Annual Event

Annual Event

Legal Aid at Work holds one signature fundraising event each year to provide essential support for our services. We celebrate our anniversary with attorneys from a wide spectrum of firms, judges, public interest leaders and officials, law school professors, social justice activists, and community members.

The highlights of our annual celebration are the presentation of the Mathew O. Tobriner Public Service Award, an inspirational keynote address by a nationally recognized speaker, and reports on our recent successes. Sponsors of our event, which is held in reception and dinner formats, receive generous benefits.

Join us!

Selected Keynote Speakers

Wajahat Ali, Attorney, playwright and journalist
Rob Bonta, Attorney General of California
David Chiu, San Francisco City Attorney
Annette Gordon-Reed, Professor and author
Linda Greenhouse, Journalist and author
Eric H. Holder, Jr., Former US Attorney General
Katie Porter, Congresswoman
George Takei, Actor and activist
Jeffrey Toobin, Journalist and legal analyst
Rick Welts, Golden State Warriors

Selected Mathew O. Tobriner Award Recipients

Belva Davis, Journalist and civil rights heroine
Alicia Garza, Organizer, activist and author
William A. Gunn, Defense counsel for Guantanamo Bay detainees
Thelton E. Henderson, Judge, US District Court
Marielena Hincapie, National Immigration Law Center
Dolores Huerta, United Farm Workers
Saru Jayaraman, Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC)
Sheila Kuehl, California legislator
Eva Patterson, Equal Justice Society
Keith Wattley, UnCommon Law

Privacy Policy

Our Commitment to Our Donors

Legal Aid at Work will not sell, share or trade our donors’ names or personal information with any other entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations. We will only share personal information if the donor has given us the specific permission to do so.

This policy applies to all information received by Legal Aid at Work, both online and offline, on any Platform (“Platform”, includes the Legal Aid at Work website and social media applications), as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.

To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider, our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.


If you have any questions about this, please contact us.

Legal Aid at Work is an independent tax-exempt nonprofit under Section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code. Your contributions are tax-deductible to the extent allowed by law. Our tax is ID 94-2783401. We do not receive support from the federally funded Legal Services Corp., known as LSC.

Our mailing address is Legal Aid at Work, 180 Montgomery St, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94104. For assistance, call or email Steve Heimerle at 415-593-0138, or sheimerle@legalaidatwork.org.