On Thursday, October 8, the Vera Institute of Justice returned to the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center for our fourth annual fundraising benefit. We were pleased to honor Robert Morgenthau, District Attorney of New York County for his extraordinary commitment to public service as the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York and as Manhattan DA for more than three decades.

Co-Chairs

Co-chairing the event were Vera board chair John Savarese of Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen, and Katz, Vera trustee Karen Patton Seymour of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, and Alan Vinegrad of Covington & Burling LLP.

Sponsors

Title Sponsor
The Starr Foundation
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz 

Innovator
Sullivan & Cromwell LLP

Director
Charles and Mildred Schnurmacher Foundation

Reformer

Covington & Burling LLP • The Dermot Company, Inc. • John Feinblatt, Aber D. Unger Foundation • Forest City Ratner Companies • Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP • MetLife • Pfizer Inc • Lynn and John F. Savarese • Frederick A.O. Schwarz, Jr. • Karen and Sam Seymour • Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP • Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates

Partner

Con Edison • Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP • FTI Consulting, Inc. • Lankler Siffert & Wohl LLP • Law Offices of Gerald L. Shargel • Catie Marshall • Joseph F. McDonald • Morrison & Foerster Foundation • Morvillo, Abramowitz, Grand, Iason, Anello & Bohrer, P.C. • S. Andrew Schaffer • Alan Vinegrad • Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP

Entrepreneur

Brune & Richard LLP • Clifford Chance LLP • DLA Piper • Alice McInerney • Pitta Bishop Del Giorno & Giblin LLC • Martin E. and Edith L. Segal • Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation