2009 Charitable Giving

In 2009, Paul Hastings donated over $2 million to a variety of charitable and non-profit organizations, including the following groups selected by our Atlanta office:

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Metro Atlanta
EDIN
Everybody Wins! Atlanta
Zoo Atlanta
Hands on Atlanta
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Anti-Defamation League
The Atlanta Women's Foundation
March of Dimes
Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation
Childkind, Inc.
Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeepers
Southern Catholic College
United Way of Metro Atlanta
The Carter Center

Paul Hastings Team Wins Arbitration for Asian American Arts Collective

A team of lawyers in the Atlanta office successfully obtained a $482,047.22 arbitration award for their pro bono client, a community group that represents deserving Asian artists by promoting and publicizing their works in art galleries and shows in North America. The team filed a Demand for Arbitration, seeking damages for fraud, conversion, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract after an art gallery and its owner mismanaged five valuable pieces of art held by the gallery on consignment. The gallery was secretly selling the works and keeping all of the profits from the sales. In an unprecedented victory for a pro bono case in the Atlanta office, the arbitrator awarded actual damages, punitive damages, and attorneys’ fees.