Neighborhood Legal Services Program celebrated with our friends and supporters at our
annual Jazz for Justice event.

The Leader of Justice Award recognizes an outstanding individual who has served the civil and social justice communities as a leader, volunteer, and innovator and must also have a track record of providing support and resources to those in the community suffering discrimination and injustice.

THE 2022 LEADER OF JUSTICE AWARDEE

Jeffrey Harleston

General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs, Universal Music Group

Jeff serves as General Counsel and Executive Vice President of Business & Legal Affairs for Santa Monica, California-based Universal Music Group (UMG). As a member of UMG’s executive management board, Jeff is responsible for overseeing all business transactions, contracts, and litigation for UMG’s operations worldwide. In addition, he is also responsible for the company’s government relations, trade and anti-piracy activities.

While an associate at Covington and Burling, Jeff was a Rotating Associate at NLSP for six months and found his experience at NLSP professionally and personally valuable.


 

 

    The 2022 Leader of Justice Award was presented by Karl Racine, Attorney General of the District of Columbia.


 

 

2022 HOST COMMITTEE
*as of November 8, 2022 

Blake Biles
Arnold & Porter

Allison Binney
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld

Rod Boddie
Congressional Federal Credit Union

 Jay Cooper
Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Christopher M. Cutler
Foley & Lardner, LLP

Michael D. Daneker
Arnold & Porter

Lyzka DeLaCruz 
Bakker DeLaCruz, LLC

Shankar Duraiswamy

US Dept. of Labor


Peter B. Edelman
Georgetown University

Roger A. Fairfax, Jr. 
American University
Washington College of Law


Phylicia Fant
Amazon Music

Anne Ford
Community Volunteer/
NLSP Board Member

Douglas G. Gibson

Covington & Burling

 Megan Glasheen
Reno & Cavanaugh

Karen M. Hardwick
Washington Gas

Susan M. Hoffman

Crowell & Moring

Eric Humes 

Community Volunteer/NLSP Board Member

 Philip T. Inglima
Crowell & Moring

Twinette L. Johnson
UDC David A. Clarke
School of Law


Harmony Jones
Steptoe & Johnson LLP


Kristin Graham Koehler
Sidley


 Curtis Lu
FTI Consulting


Harvey Mason
Recording Academy

Dayna Bowen Matthew
George Washington University Law School
 

Patrick McGlone
Ullico

 Amy Ralph Mudge
BakerHostetler

Wilson D. Mudge
Arnold & Porter

Amy L. Neuhardt
Boies Schiller Flexner

William J. Perlstein

FTI Consulting

Jeannie Rhee

Paul Weiss

Paul Robinson
Warner Music Group

James J. Sandman

University of Pennsylvania
 

Annamaria Steward
The National Black Lawyers
Top 100

 

Julie Swidler

Sony Music Entertainment

William M. Treanor
Georgetown University Law Center

April N. Williams
WilmerHale

 

Cheryl Ziegler
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation

 


 

 

 

 


 2022 SPONSORS

A Special Thanks to our Generous Sponsors & Supporters (as of November 8, 2022)  

SARAH VAUGHN



 


 

DUKE ELLINGTON






Morrison & Foerster Foundation

 
 

ELLA FITZGERALD

          

          

               
                           

              

 

LOUIS ARMSTRONG


 

 



  



Amy Ralph Mudge & Wilson D. Mudge


 


 

BILLIE HOLIDAY

Amazon
Beveridge & Diamond PC
Blake Biles & Laura Sessums
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Crowell & Moring
Michael Daneker
The Daschle Group
Shankar Duraiswamy & Indira Sarma
Faegre Drinker
Foley & Lardner LLP
Megan Glasheen
Johnny Howard
Loeb & Loeb LLP
Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
William J. Perlstein
Pryor Cashman LLP
Recording Academy
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)
Reed Smith LLP
Stinson LLP
Troutman Pepper
Washington Gas
Cheryl L. Ziegler

 

NINA SIMONE

Bakker DeLaCruz LLC
Allison Binney
Caplin & Drysdale
Clio
Karen A. Newton Cole & Gregory J. Cole
Concord
Cowan Liebowitz & Latman PC
Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz PC
Klein Hornig LLP
The Levinson Group (TLG)
National Legal Aid & Defender Association
National Legal Aid & Defender Association Insurance Program
Amy Neuhardt & Bruce Fein
Oppenheim + Zebrak, LLP
Reno & Cavanaugh PLLC
James J. Sandman
David Simmons
The Steptoe Foundation
Julie Swidler
UDC School of Law Foundation
Ullico

 

JOHN COLTRANE 

Lincoln Bisbee
Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC
Peter B. Edelman
Peter Greenberger
Philip Inglima & Elizabeth Wieser
Dr. Jimmie Jackson
Robert and Rochelle Light
Curtis Lu
Patrick McGlone
Brandon Myers
Sara Rearden
Lee Reno
SAG-AFTRA
Saleema Snow
April N. Williams
Tyra Williams Matthews & Earl Matthews


To view the 2022 virtual Jazz for Justice program book, click here. 

Your sponsorship furthers community engagement and the elimination of barriers to securing justice for all DC residents. To learn more about sponsorship opportunities and purchasing tickets to the 2023 event, email Jazz4Justice@nlsp.org. To see highlights from the 2021 Jazz for Justice event, click here.