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Law Firm Challenge 2008-2009
Winners
(as of June 30, 2009)

These standings reflect giving for the 2009 fiscal year, which runs from July 1, 2008 to June 30, 2009. If you would like to be a firm representative for your firm for FY10, please contact the Esdaile Alumni Center.

On behalf of BU Law, thank you to all of our alumni employed at law firms for your participation in the 2009 Law Firm Challenge. Everyone’s support and generosity has made this year’s challenge a success! Special thanks also to our alumni who served as their firm’s representative for the Challenge. Your leadership and enthusiasm helped drive this effort. The leading firms of the 2009 Law Firm Challenge are:

Firms with 500 or more Attorneys

Highest Alumni Participation:
First Place: Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C. - 61.22%
Second Place: McGuireWoods LLP - 60.00%

Highest Total Dollar Amount:
First Place: Kirkland & Ellis LLP - $238,321.00
Second Place: Proskauer Rose LLP - $15,325.00

Firm Representatives

Meg Bailey '08, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Mark Curiel '02, Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
Andrew Heinz '05, Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Michael J. Kendall '93, Goodwin Proctor LLP
David Loughnot '05, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Daniel McCaughey '04, Ropes & Gray LLP
Anthony Picchione '04, WilmerHale
Elias Schilowitz '05, Proskauer Rose LLP
Colin Grant Van Dyke '05, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo, P.C.
Jenna Ventorino '08, Goodwin Proctor LLP
Sophia Yen '06, Bingham McCutchen LLP
Joseph Zambuto '02, Covington & Burling LLP

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Firms with 100 – 499 Attorneys

Highest Participation:
First Place: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP - 66.67%
Second Place: Robinson & Cole LLP - 45.45%

Highest Total Dollar Amount:
First Place: Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP - $3,390.01
Second Place: Robinson & Cole LLP - $3,175.00

Firm Representatives

Marian Baldwin Fuerst '91, Chadbourne & Parke LLP
Kathryn Piffat '89, Edwards Angell Palmer Dodge LLP

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Firms with 25 – 99 Attorneys

Highest Participation:
First Place: Craig and Macauley PC - 83.33%
Second Place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP - 33.33%

Highest Total Dollar Amount:
First Place: Craig and Macauley PC - $12,300.00
Second Place: Riemer & Braunstein LLP - $4,650.00

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Firms with 5 – 24 Attorneys

Highest Participation:
Tied: Corwin & Corwin LLP - 40.00%
Levin & Levin, LLP - 40.00%

Highest Total Dollar Amount:
First Place: Sugarman and Sugarman, PC - $30,380.24
Second Place: Levin & Levin, LLP - $3,550.00

We look forward to even greater alumni participation in the 2010 Law Firm Challenge that kicked off as of July 1, 2009. Again thank you for your participation. Your commitment and support enables BU School of Law to continue to be one of the very best law schools in the country.

If you would like to know the results of the other firms participating in the 2009 Challenge, please contact Roisin Diamond at huntr@bu.edu or 617-353-8042.