LAS_Impact_Report_2017

ACCESSING 

PUBLIC BENEFITS 

BRIDGING THE 

EDUCATION GAP 

STANDING 

PREVENTING 

HOMELESSNESS 

STRONG 

OBTAINING 

HEALTH CARE 

SECURING STABLE 

IMMIGRATION STATUS 

FIGHTING FOR 

FREEDOM FROM 

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE 

THE 

LEGAL AID SOCIETY 

SAN MATEO COUNTY OF 

2017 

IMPACT 

REPORT

In just one year 1 , Legal Aid fought against social injustice by opening 

2,309 cases, impacting 6,466 of our low-income neighbors. 

41% were households with children 

34% were households 

headed by a senior 

40% were households including a 

person with a disability 

10% were households with a 

survivor of domestic violence 

The Median income in San Mateo County: 

$93,623 

2 

The Median income of Legal Aid clients: 

$18,846 

The ight against social injustice for 

people living in poverty continues. Read on. 

1 

- All data in this Impact Report is for legal assistance provided from 7/1/16-6/30/17 

2 

- Source: American Community Survey 2015

Dear Friend of Legal Aid, 

We passionately protect the rights of those in our community who most need, but can least 

afford, legal help. Amidst the prosperity of San Mateo County, the median household income 

of our clients is $18,846, which is only one-fifth of the San Mateo County median household 

income of $93,623. 

Since the last impact report, our low-income neighbors from nearly every city in the county 

have sought our legal assistance to ensure that they have the basic necessities of life. 

In addition to continuing our 6 key areas of service—housing, healthcare, public benefits, 

immigration, domestic violence and education—we are expanding the scope of our services 

to respond to uncertainty from the federal government. We’ve been asked to make scores 

of presentations about the status of the law particularly in immigration, healthcare and housing, 

and we regularly get calls for technical assistance about the law. 

We are grateful to local funders who have responded quickly to the shifting political landscape 

by providing grants to help us address immigrants’ urgent requests for legal assistance. 

This funding gives our LIBRE (Linking Immigrants to Benefits, Resources, and Education) 

program the resources to increase the range of services offered to immigrants, including 

representing immigrants seeking legal status and helping parents develop family preparedness 

plans in case a family member is detained or deported. 

We are also proud of the first-of-its-kind 2016 San Mateo County Eviction Report published 

by Legal Aid and co-author Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto. For the first time, 

statistical information about the housing crisis in our neighborhood was compiled, analyzed 

and made public. The report guides officials, decision-makers and the public in the debate and 

decision-making process about the housing crisis. 

We are grateful to you for considering us your partner in the fight against social injustice. There 

is more work to be done as we fight for our clients in these uncertain times. 

Please consider making a donation of any size to help us continue our work. You can donate 

by visiting our website at www.legalaidsmc.org/donate or using the enclosed envelope. Thank 

you so much in advance. 

Sincerely, 

M. Stacey Hawver 

Executive Director 

Janice Tam 

President

This family was able to keep 

their housing with help from 

Legal Aid. 

"Laila" and her children have made their home in an 

apartment in Redwood City for seven years. The two 

younger children walk to elementary school every 

day, and the eldest daughter is on the swim team 

and the cheer team at the local high school. In the 

fall of 2016 the building was sold to new owners. 

On the day escrow closed, all the tenants received 

notice of a $200 rent increase, except Laila. She 

received a 60-day eviction notice that didn’t state a 

reason for the eviction. 

Laila told the landlord that she couldn’t move in 60 

days and didn’t want her children to have to leave 

school in the middle of the school year. The new 

landlord said she could have an extra thirty days on 

condition that she pay the $200 rent increase the 

other tenants were absorbing, and an additional 

$500, for a total of $700. Laila was desperate and 

paid the new landlord $700. 

Laila came to one of Legal Aid’s three weekly housing clinics where she was interviewed 

in Spanish by a housing coordinator. Legal Aid contacted the landlord to find out why the 

family was being evicted and was told that the family was “messy.” When staff met with 

Laila in her apartment, they found it was in good condition and became suspicious that the 

landlord was discriminating against Laila because she had three children and was a single 

mother. 

The landlord filed an eviction case against Laila. Legal Aid fired back by vigorously 

contesting the eviction case, and threatening to file a discrimination case against the 

landlord. The landlord backed down, dismissed the case, and dropped his efforts to evict 

Laila and her children. They remain tenants in their home and the children continue to 

attend their schools. 

Client names and other details have been changed for reasons of privacy

This boy found a path to 

reading with help from 

Legal Aid. 

Client names and other details have been changed for reasons of privacy 

Reading wasn’t easy for 5th grader "Zeke." While his 

classmates were choosing chapter books for quiet 

reading time, he was choosing picture books, hoping 

none of his friends would notice. Zeke’s teacher knew he 

was struggling and put him into a small reading group, 

but that wasn't working. Zeke’s mother was concerned. 

Zeke’s older sister hadn’t had the same kind of problems 

when she learned to read. 

When Zeke’s mother told the pediatrician at Gardner 

Packard Children’s Health Center (Gardner) about 

Zeke’s reading struggles, the doctor referred her to the 

Peninsula Family Advocacy Program (FAP), a medicallegal 

partnership between Legal Aid, Gardner, Lucile 

Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and other clinics in 

the county. FAP provides free legal services to children, 

pregnant women and their families to help address the 

social determinants of health, including education issues. 

The FAP attorney immediately began to advocate with the school district on behalf of Zeke’s 

mother. In the past, Zeke's mother had asked Zeke's school for a special education assessment, 

to see if he had a learning disability, but the school had declined. As a result of the attorney's 

advocacy, the school finally agreed to the assessment. 

After a thorough assessment, it was determined that Zeke had a learning disability and was 

only reading at a 2nd grade level. The FAP team recommended an outside reading intervention 

program that specializes in working with children who have reading disabilities. FAP was optimistic 

that Zeke, who was a hard worker and eager to improve his reading, would thrive with this type of 

reading intervention. After negotiations were complete, Zeke began his program as soon as school 

concluded for the year. Now, Zeke’s mother reports that her son has made tremendous strides in 

his summer intensive program and is excited to be closer to be reading just like his peers at middle 

school this fall.

This young mother kept her 

family safe with help from 

Legal Aid. 

Many months prior to the Trump Administration's end 

of the DACA program, "Aleeza," an 18 year old mom, 

contacted Legal Aid's Teen Parent Project because she 

had filed for DACA but had never heard back from US 

Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). She was 

unable to re-file because she could not afford to pay 

the $495 filing fee again. 

She met with Legal Aid's Teen Parent Project attorney, 

who helped her file a request with the money order 

company to reimburse her filing fee and then refiled 

her DACA application. When USCIS wrongly 

denied her DACA because of juvenile police contacts, 

Legal Aid helped her file a complaint and her DACA 

application was approved. 

Shortly thereafter, Aleeza and her husband were brutally attacked by gang members, who hit her 

husband over the head with a brick and grabbed her by the hair and threw her to the ground. 

Aleeza turned to Legal Aid’s Teen Parent Project attorney again, who gave her immediate legal 

assistance and representation in court. The attorney helped Aleeza file for restraining orders 

against the gang members and encouraged her to cooperate with the prosecution, despite her 

fear of retaliation. 

Aleeza did testify against the gang members and three of her attackers, and a fourth who 

helped them intimidate her after the attack, were convicted or pled no contest to felony charges 

and were sentenced to state prison. Legal Aid advised Aleeza that because she had helped 

law enforcement and testified against perpetrators of a crime, she was eligible to apply for U 

Nonimmigrant Status. Legal Aid helped Aleeza obtain a U Visa certification and apply for U 

Nonimmigrant Status for herself and her parents, long term San Mateo County residents with two 

US citizen children. Their applications are pending. 


