The 2008 Maryland Pro Bono Service Awards

By Jon Moseley

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL 2008 Maryland Pro Bono Service Award recipients. Thank you for all the selfless work you do. These awards were created for you and people like you who selflessly bring access to the justice system for those who cannot do it alone.

Back row from left to right: Gil Abramson of Hogan & Hartson; Matthew Summers of Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll, LLP; John Fredrikson, President of Prince George’s County Bar Association; Laura Jo Barta (for Ellen Marcus of Zuckerman, Spaeder LLP); Jason Hessler, YLS Pro Bono Committee Chair  Front row, from left to right: Emily Wright, DLA Piper; Sharon E. Goldsmith, Executive Director PBRC; Mark Shmueli; and Winnie Borden, Maryland Volunteer Lawyers Service.

Individual Awards
Ellen D. Marcus, Esq.
Matthew G. Summers, Esq.
Mark J. Shmueli, Esq.
Emily T. Wright, Esq.

Young Lawyer’s Section - Alex Fee Memorial
Jason C. Hessler, Esq.

Herbert S. Garten Special Project
Hogan & Hartson LLP
Baltimore County DSS
Kinship Care Resource Manual

Judiciary
The Hon. Julia B. Weatherly

Pro Bono Program
Jewish Legal Services

Non-Legal or Organizational Involvement
Prince George’s County Bar Association
Winifred C. Borden

Jon Moseley is Director of Volunteer Services & Community Outreach for the Pro Bono Resource Center of Maryland.