FrontLine Attorney Reception

Every summer, the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation holds a reception to update Northern California lawyers about the ACLU’s work to protect the civil rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people and people with HIV/AIDS, and to raise some of the financial support needed to do this work. The FrontLine Attorney Reception is sponsored by many prominent law firms and individual attorneys in the Bay Area legal community. This year’s reception will be held in San Francisco on June 4 at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

Sponsorship Opportunities

Firm Sponsors
Law firms are invited to participate in the FrontLine Attorney Reception at the level of:

Underwriters
Each year, one law firm hosts the FrontLine Attorney Reception, thereby agreeing to underwrite virtually all costs of the event. Law firms that have so generously served in this capacity include Bingham McCutchen LLP, Covington & Burling LLP, Heller Ehrman LLP, Morrison & Foerster LLP, and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP.

Freedom Circle              $1250 
Freedom Circle Sponsors receive these benefits:

• Participation of summer associates. (All of the firm’s summer associates are welcome to attend the reception.) The reception provides an excellent venue to highlight the firm’s commitment to diversity goals and its support of pro bono advocacy;
• Admission for up to six firm representatives or guests (in addition to summer associates);
• Recognition in all event materials, the annual reports of the ACLU Foundation of Northern California and the national ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project, and acknowledgement in selected Bay Area legal publications.

Supporting                     $500
(for smaller firms and firms without summer associate programs)
Supporting Sponsors receive these benefits:

• Admission for up to four firm representatives;
• Recognition in all event materials, the annual reports of the ACLU Foundation of Northern California and the national ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project, and acknowledgement in selected Bay Area legal publications.

Past firm sponsors have included:           

• Bingham McCutchen
• Clarence & Dyer LLP
• Cooley Godward Kronish LLP
• Coughlin Stoia & Robbins LLP
• Covington & Burling LLP
• DLA Piper US LLP
• Farella Braun + Martel LLP
• Fenwick & West LLP
• Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP
• Gunderson Dettmer
• Hanson Bridgett LLP
• Heller Ehrman LLPKeker & Van Nest LLP
• Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin
• Latham & Watkins LLP
• Lewis, Feinberg, Lee, Renaker & Jackson, P.C.
• Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
• Morrison & Foerster LLP
• Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
• Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
• Reed Smith LLP

Host Committee Members        $250
Individual attorneys, solo practitioners, law faculty, and legal professionals are invited to participate as Host Committee Members by making a contribution of $250. Host Committee Members receive these benefits:

• Admission for two;
• Ability to submit a list of colleagues or friends to receive invitations to the reception; 
• Recognition in all event materials, the annual reports of the ACLU Foundation of Northern California and the national ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project, and acknowledgement in selected Bay Area legal publications.

Reception Guests
Guests of Firm Sponsors and Host Committee Members are not solicited for contributions at the reception. They will be invited by letter at the end of the year to support the ACLU’s FrontLine Campaign. Summer associates are not solicited for a contribution.

The ACLU FrontLine Campaign is a partnership of the national ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS Project and the ACLU Foundation of Northern California (ACLU-NC). Contributions to the ACLU FrontLine Attorney Reception are tax-deductible to the extent provided by law. Half of every gift supports the cutting-edge advocacy of the ACLU LGBT & AIDS Project, particularly in Southern and Midwestern states where the civil rights bar is stretched thin by serious, and repeated, constitutional violations. The other half of every FrontLine gift supports a wide range of civil liberties work undertaken by the ACLU-NC.  

The LGBT & AIDS Project of the national ACLU protects the constitutional rights of LGBT people and those living with HIV/AIDS through impact litigation, public education, and legislative advocacy. The project is renowned among LGBT rights groups for developing an integrated approach to advocacy. Project attorneys and communications and organizing specialists work together to implement legal initiatives structured not only to change the law but also to influence opinion leaders and public opinion in order to make legal change possible and politically sustainable.

The ACLU Foundation of Northern California is the only public interest law organization in the region dedicated to the education and preservation of civil liberties contained in the U.S. and California constitutions. The ACLU-NC Foundation is a non-profit 501(c)(3)  charitable organization that conducts litigation, public education, and community organizing programs in defense of civil liberties. Since its founding in 1934, the organization has had nationally recognized staff with expertise in free speech, separation of church and state, racial justice, reproductive rights, LGBT rights, and criminal justice issues.

For More Information
For more information about the FrontLine Attorney Reception, please contact giving@aclunc.org