The 2nd annual Female Veterans Stand Down, held on the USC campus on Friday, July 20, was a great success!  Thank you to all who volunteered and provided resources and services.

Our legal partners included:

Bet Tzedek

Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law

Homeboy Industries, Inc.

Inner City Law Center

Law Project of Los Angeles

Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles

Levitt & Quinn Family Law Center

Los Angeles County Bar Association, Armed Forces Committee and Family Law Section

Los Angeles County Child Support Services Department

Los Angeles County Public Defender’s Office

Public Counsel

Cacilia Kim, CPT Linda Avery, and Evelyn G. Zneimer

Fabulous attorneys and volunteers from Bet Tzedek: (top row) Alexandra Harrington, Jenny Saenz, Shayla Myers, Esteban Garcia, Irma Vargas, Robert Babadjouni, Mark Bolin, (bottom row) Jose Alarcon, Akiko Krystina Nishino, with US Vets employee and Stand Down coordinator LaTrice McBride (in yellow)

(Back Row) Los Angeles Public Defenders Melissa Merkins & Beth Warner-Sterkenburg; (Middle Row) Natalie Klasky, Ladan Shelechi, Sophie Eternadi, Legal Interns at Greenberg Traurig, with attorney Evelyn Zneimer, and Liana Yoon, also interning at Greenberg Traurig; (Front) Public Counsel attorney Jodi Galvin

Cacilia Kim and Jenny Li in the Resources & Benefits area

Generous donations enabled many women to leave with work-appropriate clothing.

A huge THANK YOU to the firms who donated clothing and shoes:

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP

Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Geffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP

Manatt Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP

O’Melveny & Myers LLP

Proskauer Rose LLP

Donations were coordinated thanks to Robert Dudnik, with Mitchell Siberberg & Knupp, LLP