basis.
 

 

Donna Fakharpour

Boston
July  2003

Organizing and participating in BR visits to serve lunch to homeless women at Rosie's Place.
 

 

Pauline Kosowan

Boston
November  2003

Coordinating the Firm's United Way Campaign since 1995.
 

 

Paul Hartnett

Boston
May  2003

Participation in the creation and teaching of the Academy of Finance Seminars.
 

 

Boston
May  2003

Participation in the creation and teaching of the Academy of Finance Seminars.
 

 

Ron Borod

Boston
May  2003

Participation in the creation and teaching of the Academy of Finance Seminars.
 

 

Laura Robinson

Boston
July  2003

Organizing and participating in BR visits to serve lunch to homeless women at Rosie's Place.
 

 

 

 

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