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THE ROY REARDON 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 experiencing poverty and convicted of felonies in
appeals 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* JONES DAY
ARENT FOX LLP HECKER FINK LLP*
BRYAN CAVE LLP KELLEY DRYE & WARREN LLP
CADWALADER, WICHERSHAM & TAFT LLP KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP
CLEARY, GOTTLIEB, STEEN & HAMILTON LLP* LANKLER SIFFERT & WOHL LLP*
CLIFFORD CHANCE US LLP LATHAM & WATKINS LLP

COVINGTON & BURLING LLP* LINKLATERS LLP
CRAVATH, SWAINE & MOORE LLP* MILBANK LLP*
DAVIS POLK & WARDWELL LLP* OLSHAN FROME WOLOSKY LLP
DAY PITNEY LLP O’MELVENY & MYERS LLP
DEBEVOISE & PLIMPTON LLP* ORRICK, HERRINGTON & SUTCLIFFE LLP*
DECHERT LLP* PAUL HASTINGS 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 LLP* SIMPSON THACHER & BARTLETT LLP
FRIED, FRANK, HARRIS, SHRIVER & JACOBSON LLP SULLIVAN & CROMWELL LLP*
GREENBERG TRAURIG LLP* SWIDLER BERLIN SHEREFF FRIEDMAN LLP
HELLER EHRMAN LLP WACHTELL, LIPTON, ROSEN & KATZ*
HOLWELL SHUSTER & GOLDBERG, LLP* WEIL, GOTSHAL & MANGES LLP
HOWARD, DARBY & LEVIN ZUCKERMAN SPAEDER LLP*

For information on how to enroll your firm in VAD, contact:
Caprice Jenerson, President & Attorney-in-Charge
cjenerson@oadnyc.org
212.402.4110

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