Harrison Tweed Past Award Winners
2023 AWARDEE
Louisiana State Bar Association
Recognized for its creation of Legal Help Access Points as a means of identifying and ridding Louisiana of its civil legal resource deserts.
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2022 AWARDEE
Nebraska State Bar Association
Honored for its creation the Tenant Assistance Project (TAP), a homelessness prevention project, in response to the volume of eviction cases filed during the pandemic.
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2021 AWARDEES
Iowa State Bar Association
Honored for its creation of a free COVID-19 Legal Advice Hotline for individuals and business impacted by COVID-19.
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New York State Bar Association
Recognized for its work to coordinate and lead New York’s legal community response to the COVID-19 pandemic to help ensure New Yorkers obtained needed pro bono civil legal assistance.
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2020 - NO AWARD GRANTED
2019 AWARDEES
Mississippi Bar
Honored for undertaking a project to conduct civil legal clinic events throughout the state of Mississippi
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Philadelphia Bar Association
Honored for developing creative strategies to improve access to justice and a right to counsel for tenants facing eviction.
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2018 AWARDEES
The State Bar of Texas
Honored for its exemplary work in carrying out its mission-statement commitment to "assure all citizens equal access to justice."
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The State Bar of Texas Nomination Submission
The Suffolk County Bar Association
Honored for forming The Suffolk Pro Bono Project in collaboration with Nassau/Suffolk Law Services Committee, Inc. (NSLS).
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The Suffolk County Bar Association Nomination Submission
2017 AWARDEE
The Essex County Bar Association Advocates, Inc.
Honored for its exceptional criminal and delinquency defense representation.
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Essex County Bar Association Advocates, Inc. Nomination Submission
2016 AWARDEE
District of Columbia Bar
Honored for the long term excellence of its Pro Bono Center.
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District of Columbia Bar Nomination Submission
2015 AWARDEE
Birmingham Bar Association
Recognized for creating, refining and reinvigorating its Volunteer Lawyers Project Courthouse Help Desks.
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Birmingham Bar Association Nomination Submission
2014 AWARDEES
Colorado Bar Association
Recognized for its Colorado Flood Relief Program, which provided limited legal assistance to the victims of the devastating Colorado flooding that occurred in September 2013.
San Juan County (New Mexico) Bar Association
Honored for its efforts in supporting and enhancing pro bono activities by lawyers in San Juan County, which is located in a remote corner of New Mexico.
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Colorado Bar Association Nomination Submission
San Juan County Bar Association Nomination Submission
2013 AWARDEE
The Onondaga County (NY) Bar Association
Recognized for its Volunteer Lawyer Project (VLP), which greatly expanded its service delivery due to its decision to provide the legal support component for "Say Yes to Education – Syracuse."
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Onondaga County Bar Association Nomination Submission
2012 AWARDEES
San Mateo County (California) Bar Association
Recognized for the Private Defender Program, its model assigned counsel program that is the indigent defense system for the county
San Antonio Bar Association
Honored for its Community Justice Program, which provides neighborhood-based legal services to the poor in a wide range of areas and enables lawyers, judges, court reporters, court clerks and interpreters to render volunteer services
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San Mateo County Bar Association Nomination Submission
San Antonio Bar Association Nomination Submission
2011 AWARDEES
The Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
Recognized for its Pro Se Project, which is a collaboration between the U.S. District Court and the Minnesota Chapter to increase access to justice and address the challenges of civil pro se litigants, with the vast majority of those served through the project being persons of limited means
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Minnesota Chapter of the Federal Bar Association
2010 AWARDEES
Tennessee Bar Association
Recognized for the results achieved through its “Justice 4 All Campaign” to increase access to legal services for the poor through a four-prong approach: educate, collaborate, participate and legislate.
Washington State Bar Association
Honored for its role in providing funding for the provision of civil legal services and for its Home Foreclosure Legal Aid Project.
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Washington State Bar Association
2009 AWARDEES
North Carolina Bar Association
Recognized for its innovative “4ALL” campaign to increase access to legal services for the poor through a four-prong approach: educate, legislate, donate and participate
Philadelphia Bar Association (PA)
Honored for its role in creating, supporting and sustaining the Residential Mortgage Foreclosure Diversion Pilot Project, which saved hundreds of low-income homeowners from the loss of their homes
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North Carolina Bar Association (PDF)
Philadelphia Bar Association (PDF)
2008 AWARDEES
Monroe County Bar Association (NY)
Recognized for its leadership and fundraising efforts that resulted in the four civil legal services providers in the county being housed in one location.
