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Women's Leadership in Pro Bono Honorees
Join VOLS to recognize three outstanding leaders, who are coming together for a special conversation about pro bono legal service as New Yorkers are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic and to the urgent calls for racial justice.
Sheila S. Boston
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Kate Oberlies O’Leary
General Electric Company
Bettina B. Plevan
Proskauer Rose LLP
Conversation moderated by
Michele Coleman Mayes
The New York Public Library
Special Recognition
Lifetime Service Award
John S. Kiernan
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Leadership, Excellence, and Dedication to Pro Bono (LEAD) Award
Brenna K. DeVaney
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher, & Flom LLP
Small Business Clients
Ramona Ferreyra
Ojala Threads
VOLS Microenterprise Project
Aysha Saeed
Aysha NY
VOLS Microenterprise Project
In Memoriam
Louis A. Craco
Marcia Horowitz
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Thank you to our event sponsors
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Welcome Presentations
Welcome Letter
About VOLS
Featured Remarks
The Honorable Janet DiFiore
Letters from Public Officials
Thank you to the Volunteers of Legal Service Staff and Board of Directors.
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Donate to VOLS COVID-19 Response
Thank you for donating to VOLS as we stand by New Yorkers during the COVID-19 crisis.
Your support enables us to assist unemployed workers with benefit applications, to advise small businesses facing closure and debt, to provide life planning services for frontline healthcare workers, seniors and older veterans, to help mothers in prison or jail to maintain critical family ties, to counsel immigrants youth on eligible pathways to pursue education or work, or to help children and their families address their legal challenges.
New Yorkers rely on VOLS, and we in turn rely on your support. Thank you!
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