Robert Alderson serves on the Board of Directors of AIDSfreeAfrica, a nonprofit organization with a mission to assist African nations in becoming self-sufficient in producing pharmaceuticals, particularly pharmaceuticals used to treat malaria and HIV/AIDS and conditions associated with these diseases.

Dana Anagnostou of the Paris office serves as a Director and the Secretary of the European Professional Women’s Network – Paris, a French nonprofit seeking to promote women’s professional progress.

Carol Archer serves as a mentor and a debate judge for Legal Outreach, Inc., a Harlem-based educational nonprofit organization that helps New York City public high school students prepare for college and professional careers.

Arthur Aufses serves as President of the Board of Trustees of the nonprofit Hudson Guild, a settlement house serving the Chelsea neighborhood in New York City.

Christopher Auguste is an alumnus and tutor for the Wadleigh Scholars Program, a Harlem-based nonprofit organization that prepares lower and middle income children in the 7th and 8th grades to gain admission and obtain scholarships to the finest preparatory schools in the United States. He also assists the Wight Foundation, a Newark-based organization with a similar mission. Chris is a member of the Board of Directors and finance committees of Goddard Riverside Community Center and St. Matthew’s & St. Timothy’s Neighborhood Center, each a human service organization that provides food, shelter, and education to New Yorkers in need. He is Co-Chair of the multi-cultural affairs committee of the Alumni Council of Phillips Academy and a Vice President of the Executive Committee of the Alumni Council. Chris is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Institute for Recruitment of Teachers, which aims to reduce the underrepresentation on faculties of certain minority groups.

Jay Baris serves as a Director of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music.

Audrey Bender serves as President of Congregation Sons of Israel, a 550-family conservative synagogue located in Briarcliff Manor, New York.

Barry Berke is Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coalition for the Homeless and on the Board of Directors of the City Bar Fund and the Federal Defenders of New York.

Avram Cahn serves as President of Congregation K’hal Adath Jeshurun.

Ken Chin is the Vice Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center and Chairperson of their Board Development Committee.

Jeremy Cohen is a member of the professional Advisory Board of Legal Outreach, Inc., a Harlem-based educational nonprofit organization that helps New York City public high school students prepare for college and professional careers. He has spearheaded Kramer Levin’s participation in Legal Outreach’s internship program, whereby eight Legal Outreach students intern at Kramer Levin during the summer. In addition, for many years, Jeremy has funded an annual scholarship for Legal Outreach graduates who have gone on to four-year colleges. Kramer Levin has endowed five additional annual scholarships for graduates.

Tom Constance serves on the Board of Trustees of St. Vincent’s Services, which cares for orphan children; the M.D. Sass Foundation for cancer research; and the Food Allergy Initiative.

Kenneth Eckstein is President of Congregation Ahavath Torah, a 750-family synagogue located in Englewood, New Jersey, and is leading a $20 million new building project for the synagogue.

Samantha V. Ettari is a member of the Federal Bar Council’s Inn of Court.

Charlotte Moses Fischman serves as a consulting member of The New York Community Trust, New York City’s community foundation, and as President Emeritus of the National Alliance for Mental Illness, NYC Metro Chapter. She also is Special Counsel to the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department and, formerly, a Director of The September 11th Fund. Charlotte has long been active at Columbia Law School, where she now serves on the Board of Visitors.

Aaron Frankel serves on the Board of Directors of Immigration Equality, an organization that works to end discrimination in U.S. immigration law, to reduce the negative impact of that law on the lives of LGBT/HIV-positive people, and to help obtain asylum for those persecuted in their home country based on their sexual orientation, transgender identity, or HIV-status. Aaron received the New York State Bar Association’s 2008 President’s Pro Bono Service Award.

Jonathan Fried is a member of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York.

Carl Frischling serves as President and a Trustee of the Daniel Heumann Fund for Spinal Cord Research. The Fund raises money to finance research projects designed to find a cure for spinal cord injuries and is unusual in that almost all of its funding is used for research. Carl also serves on the Board of Trustees of the Yorkville Youth Athletic Association, a “little league” group that operates baseball and other athletic programs for over 3,500 New York City children.

Aaron Haleva is a Director of the Moreshet Sefarad Foundation.

Bob Heller is Chair of the Board of the Tanenbaum Center for Inter-Religious Understanding, a secular, non-sectarian organization that works to reduce and prevent religiously motivated violence and bias. Its practical training, tools and resources and its support for religious peacemakers around the world help people interact respectfully despite their religious differences, whether in the classroom, the boardroom, the workplace or war-torn communities across the globe. Bob is immediate past Chairman of the over 250-person Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism, which represents some 900 Reform Jewish congregations in North America with 1.5 million members. He serves on the Board of Governors of the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion, the oldest Jewish seminary in North America, which now operates four campuses in the United States and Israel. Bob has served as a member of the panel of lawyers charged with advising and assisting the judges designated by the Eastern District’s Board of Judges to sit on its Grievance Committee.

