Dec 8, 2020
12:00 pm-12:45 pm
virtual livesteam
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Keynote Remarks
The Honorable Goodwin H. Liu
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California
Program led by:
Colleen M. Cotter, Esq.
Executive Director, Legal Aid
Legal Aid Update from:
Mike Ungar, Esq. (Ulmer & Berne)
President, Board of Directors
Staff Awards:
Claude E. Clarke Awards, presented to:
Tracy Ferron,
Hilda Hernandez,
Heather Lynch, and
Laura Post
Leadership Award, presented to:
Deborah Dallman, Esq.
and Legal Aid's Lifetime Achievement Award, presented to:
Susan Stauffer, Esq.
Volunteer Lawyers Program Awards, including:
Community Impact Awards, presented to:
Jason Dawicke, Esq.,
Donna Kolis, Esq.,
Betsy Rader, Esq. and
Christina Royer, Esq.
This event is free for all,
thanks to generosity of our sponsors
(list current as of 12/8/2020)
Platinum Sponsors
Gold Sponsors
Benesch, Friedlander, Coplan & Aronoff, LLP
Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association
Giffen & Kaminski LLC
KeyBank National Association
Thompson Hine, LLP
Ulmer & Berne LLP
Silver Sponsors
Diebold Nixdorf
Frantz Ward, LLP
Goldfarb Weber Creative Media
Squire Patton Boggs
Bronze Sponsors
Brouse McDowell LPA
Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP
Catholic Charities Diocese of Cleveland
Cleveland Academy of Trial Attorneys
Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Cleveland-Cliffs Inc.
Cleveland Public Library
Cuyahoga Community College
Fairport Asset Management
Hahn Loeser & Parks LLP
Jones Day
McDonald Hopkins
Norman S. Minor Bar Association
Porter, Wright, Morris & Arthur, LLP
Tarolli, Sundheim, Covell & Tummino LLP
Tucker Ellis LLP
Wickens Herzer Panza
General Sponsors
Buckingham Doolittle & Burroughs
Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Cavitch Familo & Durkin
Center for Community Solutions
Cleveland-Marshall College of Law
Dworken & Bernstein
Jackson Lewis P.C.
Kohrman Jackson & Krantz
Margaret W. Wong & Associates
Ohio Access to Justice Foundation
Spangenberg Shibley & Liber, LLP
Sutter O'Connell
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