This girl got the medical care 

she needed with help from 

Legal Aid. 

"Brianna" is a medically fragile child who was discharged 

from the hospital with a diagnosis of a serious medical 

condition. Although she qualified for at-home nursing 

care under her health care coverage, even after several 

months had gone by, her family's insurer was still looking 

for a qualified nurse to assign to her case. 

Brianna's mother "Mary," though not a medical 

professional, had assumed the sole responsibility for 

the complexities of her daughter's care and was feeling 

exhausted and overwhelmed. She was also frustrated 

by the long delays in obtaining a service which her 

daughter was entitled to receive. Following a referral 

from our partner agency Community Gatepath, Brianna's 

case came to Legal Aid's Peninsula Family Advocacy 

Program (FAP). 

FAP is a medical-legal partnership between Legal Aid, Gardner Packard Children’s Health 

Center, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and other clinics in the county. FAP 

provides free legal services to children, pregnant women and their families to help address 

legal problems which are adversely impacting their health, including access to health care. 

The FAP attorney discussed the case with Mary, and informed her of Brianna's legal right 

to appropriate at-home nursing care. The attorney then immediately filed a grievance 

with the insurer. Shortly after the grievance was filed, Brianna was hospitalized again. In 

the meantime, Brianna's nursing care was approved and a nurse was assigned to care for 

Brianna as soon as she was discharged from the hospital. 

Mary is relieved that her daughter is now receiving the appropriate care at home, and 

grateful that Brianna's health and wellbeing are being supported by a skilled nurse. 


Impacting the Housing Crisis: 

San Mateo County 

Eviction Report 2016 

In 2016, the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County and coauthor 

Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto released 

the San Mateo County Eviction Report, funded by The San 

Francisco Foundation and designed by the Anti-Eviction 

Mapping Project. 

This report, the first of its kind in San Mateo County, 

compiles three years of the agencies' eviction case data, 

covering the period July 2012 to June 2015, and will 

aid agencies and governments in bringing clarity to a 

contentious local issue. 

San Mateo County eviction data is not available in any 

centralized, publicly accessible database, making this report 

the first integrated source of information to reveal the full 

scale of the eviction problem in the heart of Silicon Valley, 

and to bring to light a number of startling trends: 

• A 59% increase in the number of evictions for people unable to pay rent on time 

• A 300% increase in the number of "no-cause" evictions, where the landlord gave no 

reason for the eviction 

• Seventy percent of the households that sought legal services to help with eviction 

issues had children 

• Evictions disproportionately impact Hispanic and African American households 

One of the report's authors was Legal Aid Directing Attorney Shirley Gibson, who brought to the 

project nearly a decade of experience working on housing issues in the county. 

Says Shirley, "My hope is that the San Mateo County Eviction Report will be used by officials, decision 

makers and the general public, all of whom are well aware of the housing crisis, but lack data to inform 

debate and make decisions." 

The full report may be read at the Legal Aid website: 

http://www.legalaidsmc.org/eviction_report_2016.html

The Impact of Advocacy: 

California AB 291 strengthens 

protection for tenants 

This year, California Assembly Bill 291, The Immigrant Tenant 

Protection Act, passed the state legislature, and was signed 

into law by Governor Brown in October. The Act strengthens 

state law to protect immigrant tenants from intimidation and 

retaliation in their homes. 

Immigrant tenants live in a climate of increasing fear of 

government enforcement action that may be taken against 

them at any time. This fear can be held over their heads by 

unscrupulous landlords who assume that their immigrant 

tenants will be afraid to report abusive actions—extreme rent 

increases, threats of illegal eviction, or refusal to maintain the 

property in livable conditions—if they are threatened with 

being reported to Immigrations and Customs Enforcement. 

"Tenants should not have to live in fear simply because they are immigrants or refugees," says 

bill sponsor Assemblymember David Chiu. "Trump's escalating war on immigrants is ripping 

apart families, and mass deportations could be our new reality. This bill will deter the small 

minority of landlords who unscrupulously take advantage of the real or perceived immigration 

status of their tenants to engage in abusive acts." 

"We have seen an alarming increase in national origin/immigration status discrimination felt 

by tenants since the election," says Legal Aid Housing Project Coordinator Andreina Leon, "a 

fear that can be exploited by landlords wishing to pressure tenants to accept rent increases, or 

eviction, without formal legal process." 

Legal Aid Directing Attorney Shirley Gibson contributed data and testimony in support of 

the bill, and she is pleased that these tenant protections have become law: "AB 291 is a 

commonsense bill that responds directly to the abuses most commonly reported by Legal Aid 

clients. Its safeguards are especially necessary given that most undocumented Californians 

are renters."

Legal Aid Financials 2017 

Revenues 

Government Grants 

and Contracts 

27% 44% 

Private Foundations 

and Instiuturions 

29% 

Individual and Firm 

Contributions 

Expenses 

Salaries 

58% 

23% 

19% 

Core 

Mission Support 

Benefits

Pro Bono 

"The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County has been an invaluable partner for our ofice's pro bono 

program. Their excellent training materials and mentor attorney relationships allow our attorneys to 

become proicient in the law quickly, which maximizes the value we can provide to our pro bono clients and 

enhances client outcomes." 

— Nick Woloszczuk, Latham & Watkins LLP 

Attorney Nick Woloszczuk 

Legal Aid and Pro Bono Attorneys 

Making an Impact 

When "Maria" ended her brief dating relationship with 

"Eric," he responded with threats of physical harm and 

violently shoved her. After she moved out to escape him, he 

began stalking her: he would leave notes and personal effects 

on the windshield of her car, and send texts to show that he 

knew her movements and whereabouts. Eventually, Maria 

discovered that a GPS device had been hidden in a secret 

compartment of her car, and she turned it over to the police. 

She then iled for a restraining order against Eric, and her 

case was referred to the irm of Latham & Watkins LLP by the 

Domestic Violence Collaborative, a partnership of the Legal 

Aid Society of San Mateo County, Bay Area Legal Aid, and 

CORA (Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse). 

Eric denied all of Maria's claims and asserted his right to an evidentiary hearing, which would 

be delayed for 8 months due to court backlogs. Although Maria had the beneit of a temporary 

restraining order in the interim, Eric used this time to harass and intimidate her by bringing 

bogus claims against her in small claims court. While the rules of small claims courts did not 

allow a Latham attorney to appear with Maria in small claims court, we helped prepare her 

defenses, and project assistant Na Ho attended the hearing to provide support. As a result of 

these efforts, the small claims court denied relief for Eric's claims. 

Led by Emily Chen and Nick Woloszczuk, the Latham team took advantage of the time before 

the evidentiary hearing and successfully subpoenaed records from the GPS device maker. These 

records proved that Eric had purchased the GPS device and that he was receiving alerts to 

monitor our client's movements. Facing this evidence of stalking (which is a form of domestic 

violence under state law) and the prospect of paying Maria's fees and costs, Eric gave up his 

defense, and the evidentiary hearing, and instead agreed to the stipulation of a three-year 

restraining order. 

For the year ending 6/30/17, law irms and individuals 

donated 13,339 hours of pro bono service to Legal Aid clients. 