Barry Herzog is on the Board of Directors of Friends of Yad LaKashish.

Gregory Horowitz serves on the Board of Directors of the Northside Center for Child Development, a Harlem-based nonprofit mental health clinic and early childhood center for children with emotional and/or behavioral difficulties, learning problems, language deficits, and neurological impairments. Northside was founded in 1946 by the preeminent psychologists Drs. Kenneth and Mamie Phipps Clark, whose groundbreaking research into the harmful effects of segregation played a key role in the Supreme Court’s 1954 decision in Brown v. Board of Education. Greg also serves on the board of Heartsong, Inc., a nonprofit corporation in Westchester County that provides music and art therapy for children with disabilities.

Susan Jacquemot serves on the Board of Trustees of The Caedmon School.

Maria Jones serves on the Legal Aid Society’s Low Income Tax Clinic Advisory Board. She is also the “Principal of the Day” for P.S. 59, an elementary school in Brooklyn, sponsored by P.E.N.C.I.L — Public Education Needs Civic Involvement in Learning.

Peter Kolevzon was the Founding President, is on the Board, and is a member of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Community Center in Manhattan, Inc., located on the Upper West Side.

Ken Kopelman serves as President and a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Metro Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors, a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to serving the corporate governance needs of directors and boards by offering education and information, conducting independent research, and disseminating leading practices.

Robin Kramer is the vice chair of the Village of Mamaroneck Zoning Board of Appeals.

Elizabeth Larsen serves as a mentor for Legal Outreach, Inc., a Harlem-based educational nonprofit organization that helps New York City public high school students prepare for college and professional careers.

Abdul-Rahman Lediju serves on the board of The C.H.A.N.G.E. Foundation, a nonprofit organization that promotes musical, artistic and educational development for inner city youth.

Ezra Levin is the immediate past President of the Hebrew Free Loan Society of New York, a non-sectarian provider of interest-free loans founded in 1892 that seeks to make a difference in people’s lives through a hand-up rather than a hand out. He continues to serve as counsel to the Sarah Herzog Memorial Hospital and on the Council of Advisors of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, an umbrella organization of over 60 constituent entities of which he is Past President. Ezra is a member of the Board of CAUSE New York and the Jewish Communal Fund.

Adina Levine is the Coach for The National Bar Association High School Mock Trial Tournament at Hebrew Academy of Nassau County.

Sandy Lindenbaum is an Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Honorary Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, a past member of the Board of Overseers of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Chair of the Executive Committee of the Jewish Association for Services for the Aged, a member of the Board of Trustees of the Real Estate Institute of Baruch College, and a member of the Board of the Real Estate Committee of UJA-Federation. Sandy is Vice President and a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of Governors of the Real Estate Board of New York and a member of the Advisory Board of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice. He is a founder, Director, and Vice President of the Association for a Better New York, a member of the Board of Trustees of Guild Hall of East Hampton, and also a member of the Board of Trustees of Central Synagogue.

Randy Lipsitz was reappointed as a volunteer member of the Brooklyn Law School Alumni Admission Board, which counsels prospective students as to the merits of choosing to attend Brooklyn Law School.

Karen Mintzer is a member of the Board of Directors of the Brooklyn Center for Urban Environment.

Gary Naftalis recently completed his service as a Director of the Legal Aid Society and serves as a member of the Society’s Board of Advisors.

Michael Nassau has been a board member for 15 years, and past President and current Program Committee member, of the New York Chapter of WEB, a national organization providing education on benefits subjects both nationally and through local chapters. In 2003, he became the first recipient of WEB’s Excellence in Benefits Award, granted in recognition of his many years of service in the field of benefits. Michael has also been a member from its inception of the IRS Northeast Region Pension Liaison Group, consisting of representatives of major benefits constituencies who meet periodically with government representatives on methods of improving legal regulation of benefits. Upon its organization in September 2007, Michael became a member of the EPTA Liaison Group, which works with the National Office of the Internal Revenue Service to further compliance efforts by large plans.

Jay Neveloff is a member of the Planning Board of the Village of Briarcliff Manor. He is also a member of the Real Estate Advisory Board of the Practicing Law Institute.

