our board
New Perimeter is guided by an advisory board with strong pro bono and international experience:
Retired Judge Patricia Wald, Co-Chair
Judge Wald served for 20 years on the DC Circuit, including a stint as the Chief Judge. She had a distinguished career prior to that time including serving as Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs during the Carter Administration. After leaving the federal bench, Judge Wald served for two years in the Hague as a judge of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. She is also a member of the board of the Open Society Institute's Justice Initiative.
Esther F. Lardent, Co-Chair
Ms. Lardent is President and Chief Executive Officer of the Pro Bono Institute, the leading organization promoting pro bono among law firms and the corporate community. She is considered to be the country's leading expert on the pro bono concept and is regularly approached for advice for both the legal and corporate sectors. Ms. Lardent also currently serves as Chair of the ABA Commission on Immigration Policy, Practice and Pro Bono and previously served on the ABA's Board of Governors, as Chair of its Consortium on Legal Services and the Public.
Barbara Arnwine
Barbara Arnwine is the Executive Director of the National Office of the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Before assuming this position, she was the Executive Director of the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law of the Boston Bar. She has become renowned for her work on passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1991. In 1995, Ms. Arnwine served as the National Convener of the National Conference on African American Women and the Law held in Washington and has led a delegation to the NGO Forum and Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. She convened the third National Conference on African American Women and the Law in Washington, D.C. in 2000. Ms. Arnwine was awarded the National Bar Association's Equal Justice Award, the highest honor bestowed by that organization. A graduate of Scripps College in Claremont, California, Ms. Arnwine received her law degree from Duke University School of Law.
Stephen B. Bright
Mr. Bright has served as the Director of the Southern Center for Human Rights since 1982. He also teaches regularly at the Yale and Harvard Law Schools, among others, and has taught a course on international human rights law at the Institute on World Legal Problems in Innsbruck, Austria. The Southern Center for Human Rights is a legendary public interest legal project based in Atlanta which provides legal representation to persons facing the death penalty and to prisoners challenging unconstitutional conditions in prisons and jails throughout the South. The Center is also engaged in efforts to improve access to lawyers and the legal system by poor people accused of crimes and in prison and to bring about greater judicial independence. Mr. Bright has been the recipient of a number of awards, including the ABA's Thurgood Marshall Award, presented at the ABA Annual Meeting in 1998.
Michael E. Doyle
Mr. Doyle is President and Chief Executive Officer of CHF International, a humanitarian and development organization founded in 1952 that assists low-income communities working toward long-term economic improvement and stability. Mr. Doyle worked for more than 20 years with the US government, both as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia and Country Director throughout Latin America, and later as a federal Regional Director in Chicago. He serves on the board of the Overseas Cooperative Development Council and is President of the board of directors of the International Co-operative Alliance's Housing Committee.
Mark S. Ellis
Mr. Ellis is the Executive Director of the International Bar Association (IBA). The IBA, which is located in London, is the leading international organization of bar associations and individual lawyers in the world, with 200 member organizations and 17,000 members from 194 countries. Prior to joining the IBA, Mr. Ellis spent 10 years as the first Executive Director of the ABA Central and East European Law Initiative (CEELI). CEELI provided technical assistance to 28 countries in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union and to the International War Crimes Tribunal in the Hauge. Mr. Ellis served as the appointed Legal Advisor to the Independent International Commission on Kosovo, chaired by South African Justice Richard J. Goldstone. He is also a consultant to the World Bank on investment policies in Central and Eastern Europe.
Robert Forney
Robert H. Forney is President and CEO of America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization. America's Second Harvest is a national network of more than 200 regional food banks and food-rescue organizations that provide more than $2.3 billion in food and grocery products to 50,000 local charitable agencies. These agencies operate more than 94,000 food programs including food pantries, soup kitchens, women's shelters, Kids Cafes, Community Kitchens, and other local organizations that provide emergency food assistance to more than 23 million hungry Americans each year. Prior to joining America's Second Harvest in June 2001, Mr. Forney served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Chicago Stock Exchange Inc.; Senior Vice President of Bricker & Associates, Inc.; President and Executive Officer of Fortex Technologies, Inc.; Senior Vice President, Technology Solutions Company; and Managing Partner (USA) and International Executive Director at KPMG Peat Marwick Advanced Technology. Mr. Forney received his B.S. in accounting and finance and his MBA from Indiana University.