PRO BONO ADVISORY COMMITTEE 

Larry Bennett I Intel Corporation 

Anne Cappella I Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 

Mirissa McMurray I Law Ofices of Steven J. Montalvo 

Rene Kathawala I Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 

Monique Sherman I Cooley LLP 

Rachel Williams I Morrison & Foerster LLP

Our Pro Bono partners 

Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & 

Rifle, APC 

Shara Bajurin 

Sarah Brooks 

Kathleen Durrans 

Joseph E. Gruber 

Kevin B. Jackson 

Melissa Karlsten 

Charles M. Riffle 

Jessica Rowe 

Leticia G. Toledo 

ADZ Law, LLP 

Jessica Dayton 

Lauren Zorfas 

Alston & Bird LLP 

Claudia Golden 

Brianna Ford Kadjo* 

Vanessa Katz * 

Dinah Ortiz 

Emily Wu 

Brenda Yamasaki 

Amazon 

Jim Bryja 

Leah Buckley 

Daniel Rosengard 

Jaime Smith 

Apple Inc. 

David R. Bowman 

Jessica Fink 

Quratulann (Annie) Hussain 

Matthew Kelley 

Kathleen Kemery 

Vaishalee Kotecha 

Jeff Lasker 

Nicole Mirchandani 

Licha Nyiendo 

Rudhir Patel 

Melissa Polinsky 

Jessica Shaw 

Cyndi M. Wheeler 

Arnold & Porter Kaye 

Scholer LLP 

Matthew H. Fine * 

AT&T Services, Inc.-Legal 

Dept. 

Niki Okcu 

Bay Area Legal Aid 

Protima Pandey 

Berra Stross & Wallacker 

Nancy Encarnacion Mass 

Carr & Ferrell LLP 

John Ferrell 

Cooley LLP 

Kristy Brady 

Stephanie So jung Choo * 

Brett H. De Jarnette 

Matt Ezer 

Shauna France 

Shaina Hyder 

Lauren Krickl * 

Rose A. McKinley 

Azadeh Morrison * 

Allison Peth 

Marina Remennik * 

Jessica V. Santamaria 

Glen Y. Sato 

Monique Sherman 

Lindsy A. Solanki 

Liz Stameshkin 

Brandon Stracener 

Steve Tonsfeldt 

Adam Trigg 

Stephanie Tsao 

Brett D. White * 

Rob Wu 

CORA 

Melissa Gibbs 

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, 

LLP 

Camilo Artiga-Purcell 

Julie Fieber * 

Toriana Holmes 

Elle D. Lewis 

Anne Marie Murphy 

Adam M. Shapiro 

John Thyken 

Covington & Burling LLP 

David Denuyl * 

Thomas Edward Garten 

Sarah R. MacDonald * 

Dale Rice 

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 

Kelley Harrington 

Ian Hogg 

Jayeeta Kundu * 

Tyler Pender 

Igor Piryazev 

Neal A. Potischman 

Brooke Pyo 

Anna Tumanova 

Andrew Yaphe * 

De Ita & Lowe, LLP 

Nancy L. de Ita 

Dechert LLP 

Justin Boyce 

Philip C. Ducker 

Carl Gismervig 

Jonathan David Loeb 

Charlie Euk Oh 

S. Michael Song 

Jeremy Sperlazza 

Scott Warren 

DLA Piper LLP (US) 

Bethany Bengfort 

Krista Anne Celentano * 

Eric Chow 

Jason Chu 

Janet E. Dudley 

Diana Maltzer 

Elena Nrtina 

Eric Donovan Ryan 

Olga Slobodyanyuk 

Lauren Tsuji * 

Duane Morris LLP 

Lauren M. Case 

Marcus Colabianchi 

Christine B. Cusick 

Terrance J. Evans * 

Ana Glory Guardado 

Karineh Khachatourian 

Seth K. Kugler * 

Manita Rawat 

Brendan Ruddy 

Amir A. Tabarrok 

David T. Xue 

Dyer & White LLP 

Charles A. Dyer 

eBay Inc. 

Hope J. Anderson 

Equinix, Inc. 

Sal Torres 

Facebook 

Audrey Alesi 

Jose Barragan 

Anna Chen 

Derek Ryan Lowrey 

Natascha Bettelheim 

Winston Su 

Matt Sumida 

Fenwick & West LLP 

Shaherzad Rain Azim * 

Claire Baek 

Karthik Balasundaram 

Harsh Barbhaiya 

Priscila Bastazin 

Taimur Case 

Jonathan Chai 

Christine Chen 

Sophia Chen 

Angel Chiang 

Jennifer Cho 

Anne Christy 

Elena Cloutier 

Chris Corbet 

Isabel da Roza 

Eric D. Dunn 

Rebecca Fewkes 

Jennifer J. Galela 

Angelina Gallardo 

Linda Goldman 

Samira Hariramasamy 

David He 

Linda G. Henry 

Mitch Hinrichs 

Gregory Allen Hopewell 

Mark Jansen 

Alison Keiper 

Nam Sook Kim 

Jorge A. Kina 

Christopher P. King 

Helen Li 

Li Li 

Sapna Mehta 

Jonathan Stephen Millard 

Michael Nguyen 

Akshay Panchavati 

Marisha Pareek 

Lynn Harold Pasahow 

Darshika Patel 

Edgar Perez 

Yael Perl 

Nicholas Plassaras 

Sandra Pomeroy 

Patrick Premo 

Nikki Qi 

Emily Ross 

Albert B. Ryu 

Apriljoy Sanchez 

Antonia L. Sequeira 

Neil Supnekar 

Lindsay Tang 

Hailey C. Teton 

Salomé Viljoen 

Lauren Estelle Whittemore 

Frank Bou-Kain Yang 

Hailey H. Young 

Amy Zhang

Pro Bono partners (continued) 

Guang Y. Zhang 

Lingling Zhao 

Fish & Richardson P.C. 

Bryan K. Basso 

David J. Goren 

Jun Ha 

Irina Lyapis 

Alana Mannigé 

Tucker Mottl 

Taufiq Ramji 

Zach Rhines 

Noorossadat Torabi 

Cong Yao 

Flicker, Kerin, Kruger & 

Bissada LLP 

Zelikha J. Dost 

Erin McCormick 

Furniss Family Law Group 

Laura Furniss 

Galine, Frye & Fitting 

Ilya D. Frangos 

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher 

LLP 

Omeed Anvar 

Joseph Barbeau 

Aaron H. Bloom 

Zoe Carpou 

Paul Collins 

Cassandra Gaedt-Sheckter 

Christina Greenberg 

Ryan K. Iwahashi 

Jilliane A. Jackson 

Jillian Katterhagen 

Christina Chandler Kogan* 

Mia Lee 

Quincy Lu * 

Daniel Mandel 

Lorna McDill 

Alexander T. Murchison * 

Henry Pistell 

Nathan Powell 

Arjun Rangarajan 

Julia Reese * 

Noah Stern 

Emma M. Strong 

Jonathan Swisher 

Wesley Sze 

Chelsea Thomas * 

Mark Tomaier 

Scott Toussaint 

Collin Vierra 

Benjamin Wagner 

Kelsey White 

Zelin Yang 

Gigamon Inc. 

Dante Corricello 

Amanda Hix 

Jennifer Miller 

Tina Nasseri 

Elizabeth Toepfer 

Gilead Sciences Inc. 

Joel Benjamin Silver * 

Susan Thal-Shafer 

Goodwin Procter LLP 

John Maselli 

David L. Simson * 

Google Inc. 