John Novogrod serves as the President and a member of the Board of Directors of the Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust in Connecticut, a public charity devoted to land preservation and conservation. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Baccalaureate Fund in Geneva, a public charity devoted to educational purposes, and of The New Milford Hospital, New Milford, Connecticut. He also is a member of the New York Public Library and Museum of Modern Art Planned Giving Advisory Boards.

Michael Oberman is a Mediator on the Southern District Mandatory Mediation Program, a member of the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association, and a member of the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution. He also serves as Director of the Columbia College Alumni Association, Alese Coco Fight 2 Win, Inc., and Legacy Heritage Fund.

Jennifer Pastarnack serves as Co-Chair of the Junior Committee for St. Mary’s Healthcare System for Children.

Antoine Paszkiewicz of the Paris office is the President of the Chopin Society in Paris, a nonprofit organization that has organized the Chopin Festival for the past 26 years in the “Parc de Bagatelle” in Paris, featuring outstanding international pianists and composers.

Gabrielle Paupeck serves as a mentor and a debate judge for Legal Outreach, Inc., a Harlem-based educational nonprofit organization that helps New York City public high school students prepare for college and professional careers.

Paul Pearlman serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York Legal Assistance Group.

Susan Penry-Williams serves on the Board of the Early Alzheimer’s Foundation. Susan also serves on the Board of DBSA of Greenwich which is a Chapter of the National DBSA that provides support services for people suffering from depression and bi-polar disorders and their family members.

Scott Rosenblum is a member of the New York Board of Governors of the Middle East Forum and serves as Mayor of the Village of Saltaire in New York.

Cheryl Roth is a member of the Board of DES Action, USA, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to informing the public about diethylstilbestrol (DES) and helping DES-exposed individuals.

Howard Rothman serves on the boards of the Poetry Society of America, the Alliance For Young Artists & Writers, and the New York Foundation for The Arts.

Ted Ruthizer is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches a seminar on immigration law and policy.

Abe Safdie serves on the Board of Directors of Magen David of Union Square, a newly formed synagogue located in downtown Manhattan.

Sarah Schindler-Williams serves as a member of the Board of Directors of The Exoneration Initiative, a new not-for-profit organization dedicated to overturning wrongful convictions based on non-DNA evidence.

Doug Schneller is a member of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York City; serves as a judge in moot court competitions for New York University School of Law; and is active in various alumni, recruiting, and fundraising activities for Drew University in Madison, New Jersey.

Stephen Senie serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, a nonprofit theater company.

Norm Simon is a member of the National Leadership Council of Lambda Legal. He is also a member of the Pro Bono and Legal Services Committee of the City Bar Association.

Michael Sternhell is a member of the City Bar Association’s International Human Rights Committee.

Jeff Trachtman is a member of the Board of Directors of Volunteers of Legal Service. He recently left the Board of Directors of Cause Effective, a nonprofit organization that for 28 years has taught other nonprofits how to build financial and human resources through special events, board development, fundraising, and other activities. Jeff was co-founder of the organization and served as Chair of its Board for 14 years. Jeff has also assisted the New York Civil Liberties Union and Legal Services NYC with fundraising efforts. As he has each year since 1997, Jeff recently represented Kramer Levin in Washington at the annual Law Firm Pro Bono Seminar sponsored by the Pro Bono Institute, facilitating a discussion on partnering with nonprofit legal service providers. Jeff was a recipient of the New York State Bar Association’s 2005 President’s Pro Bono Service Award and represented the firm at the ABA Section of Litigation’s Annual Conference in San Antonio, Texas, where the firm was presented with the John Minor Wisdom Public Service and Professionalism Award for 2007.

Neil Tucker is the Co-President of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Kol Ami.

Elise Wagner serves as Chair of the Building Committee of Temple Beth El of Northern Westchester, Chappaqua, New York. She is also a member of the Board of Advisors of the Furman Center for Real Estate and Urban Policy at New York University School of Law.

Jonathan Wagner serves on the Board of Trustees of both Congregation Kehilath Jeshurun and Yavneh of the Upper East Side.

Charles S. Warren is a member of the Policy Committee of New York/New Jersey Harbor Estuary Program, the Board of New York League of Conservation Voters, Community Board 8 Manhattan, Advisory Board of Civitas Citizens, Inc., the Board of Lenox Hill Neighborhood House, and a member of the Board of Environmental Advocates. He is also President of the Board of Settlement Housing Fund.

Harold Weinberger is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches a seminar on False Advertising Law. He also serves on the Board of Directors of the City Parks Foundation.

Robert Wollin is a member of the Alzheimer’s Association New York City Chapter Junior Committee, an organization of young professionals whose mission is to educate individuals in the 21-40 year age range about the devastating illness of Alzheimer’s Disease and to raise funds to help promote an understanding of the disease.

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