Pro Bono Partnership 2019 Gala

Honoring: Mastercard and Samir A. Gandhi, Managing Partner New York Office, Sidley Austin LLP. Dinner Chair: John L. Golden, EVP and General Counsel, Athene Holding, Ltd; and Tim Murphy, General Counsel, Mastercard.

Pro Bono Partnership is a nationally recognized provider of vital, free transactional legal services to nonprofits that are serving the disadvantaged or strengthening communities in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey, and, by license, in Atlanta and Ohio. Its model is to collaborate with in-house legal departments and law firm attorneys to provide pro bono legal services to more than 885 nonprofits on 1,700 matters annually, utilizing 10 staff attorneys and 1,400 pro bono lawyers from corporations and law firms, thereby providing almost $10 million in free legal services.