Lila Albizu 

Serah Amuyunzu 

Smitha Danielyan 

Jacqueline Hea 

Ashley Hu 

Sarah Ann Longstreth 

Leslie Liu 

Katherine Y. Tong 

Rosa Yaghmour 

Gunderson Dettmer, LLP 

Shu Hu 

Hanson Bridgett LLP 

Jillian Somers Donovan 

Daniel A. Garcia * 

Kaylen Kadotani * 

Kyle A. Mabe 

James Anthony Napoli 

Laurel O'Connor * 

Holly V. Rhea * 

Candice Shih 

Shayna Mittler Van Hoften 

Haynes and Boone, LLP 

Ran Duan 

Jennifer Lantz 

Zhong Andy Liu 

Nicholas Lo 

Brian Kwok 

Michael Shenker * 

Henry Welch 

Winnie Wong 

HPE 

Jeffrey B. Ho 

Linda Leung 

Ruth Selon 

HP Inc. 

Jill Falor 

Jennifer Rodriguez 

Zeke A. Rodriguez 

Amanda Skaggs 

Intel Corporation 

Evangelina Almirantearena 

Christina Bayley 

Juliana Lara Calil 

Sonoo Ching 

Leonora Davila 

Ariana Gallegos 

Kelley Goldberg 

Sergio Gonzalez 

T. Maria Lam 

Wendy Hwee Ling Lim 

Julissa Ramirez 

Greg Y. Sato 

Vivek Vishwabhan 

Jacob Weinrich 

Jones Day 

Fred Alvarez 

Daniel Filstrup 

Mark Donig 

William Simson Freeman 

Heather N. Fugitt 

Valerie McConnell 

Rina Shah 

Kilpatrick Townsend & 

Stockton LLP 

Dennis Chang 

Urmil V. Davé 

Paul C. Haughey 

Stephen A. Mao 

Michael Schiff 

Claudine V. Wong 

King & Spalding 

Ahmad Asir 

Erika H Kikuchi 

Jullia Park 

Julie Stockton * 

Andrew Tran 

Kirkland & Ellis LLP 

Lien K. Dang 

Darryl J. Ong 

Patricia Ring 

Kubota & Constantino 

Noell Kubota 

Latham & Watkins LLP 

Ravi Antani 

Katherine Ruby Bielik 

Katherine Brockway 

Rachel Burns 

Jennifer N. Cadet 

Lauren M. Chase 

Emily Chen * 

Jessica Chen 

Eugene Chiu * 

Isabel Chon 

Pat Civiletti 

Elizabeth Coleman 

Charles E. Crain 

Ora Fisher 

Rick Frenkel 

Nicole Fritz 

Brandon Hartstein 

Na Ho 

Miles P. Jennings 

Saad Khanani 

Geoffrey M. Kuziemko 

Sang Kwon 

Brian W. Lewis 

Alex Li * 

Benjamin Liss 

Gavin Liu 

Michelle E. Lu 

Douglas E. Lumish 

Chris Mortweet 

Brie Ngo 

Lisa Nguyen 

Gil Ofir 

Drew G. Parkes 

Yasamin Parsafar * 

Meredith C. Peake 

Sara Plummer 

Lauren L. Schneider 

Boston Schwarz 

Michael R. Seringhaus 

Cynthia Short 

Michael Soriano 

Eber Terceros 

Matt Van Leeuwen 

James P. Walker 

Cassandra Wang 

Jie Wang 

Nikolaus A. Woloszczuk* 

Sophie Yu 

Jingxi Zhai 

Law Ofices of Jessica 

Cochran 

Jessica Cochran 

Law Ofices of Lisa M. 

Dugoni, APC 

Lisa M. Dugoni


Law Ofices of Steven J. 

Montalvo 

Mirissa Rose McMurray 

Legal Aid Society of San 

Mateo County 

Jay White 

LinkedIn Corporation 

Grace Forker 

Katherine McGowan 

Jennifer Morrill 

Raji Nagarkar 

Puneet Sarna 

Sandy Yao 

Lowenstein Sandler LLP 

Joan O. Arbolante * 

Natasha Arora * 

Bill Jacobs 

Christopher E. Kokoska 

John Russell 

Nedda N. Salehi 

Paul-David Shrader 

Catherine Weiss 

Catherine Zhu 

McDermott Will & Emery 

Daniel Alberti 

Jodi Benassi * 

Lucas Dahlin 

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius 

LLP 

Kevin Benedicto * 

Robert Brundage 

Lucas Chang 

Catherine Chou 

Theodore E. Dayno 

Carol Dillon 

Lesley Chang Dobbins 

Cindy L. Dole 

Elizabeth A. Erskine 

Karon N. Fowler 

Angela Gandhi * 

Victor Guerrero 

Joan M. Haratani 

Tera Marie Heintz 

Corey Houmand 

Ahren Hsu-Hoffman 

Charles Huse 

Athena C. Johns 

Claire M. Lesikar 

Andrew H. Leung 

Victor Lim 

Michael Lyons 

Alekxander Markelov 

Michael Miller 

Jacob J. Orion Minne 

Benjamin H. Pezzner 

Marianna C. Radloff 

Jose A. Rico 

Melinda S. Riechert 

Brian C. Rocca 

John G. Ryan 

David Sanker * 

Michael Schlemmer 

Liying Sun 

Rita Tautkus 

Scott Tester * 

Jennifer Tomlin 

Nancy Villarreal 

Jianbai (Jenn) Wang 

Harlan Wendell 

Morrison & Foerster LLP 

Mimi Butler 

Jennifer B. Caballero 

Tiffany Cheung * 

Jennifer S. Chiang 

Anita Choi 

Minsu Chung 

Anne Coillot 

Charles C. Comey 

Christopher Deetz 

Megan Dysart 

Nicole Elemen 

Sharyn Funamura 

Jana Glock 

Norman Ho 

Eneda Hoxha 

Tiffany Hu 

Katie Hubbert 

Antonio L. Ingram 

Aria Kashefi * 

Emiko Kurotsu 

Kenneth Kuwayti 

Sabrina Larson 

Janica Lee 

Greg LeSaint 

Yue Li 

Jackie Liu 

Kelly Lowenberg 

Teresa MacLean 

Andrew Monach 

Jonathan J. O'Connell 

Susanne N. Petersen 

Ingrid N. Pfister 

Mary Race 

Sean Rawls 

Daniel Reese 

Paige Rice 

Lee B. Shepard 

Lisa Silverman 

Linda M. Sim 

William Solis * 

Thomas H. Steele 

Jacqueline Tam 

Camila A. Tapernoux 

Jennifer Taylor 

Bill Tian 

Daisy Visitacion 

Su-Han Wang 

Ethan M. Weiner 

Rachel Williams 

Bryan Joseph Wilson 

Daniel J. Wilson * 

Jae In Yoo * 

NetApp, Inc. 

Lilia Rose 

O'Melveny & Myers LLP 

William Abbott 

Jay Choi 

Jonathan Crawford 

Snehal D. Desai 

Melody Drummond Hansen 

Bhavreet Singh Gill 

Mark Liang 

Eric Ormsby 

Ramon David Ramirez 

Susan G. van Keulen 

Hao Wang 

Annie Woodworth 

Wenting Yu 

John X. Zhu * 

Orrick, Herrington & 

Sutcliffe LLP 

Evan Brewer * 

Nancy Chen 

Amy Dalton 

Bas de Blank 

Vickie L Feeman * 

Patti Johnsen * 

Ajay Koduri 

Lillian Mao * 

David R. Medina * 

Cam Phan 

Daniel Saposnik 

Anthony Tartaglio 

Robert Uriarte 

Sonia Valdez 

Danielle Van Wert * 

Amy K. Van Zant * 

Perkins Coie LLP 

Samya Abdela 

Kathryn Bilder 

Adam Hester 

Elizabeth Omidian 

James Otake 

Geoffrey L. Robinson * 

John S. Rossiter 

Donna Strain 

Carol Warner 

Jacqueline Young 

Pied Parker, Inc. 

