The Feerick Center for Social Justice held its 2015 awards & benefit reception at Bank of America on Monday.

From left, Matthew Diller, dean of Fordham University School of Law; Lawrence Pierce, a former judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit who received the Lifetime of Commitment Award; Patricia Hynes, center, senior counsel at Allen & Overy, who received the Spirit of Service Award; James Gill, of counsel at Bryan Cave who received the Spirit of Hope Award; and John Feerick, founder and senior counsel of the Feerick Center for Social Justice and former Dean of Fordham Law School.

Rose Gill Hearn, a principal of Bloomberg Associates who is not pictured, received the Spirit of Hope Award.