Paul Hastings Atlanta Awarded 2008 Heiner Award for Excellence in Pro Bono Service

From the Atlanta Bar Association's September 2008 edition of The Atlanta Lawyer:

The S. Phillip Heiner Award is presented annually by the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation (AVLF) to the person or organization which best exemplifies the high ideals and selfless dedication displayed by Phil Heiner in the provision of legal services to indigents. In the past year, Paul Hastings has dramatically increased its emphasis on voluntary pro bono legal service throughout the Atlanta community.  For AVLF alone, the firm more than doubled the number of volunteer attorneys who served and the pro bono hours worked. Paul Hastings lawyers served in the Saturday Lawyer Program four times in the course of twelve months, and also volunteered with the One Child, One Lawyer Program and the Guardian ad Litem Program. For the marked increase in participation in so many facets of the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation’s pro bono programs and the delivery of the consistently excellent legal services of the legal service to the poor, AVLF is proud to award Paul Hastings Janofsky & Walker with the 2008 Heiner Award.

2008 Charitable Giving

In 2008, Paul Hastings donated nearly $2 million to a variety of charitable and non-profit organizations, including the following groups selected by our Atlanta office:

Anti-Defamation League
Association of Corporate Counsel
Atlanta Ballet
Atlanta Community Food Bank
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Childkind, Inc.
Crystal Boots and Silver Saddles
Earth Share
Eating Disorder Institute
Equal Justice Foundation
Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network
Hands on Atlanta Service
High Museum of Art
Hosea Feed the Hungry
Legal Community Partnership Against Violence
March of Dimes
Southern Catholic College
United Way of Metropolitan Atlanta
Upper Chattahoochee River Fund
Woodruff Arts Center
Zoo Atlanta