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Pro Bono Report: Community Service Listings
Alexandra Alberstadt serves on the benefit committee for inMotion’s Annual Photography Auction and Dinner and also acts as an alumni representative for St. John’s College of Annapolis, Maryland, and Santa Fe, New Mexico (the “Great Books” School). She is also active in the New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut Alumni Association for Michigan State University-Detroit College of Law and hosts an annual networking function for that group at Kramer Levin each May.
Dana Anagnostou of the Paris office founded and serves as a Director of Promotion of Mother’s Milk, Inc. (ProMoM), a nonprofit dedicated to the promotion of breast feeding.
Arthur Aufses serves on 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 to gain admission to boarding schools. He also assists the Wight Foundation, a Newark-based organization with a similar mission.
Mary Aversano is Chair of the Brand Names Education Foundation (“BNEF”) Public Information Committee. BNEF is a publicly funded, nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance worldwide knowledge of the nature, purpose, and value of brand names in the market. BNEF is the philanthropic arm of the International Trademark Association (“INTA”). INTA is a nonprofit worldwide membership organization of trademark owners and advisors that represents trademark owners to protect and advance the importance of trademarks as essential elements of international commerce. She also serves as a Judge in BNEF's annual Saul Lefkowitz Moot Court Competition.
Jay Baris serves as a Director of the Brooklyn Conservatory of Music and the OppenheimerFunds Legacy Program
Gary Becker serves on the Board of Trustees of the First United Church of Christ in Milford, Connecticut.
Barry Berke is an Adjunct Professor at New York University School of Law. He also serves as Vice-Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Coalition for the Homeless.
Avram Cahn serves on the Board of Trustees of Congregation K’hal Adath Jeshurun.
Ken Chin serves on the Board of Directors of the Charles B. Wang Community Health Center.
Jeremy Cohen is active with Legal Outreach, Inc., a Harlem-based educational nonprofit organization that helps New York City public high school students prepare for college and professional careers. Jeremy is a member of Legal Outreach’s Advisory Board. He is also a mentor, a debate judge, and has spearheaded Kramer Levin’s participation in Legal Outreach’s internship program, whereby four 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 (1) St. Vincent’s Services, which cares for orphan children; (2) the M.D. Sass Foundation for cancer research,; and (3) the Fund to Cure Asthma.
David Feldman is a member of the New York UJA Young Lawyers Steering Committee.
Charlotte Moses Fischman servesas a consulting member of The New York Community Trust, New York City’s community foundation, and as President of the National Alliance for the Mentally Ill-NYC Metro Chapter. She is also a member of the Policy Committee of the Departmental Disciplinary Committee for the First Department and, until recently, 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.
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 1400 New York City children.
Debora Grobman serves on the mediation panel of the New York City Complaint Review Board.
Aaron Haleva is a Director of The Moreshet Israel Foundation for Sephardic Studies.
Jack Hazan is a member of the Board of Education of Magen David Yeshivah and a member of the New York City Community Board 11.
Bob Heller is Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Union for Reform Judaism (formerly the Union of American Hebrew Congregations), which represents nearly 920 Reform Jewish congregations with 1.5 million members. He also 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 serves as the lay advisor to the Central Conference of American Rabbis’ committee reviewing the Conference’s Ethics Guidelines and Procedures governing the conduct of its 1,700 members. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of Central Synagogue and is Secretary and a board member of the Tannenbaum Center for Inter-Religious Understanding. Bob has been named 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.
Susan Jacquemot serves on the Board of Trustees of The Caedmon School.
Maria Jones serves on the Board of Directors of Brooklyn Community Housing and Services, Inc.
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. Peter is Chair of the Program Committee of the Board of the JCC. He is also a member of the International Advisory Board of the Auschwitz Jewish Center Foundation.
Ken Kopelman acts as a special advisor to the Greater Harlem Chamber of Commerce on a number of ongoing projects.
Richard Leland is a Special Professor of Law at the Hofstra University School of Law and serves on the Board of Directors of the Hofstra Law School Alumni Association.
David Levin serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Youth Symphony.
Ezra Levin served as President of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York, an umbrella organization of over 60 constituent entities, until July 1, 2004, when he was term limited after three years of service. In October, Ezra assumed the presidency 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 as Founding Chair Emeritus of the Solomon Schechter High School of New York. Ezra also serves on the Board of Advisors of Jewish Campus Life at Columbia University.