Robert Mazzola * 

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw 

Pittman LLP 

Erin Christine Jennings 

James Lindfelt 

Rebecca Schiesser 

Ryan Selness * 

Khan Shing 

Glenn Anthony Sweatt 

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & 

Sullivan, LLP 

Kyle Batter * 

Ropes & Gray LLP 

Melissa Bender 

Catherine Harris 

Shrut Kirti 

Daniel Richards 

Shreevani Suvarna 

David Wurzburg 

Skadden, Arps, Slate, 

Meagher & Flom LLP 

Barry Chang 

Ian Chen 

Martin M. de Jong 

Leif King * 

Gina LaCava 

Christopher P. Murphy 

AnVy H. Nguyen 

Kyohei Shimizu 

Tatyana Shmygol 

Solo 

Patrick Benito 

Martin Brandfon 

Judy Dennis 

Denise Lillian Donovan * 

Thomas P. Feledy 

Anthony W. Gibbs 

Stephen A. Hansen 

Robert Hortop 

Robert G. Howie 

Geneva A. Lai 

Robert F. Lee


Solo (continued) 

Stuart Loh 

Charmaine Mesina 

Linda Murphy 

Michele Nadan 

Kathryn Schmidt 

TechKnowledge Law 

Group LLP 

Jerry Chen 

Turner Boyd 

Julie Turner 

Twitch Interactive Inc. 

Shirin Keen 

Elaine Mederer 

Kevin K. Yung 

Vinson & Elkins LLP 

Erica Connolly 

Colin McDonell 

Weil, Gotshal & Manges 

LLP 

Luci Barry 

Cristiana Blauth Oliveira 

Amanda K. Branch 

Michele A. Gauger 

Marisa B. Geiger 

Irina Zyubina Khait 

Cristina Passoni 

Alex Purtill 

Maxwell Lee Ronci 

Steven Rushing 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich 

& Rosati 

Ivan Au 

Collins C. Belton 

James Bryant * 

Nathan Cao * 

Alex Castellanos 

Brian Chan 

Evelyn Y. Chang 

Eunice E.P. Choi 

Natasha Chu * 

Edwin Cruz 

Thomas D. Earnest * 

Cody Gaynor 

Larry Guo 

Stephen Horton 

Jonathan Joannides * 

Emily Kan 

Nicolas Kerr 

Harry Khanna * 

Sean Kwak 

Christina J. Lee 

Drew S. Liming 

Emily M. H. Ly * 

Rose Morales 

Catherine Moreno 

Rodolfo Munoz 

Mark Parnes 

Elizabeth Peterson * 

Celine Purcell * 

Sid Ray * 

Liles H. Repp 

Adaeze Udoji 

Stephanie Van Horn 

Christopher Vargas 

Individual Attorneys, 

Law Students & Legal 

Professionals 

Taly Avigdory 

Jeremy Bender 

Regina Berrios 

Wenfei Cai 

Kate Chan 

Elsa Chang 

Sherwin Chen 

Victor Gomez 

Nishant Jaiswal 

Valerie Kahn 

Corey Kniss 

Beth LeBow 

Nikki Li 

Emily Liu 

Miranda Xiaolin Ma 

Samuel Moss 

David Thomas Nazzaro 

Audrey Nicolson 

Kei Nishimura 

Rafael Perez 

John Polansky 

Hayley Reynolds 

Christian Ruano 

Susan Russell 

Wendy H. Segal 

Timothy C. Wright 

Weili (Alex) Zhong 

Reflects pro bono work for 7/1/16-6/30/17 

* = Contributions of 50 hours or more

Annual Campaign donors 

Visionaries - 

$25,000 & above 

Baker & McKenzie LLP 

Cooley LLP 

Facebook 

Fenwick & West LLP 

Gilead Sciences, Inc. 

Latham & Watkins LLP 

Morrison & Foerster LLP 

The Morrison & Foerster Foundation 

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP 

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 

Foundation 

Innovators - 

$10,000 - $24,999 

Jessica Arner ^# & Eli Abbe 

George R. Corey 

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP 

DLA Piper LLP (US) 

Lynne Esselstein ^# & Jonathan Joseph 

Genentech, Inc. 

Stacey Keare ^# & John Charles Hodge 

Kirkland & Ellis Foundation 

LinkedIn, Inc. 

Changemakers - 

$7,500 - $9,999 

Covington & Burling LLP 

Lowenstein Sandler LLP 

Pepper Hamilton LLP 

Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi, PC 

Viola Law Firm P.C. 

Janet Weiss & David C. Wilson ^# 

Mobilizers - 

$5,000 - $7,499 

Anderson Yazdi Hwang Minton + Horn LLP 

Laura I. Bushnell ^ 

Carr McClellan 

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP 

Dechert LLP 

Fox Shjeflo Hartley & Babu LLP 

Beverly & Ron Garrity 

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 

Hemming Morse LLP 

Hogan Lovells US LLP 

Jones Day 

Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel, LLP 

Keker, Van Nest & Peters LLP 

King & Spalding 

Renee Lanam 

Leonidou & Rosin Professional Corporation 

McDermott Will & Emery 

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP 

Paul Hastings LLP 

Nancy L. & Charles M. Riffle #† 

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP 

Janice S. Tam ^# 

Alison R. Watkins ^ 

Karen & Rand White ^# 

WilmerHale 

Inluencers - 

$1000 - $4999 

Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & Riffle, APC 

Alston & Bird LLP 

Paul J. Andre 

Anonymous 

Apple Inc. 

Jane & Aaron Armstrong ^ 

Richard C. Berra 

Bingham Osborn & Scarborough LLC 

Michèle M. Bissada & Scott Spivack 

Juliet Brodie & Jane Schacter 

Suzanne & Tony Callahan 

Judy H. Chen & Anthony B. Kwee 

Martin J. Collins 

Mark Doiron 

Donnelley Financial Solutions 

John C. Dwyer 

Fish & Richardson P.C. 

Flicker, Kerin, Kruger & Bissada LLP 

Joseph Galligan, CPA 

Moon & Matthew Gemello 

Cindy & Evan Goldberg 

Isaac Deleon Goodman 

Karen Greenwood ^ 

Hanson Bridgett LLP 

Hanson Crawford Crum 

Family Law Group LLP 

Claudia Haslam 

M. Stacey Hawver 

Hewlett Packard Enterprise 

Robert Hortop 

Intel Corporation 

JTK Charitable Fund, 

a donor-advised fund 

John Jorgenson 

Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP 

Lakin Spears, LLP 

Donna & Joe Lanam 

Larry Langdon 

Law Rocks, Inc. 

Elise Lawson 

Mary H. ^# & Richard C. Lin 

Jeana Bisnar Maute 

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP 

Jennifer Morrill 

Valerie J. Mulhollen 

William L. Nagle, Esq. 

