This year, PBI hosted its Annual Dinner on November 5 at Gotham Hall in New York City. PBI presented the 2015 John H. Pickering Award to Sidley Austin and this year, for the first time, PBI presented two CPBO Partner Awards: The 2015 CPBO Pro Bono Partner Award – Large Law was presented to BNY Mellon, White & Case and The National LGBT Bar Association; and the 2015 CPBO Pro Bono Partner Award – Small Law was presented to Best Buy and Volunteer Lawyers Network. PBI also paid a special tribute to PBI’s founder Esther F. Lardent who stepped down as president earlier this year.
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Special thanks to our 2015 Pro Bono Institute Annual Dinner Co-Chairs:
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Ivan Fong Senior Vice President, Legal Affairs and General Counsel 3M Company |
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Brett Hart Acting CEO United Continental Holdings, Inc. |
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Greg Jordan Executive Vice President and General Counsel The PNC Financial Services Group, Inc. |
Learn more about our Annual Dinner Co-Chairs.
2015 Benefit Committee
2015 Award Winners
2015 Pickering Award Winner:
Sidley Austin LLP
2015 CPBO Pro Bono Partner Award Winners:
Large Law – BNY Mellon, White & Case, and the National LGBT Bar Association
Small Law – Best Buy and Volunteer Lawyers Network
2015 PBI Annual Dinner Sponsors
Founder
Senior Partner
Lead Counsel |
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| Aetna Inc. Alston & Bird American Lawyer Media Ballard Spahr Brewer, Attorneys & Counselors Dickstein Shapiro DLA Piper Ford Motor Company General Electric Company Goodwin Procter Hunton & Williams |
Intel Corporation Latham & Watkins McGuireWoods Microsoft Corporation Paul Hastings Seyfarth Shaw The Clorox Company Thomson Reuters Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz White & Case WilmerHale |
Advocate |
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| Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Arnold & Porter AT&T Bank of America Corporation Best Buy Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney BuckleySandler Caterpillar, Inc. Comcast Cable Communications Deere & Company Drinker Biddle & Reath Elliott Greenleaf Esther F. Lardent Faegre Baker Daniels Hahn & Hessen Hertz Global Holdings Inc. |
IBM Legal Executive Leadership Hogan Lovells King & Spalding Littler Mendelson Lowenstein Sandler McCarter & English Northrop Grumman Corporation Norton Rose Fulbright Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe Prudential Financial Quarles & Brady State Farm Viacom Inc. Vorys, Slater, Seymour and Pease Weinstock, Friedman & Friedman |
Donor |
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| Accenture plc Capital One Crowley & Lamb Day Pitney Dentons US Dorsey & Whitney Fredrikson & Byron Lindquist & Vennum Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc. McDonald’s Corporation |
McDonald Toole Wiggins McGlinchey Stafford Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo Office Depot, Inc. Robins Kaplan Schiff Hardin United Parcel Service Wolfe & Wyman Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice |