Going the Extra Mile
In the earliest days of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, Whitman-Walker Clinic (now Whitman-Walker Health) recognized the importance of competent, compassionate legal assistance to holistic health care, and established one of the oldest medical-legal partnerships in the Nation. For 27 years, Whitman-Walker has helped tens of thousands of persons with HIV/AIDS in the Washington, DC area obtain access to affordable and nondiscriminatory health care; understand and enforce their rights in the workplace; protect their medical privacy; obtain much-needed disability income if they were too sick to work; navigate U.S. immigration laws; and safeguard their own and their families' futures with wills, advance healthcare directives and powers of attorney.
In recent years we have expanded our services to help gay men, lesbians and transgender persons combat discrimination, secure adequate health care, protect themselves and their families in the event of future incapacity or death, and obtain asylum in the U.S. if they faced persecution in their countries of origin. We also help transgender men and women to change their identity documents and other legal records to reflect their new names and actual gender.
In the most recent 12 months, Whitman-Walker staff lawyers and volunteer lawyers and paralegals assisted more than 2,200 new clients on more than 3,600 new legal matters. Long recognized as a national and international model, the Legal Services Program has been recognized as a “Human Rights Hero” by the American Bar Association’s Section on Individual Rights and Responsibilities.
Going the Extra Mile is a cocktail reception where leaders from the Washington area legal community gather to support this important work. This year, Whitman-Walker will present the annual Joel A. Toubin Memorial Award to individuals and organizations that are leaders in advancing the rights of the LGBT community.
Please join us at the beautiful Carnegie Institution for Science to celebrate Whitman-Walker's Legal Services Program.
Tickets and Sponsorships are now available! Purchase yours today:
Online by Credit Card
By contacting Lee Brubaker by e-mail or phone 202.939.7627
By check. Please complete the commitment form and return to the address provided.
INDIVIDUAL AND SMALL FIRM SPONSORSHIPS
$1,000 - JURIST
2 tickets including1 ticket to the VIP Reception
Recognition in event program, signage & website
Recognition in the Legal Times & The Washington Lawyer
$500 - BARRISTER
One ticket including VIP Reception
Recognition in event program & website
Recognition in the Legal Times & The Washington Lawyer
$150 - INDIVIDUAL TICKETS TO THE GENERAL RECEPTION
LAW FIRM AND CORPORATE SPONSORSHIPS
$15,000 - HEADLINER
30 tickets including 10 tickets to the VIP Reception
Leading logo placement in event program, signage & website
Recognition in the spoken program
Logo placement in the Legal Times & The Washington Lawyer
$10,000 - MARATHONER
24 tickets including 6 tickets to the VIP Reception
Logo placement in event program, signage and website
Logo placement in the Legal Times & The Washington Lawyer
$5,000 - SPRINTER
12 tickets including 3 tickets to the VIP Reception
Logo placement in event program, signage & website
Logo placement in the Legal Times & The Washington Lawyer
$3,000 - RUNNER
8 tickets including 1 ticket to the VIP Reception
Firm name in event program, signage & website
Recognition in the Legal Times & The Washington Lawyer
Thank you to our sponsors of Going the Extra Mile 2012!
Going the Extra Mile 2013 Sponsors
Marathoners
Sprinters
Runners
BuckleySandler LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
DLA Piper LLP
The Family Firm, Inc
Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Hunton & Williams LLP
James J. Sandman
Jones Day
King & Spalding LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Pasternak & Fidis, P.C.
Patton Boggs LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
White & Case LLP
Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Jurists
Cecily Baskir & John Freedman
Dykema Gossett PLLC
Alan M. Grimaldi
Patrick McGlone & Kevin Taylor
Paul J. Murphy
Harold L. Segall
Paul M. Smith
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Cheryl Toubin Weiner & Robert N. Weiner
Barristers
Jeffrey S. Crowley
Jonathan C. Fritts
Lorraine B. Halloway
Christopher J. Herrling
Susan M. Hoffman
Hollingsworth LLP
Peter M. Kazon
Nossaman LLP
Sterne, Kessler, Goldstein & Fox