Hope Nakamura & Glen Sato 

Ann Nejasmich & Hon. Steven Dylina 

Judy & Brad O'Brien 

Mark G. Parnes 

Peter & Paula Uccelli Foundation 

Jason Pollard 

Barbara & Paul Regan 

Greg Regan, C.P.A. ^ 

H. Yvonne Seeley 

Sideman & Bancroft LLP 

Lisa Langer & Dan K. Siegel #† 

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP 

Sarah & Matt Slayen 

Nancy Spencer & Hardy Callcott 

Steyer Lowenthal Boodrookas 

Alvarez & Smith LLP 

Ann M. Thai ^ 

The Allstate Foundation 

The Grotellone Family 

Charitable Fund 

Leticia G. Toledo ^# & Albert P. David 

Turner Boyd 

Susan A. Uccelli 

Tricia & Michael Vinson 

Visa Givingstation 

Rachel P. Williams & Richard Edwards 

Susan J. & Laurence A. Weiss ^ 

Reflects gifts received 7/1/16 - 6/30/17 

Donate anytime at: 

www.legalaidsmc.org/donate

Annual Campaign Donors (continued) 

Catalysts - 

$500 - $999 

Evangelina Almirantearena 

Maya Altman 

Anonymous 

Lucy & Robert Berman 

Randy S. Brackeen 

Honorable Patricia Bresee, Ret. 

Nora & John Capers 

Anne & Guy W. Chambers 

Kristi Cotton Spence #† & Robert L. Spence 

Simone Coxe 

Daniel Lee 

Lisa M. Dugoni 

Kathleen Durrans 

Mitch Eckstein 

Mark D. Fischer-Colbrie 

Debb Friedman & Jeffrey Brown 

Kathryn Fritz 

Laura M. Furniss 

Galligan, Thompson & Flocas LLP 

Penny & Greg Gallo 

Google Inc. 

Jeff Gould 

Alice & David W. Herbst 

Gail M. Huston & Ralph M. Pais 

Brianna Kadjo 

Kazan, McClain, Satterley & Greenwood 

Barbara Kiem & Larry Eiselstein 

Jennifer & Brian Levey 

Suzette Lin 

Lucas Lux 

Trinidad Madrigal 

Dr. Bettina McAdoo, M.D. & Gordon Russell 

Colleen McAvoy 

Laurel Miranda 

Honorable Carol L. Mittlesteadt, Ret. 

NVI Rani, Inc. 

Bambo Obaro 

Mary & Jeffrey Peart 

Tyler Pender 

Elizabeth C. Peterson 

Milan M. Radojevich 

Lilli Rey 

Jennifer Rho 

Lisa Roberts & Patrick King 

Sadhana (Sandy) Narayan 

Kathryn Schmidt & Miro Cizin 

Timothy T. Scott 

Shivadev Shastri 

Shearer Family Trust 

Shearman & Sterling LLP 

Michael Shpizner 

Frank A. Small 

Jeff L. Strobel 

Sibyl E. & Hans. R. Troesch 

Antonia P. Tu 

Julie S. Turner 

Paul J. Walti, Jr. 

Tricia & Timothy Wright † 

Adam J. Zapala ^ 

Contributors - 

$250 - $499 

Phyllis Annett 

Susan Austin & Michael L. Charlson 

Honorable Donald Ayoob 

Emma Berndt 

Jacqueline Glynn Brandin 

Andrea Brant 

Betty & Robert Brown 

Renee Brown 

Stephanie Brown 

Michael Burt 

Susan G. Burwell 

Diane & Mark Cassanego 

Yar Chaikovsky 

Meghan Chavez 

Susan Chow 

Jeff Cobb 

Elizabeth & James R. Cody 

Linda & Daniel Cooperman 

Amy Cramer & Scott McGaraghan 

Jennifer Crum 

Mary DeVoy 

Jeannette & Jim Drake 

Angela Dunning 

George Edelman 

Roger Fields 

Patricia Georges & Robert Fucilla 

Gary Gleason 

Gregory Goodwin 

Stasia Grose 

Marina C. Gruber & Clayton M. Nall 

Jeffrey Hallam 

Russell C. Hansen 

Sara D. Harrington 

Peter Harris 

Charlotte Harrison 

Robert B. Hawk 

Shannon Hodges 

Steven Katz 

Kevin G. Kelly 

Claudia Kent Dickman 

Cheryl King 

Kathryn Kolder 

Sarah E. Kurtz 

Yan Liang 

Kelly Lo 

Savas James Loukedis 

Nancy & Robert S. Luft 

Madigan & Lewis, LLP 

Scott Maurer 

Jennifer Mezey & Jonathan Levy 

David J. Miclean 

Minnis & Smallets LLP 

Ivan Morales 

Vincent A. Muzzi 

Richard Nelson 

Marc Nickel 

Anna Nordberg 

Niki B. Okcu 

David R. Packard 

Caroline Wu Padre 

Ruthie Palmer 

David J.N. Pasternak 

Anne & Rodney Pearlman 

Kara W. Perez 

Robert Phillips 

Howard G. Pollack 

Charles H. Rible 

Kent Richardson 

Cathy Rincon 

Lydia Rivera 

Ralph Steve Robinson 

Herbert M. Rosenthal 

Bryson Santaguida 

Peggy Schmidt & Joseph J. Tabacco 

Cheryl & Jeffrey Selman 

Marcia Settel & David Gilson 

Marcie & Artie Storch 

Ellen Sueda & Mark Leach 

Wendy Tice-Wallner 

Hong Hanh Vo 

Thomas Watkins 

Kristen & Edward Willig 

Monica Winghart 

Jessica Young 

YourCause, LLC for Dell Giving 

Daniel A. Ziony 

Bonnie Zucca 

Supporters - 

$100 - $249 

Olabisi Akinola 

Owen Allen 

Lage Andersen 

Anonymous 

Hilarie Atkisson 

Victoria S. Bahnasy 

William Bauld


Supporters (continued) 

Robbie & Bob Baxter 

Bruce E. Beekley 

Clyde Beffa, Jr. 

Larry A. Bennett 

Mary Ellen Benninger 

Joyce & Sid Berenstein 

Eric S. Blum 

Julie & Jim Borden 

David R. Bowman 

Jeffery Boyarsky 

Catherine C. Brady 

Robert J. Brady 

Robert J. Brigham 

Elizabeth Buenger Hughes 

Mary Burns 

Feb Roman Cabrasawan 

Thomas J. Cahill 

Dianne & Mauro Calvi 

Christina Chandler Kogan 

Felicia Chiu 

CORA 

Anne & Bernard Cotter 

Liza Cristol-Deman 

Thomas Davis 

Dru Devlin 

Dennis J. Durkin 

Anna & Brett Dyer 

Kathleen Emery 

Honorable Anna Eshoo 

Honorable Susan Irene Etezadi 

Donald F. Farbstein, Esq. 

Charles Finney 

Hal E. Forbes, Esq. 

Galine, Frye & Fitting 

Rita Giles & John Hughes 

Maud Gleason & Dr. Frederick Holley 

Betty & Gordon Moore Foundation 

Penelope & Scott Greenberg 

Christina Greenberg 

Sharon Greenwood 

Emily Gregory 

Amanda Hawes 

Hayes Scott Bonino Ellingson & McLay, LLP 

Rose & Michael Hendershot 

Doriane & Walter Heyman 

Alan Horwitz 

Joshua Hugg 

Charmaine Huntting 

Jessica E. Intrator 

Lynn & Dave Iverson 

Lori & Ara R. Jabagchourian ^ 

Honorable Jonathan E. Karesh 

Carol Karwatt Himenes 

Rachel & Thomas Kellerman 

Honorable Margaret J. Kemp, Ret. 

Shelley Kessler 

John Kloosterman 

Mary & Thomas Kmak 

Tommie Knight 

John Krug 

Jayeeta Kundu 

Kenneth A. Kuwayti 

Jeff Lasker 

William C. Last Jr. 

