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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 poor people 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 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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