<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><title>International Senior Lawyers Project</title></head> <body alink="#000000" link="#000000" vlink="#000000"><center> <table width="700"><tbody><tr><td><a href="index.html"><img style="border: 0px solid ; width: 734px; height: 57px;" alt="" src="islplogo3.jpg"></a><br> <img src="banner-2.jpg" name="slide" border="0" height="163" width="734"><br> <table><tbody><tr><td><font face="Arial" size="1">Jean Berman &amp; Colin Gonsalves in India </font></td><td width="40"></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">Board members Joe Bell, Joe Onek and Bob Kapp</font></td><td width="12"></td><td><font face="Arial" size="1">Board member Ramon Mullerat &amp; Mary Robinson</font></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table><table> </table><table width="740"><tbody><tr><td><a href="aboutus.html"><img src="aboutus.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="programs.html"><img src="programs.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="partners.html"><img src="partners.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="volunteer.html"><img src="volunteer.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="news.html"><img src="news.jpg" border="0"></a> <a href="contactus.html"><img src="contactus.jpg" border="0"></a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <table bgcolor="#bbbaba" width="740"><tbody><tr><td align="left" valign="top"> <a href="French%20Web%20Page-%20A%20Propos%20de%20Nous.html"><img style="border: 0px solid ; 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Hartson LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The General Motors Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Nathan Cummings Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Open Society Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Pew Charitable Trusts<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Public Welfare Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Rex Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Members of the Board of Directors and staff of ISLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Foundations and law firms that currently support our general operating expenses and Rapid Response Fund</span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;">*<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Benefactors<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Open Society Institute<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Anonymous Institutional Donor<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clifford Chance <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">US</st1:country-region></st1:place> LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Patrons </span></i></b><b><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hogan &amp; Hartson LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Weil Gotshal &amp; Manges LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lucius N. Littauer Foundation<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Partners<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Arnold &amp; Porter LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">DLA Piper Rudnick Gray Carey LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Fried Frank Harris Shriver &amp; Jacobson LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wilmer Cutler <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on">Pickering</st1:city></st1:place> Hale &amp; Dorr LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Supporters<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Baach Robinson &amp; Lewis LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:city w:st="on"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Covington</span></st1:city></st1:place><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> &amp; Burling LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Bernstein Shur, <i>in honor of the contribution of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:state w:st="on">Maine</st1:state></st1:place> lawyers to ISLP<o:p></o:p></i></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Littler Mendelson, P.C.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Wiley Rein LLP<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition, members of the Board of Directors of ISLP and over 100 other individual donors contributed more than $138,000 in 2007.</span></i><b><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Blake Cassels &amp; Graydon LLP</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: for a 6-week program of onsite support to the Ministry of Justice of <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Liberia</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Claude Moore Family Foundation</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: for support of young lawyers undertaking projects to learn about or effectuate rule of law and human rights issues in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Ernst C. Stiefel Foundation</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: for work in Eastern Europe and <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Russia</st1:place></st1:country-region></span><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><st1:place w:st="on"></st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">James St. Clair:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for support of commercial law training programs in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Joseph Horning:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp; for support of our commercial law training program in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Tanzania</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Kapp Family Foundation</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: for projects in sub Saharan Africa<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Open Society Institute:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for assistance to the Government of Liberia in connection with the negotiation of concession agreements with the Mittal Steel and Firestone Rubber companies and in reviewing a 10-year contract with the Liberia International Ship and Corporate Registry<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Southern African Legal Services Foundation:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for support of commercial law training programs in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp; for trade negotiation training programs in <st1:country-region w:st="on">Botswana</st1:country-region>, <st1:country-region w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:country-region> and elsewhere in <st1:place w:st="on">Africa</st1:place><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The W.K. Kellogg Foundation</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">: to support two years of the commercial law training program in <st1:country-region w:st="on">South Africa</st1:country-region> and <st1:country-region w:st="on">Botswana</st1:country-region> and a conference in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">South Africa</st1:place></st1:country-region><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation: </span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for a trade negotiation training program in <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Rwanda</st1:place></st1:country-region> and follow up<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><i><span style="font-size: 12pt;">In addition to these direct grants, many law firms and individual lawyers have incurred significant unreimbursed out of pocket expenses in connection with projects they have undertaken as ISLP volunteers.&nbsp; These expenses added up to tens of thousands of dollars in 2006, and ISLP wishes to acknowledge and thank our volunteers for their great generosity.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><u><span style="font-size: 12pt;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></u><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">*Our Rapid Response Fund supports projects for which we do not have program-related grants, particularly the onsite work of ISLP volunteers with human rights organizations abroad.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: left;" align="left"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">We are also deeply grateful for the significant in-kind support provided by:<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Clifford Chance <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">US</st1:place></st1:country-region>:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for its donation of office space and related services<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Hogan &amp; Hartson:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for its donation of conference space on a regular basis<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Latham &amp; Watkins:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for its donation of printing services for the ISLP newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">The Dutko Foundation:</span></i><span style="font-size: 12pt;"> for funding our first administrative assistant in 2002-2003<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 12pt; text-align: left;" align="left"><i style=""><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Lawler Metzger Milkman &amp; Keeney:</span></i><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">for providing office space in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Washington</st1:place></st1:state> with related support services<o:p></o:p></span></p> </td><td align="left" valign="top" width="50"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p><center><font face="Arial" size="-2"> islp.org. all rights reserved. copyright 2008</font></center> </center></body></html>