Linda J. Lorenat 

Alisa MacAvoy 

Mary & James R. Madison 

Manos & Curl LLP 

William Margrabe 

Ann Marquart 

Steven R. Mashin 

Sara Matlin & Jay Laefer 

Claire McCarthy Peterson & Craig Peterson 

Mirissa McMurray & Honorable 

Don R. Franchi 

Laura Mehaffey 

Alexander Merchant 

Shirley Moore 

Sharon Navratil & Tom Vacar 

Perla Ni 

Nolan Barton Bradford & Olmos LLP 

Katie Nolan-Stevaux 

Laura L. Norris 

Licha Nyiendo 

Omidyar Network Fund, Inc. 

Oracle 

Outten & Golden LLP 

Mary S. Panton 

Lynn H. Pasahow 

Rudhir Patel 

Stephen Peters, Esq. 

Sheila Purcell 

Que SeRaw SeRaw, Inc. 

Victor Ramirez 

Peter H. Reid 

Courtney Regan 

Tim Regan 

Paul G. Resnick 

Dr. Beth B. Rosenthal, Ph.D. 

Caryl & Bill Russell 

Pamela & Eric D. Ryan 

Marisa C. San Filippo 

San Mateo County Central Labor Council 

Pip & Lee Sanders 

Janet & Victor Schachter 

Kelli Schultz 

Luc Schuster 

Honorable Joseph C. Scott 

Hasma Serverian & Honorable 

Aram Serverian 

Jessica Shaw 

Jacob Show 

Eric D. Siegel 

David L. Simson 

Elizabeth Skey 

Nikki Sokol 

Donna M. Spillane 

Srija Srinivasan 

Robynn Steffen 

Johanne Sterling 

Lee Stettner 

Maco Stewart 

Jeffrey Storch 

Renee Strandness 

Edward W. Suman 

Kevin A. Taheny 

Carolyn A. Thon 

Ginny Traub 

Bijal Vakil 

Marian G. Van Orsdol 

Stephen M. Wagstaffe 

Sean Wani 

Honorable Marie S. Weiner 

Marilyn M. Wendt 

Cheryl & Clark Westmont 

Sam Whittington 

Arun Wiita 

Christine Wiita 

Paul Wiita 

Donald Williams 

Golnar Yazdi #† 

Jennifer Yu 

Gerald J. Zanzinger 

Denise & Joseph I. Ziony 

Barry Zwarenstein 

Friends - 

up to $99 

AmazonSmile 

Modell Marlow Andersen 

Anonymous 

Allison Bajracharya 

Jonathan Baker 

Susan J. Bardet 

Luci Barry 

Kathy Battat 

Kay Benz 

Robin C. Crawford


Friends (continued) 

Patricia & Michael Crilly 

Devon Davidson 

Deborah O. Dempsey 

Valerie & Jon Diamond 

Iris H. Dragan 

Angelin Fairbairn 

Elaine Ryzak Fraser 

Elspeth Hansen 

Cynthia Hong 

Lee Ann Horton, CPA 

Stacy Hovan 

Christopher Jaap 

William R. Johnston 

JustGive, Inc. 

Pamela S. Kaufmann 

Melvin C. Kerwin 

Rebecca Kirsch 

Vaishalee Kotecha 

Maris Kreizman 

Allen Lam 

Mia R. Lee 

Deborah Leon 

Hien Lien 

Susan McAllister 

Mary Rita & Thomas N. McKay 

Michael McKay 

Jo Ann Marie & Carl Miller 

Elizabeth & David Miller 

Andy Min 

Annie Noonan 

Greg Proctor 

Ada Reid 

Elvira M. Rios 

Puneet Sandhu 

Wendy & Jonathan Segal 

Marian Sprague 

Margaret Stevenson & David Flamm 

Barbara Storch 

Genie Storch 

Joseph Storch 

Nanette Stringer 

Christopher Taylor 

Kevin Tsuchida 

Adrienne & Neil Tuch 

Linda Tuerk 

Anne Van Brunt 

Shayna M. van Hoften 

Nancy & Herve Vanclef 

Mr. & Mrs. J. Anthony Villanueva # 

Brian Washburn 

Sirrah Williams 

Charlotte Willner 

Jonathan L. Wolff 

Gifts in Loving Memory 

In Loving Memory of 

Brandon Horpel Chernick 

Clifford Chernick 

In Loving Memory of 

Gerald Wagstaffe 

Wagstaffe & Wagstaffe 

In Loving Memory to the 

Carl L. McConnell 

Summer Fellowship 

Leslie and Dan Ballesteros 

Linda Buch 

Claire J. Bunton 

Melanie & David Burns 

Robin Cooke 

Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP 

Brenda G. Dau 

Jeanne Finberg 

Jerry Y. Fong 

Janice Fox 

Stephen E. Hagen 

Honorable Thelton Henderson 

Mary Ann Hurlimann 

Brielle Johnck 

Kim Krutilla 

Ben Kwong 

Elaine Leitner & Steven Zieff 

Glenn Louie 

Lee Lyon 

George Meagher 

Kelley & Tim Murphy 

Brian W. Newcomb 

Anita N. Nichols & Honorable 

Leslie C. Nichols, Ret. 

David R. Packard 

Michael Payne 

Jennifer Protas 

Peter H. Reid 

Sandra Sands 

David & Donna Spencer 

Cheryl & Duf Sundheim 

James Towery 

Karen & Alan Usas 

Nancy & Herve Vanclef 

Tricia & Michael Vinson 

Wendy Whipp 

Professor Eric W. Wright 

Margaret H. Wright 

Tricia & Timothy Wright #† 

^ Member, Legal Aid 

Board of Directors 

# Past President of 

Legal Aid 

† Member, Legal Aid 

Advisory Committee


Corporate, Foundation and Government 

AT&T 

The Alzheimer's Association 

American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers 

Atkinson Foundation 

Blue Shield 

California Department of Managed Health Care 

The California Endowment 

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

City of Burlingame 

City of Daly City 

City of Menlo Park 

City of San Mateo 

City of South San Francisco 

County of San Mateo Aging & Adult Services 

County of San Mateo Department of Housing 

County of San Mateo Health System/Behavioral Health and Recovery Services 

County of San Mateo Health System/Health Coverage Unit 

County of San Mateo Measure A 

Covered California 

First 5 San Mateo County 

Flora Family Foundation 

Genentech Foundation 

The Grove Foundation 

Health Plan of San Mateo 

Heising-Simons Foundation 

The Hurlbut-Johnson Fund, an advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

John & Marcia Goldman Foundation 

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford 

Mills-Peninsula Medical Center 

Palo Alto Community Fund 

Palo Alto Foundation Medical Group Community Health Care Endowment Fund 

Philanthropic Ventures Foundation 

San Mateo County Health Care for the Homeless/Farmworker Health Program of the San Mateo Medical Center 

SanDisk Corporation Fund, a corporate advised fund of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

Sand Hill Foundation 

The San Francisco Foundation 

Silicon Valley Community Foundation 

Sobrato Family Foundation 

State Bar of California Legal Services Trust Fund Program 

Sunlight Giving 



Community Advisors and Volunteers 

PENINSULA FAMILY ADVOCACY 

PROGRAM ADVISORY COMMITTEE 

Baraka Floyd, MD, MSc, Co-Medical Director- FAP 

Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford 

Cheryl Goldfarb-Greenwood, RN, CNS 


Teresa Jurado, Patient Mentor 

Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Stanford 

Ron Katz, JD, Of Counsel 

GCA Law Partners LLP 

Jennifer Newberry, MD, JD Co-Medical Director- FAP 

Stanford University School of Medicine 

Sherri Sager, MPA, Chief Government and 

Community Relations Oficer 


Lee Sanders, MD, MPH 


Ed Schor, MD 

Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health 

Ewen Wang, MD 

Stanford Department of Emergency Medicine 

Karen Wayman, Director, Family Centered Care 


Dana Weintraub, MD Co-Medical Director- FAP 


Jody Winzelberg, AuD, Administrative Director, 

Patient and Family Services 


LEGAL AID GOLF CLASSIC COMMITTEE 

Ronald F. Garrity, Co-Chair 

Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi P.C. 

