City Bar Justice Center Annual
Gala: A Landmark Building Transformed
April 18, 2007 6:00 – 9:00 pm
6:00 – 7:30 cocktails
7:30 – 9:00 dinner and award
presentation
House of the New York
City Bar Association 42
West 44 th Street
The City Bar Justice Center – the
legal services arm of the New York City Bar – will
hold its second annual Gala on April 18, 2007
. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Time
Warner Inc. will be honored with the City
Bar Justice Award for their leadership
and dedication to public service. Accepting on
behalf of Skadden, Arps will be Robert
C. Sheehan, Executive Partner. Paul
T. Cappuccio, Executive Vice President
and General Counsel, will accept on behalf of
Time Warner. Co-chairs for the evening are Rosemary
T. Berkery, Executive Vice President
and General Counselof Merrill
Lynch & Co. and Robert D. Joffe,
Partner at Cravath, Swaine & Moore.
Hundreds of lights will transform the City
Bar’s historic 1897 landmark building into
a modern New York lounge. For one night,
the West 44 th Street House of the New York City
Bar, which is New York City ’s focal point
for shaping legal and public policy, will take
up a new image: Screens, lights and music will
convey a stylish New York club.
Proceeds from this gala will benefit the City
Bar Justice Center, which offers free legal assistance
to New Yorkers in need. Among those expected
to be helped include immigrants seeking asylum,
victims of domestic violence and human trafficking,
the homeless, the elderly, cancer patients and
survivors, consumers filing for bankruptcy, struggling
small businesses and ex-offenders needing assistance
to accomplish a successful re-entry into society.
WHERE House of the New
York City Bar Association
42 West 44 th Street
About the Association
The New York
City Bar Association (www.nycbar.org)
was founded in 1870, and since then has been
dedicated to maintaining the high ethical
standards of the profession, promoting reform
of the law, and providing service to the profession
and the public. The Association continues to
work for political, legal and social reform,
while implementing innovative means to help
the disadvantaged. Protecting the public’s welfare remains one of the
Association’s highest priorities.
