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VOLUNTEER APPELLATE DEFENDER PROGRAM

The Office of the Appellate Defender’s Volunteer Appellate Defender Program (VAD) offers associates
in sponsoring law firms an opportunity to represent people who cannot afford an attorney in the
appeals of their conviction to the New York State Appellate Division of the Supreme Court, First
Judicial Department, under the intensive supervision of OAD Supervising Attorneys.

OAD would like to thank the following firms for their participation in and support of the VAD Program
between 1995 and today. (* Denotes VAD firms with active OAD cases.)

ALSTON & BIRD LLP* KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
ARENT FOX LLP KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP*
BRYAN CAVE LLP LANKLER SIFFERT & WOHL LLP
CADWALADER, WICHERSHAM & TAFT LLP LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

CLEARY, GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON LLP LINKLATERS LLP
CLIFFORD CHANCE US LLP MILBANK LLP*
COVINGTON & BURLING LLP* OLSHAN FROME WOLOSKY LLP
CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP

DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL LLP* ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP*
DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP* PAUL HASTINGS LLP
DECHERT LLP* DAY PITNEY LLP
DEWEY BALLANTINE LLP RICHARDS KIBBE & ORBE LLP

DORSEY & WHITNEY LLP ROPES & GRAY LLP
FITZPATRICK, CELLA, HARPER & SCINTO SHEREFF, FRIEDMAN, HOFFMAN & GOODMAN LLP
FOLEY & LARDNER LLP SHEARMAN & STERLING LLP
FRESHFIELDS BRUCKHAUS DERINGER LLP* SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP

FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP*
HELLER EHRMAN LLP SWIDLER BERLIN SHEREFF FRIEDMAN LLP
HOLWELL SHUSTER & GOLDBERG LLP* WACHTELL, LIPTON, ROSEN & KATZ
HOWARD, DARBY & LEVIN WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP*

JONES DAY* ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP
KAPLAN HECKER & FINK LLP*

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