Sandy Lindenbaum is an Honorary Trustee of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, a 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. He 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.
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 Green Guerillas, Inc., a nonprofit corporation that supports and cultivates community gardens throughout New York City.
Tom Moreland continues as Chair of the Board of Volunteers of Legal Service, Inc. (“VOLS”), formed by the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (the “City Bar Association”) in 1984 to stimulate and coordinate pro bono efforts in the City focused on providing legal services to the indigent. Tom recently completed a three-year term as Chair of the Association’s Committee on Federal Courts. He was elected by the membership of the Association to the Nominating Committee of the Association for 2004-05. He is also now chairing for the Association a newly formed Task Force on the Role of Lawyers in Corporate Governance. Tom is also a Mediator with the Southern District Mediation Program and an arbitrator on the Eastern District’s arbitration panel.
Ellen Nadler is a longtime Director and Corporate Secretary of The Wall Street Charity Fund, which is also known as “One to One.” Founded in response to the Willowbrook scandal in the early 1970’s, One to One was instrumental in supporting litigation that ultimately led to the deinstitutionalization of many patients at Willowbrook and similar facilities. One to One raises money to support organizations that supply critical client services to developmentally disabled persons.
Gary Naftalis serves as a Director of the Legal Aid Society and a Trustee of Boys Brotherhood Republic and the Joseph Haggerty Fund for Children.
Michael Nassau has been a Board member for 13 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 benefit constituencies who meet periodically with government representatives on methods of improving legal regulation of benefits.
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 Practicing Law Institute and a member of the Global Advisory Board of the Endeavor Group.
Michael Oberman is a Mediator on the Southern District Mandatory Mediation Program and a member of the Commercial Panel of the American Arbitration Association. He is also a member of the Panel of Distinguished Neutrals of the CPR Center for Dispute Resolution.
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 21 years in the “Parc de Bagatelle” in Paris, featuring outstanding international pianists and composers.
Susan Penry-Williams serves on the Board of the Early Alzheimer’s Foundation.
Bruce Rabb is a founding member of the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch and serves on its Executive, Policy, Development, and Communications committees. He also serves as Secretary and Special Counsel to the organization and as Vice-Chair of its Middle East and North Africa division. Bruce is also a Director of Citizens Union of the City of New York, which he also serves as treasurer, the Welfare Law Center, FilmAid International, and the Sabre Foundation and is a member of The National Council of Human Rights First (formerly the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights) and the Advisory Council of Doctors of the World U.S.A.
Scott Rosenblum is a member of the Executive Committee of the Middle East Forum and serves as Mayor of the Village of Saltaire in New York.
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.
Theodore Ruthizer is a Lecturer in Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches a seminar on immigration law and policy.
Doug Schneller is active in various alumni, recruiting, and fundraising activities for Drew University in Madison, N.J.; serves as a judge in moot court competitions for New York University School of Law; and participates in fundraising for Ridgeview Congregational Church, White Plains, N.Y.
Stephen Senie serves on the Board of Directors of the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, a nonprofit theater company.
Norman Simon is a member of the Pro Bono and Legal Services Committee of the City Bar Association.
Stephen Sinaiko is a member of the City Bar Association’s Committee on State Courts of Superior Jurisdiction.
Jeff Trachtman is a Director, former Chair of the Board, and co-founder of Cause Effective, a nonprofit organization that for 24 years has taught other nonprofits how to build financial and human resources through special events, board development, fundraising, and other activities. 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, leading discussions on partnering with nonprofit legal service providers and methods of administering pro bono programs within law firms. Jeff also helped launch the Marvin Frankel Fellowship program at Human Rights First by speaking about Judge Frankel’s life and career at a luncheon gathering of HRF interns and staff. Jeff was a recipient of the New York State Bar Association's 2005 President's Pro Bono Service Award.
Neil Tucker is Vice President and a member of the Board of Trustees of Congregation Kol Ami. He is also on the Board of Directors of UJA-Federation of New York and a member of the Board of the Westchester General Campaign of UJA-Federation.
Harold Weinberger is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, where he teaches a seminar in False Advertising Law. He also serves on the Board of Directors of City Parks Foundation.
Robert Wollin is a member and treasurer 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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