Howard Pollack , Co-Chair 

Fish & Richardson P.C 

Rich Berra, Chair Emeritus 

Berra Stross & Wallacker 

Michelle Barnett 

Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & Rifle, APC 

Yar Chaikovsky 


Guy Chambers 

Sideman & Bancroft LLP 

Craig Crawford 

Carr McClellan P.C. 

Mark Doiron 

Wells Fargo Bank 

Marina Gruber 

Morgan Lewis 

Bill Gutierrez 

Gutierrez Marca LLP 

Mike Hendershot 


Tommie Knight 

Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & Rifle, APC 

Walt Shjelo 

Fox, Shjelo, Hartley & Babu LLP 

Julie Uccelli 

Uccelli & Associates, Certiied Deposition and Trial Court Reporters 

Susan Uccelli 

Uccelli & Associates, Certiied Deposition and Trial Court Reporters 

LIBRE STEERING 

COMMITTEE 

Andres Connell 

Nuestra Casa 

Navjeet Singh 

San Mateo County Human Services Agency 

Gloria Hernandez-Goff 

Ravenswood City School District Superintendent 

Jana Kiser 

Redwood City 2020 

Stephanie Quintero 

Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County 

Hope Nakamura 

Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County 

Patricia Ortiz 

Redwood City School District 

Fatima Soares 

Coastside Hope 

LEGAL AID SOCIETY VOLUNTEERS 

Iliana Arbeed 

Tim Clark 

Lydia Davies 

Julia Howard 

Greg Johnson 

Ronan Morrill 

Hector Pardo Narvaez 

Carina Traub 

AND JUSTICE FOR ALL 

AWARDS LUNCHEON COMMITTEE 

Karen N. Ballack, Chair 

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP 

George R. Corey, Chair Emeritus 

Corey, Luzaich, de Ghetaldi, Nastari & Riddle LLP 

Tom Fitzpatrick 

Pepper Hamilton LLP 

Kirsten Keith 

Mayor, City of Menlo Park, Attorney at Law 

Donna Lanam 

Amanda Riddle 

Corey, Luzaich, de Ghetaldi, Nastari & Riddle LLP 

Sarah Slayen 

Julie Uccelli 

Uccelli & Associates, Certiied Deposition 

and Trial Court Reporters 

Susan Uccelli 

Uccelli & Associates, Certiied Deposition 

and Trial Court Reporters 

George Wailes 

Attorney at Law 

Alison Watkins 

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Legal Aid's Board of Directors 

OFFICERS 

Janice S. Tam I President I Estatable LLC 

Ara Jabagchourian I Vice President I Law Ofices of Ara Jabagchourian 

Adam Zapala I Secretary I Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP 

Greg Regan, C.P.A. I Treasurer I Hemming Morse, LLP 

DIRECTORS 

Aaron M. Armstrong I Visa Inc. 

Jessica Arner I Lakin Spears, LLP 

Laura Bushnell I King & Spalding LLP 

Vera M. Elson I Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 

Lynne Esselstein I San Mateo Public Library Foundation 

Karen Greenwood I Spruce Health 

Stacey Keare 

Mary H. Lin I Bay Wealth Legal Group, LLP 

Ann M. Thai 

Leticia G. Toledo I Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & Rifle, APC 

Sal Torres I Equinix, Inc. 

Alison R. Watkins I Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP 

Laurence A. Weiss 

Rand N. White I Dyer & White LLP 

David C. Wilson I VenEarth Group, LLC 

ADVISORY COMMITTEE 

Maureen P. Alger I Cooley LLP 

Janette Leonidou I Leonidou & Rosin Professional Corporation 

Charles M. Rifle I Aaron, Riechert, Carpol & Rifle, APC 

Dan K. Siegel I Jorgenson, Siegel, McClure & Flegel, LLP 

Kristi Cotton Spence I Law Ofice of Kristi Cotton Spence 

Timothy C. Wright 

Golnar Yazdi I Anderson Yazdi Hwang Minton + Horn LLP

Legal Aid's Attorneys and Staff 

SENIOR MANAGEMENT 

M. Stacey Hawver I Executive Director I Stanford Law School, 1987 

Shirley Gibson I Directing Attorney I New College of California School of Public Interest Law, 1999 

Hope Nakamura I Directing Attorney I UCLA School of Law, 1986 

Marcie Storch I Director of Development I University of Connecticut School of Law, 1981 

ATTORNEYS 

David Carducci I Director of Litigation I University of San Diego School of Law, 1991 

Michelle de Blank I Staff Attorney I Hastings College of the Law, 1997 

Jonathan Garcia I Staff Attorney I Ventura College of Law, 2013 

Joshua Grossman-Swenson I Staff Attorney I University of Oregon School of Law, 2014 

Jenny Horne I Staff Attorney I Stanford Law School, 1993 

Sasha Martinez I Staff Attorney I University of San Francisco School of Law, 2015 

Scott Maurer I Consulting Attorney I Santa Clara University School of Law, 1995 

Danilyn Nguyen I Supervising Attorney I Santa Clara University School of Law, 2009 

Janet B. Seldon I Director of Pro Bono I New College of California School of Public Interest Law, 1984 

Kate Stanford I Supervising Attorney, Legal Director, Peninsula Family Advocacy Program 

I NYU School of Law, 2011 

Trevor Yan I Staff Attorney I Georgetown University Law Center, 2014 

STAFF 

Lacei Amodei I Project Coordinator I California State University, San Francisco 

Brian Burns I Communications and Events Manager I UCLA 

Maria Chatterjee I Senior Project Coordinator I University of Valencia, Spain 

Francisca Guzman I Senior Project Coordinator I University of California, Berkeley 

Vanessa Hearne I Project Coordinator I Cañada College 

Andreina Leon I Project Coordinator I California State University, Channel Islands 

Loreli Lopez I Ofice Manager I Heald College 

Allison Marseille I Director of Grants & Contracts I Emporia State University 

Larisa Mialik I Development Assistant I Chabot College 

Ruby Mora I Project Coordinator I University of California, Berkeley 

Liliya Mukha I Bookkeeper I Gomel Cooperative Institute 

Stephanie Quintero I Law Clerk I Hastings College of the Law 

Ruby Romero I Project Coordinator I Cañada College 

Elsie Sanchez I Receptionist I College of San Mateo 

Susan Stortini I Accountant I University of Manila Philippines

Legal Aid Society 

OF SAN MATEO COUNTY 

330 Twin Dolphin Drive, Suite 123 

Redwood City, CA 94065 

Non-Profi t Organization 

U.S. Postage 

PAID 

San Francisco, CA 

Permit No. 4118 

RETURN SERVICE REQUESTED 

WHAT YOUR SUPPORT OF LEGAL AID PROVIDES: 

$125 

$250 

$500 

advises seniors about 

fraud and scams. 

educates immigrants 

about their legal rights. 

teaches parents to 

advocate for their children 

with disabilities. 

$1,000 

$2,500 

helps families avoid 

homelessness 

provides domestic 

violence survivors with 

representation at trial.

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