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.
Irwin Cotler
Irwin Cotler is a law professor, constitutional and comparative law scholar, international human rights lawyer, counselor to prisoners of conscience, NGO head, community leader and peace activist, Member of the Canadian Parliament since 1999 and former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada. Mr. Cotler is currently on leave as a Professor of Law from McGill University, where he is Director of its Human Rights Programme and Chair of Interamicus, the McGill-based International Human Rights Advocacy Center. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School and a Woodrow Wilson Fellow at Yale Law School.
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 Feeding America (formerly known as America's Second Harvest), the nation's largest charitable domestic hunger-relief organization. Feeding America 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 Feeding America 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.
Stasia Kelly
Stasia Kelly is Of Counsel to DLA Piper's White Collar, Corporate Crime and Investigation practice, based in Washington, DC. She comes to DLA Piper from American International Group, Inc. (AIG), where until the end of 2009 she was Vice Chairman in charge of global legal, compliance and regulatory functions, government relations, communications, corporate affairs and human resources. Ms. Kelly is a trustee of the Carey School of Business at The John Hopkins University and member of the Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University Law School. She is past chair of Equal Justice Works and a director of Lawyers for Children America and the International Institute for Conflict Prevention & Resolution.
Janet Legrand
Janet Legrand is the Senior Partner of DLA Piper's London office. As a commercial litigator, she has represented clients in high profile cases appearing before the highest levels of English courts. With her strong capabilities in cross-border asset recovery, she has acted for the administrators of the Republic of Zambia, the Central Bank of Zambia, and several other African banks and corporations. Additionally, Ms. Legrand represented the Republic of Zambia in its successful and groundbreaking anti-corruption case against Zambia’s former president, Dr. Chiluba, and 19 other defendants in the English High Court.
Susan M. Liss
Susan Liss currently serves as the Director of the Democracy Program at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice. Her 30-year career in public interest and public service jobs has included service as 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.
Senator Melquiades “Mel” Martinez
Senator Mel Martinez is a Partner at DLA Piper, focusing his services on advising DLA Piper clients on issues related to all aspects of public policy. Prior to joining DLA Piper, Senator Martinez had a diversified career as a public servant, including service as a US Senator, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development and Mayor of Orange County, Florida. Senator Martinez served in the US Senate from January 2005 to September 2009. During that time he chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on African Affairs.
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.
Nicolas Patrick
Nicolas Patrick is a pro bono partner at DLA Phillips Fox in Sydney, Australia. The firm's first full-time pro bono partner, Mr. Patrick is a professional pro bono lawyer practicing primarily in the area of human rights law with more that 10 years experience acting for pro bono clients. Mr. Patrick’s other current roles include: Director of the Public Interest Law Clearinghouse; Executive Member of Australian Lawyers for Human Rights; Chairman of the Redfern Legal Centre; Board Member of the Legal Information Access Centre, State Library of New South Wales; and Advisory Board Member of the Human Rights Law Resource Centre.
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.
Paul R. Williams
Paul Williams is the co-founder and Executive Director of the Public International Law & Policy Group (PILPG), which provides pro bono legal assistance to states and governments involved in peace negotiations, drafting post-conflict constitutions, and prosecuting war criminals. In 2005, several of Dr. Williams' pro bono government clients throughout the world joined together to nominate him for the Nobel Peace Prize. Dr. Williams holds the Rebecca Grazier Professorship in Law and International Relations at American University where he teaches both in the School of International Service and in the Washington College of Law.
Philip F. Zeidman
Philip Zeidman is a senior partner in DLA Piper's Franchise and Distribution practice and was recently named Global Franchise Lawyer of the Year for the fifth time in the Who’s Who Legal Awards. He is a past president of the International Bar Association Foundation and a Founding Director of the Appleseed Network. Mr. Zeidman has engaged in an international transactional practice, taught at universities, testified before governmental bodies, participated in judicial and administrative proceedings, and appeared before business and professional groups throughout the world. He regularly leads International Bar Association sessions concerning the opportunities and challenges of international pro bono legal work.
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DLA Piper 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.
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