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February 2007 News & Events

• Dokkyo International Forum
• Upcoming Events: Children's Advocacy Award Luncheon
• Pro Bono Highlight: Jarrett Green, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
• Save the Date: Words, Wine and Wit April 27,2007
• Program Highlight: Immigrant Youth Monograph
• Staff and Board News

LSC Participates in Dokkyo International Forum

On December 2-3, LSC Executive Director Shannan Wilber represented LSC at an international forum on children's advocacy at Dokkyo University in Japan. This spring, Dokkyo Law School will launch Japan's first children's law center. Panelists from Canada, Norway, Sweden, Japan and the US were invited to present information about their child advocacy programs. Shannan submitted a paper describing the status of disadvantaged children in San Francisco, the legal rights of children in the US and the model employed by LSC. Representatives from Dokkyo Law School visited LSC in June 2006, and will incorporate several aspects of LSC's model into their new clinic.

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LSC's Children's Advocacy Award Luncheon

Honoring

Justice Carlos R. Moreno
Children's Advocacy Award

Bingham McCutchen LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
Morrison & Foerster
Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Pro Bono Partner Award

Chris Banys Howrey LLP
Lauren Barnes Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Jason Bartlett Morrison & Foerster LLP
Rebecca Biernat Sedgwick, Detert, Moran & Arnold LLP
Victoria Carradero Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP
Fred Chung Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Philip Fant Cozen O'Connor
Rebecca Glass Cooley Godward LLP
Alexa Green Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Jarrett Green Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Dylan Hale Latham & Watkins LLP
Craig Hundley Cooley Godward LLP
Richard Jaeger
Bryn Martyna National Center for Youth Law
Glenna MacGregor
Patrick Michael Nixon Peabody LLP
Mona Motwani Child Care Law Center
Joey Neugart Latham & Watkins LLP
Brian Orion Morrison & Foerster LLP
Kristina Paszek Morrison & Foerster LLP
Jessica Perry Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
Kathryn Ringgold
Lindsay Roon Latham & Watkins LLP
Stuart Rosenberg Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Satyanand Satyanarayana Latham & Watkins LLP
Evi Schueller Latham & Watkins LLP
R. Oriona Spaulding Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Stacey Sprenkel Morrison & Foerster LLP
Darren Teshima Heller Ehrman
Rena Thiagarajan Bingham McCutchen LLP
Jennifer Troia Youth Law Center
Daniel Yan Howrey LLP
Nancy Wang
Pro Bono Advocate Award

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Pro Bono Highlight: Jarrett Green, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Jarrett Green is an associate in the Litigation Department of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom's San Francisco office. Since joining LSC's pro bono panel in 2005, Jarrett has expressed a willingness to take on difficult cases. As a summer associate at Skadden, he represented an East Bay elementary school student in a school discipline case. Working with an LSC social worker, he was able to keep the minor in school and ensure that he received special education services to address a learning disability.

Most recently, he represented a minor facing expulsion for alleged gang involvement in Napa. Despite the distance, Jarrett met repeatedly with the client, his family, and witnesses in the case. He and Skadden legal assistant Elisa Anderson also spent many hours preparing for the hearing, devoting nearly 140 hours to the case. Working with Lisbel Dolme at the Your Alternatives to Risk Program, Jarrett was able to connect his client to the support he needed to succeed in school and prevent future disciplinary problems. Ultimately, he was able to prevent his client's expulsion. The minor is now making phenomenal academic, social and personal progress.

On behalf of these clients, we extend our thanks to Jarrett Green, Elisa Anderson, and Lisbel Dolme for their incredible work and commitment to youth. Thank you for your excellent work on behalf of children!

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Save the Date: Words, Wine and Wit

ISABEL ALLENDE is the acclaimed author of many novels and short fiction collections, as well as plays and stories for children including, La casa de los espíritus (The House of the Spirits), De amor y de sombra (Of Love and Shadows), Eva Luna, Paula, Zorro, and her most recent novel, Ines del alma mia (Ines of My Soul.)

SONIA NAZARIO is an award-winning journalist for the Los Angeles Times and has written extensively on social issues in Latin America and Latinos in the United States. Based on the Los Angeles Times newspaper series that won two Pulitzer Prizes, Nazario's novel Enrique's Journey is the timeless story of a Honduran boy who braves unimaginable hardship and peril to reach his mother in the United States.

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LSC to author monograph on immigrant youth in the juvenile justice system

LSC is pleased to announce it has begun work on the first comprehensive resource for juvenile probation staff and defenders on immigrant youth in the juvenile justice system. Many of these youth are eligible for immigration relief because they have suffered violence, abuse, exploitation and persecution - both in their countries of origin and in this country. Attaining status may be the key to the youth's survival and successful transition to adulthood. The decisions that are made by juvenile court officials - including probation staff, prosecutors, defenders and judges - can have significant impact on the availability of these immigration remedies.

The monograph will be completed and published later this year. The publication of this resource has been made possible by the generous support of the Annie E. Casey Foundation.

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Staff and Board News

Welcome New Staff and Interns!

2007 Spring Interns

Kirsten Strobel, Development Associate, has volunteered with LSC as an Administrative Assistant since October 2005. She provides administrative support to the Executive Director and Development Director and assists with fundraising, marketing and communications projects. Kirsten also manages LSC's pro bono panel and case assignments. She enjoys tennis, golf, and rooting for her Maryland Terrapins in her spare time. We are very excited to welcome her as a full-time staff member.

Kirsten will replace Lisa Knox, who leaves LSC to embark on a teach abroad program in Chile. We will miss her tremendously and are grateful for all of her support and hard work, and wish her well.

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