inMotion Honors the New York Legal Community Former Governor Mario Cuomo Serves as Guest of Honor

New York, NY-inMotion, Inc. will celebrate the New York City legal
community's commitment to voluntarism by honoring the hundreds of
attorneys, legal assistants and individuals who have provided
extraordinary pro bono services to inMotion's clients in 2004. The 6th
Annual Commitment to Justice Awards will be held on November 29th, at
Scandinavia House, 58 Park Avenue, 6:30-8:30 pm. Mario M. Cuomo,
former three-term governor of New York State and attorney at Willkie Farr &
Gallagher LLP, will deliver the keynote address.

Since 1993, inMotion has confronted the challenging needs of families
in crisis by providing free legal services to low-income women and
children. Most of the families we serve suffer from domestic violence.
Many are immigrants. InMotion reaches women who reside in all five
boroughs of New York City: 53% live in the Bronx, the City's poorest
borough; 59% are Latina; and 29% are African-American. Our objective is
to ensure that all women who contact inMotion obtain essential legal
protections so that they and their children have the strongest chance
of removing abuse from their lives.

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2004 Commitment to Justice Award Recipients
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LAW FIRM AWARD
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP,
honoring the firm's outstanding commitment to pro bono services and
ongoing support of inMotion. During the past decade, partners and
associates from the firm have represented over 90 inMotion clients. And the firm has been a generous host of our trainings and workshops.

PARTNER AWARD
Sandra D. Hauser-Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, in recognition of her profound commitment to building meaningful pro bono opportunities for attorneys and legal assistants at the firm.

ASSOCIATE AWARD
Peter J. Dennin, Alison J. Dow and Sean K. McElligott-Simpson Thacher &
Bartlett LLP, for their skillful and successful representation of a victim of domestic violence. After her daughter's father bashed in her car and threatened to kill her, this team successfully obtained for their client both sole custody and a substantial award of child support and arrears.

ASSOCIATE AWARD
Harold Levy-Sullivan & Cromwell LLP and Kathrine M. Mortensen-Kornstein
Veisz Wexler & Pollard LLP
for their commitment and dedication to achieving justice on behalf of
one client, who they represented for two and a half years in multiple
matters in Family and Supreme Court, achieving a life-altering outcome
for the client and her children.

ASSOCIATE AWARD
Joanna Rotgers-Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP,
for her excellent work on an order of protection and custody case. The
client was severely battered and stalked by her abuser. After three
years of litigation, Ms. Rotgers secured for her client a five-year
order of protection, full custody of her child and dismissal of the
father's visitation petition.


JOHN K. GEIGER AWARD
Colleen J. O'Loughlin-King & Spalding LLP, for demonstrating committed
and caring leadership, serving as the firm's pro bono coordinator and
establishing a strong program at the firm. She has coordinated the
placement of 17 matters with King & Spalding attorneys and paralegals
and ensured that cases were supported by all necessary resources of the
firm.

SOLO/SMALL FIRM PRACTITIONER AWARD
Melissa J. Bernstein, a volunteer in our Bronx office several days a
week, for representing 15 women, most of them victims of domestic
violence, in obtaining divorces from their husbands.

SOLO/SMALL FIRM PRACTITIONER AWARD
Sergio Marquez,
for volunteering for the past four years. He has made himself available
on short notice, time and time again, to represent battered women,
especially Spanish-speaking women, in navigating the court system and
obtaining orders of protection.

SOLO/SMALL FIRM PRACTITIONER AWARD
Anthony Parisi III-Parisi & Maleno,
for willingly accepting referrals of many emergency cases. Most
recently, Mr. Parisi represented a domestic violence survivor in
obtaining a divorce and sole custody of her children. He is truly
dedicated to serving women in need.

SOLO/SMALL FIRM PRACTITIONER AWARD
Luis Rodriguez, Jr.,
for representing battered women with divorces and immigration petitions
for legal residency, thereby affording them access to justice and
financial self-sufficiency.


PRO BONO COORDINATOR AWARD
Anthony Perez Cassino-Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP, for tirelessly supporting and promoting our program at the firm and for his broader strong advocacy for inMotion and the pro bono involvement of all lawyers.

COMMUNITY LEADER AWARD
Fred Rooney-Community Legal Resource Network (CLRN) of CUNY School of
Law, for supporting an innovative collaboration between CLRN and
inMotion through which inMotion recruits and trains solo and small firm
practitioners willing to represent clients in complex litigated
matters.

DEBORAH E. SMITH AWARD
William De Lury-New York County Supreme Court, for supporting our RITE
Workshop-Realizing Independence Through Empowerment, which teaches
women with uncontested cases how to obtain their own divorces. Mr. De Lury
attends evening Workshop sessions and personally greets our pro se
clients when they come to court to file their divorce documents, easing
a normally intimating process.

SPECIAL AWARD
Denise Bethel-Sotheby's,
for serving as volunteer auctioneer at our annual live photography auction every year since 1996. Each year, she delights in raising the bidding to new heights.

SPECIAL AWARD
Eugene A. Pinover, Lorraine E. Freedhand and Wendy F. Shar-Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, for their forceful and wise negotiation of complex office leases. Under Mr. Pinover's leadership and joined by numerous other members of the Willkie real estate group, they ensured that
inMotion is housed in space that works well for clients, staff and
volunteers alike.

SPECIAL AWARD
Molly Thomas-Jensen, a generous volunteer, who regularly helps staff
our Saturday walk-in legal clinics in the Bronx and at the Colombian
Consulate. She has also assisted a number of clients with uncontested
divorces.

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