a m e r i c a n b a r a s s o c i at i o n
Death Penalty Representation Project
Volunteer Recognition
and Awards Event
September 10, 2015
6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
Decatur House
1610 H Street NW, Washington, DC
About the Project
The American Bar Association created the Death Penalty Representation
Project in 1986 with a single goal: to ensure that every person facing
a possible death sentence has the assistance of a competent, effective
lawyer.
Over the past 29 years, the Project has raised awareness about the
lack of representation available to death row prisoners, addressed this
urgent need by recruiting and training volunteer attorneys, and worked
for systemic changes to capital counsel systems. The Project has
recruited the country’s top law firms to work on hundreds of pro bono
death penalty cases. Our volunteers have contributed their skills, more
than one million pro bono hours, and many hundreds of thousands of
dollars to this cause.
Together, we have changed the lives of countless men and women.
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Welcom e
Robert L. Rothman
Chair, ABA Death Penalty Representation Project Steering Committee
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
Emily M. Olson-Gault
Director, ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
2015 Exceptional Ser vice Award Presentations
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Accepted by Thomas D. Yannucci
Presented by Robert E. Lee, Executive Director,
Virginia Capital Representation Resource Center
Perkins Coie LLP
Accepted by Sherilyn Peterson
Presented by Maureen F. Essex, U.S. District Court,
District of Maryland
2015 John Paul Stevens Guiding Hand of
Counsel Award Presentation
Megan McCracken & Jennifer Moreno,
Berkeley Law Death Penalty Clinic
Lethal Injection Project
Presented by Dale A. Baich, Office of the Federal Public Defender
for the District of Arizona, Capital Habeas Unit
Keynote Speaker
Christina M. Tchen
Assistant to the President and Chief of Staff to the
First Lady of the United States
Introduced by Robert L. Rothman
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Keynote Speaker
Christina M. Tchen
The Project is honored to welcome
Christina M. Tchen, Assistant to
the President and Chief of Staff to
the First Lady of the United States,
as the 2015 Keynote Speaker.
Ms. Tchen began her legal career
at the Chicago office of Skadden,
Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
There she specialized in litigation
at the state and federal levels,
representing clients in high
profile cases involving everything
from shareholder disputes to
constitutional law. In addition to
serving prominent clients in civil
litigation and successfully arguing
before the U.S. Supreme Court as
a fourth-year associate, Ms. Tchen
demonstrated an outstanding
commitment to pro bono work,
which included service as the
chairwoman of the firm’s pro bono
programs.
As a partner, Ms. Tchen helped lead a Skadden pro bono team representing Freddie
Spicer, a death row prisoner in Mississippi who had received woefully inadequate
representation at trial. Among other errors, trial counsel never presented evidence
that Mr. Spicer had grown up in a household characterized by physical abuse,
neglect, poverty, and substance abuse, and that he suffered from a major mental
illness—mitigating evidence that could have helped convince the jury to spare his
life. The Skadden team brought these errors to light through a post-conviction
evidentiary hearing, obtaining reversal of his death sentence and eventually
winning a life sentence at a new sentencing hearing. Ms. Tchen also worked on the
cases of two death row prisoners in Illinois and had secured orders granting habeas
relief for both at the time Governor Ryan commuted all Illinois death sentences.
After 23 years with Skadden, Ms. Tchen served as the Director of the Office of
Public Engagement, the White House’s outreach office. In this position, Ms.
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Tchen’s work included engaging a wide array of organizations and the American
public in dialogue with the White House. At the same time, President Obama
selected Ms. Tchen to be the Executive Director of the newly formed White
House Council on Women and Girls. The Council is responsible for advising the
President on policies that are of special importance to women and girls. In this
capacity, Ms. Tchen has coordinated with a variety of organizations and national
departments to advocate on behalf of this group.
In 2011, Ms. Tchen left the Office of Public Engagement when Michelle Obama
selected her to be her new Chief of Staff. The First Lady called Ms. Tchen a “natural
choice,” citing her experience advocating for young women and her commitment
to education and inclusion. As Chief of Staff to the First Lady, Ms. Tchen has
supported veterans through the Joining Forces Initiative, worked to counteract
childhood obesity nationwide, and helped adolescent girls across the world go
to school through the Let Girls Learn project. She also continues to serve as the
Executive Director of the White House Council on Women and Girls.
The Project thanks Ms. Tchen for steadfastly advocating for the most vulnerable
among us. We are grateful for her inspiring dedication to public service.
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
congratulates the honorees of the
American Bar Association
Death Penalty Representation Project
and salutes your commitment to providing
access to justice for all.
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Exceptional Service Award
The international law firm of Kirkland & Ellis has demonstrated exceptional
commitment to providing high-quality pro bono death penalty representation,
with some of the firm’s most senior and accomplished attorneys leading the
way. The example of firm leadership is now reflected in the work of hundreds
of Kirkland partners, associates, and support staff who have provided pro bono
assistance to prisoners on death row.
In 2000, two Kirkland leaders—then-firm chair Tom Yannucci and former Solicitor
General Kenneth Starr—took on the case of Robin Lovitt in Virginia. While Mr.
Lovitt’s case was pending on direct appeal, a courthouse clerk had destroyed all
the physical evidence in the case—evidence which potentially could have been
used to prove Mr. Lovitt’s innocence through DNA testing. The team won a rare
stay of execution for Mr. Lovitt from the U.S. Supreme Court and presented the
case for clemency to then-Governor Mark Warner. Kirkland secured a remarkable
victory for their client when it persuaded Governor Warner to grant clemency to
Mr. Lovitt—the first and only capital clemency grant during his administration.
The firm’s work on the Lovitt case set the example for several other cases to follow.
Since then, Kirkland has worked on additional cases in Alabama, Virginia,
Florida, and Texas. The Texas case is another example of Kirkland’s exceptional
commitment to even the most daunting pro bono challenges.
In 2006, the Project asked Kirkland to take on the case of Max Soffar, who has
been on Texas’s death row since 1981. Mr. Soffar had twice been convicted
and sentenced to death based solely on a confession given after 26 hours of
unrecorded interrogation. By the time the ABA approached Kirkland, the case
already had an extensive and complex procedural and factual history. Undaunted
by this challenge, Kirkland agreed to represent Mr. Soffar and launched a full
investigation into the facts of the 25-year-old crime and Mr. Soffar’s troubled
background. Through their efforts, Kirkland’s pro bono attorneys uncovered
significant new evidence to support Mr. Soffar’s claims of innocence, including
compelling new testimony that points to the identity of the real perpetrator of
the crime. Mr. Soffar is terminally ill with liver cancer, but his volunteer attorneys
continue to fight on his behalf. They are currently mounting a national press
campaign and appealing for compassionate release so that Mr. Soffar may spend
his remaining days with his family.
The Project is proud to present the Exceptional Service Award to Kirkland & Ellis
in recognition of the firm’s unwavering and inspirational commitment to justice.
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“In more than 20 years of representing indigent death-sentenced inmates, I have
never encountered a firm that has provided more sustained, high quality, and
committed representation.” —Robert E. Lee, Executive Director, Virginia Capital
Representation Resource Center
Soffar team members Matthew Dexter, Andrew Horne, and Kristin Sheffield-Whitehead
“I want to commend Andrew Horne and his entire team for their commitment to
justice. The clemency petition they submitted was one of the best I’ve ever seen
and was novel for having been argued on the grounds of terminal health issues. . . .
That Kirkland & Ellis supported the team to the hilt in this lengthy and costly effort
is indeed impressive—and well deserving of the ABA Death Penalty Exceptional
Service Awards.” —Mark White, Governor of Texas, 1983-1987
“The two greatest gifts that post-conviction counsel can give a death row prisoner
are zealous representation and the recognition of that prisoner’s humanity.
Kirkland & Ellis LLP has given both to an extraordinary degree in the case of Max
Soffar, an innocent man on Texas’ death row.” —Kathryn Kase, Executive Director,
Texas Defender Service
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EXCELLENCE IN LAW
In Support of
Great Causes
PERKINS COIE is proud to support the American Bar Association
Death Penalty Representation Project. We are honored to receive
the Exceptional Service Award. Thank you to all who have made
a commitment to represent those facing death sentences.
