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Accolades
New York Lawyer
December 21, 2006
By Thomas Adcock
New York Law Journal
A first-year associate at Chadbourne & Parke who co-founded the Student Hurricane Network to aid Gulf Coast victims of Hurricane Katrina was honored by Equal Justice Works during its annual banquet last month in Washington, D.C.
Laila Hlass, a native of Long Beach, Miss., who helped organize the 1,000-member student network in 2005 during her final year at Columbia Law School, was presented with the LexisNexis Martindale-Hubbell Exemplary Public Service Award.
Last year, Ms. Hlass spent 20 days in New Orleans supervising students involved in projects focused on voting rights, housing, criminal and juvenile justice and immigration matters.
At Chadbourne, Ms. Hlass is continuing her pro bono work as a volunteer counsel for The Door, working on family law and foster care matters for the agency's Legal Services Center.
For affecting a much-needed overhaul of the Legal Aid Society's technology infrastructure, Nick Croce, president of DOAR Litigation Consulting, was honored for his work on Nov. 6 during the society's 2006 pro bono awards ceremony.
Mr. Croce's company, with offices in New York and Washington, D.C., assists clients in litigation tasks such as electronic discovery, jury consulting, trial graphics and presentations.
For his years of commitment to the United Cerebral Palsy Association of Nassau County, William S. Cohn was given the Harold Jay Greenberg Torch of Leadership Award on Nov. 3 during the association's 54th annual "Forget Me Not Ball," held at the Chateau Briand restaurant in Carle Place.
Mr. Cohn, counsel at the Mineola firm Forchelli, Curto, Schwartz, Mineo, Carlino & Cohn, is a past president of the association. Currently, he serves as chairman of its foundation board. The Torch of Leadership Award is named for a long-time president and director of the organization.
Two partners at Proskauer Rose - Claire P. Gutekunst and Andrea S. Rattner - were honored by the New York chapter of the Young Women's Christian Association during the group's Nov. 9 "Salute to Women" luncheon at the Sheraton New York Hotel.
For her work with the YWCA's Academy of Women Leaders since 1997, Ms. Gutekunst was given the Mary Rousmaniere Gordon Award, named for the late civic leader and former YWCA president. At the same time, Ms. Rattner was inducted into the academy, a network of 3,000 women professionals.
For his long-time involvement in charities and civic causes, the Award of Courage Corporation presented its humanitarian award to Alan Raylesberg on Nov. 9 during a dinner and auction at the Grand Hyatt Hotel to benefit Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Mr. Raylesberg, a partner at Chadbourne & Parke, which co-sponsored the dinner program along with The Schultz Corporation, has supported Sloan-Kettering for many years, as well as the American Heart Association, the Leukemia Society of America, the Center for Hope, the Make a Wish Foundation, United Jewish Appeal, the Dorot Foundation for student travel to Israel and the Dr. I. Fund Foundation for medical research.
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