Annual Event 2026

Celebrating  

Legal Aid at Work’s

110th Anniversary

Legal Aid at Work holds one primary fundraising event each year to provide essential general support for our work on behalf of low-wage workers and their families. Join community members, attorneys, and public interest leaders who are passionate about social justice as we celebrate our 110th anniversary.

THURSDAY, MAY 28, 2026

5:30-8:00 P.M.

FOUR SEASONS HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO

Key Deadline

May 8 – Recognition in program book

Questions? Please contact Steve Heimerle at events@legalaidatwork.org or 415-593-0138

Keynote Speaker

Catherine E. Lhamon

Executive Director,

Edley Center on Law and Democracy,

UC Berkeley School of Law

Presented by Catherine L. Fisk,
Barbara Nachtrieb Armstrong Professor of Law
, UC Berkeley School of Law

BIOGRAPHY

Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Award

Justice Martin J. Jenkins (Ret.)

Associate Justice,
California Supreme Court

Presented by Annette P. Carnegie,
Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc.

BIOGRAPHY


Thank You to our Sponsors and Donors


Champion


Leader


Founder


Visionary


Partner

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Signature Resolution

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP


Pacesetter

Covington & Burling LLP

Fenwick & West LLP

Gilead Sciences, Inc.

Rogers Joseph O’Donnell, PC

Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe, LLP

Sixth Street

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP


Patrons

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP

Crowell & Moring LLP

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP

Farella Braun & Martel LLP

Hemming Morse, LLC

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

O’Melveny & Myers LLP with Luann Simmons

Outten & Golden LLP

Hunter Pyle Law, PC

Sidley Austin LLP

Troutman Pepper Locke LLP

Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger

Zelle LLP


Supporters

Altshuler Berzon LLP with James M. Finberg and Melanie M. Piech

Andrus Anderson LLP

California Civil Rights Law Group

Epiq

Feinberg, Jackson, Worthman & Wasow LLP

Folger Levin LLP

Fox Rothschild LLP

Friedman & Springwater LLP

JAMS

JND Legal Administration

Jones Clifford LLP

Katz Banks Kumin LLP

Kazan McClain Partners Foundation

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

Liberation Law Group, P.C.

Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C.

Minami Tamaki LLP

Mintz

Nichols Law, P.C.

Joshua and Jennifer Peck

Julie M. Riewe

Roberts Disability Law

Rosen Bien Galvan & Grunfeld LLP

Sanford Heisler Sharp McKnight, LLP

Schneider Wallace Cottrell Kim LLP

Vinson & Elkins LLP

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP


Challengers

Alexander Morrison + Fehr, LLP

Beneficial State Bank

Sara Brody and Rob Gailey

Kevin Clune and Jeffrey Waldron

Cohelan Khoury & Singer

Dardarian Ho Kan & Lee

Robert and Ruth Dell

Catherine Fisk and Erwin Chemerinsky

Joan M. Graff, In Honor of our new President Kevin Clune who leads with vision, purpose, and passion.

William N. Hebert and Lori A. Schechter, In Honor of Joan Graff

Christopher T. Heffelfinger

Kaufmann & Gropman LLP

Konecky Mediation

Justice James Lambden

Leonard Carder LLP

Barry S. Levin and Jan Hale-Levin

Louise M. McCabe and Donald T. Gray

Minnis & Smallets LLP

Renne Public Law Group LLP

Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP

Beth Ross and Laura Trupin

The Sampath Law Firm

Bryan Schwartz Law, PC

SGS Mediation Services

Shartsis Friese LLP

Simpluris

The Law Office of Scott Stillman

Swanson & McNamara LLP

TONG LAW, P.C.

The Villegas Law Firm, APC

Peter H. Werner


Advocates

Galen Arkush Ages

Beeson, Tayer & Bodine, APC with Dale L. Brodsky

Annette P. Carnegie

CPT Group, Inc.

Adrianne De Castro

Engineers & Scientists of California Local 20

Scott A. Fink and Kathy E. Klein

Ellen A. Friedman

John R. Foote

Ginger L. Grimes

Wilmer J. Harris

Impact Fund

Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP

Ling Yuan


In-Kind Donors / Special Thanks

William Alsup

Catherine L. Fisk

Christopher T. Micheletti


Development Committee

Christopher T. Micheletti, Zelle LLP, Co-Chair

Joshua Peck, Sixth Street, Co-Chair

Jennie Lee Anderson, Andrus Anderson LLP

Aelish M. Baig, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP

Sara B. Brody, Sidley Austin LLP

Daniel A. Cody, Mintz, Levin, Cohn, Ferris, Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.

Michael B. Dell, Shartsis Friese LLP

Nicholas D. Fram, Munger Tolles & Olson LLP

William N. Hebert

Christopher T. Heffelfinger, Berman Tabacco

Hilary C. Krase, Farella Braun + Martel LLP

John Mullan, Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe, LLP

Jahan C. Sagafi, Outten & Golden LLP

Dylan G. Savage, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

Eric C. Wiener, Morrison & Foerster LLP