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Exceptional Service Award
Perkins Coie, a global law firm with 19 offices, has
shown an exceptional commitment to death penalty
representation over the last twelve years, taking on five
death penalty cases in four states. Its extraordinary efforts
on behalf of its clients have resulted in two evidentiary
hearings, a stay of execution, and new sentence of life in
prison.
To tackle these complex cases, Perkins Coie assembles a
flexible team of attorneys that are often recruited to the
Perkins Coie Partner
cause by their colleagues within the firm. Explaining his
and Volunteer Attorney
motivation to take on capital cases, one attorney said:
Sherilyn Peterson
“We need to give these guys, for the first times in their
lives, really quality representation, making the system do its job and giving them
every opportunity to have their story told because it never gets told otherwise.”
Nowhere is this need to give prisoners a voice greater than in Alabama, which does
not provide lawyers to indigent death row prisoners for their post-conviction appeals
and does not have a public defender system. Despite these challenges, Perkins Coie
has taken on two cases in Alabama in recent years. In both cases the jury sentenced
the defendant to life in prison, but the judge in each case overrode the jury’s vote,
sentencing the defendant to death. Perkins Coie’s work in Alabama helps to fill a
crucial gap in the criminal justice system, bringing to light errors both in individual
cases and on a systemic level. Their work has included multiple evidentiary hearings
and petitions for relief in both state and federal court, with more than 50 Perkins
Coie attorneys and staff members contributing their time and expertise to these
cases. Without their assistance, two Alabama death row prisoners would have been
in real danger of being executed before the completion of their appeals. Instead, they
are now receiving zealous representation from a team of lawyers that fight to ensure
full and fair review of their cases in the courts.
Perkins Coie has also taken on cases in Washington state, Texas, and Georgia,
providing assistance at every level of the post-conviction process. In Washington,
the firm took the case of death row prisoner Darold Stenson to assist with a challenge
to the state’s lethal injection protocol. Just eight days before Mr. Stenson’s scheduled
execution, the team won a stay. The lethal injection case then proceeded to the
Washington Supreme Court, prompting the state to revise its execution protocol.
After this substantial victory, Perkins Coie continued representing Mr. Stenson and
discovered that the prosecution withheld key evidence from Mr. Stenson’s defense
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team during trial. In light of this egregious misconduct, the Washington Supreme
Court reversed Mr. Stenson’s capital murder conviction. Thanks to Perkins Coie’s
steadfast advocacy on his behalf, Mr. Stenson is now serving a life sentence.
For the past 15 years, a team of lawyers from the firm’s Madison office, in conjunction
with the Georgia Resource Center, has been representing death row inmate Marion
Wilson in state and local habeas proceedings. The team is currently preparing
arguments in response to the 11th Circuit’s decision to rehear the appeal en banc.
And in the firm’s newest death penalty case, a team of lawyers from the firm’s Los
Angeles office is representing Texas death row prisoner Ker’Sean Ramey. They are
now preparing to file a federal habeas petition.
Perkins Coie has demonstrated an extraordinary dedication to their clients and to
improving the criminal justice system, and the Project is proud to recognize this
achievement with the Exceptional Service Award.
“By fighting for fairness and due process so zealously on behalf of [their clients],
Perkins Coie has created a great deal of optimism for everyone concerned about
justice in Alabama’s courts—lawyers and clients alike. Perkins Coie is a leader
among national law firms representing death row inmates here in Alabama.”
—Randy Susskind, Deputy Director, Equal Justice Initiative
About the Exceptional Service Award
Volunteer firms that have made an extraordinary commitment to pro bono capital
representation are nominated by their colleagues and selected by an Awards
Committee of volunteer lawyers to be honored with our Exceptional Service Award.
Past honorees:
Arnold & Porter LLP
Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Carrington Coleman Sloman
& Blumenthal LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Fish & Richardson PC
Fredrikson & Byron, PA
Goodwin Procter LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
Kaye Scholer LLP
King & Spalding LLP
Lewis Roca Rothgerber LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP
Quarles & Brady LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
Sidley Austin LLP (2006 & 2014)
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
WilmerHale LLP
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support the American Bar
Association Death Penalty
Representation Project.
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Arnold & Porter LLP supports the
American Bar Association
Death Penalty Representation Project
We share your commitment to quality
representation in death penalty cases.
Congratulations to the 2015 honorees
for their dedication to the cause.
