Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft and Goldman Sachs personnel together for the Justice Served campaign in 2017. Courtesy photoBig Firms, Legal Departments Launching 2020 Campaign for Food Bank
Barclays, the Hispanic National Bar Association and Wolters Kluwer are joining a slew of major law firms to participate in the charity event this year.
January 30, 2020 at 02:51 PM
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About two dozen law firms and corporate legal departments are participating this year in an annual charity effort called Justice Served to support the Food Bank for New York City.
Justice Served officials said the fifth annual campaign will launch Monday. The goal is to raise money and awareness and to mobilize volunteering for citywide hunger-relief efforts.
The campaign, which runs through March 13, now includes 25 entities, including law firms, corporate departments and a bar association. The number of participants has been increasing every year since the campaign was launched in 2016, when there were just five law firms and a corporate legal department.
The 25 organizations participating in the campaign this year include: Alston & Bird; Barclays; Bloomberg L.P.; Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft; Carter Ledyard & Milburn; Dentons; Fenwick & West; Goldman Sachs; Herbert Smith Freehills; The Hispanic National Bar Association–young lawyers division; Jones Day; King & Spalding; Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel; McLaughlin & Stern; Morgan, Lewis & Bockius; Morgan Stanley; O'Melveny & Myers; Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Ropes & Gray; Shearman & Sterling; Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Affiliates; Wells Fargo & Co.; White & Case; Withers Bergman; and Wolters Kluwer.
New to the campaign this year are Wolters Kluwer, Barclays and the Hispanic National Bar Association.
It's not too late to participate in the 2020 campaign, said Lary Stromfeld, a Cadwalader partner and founder of the Justice Served campaign.
"We want to attract more attention and more volunteers," he said, adding he's hoping law schools can join in the future, too. "We're always looking to expand our base. It's about the legal community, broadly described, coming together to fight hunger."
Last year, the campaign raised enough money to provide more than 625,000 meals, the Law Journal reported.
Janis Robinson, vice president of institutions and partnerships at Food Bank For New York City, noted that one in five New Yorkers are struggling with food insecurity. "The Justice Served campaign raises much-needed awareness on hunger right here in New York City," Robinson said in a statement.
The Food Bank also relies upon 800 volunteers each week to assist at its Hunts Point distribution facility and at the Harlem Community Kitchen.
Interested law firms and law departments can register at https://www.foodbanknyc.org/justice-served/
Law firms and legal departments can also support the Justice Served campaign by purchasing a table at Food Bank's Can Do Awards gala May 6 at Cipriani Wall Street.
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