Professor Thomas F. Geraghty
Professor Geraghty is the Associate Dean for Clinical Education and Director of the Legal Clinic at Northwestern University School of Law. The Clinic gives special emphasis to issues relating to children and family justice. In recent years, Professor Geraghty has worked in Tanzania. Uganda, and Malawi on research projects relating to juvenile justice, the legal problems of street children, the status of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS, women in the legal profession, and freedom of the press. He has also been involved in training African lawyers in trial advocacy skills in cooperation with the National Institute for Trial Advocacy.
The Honorable Marc Grossman
Marc Grossman is a Vice Chairman of The Cohen Group, a global consulting firm based in Washington, DC. Prior to joining The Cohen Group in 2005, Ambassador Grossman completed 29 years of distinguished public service at the US State Department, including positions as Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, Assistant Secretary of State for European Affairs, and US Ambassador to Turkey.
Alan Jenkins
Mr. Jenkins is the Executive Director of the Opportunity Agenda (OA), a new NGO that has been created to frame public debate on fundamental values of opportunity and human rights in the United States. Prior to creating OA, Mr. Jenkins was the Director of Human Rights at the Ford Foundation. His previous positions include serving as Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he represented the federal government in litigation before the Supreme Court; Assistant Counsel to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, focusing on the civil rights of low-income people; and serving as Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice Harry A. Blackmun. Mr. Jenkins has also taught as an adjunct professor at Brooklyn Law School.
Sheldon Krantz
New Perimeter is headed by Sheldon Krantz, a litigation partner at DLA Piper. Mr. Krantz, who previously served as dean of the University of San Diego Law School, developed the concept of New Perimeter and is actively involved in its projects.
Susan M. Liss
Susan Liss has a 30-year career in public interest and public service jobs, including Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy in the Department of Justice as well as Chief of Staff to Mrs. Gore and Special Counsel to the Vice President during the Clinton-Gore administrations. She is the widow of the late DLA Piper partner Jeff Liss, one of the architects of New Perimeter and a leading national advocate for pro bono and public interest legal work.
Harry McPherson
Mr. McPherson is a Senior Counsel at DLA Piper and represents individuals, organizations, and foreign governments on matters before the Executive Branch, the Congress, regulatory agencies and other public bodies.
Bartolomeo Migone
Mr. Migone is the Legal Counsel for The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, a UN-affiliated organization based in Geneva, Switzerland. He has worked previously with the World Intellectual Property Organization, Citigroup's Corporate & Investment Bank, the United Nations, and the law firm of Davis Polk & Wardwell. A national of both Italy and the United States, Mr. Migone is New Perimeter's first truly international director.
Robert L. Scott
Mr. Scott works with Starwood Hotels and Resorts Worldwide as Senior Vice President and General Counsel with responsiiblity for the oversight of all legal matters affecting Starwood's brands in Europe, Africa, India and the Middle East. He pioneered Starwood's Check Out for Children charitable fundraising program, which has garnered more than $20 million to immunize children in less developed countries against childhood killer diseases and led to Starwood's recognition by UNICEF UK in 2007 as the most effective corporate partner of the decade. Mr. Scott has served of the boards of the UK Committee for UNICEF, CorporateProBono.org, and several Starwood affiliates, subsidiaries and joint ventures in Italy, Israel, Greece, France and the UK.
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"As the firm has expanded to meet the global needs of our clients, our pro bono intitiatives will complement this vision by contributing to improving quality of life in areas of need."
Senator George J. Mitchell
Chairman of DLA Piper
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