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American Bar Association’s Death
Penalty Representation Project and
congratulates Megan McCracken,
Jennifer Moreno, Kirkland & Ellis,
and Perkins Coie.
We also are delighted that former
Skadden partner Tina Tchen is
tonight’s keynote speaker.
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John Paul Stevens Guiding Hand of
Counsel Award
Megan McCracken & Jennifer Moreno
The Project is proud to present the 2015 John Paul Stevens Guiding Hand of
Counsel Award to Megan McCracken and Jennifer Moreno for their years of
leadership, guidance, and expertise in lethal injection litigation across the United
States.
In 2007, Megan and Jen joined the Lethal Injection Project of the Death Penalty
Clinic at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Since that time, they
have been the moving force behind lethal injection litigation in the United States. In
addition to their work on landmark Supreme Court cases such as Baze v. Rees and
Glossip v. Gross, they have provided legal assistance to countless other prisoners and
legal teams, including numerous pro bono teams referred by the ABA Death Penalty
Representation Project. Megan and Jen have now worked directly in 29 jurisdictions,
including Washington, D.C., Oklahoma, California, and Arizona. There they have
secured major victories such as successful challenges to California’s execution
practices under the Administrative Procedures Act and to the practice of importing
lethal injection drugs from foreign countries in violation of the Food, Drug, and
Cosmetic Act. As a direct result of their work, death row prisoners in multiple states
have been spared from executions using untested drugs and experimental procedures.
Megan and Jen’s impact extends beyond the numerous cases they have worked on
directly. During the course of the Baze litigation, Jen created a website to provide
information on the case to news outlets and litigators. Today, the site is maintained
as a lethal injection information clearinghouse with critical litigation resources for
attorneys across the country. Megan and Jen have also conducted numerous training
sessions for capital litigators, have lead the defender community in the development
of litigation strategies, and have written extensively about the subject in publications,
providing a critical voice to the national conversation about how we execute people
in the United States. Their work has been instrumental in raising awareness of these
issues among lawmakers and the public, often serving as the voice of the defender
community in the wake of botched executions and major court decisions. Their
efforts have resulted in greatly increased scrutiny of the lethal injection process
in recent years and made several states much more reluctant to use experimental
execution protocols.
No other two individuals have had such a far-reaching and significant impact on
capital litigation in recent years. Their work has touched countless lives and has
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been instrumental to the provision of high-quality representation in capital cases all
over the country. The Project is proud to recognize their unique and extraordinary
contributions with this award.
“Megan and Jen are the nation’s leading experts on legal challenges to lethal injection
methods. . . . Megan and Jen are not merely academic experts . . . they are fulltime
litigators. They are on call when an execution occurs almost anywhere in the country,
responding to last minute and even post execution requests for urgent help, no matter
the hour.” —Natasha Minsker, Center Director, American Civil Liberties Union of
California.
“It is impossible—and frightening—to imagine what lethal injection litigation
would look like without Megan and Jen. . . . The last few years have demonstrated
the critical importance of the
work that Megan and Jen do.
It is not an exaggeration to say
that the meaning of the Eighth
Amendment is at stake. There
could be no better time to
acknowledge all that they have
done to defend it.” —Gerald
“Bo” King, Staff Attorney,
Federal Defender Program,
Inc., Atlanta, Georgia
“[Lethal
injection]
work
has been valiantly fought
by creative, passionate, and
intelligent people working in
multiple states—but it has been
the efforts of two attorneys
that have so often served as
the spearhead for individual
Megan and Jen at the U.S. Supreme Court for
state-centered efforts and
oral arguments in Glossip v. Gross
national clearinghouse efforts.
Since 2007, Megan McCracken
and Jennifer Moreno have relentlessly and tirelessly brought their creativity, legal
knowledge, factual knowledge, and good humor to teams representing deathsentenced prisoners across the country.” —Dale Baich, Supervisor, Office of the
Federal Public Defender for the District of Arizona, Capital Habeas Unit
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About the guiding hand of
counsel Award
The Death Penalty Representation Project and its thousands of volunteer
attorneys have been inspired and sustained by Justice John Paul Stevens
throughout his distinguished tenure at the U.S. Supreme Court. Since his
retirement, Justice Stevens has continued to be an influential voice for
the most vulnerable members of our society and for changes that will give
meaning to our constitutional protections. The Guiding Hand of Counsel
Award recognizes an individual lawyer who has demonstrated the kind of
courage and commitment we associate with Justice Stevens.
