• Nancy Winkelman is the president of the board of directors of the disabilities law project.
• In Philadelphia, the firm's Chairman, Ralph G. Wellington, has served as Board President of Philadelphia Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (PVLA).
• David Smith, the Firm's CEO , recently completed a term as Board Chair of the Public Interest Law Center of Philadelphia (PILCOP).
• Many lawyers serve on the boards of Philadelphia's many other public interest law centers, including the Homeless Advocacy Project, the Support Center for Child Advocates and the Disabilities Law Project.
• Sam Silver serves as co-coordinator of the Prisoner Civil Rights Panel of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, which assigns court appointments in prisoner civil rights matters to lawyers and law firms, including Schnader, that agree to take on such matters.
• William H. Brown III, a former chair of the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, has served on the boards of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the National Black Child Development Institute.
• William Leonard serves on the board of the Committee of Seventy, an election watchdog and good government group.
  
• Diana Donaldson is a board member of Summerbridge - Germantown, a non-profit organization dedicated to motivating less-advantaged seventh and eighth grade students in Germantown, West Philadelphia and Camden to go on to Philadelphia's academic high schools and to college through a full-time summer and after-school program.
• Glenn Fox serves as member of the North Penn United Way, and a member and pro bono solicitor to the Foundation for the North Penn United Way.

Many of our partners, counsel and associates serve as board members or counsel to public service groups ranging from the American Friends Service Committee, the American Heart Association and the American Philosophical Society to the Chestnut Hill Historical Society and one of the nation's oldest educational institutions -- the Settlement Music School.

Our lawyers serve or have served on the boards and committees of the University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, Villanova University, Rosemont College and Beaver College, among others, and act as alumni representatives, recruiters and in other capacities for many other distinguished universities, including Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, the University of Chicago and Oxford University, to name a few.

CHERRY HILL, NEW JERSEY

• Jerry L. Tanenbaum is local Chair of the New Jersey chapter of the Anti-Defamation League and represents children in abuse and neglect matters on a regular basis in partnership with the Support Center for Child Advocates.
• Jeanne Schubert Barnum serves as a volunteer arbitrator with the United States District Court for New Jersey, and as a member of the environmental committee of the Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey.

Our lawyers in Cherry Hill and Philadelphia have worked together on projects with numerous statewide entities, such as the New Jersey Audubon Society and the New Jersey chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union.

WASHINGTON, D.C.

• John Britton and Steven Johnson are Commissioners of the Rockville MD Planning Commission.

PITTSBURGH

• Thomas D. Arbogast has provided legal advice to Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Pittsburgh in his role as pro bono counsel and provides tax-related advice to a number of indigent clients. He has also chaired the Allegheny County Bar Association's lawyer referral service, which aids low-income clients in the greater Pittsburgh area.
• Megan E. Harmon serves as a member of the Churchill Borough Planning Commission and a member of the Wilkinsburg Elks.
• Paul Titus represents a death penalty prisoner in habeas proceedings and provides legal advice to the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. He also serves as the Director of the American Judicature Society and chairs its Civil Justice Reform Committee.
• Clayton Sweeney has served as chairman of the Saint Francis Health System and is a member of the Board of the National Catholic Center for Holocaust Education, and Emeritus Trustee for Seton Hill College. He also is a board member of The Emmaus Community's advisory board and of the Procedural Rules Committee of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania.
• Michael Bock is the first vice president and a board member of the Engineers' Society of Western Pennsylvania. He also serves as a member of the Steering Committee of the Dispute Avoidance & Resolution Division (Division 1) of the ABA's Forum on the Construction Industry. He is a member of the National Panel of Construction Industry Arbitrators for the American Arbitration Association. In 1998 and 1999, he served on the Governing Council of the Allegheny County Bar Association's Construction Law Section and as chair of its Legislative Subcommittee.
• Judith Olson is vice president of the board of directors of the American Heart Association - Allegheny Affiliate.

SAN FRANCISCO

• Lawyers in the San Francisco office participate in various events sponsored by the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

NEW YORK

• Allan D. Goodridge drafted organizing documents and implemented a management restructuring for the English-Speaking Union of the United States, a 76-year-old nonprofit educational organization dedicated to promoting understanding among countries around the globe through the use of the English language, using exchange and scholarship programs and providing classes in English as a second language.
• Benjamin P. Deutsch has provided pro bono legal services to the non-profit Haitian Women's Program.
• M. Christine Carty serves on the board of directors of the Manhattan Soccer Club, Inc., and led contract negotiations for a precedent-setting project with the City of New York to provide new soccer fields on Ward's Island between Manhattan and the Bronx for use by recreational and competitive soccer teams and for nine private schools. The project was the first time New York City agreed to develop under license public park space using privately-donated funds.

Our New York lawyers have done substantial work for the Goddard Riverside Community Center on Manhattan's West Side, a multi-purpose social services center that provides a licensed Head Start center, a day-care facility and a youth center with after-school programs, as well as an innovative outreach program for the homeless that is one of only a few in the nation to provide daytime programs for the homeless.

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