Past H on o r ees:
2011Justice John Paul Stevens
2012George H. Kendall
2013 Denny LeBoeuf
2014 Mark J. MacDougall
Leading the Way
King & Spalding proudly
supports the ABA Death
Penalty Representation
Project and joins in honoring
the 2015 award recipients.
We applaud your contributions and
dedication to the legal community.
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the Project?
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Participating Law Firm Volunteers
Since 1998, the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project has recruited
these law firms to work on pro bono death penalty matters.
Agins, Siegel & Reiner, LLP
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP
Alston & Bird LLP
Arent Fox Kintner Plotkin & Kahn, PLLC
Arnall Golden Gregory, LLP
Arnold & Porter LLP
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell &
Berkowitz
Baker & Hostetler LLP
Baker & McKenzie
Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP
Barran Liebman LLP
Bass Berry & Sims PLC
Bell, Boyd & Lloyd LLC
Bingham McCutchen LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP
Bradley Arant Rose & White LLP
Bryan Cave LLP
Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
Burnette & Kelley
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cantafio and Hardy-Moore
Capitelli & Wicker
Carlton Fields Attorneys at Law
Carrington Coleman Sloman & Blumenthal,
LLP
Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Clark Hill, PLC
Clifford Chance LLP
Cohen Kennedy Dowd & Quigley PC
Cooley LLP
Covington & Burling
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman, P.C.
Craighead Glick, LLP
Crowell & Moring LLP
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle LLP
Davis & Kuelthau
Davis Polk & Wardwell
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
Dechert LLP
deGravelles, Palmintier, Holthaus & Fruge
Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, LLP
Dickinson Wright PLLC
Dickstein Shapiro LLP
Dilip Vithlani Law Offices
Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
DLA Piper LLP
Donahue Mesereau & Leids LLP
Dorsey & Whitney LLP
Downs Rachlin & Martin PLLC
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Dwyer & Collora LLP
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Evans & Dixon, LLC
Feinberg & Kamholtz
Feldman & Orlansky
Fish & Richardson P.C.
Foley & Lardner LLP
Fox Rothschild LLP
Fredrikson & Byron, PA
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Fulbright & Jaworski
Funk & Bolton
Galloway, Johnson, Tompkins & Burr
Gibbons, Del Deo, Dolan, Griffinger and
Vecchione, APC
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, LLP
Goodwin Procter LLP
Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan
Graves, Dougherty, Hearon, & Moody, PC
Gray Plant Mooty
Greenberg & Soderberg
Greenberg Traurig, LLP
Hangley, Aronchick, Segal & Pudlin
Hanify & King, PC
Haynes & Boone, LLP
Heller Ehrman LLP
Herbst & Greenwald, LLP
Herman, Herman, Katz & Cotlar
Hogan & Hartson
Holland & Hart, LLP
Holland & Knight LLP
Hopkins & Sutter
Hunter MacLean Exley & Dunn
Hunton & Williams
Jackson Walker LLP
Jenner & Block LLP
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Jones Day
Jones Walker
K & L Gates
Kaye Scholer LLP
Kenyon & Kenyon
Kilpatrick Stockton LLP
King & Spalding LLP
King, LeBlanc & Bland
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Lane Powell PC
Latham and Watkins LLP
Law Offices of Carl D. Bernstein
Law Offices of Samuel S. Dalton
Law Offices of Frank G. DeSalvo
Law Offices of Timothy Patrick Murphy
Law Offices of Richard Spears
Law Offices of Mark Stevens
Law Offices of Richard W. Westling, LLC
Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Martzell & Bickford, APC
Maslon Edelman Borman & Brand, LLP
Mayer Brown LLP
McCarter & English, LLP
McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLP
McDermott Will & Emery
McGuire Woods, LLP
McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP
McKool Smith
Milbank Tweed Hadley & McCloy LLP
Moore & Van Allen
Morgan Lewis
Morrison & Foerster LLP
Morrison Mahoney LLP
Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell LLP
Moser & Marsalek, PC
Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP
Nelson, Kinder, Mosseau & Saturley P.C.
Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough, LLP
Nixon Peabody, LLP
Ober & Kaler LLP
O’Melveny & Myers
Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Osborn Maledon
Pannill, Moser and Bonds
Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP
Patton Boggs, LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Pepe & Hazard
Pepper Hamilton LLP
Perkins Coie
Pillsbury Winthrop LLP
Plews Shadley Racher & Braun
Porter Wright Morris & Arthur LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Quarles & Brady LLP
Reed Smith LLP
Riezman Berger, P.C.
Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Rothgerber Johnson & Lyons, LLP
Schiff Hardin LLP
Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt
Schnader Harrison Segal & Lewis LLP
Segal McCambridge Singer & Mahoney
Sherin & Lodgen LLP
Shuchman & Krause-Elmslie
Sidley Austin LLP
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Sirkin Pinales Mezibov & Schwartz
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Snell & Wilmer LLP
Sonnenschein, Nath and Rosenthal
Spriggs & Hollingsworth
Steptoe & Johnson
Steven M. Schneebaum P.C.
Stoel Rives LLP
Stone Pigman Walther Wittmann LLC
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
Swift, Currie, McGhee & Hiers LLP
Terris, Pravlik & Millian, LLP
Thompson Coburn LLP
Troutman Sanders LLP
Unglesby, Koch & Reynolds
Venable LLP
Vinson & Elkins, LLP
Waring Cox, PLC
Waters & Kraus
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
White & Case LLP
Whiteford, Taylor Preston, LLP
Williams & Connolly LLP
Willkie, Farr & Gallagher LLP
WilmerHale
Windels Marx
Winstead Sechrest & Minick PC
Winston & Strawn LLP
Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice
Worrel & Schwegman
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
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2015 – 2016 Steering Committee
Chair
Robert L. Rothman
Arnall Golden Gregory LLP
Section of Litigation
Emily Westridge Black
Haynes & Boone LLP
Members at Large
Bruce A. Green
Fordham University School of Law
Mark Fulks
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell
& Berkowitz, PC
Aundré Herron
California Appellate Project
D. Alicia Hickok
Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
Young Lawyers Division
Claudia E. Castro
J. Scott Miller
Klinedinst PC
Section of Civil rights
& social justice
Jin Hee Lee
NAACP Legal Defense &
Educational Fund
Natasha Minsker
ACLU of Northern California
Standing Committee on
Legal Aid & Indigent
Defendants
Maureen F. Essex
U.S. District Court, District of Maryland
Criminal Justice Section
April Frazier-Camara
Shelby County Public Defender Office
Special Advisors
Stephen N. Maskaleris
Maskaleris & Associates
Ronald J. Tabak
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher
& Flom LLP
Daniel J. Tann
Law Offices of Daniel J. Tann
John P. Hutchins
LeClairRyan
Waleed Nassar
Lewis Baach PLLC
Michael D. Rubenstein
Liskow & Lewis
Board of Governors
William R. Bay
Thompson Coburn LLP
Jenner & Block is proud to support the
ABA Death Penalty Representation Project. Thank you for fighting to
provide quality legal representation to those whose lives are at stake.
Congratulations to honorees Megan McCracken; Jennifer Moreno;
Kirkland & Ellis LLP; and Perkins Coie LLP.
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How You Can Make a Difference
The Project receives countless requests for assistance from prisoners on
death row across the country who are without counsel. We seek private
attorneys from the civil bar who are willing to donate their time and skills
to help ensure that every person facing or challenging a sentence of
death has access to high-quality legal representation.
You can assist our efforts by volunteering to represent a prisoner in need
of counsel, talking to your colleagues who may be interested in getting
involved, or making a tax-deductible financial contribution to the Project.
Our programmatic work is funded entirely by the generous contributions
of our supporters.
Your assistance is essential to the Project’s success and to the lives of
men and women on death row. Thank you for your support!
Emily M. Olson-Gault
Director
Kaitlin Sandin
Project Associate
ABA Death Penalty Representation Project
1050 Connecticut Avenue NW, Suite 400
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 662-1738
[email protected]
www.americanbar.org/deathpenalty
www.probono.net/deathpenalty