Houston Bar Association (TX)
Honored for its Equal Access Initiative, which is an organized campaign to increase by 25% in each of five years the number of cases handled by pro bono lawyers through the Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program (HVLP).
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Monroe County Bar Association (NY)
2007 AWARDEES
Boston Bar Association (MA) and Massachusetts Bar Association
Recognized jointly for their long standing commitment to the funding and provision of quality legal services to the poor in Massachusetts in both criminal and civil matters.
2006 AWARDEES
Baton Rouge Bar Association (LA)
Recognized for its efforts to establish and administer a legal assistance hotline to serve Louisiana residents in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
Minnesota State Bar Association
Honored for its development of the Katrina Relief Task Force, which provided support and relief to the legal services communities and clients affected by Hurricane Katrina in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama
2005 AWARDEES
Lafayette Parish Bar Association (LA)
Recognized for its successful fundraising efforts that has enabled the local pro bono program to expand its level of service, while providing the local legal aid program with much needed additional staff
New York State Bar Association
Honored for its leadership role in developing statewide standards to ensure the quality of mandated representation
Cleveland Bar Association (OH)
Recognized for its initiatives to increase pro bono participation and improve the delivery and coordination of pro bono legal services
2004 AWARDEES
State Bar of Georgia
Recognized for its efforts to reform Georgia's indigent defense system
Mecklenburg County Bar (NC)
Honored for its development and support of the Volunteer Lawyers Program's Project PillowTex and Pro Bono for Non-Profits Program
2003 AWARDEES
Santa Clara County (CA) Bar Association
Honored for its fundraising efforts on behalf of local legal services providers, including $400,000 through a private bar campaign, and for increasing pro bono participation by its members
New York County Lawyers Association
Recognized for its vision and tenacity in successfully pursuing the goal of increasing the compensation rates paid to assigned counsel in New York City
2002 AWARDEES
Atlanta Bar Association
Recognized for providing critical leadership and support in developing and maintaining the Truancy Intervention Project, a pro bono effort through which children in truancy or educational neglect cases are provided with free legal assistance, as well as mentors
The Association of the Bar of the City of New York
Honored for its extraordinary efforts in creating and maintaining a comprehensive, coordinated emergency assistance pro bono project for the victims of the World Trade Center attacks and their families
State Bar of Texas
Recognized for its outstanding leadership and commitment to increasing access to justice for the indigent in both criminal and civil matters through a variety of efforts including championing state legislation that enacted sweeping reform of the state's indigent defense procedures and taking a leadership role in the development of the Texas Equal Access to Justice Commission
2001 AWARDEES
State Bar of California
Recognized for its collaborative efforts in obtaining the first state appropriation for legal services in the amount of $10 million and seeking to increase it, for addressing the needs of unrepresented litigants and for supporting the important work of legal services programs in the state
Brooklyn Bar Association
Honored for providing critical leadership and support to the Volunteer Lawyers Project, the only borough-wide pro bono program in Brooklyn, which has grown from 85 volunteers to more than 1000, and has assisted more than 6,000 clients in a variety of matters including family law, domestic violence, bankruptcy proceedings and wills
Oregon State Bar
Recognized for its innovative approaches to improving the delivery of legal services to the poor by developing a "legal links" website, providing computer kiosks for clients in legal aid offices and producing a series of public access television shows, as well as for its success in obtaining state legislative funding for legal services
2000 AWARDEES
Alameda County Bar (CA)
Recognized for providing leadership in the creation of a new civil legal services delivery system in the San Francisco Bay Area. The bar association played an instrumental role in forming Bay Area Legal Aid, building consensus and support for this new, consolidated program among the various organizations providing legal help in the Bay Area
Delaware State Bar Association
Honored for an extraordinaryily successful 1999 fundraising campaign on behalf of state legal services providers, yielding more than twice the amount that had been raised in even the best prior years
1999 AWARDEES
Washington State Bar Association
Recognized for its significant leadership roles, in partnership with the state's legal services providers, in planning and implementing a comprehensive, integrated state-wide system for providing civil legal services for the poor
Saginaw County Bar Association (MI)
Honored for the development of a multi-faceted program to broaden access to justice in the region, which included strong financial and other support for staff legal services offices provided through the 395-member bar association, considerable pro bono service by private attorneys and significant involvement of the judiciary in the program
1998 AWARDEES
State Bar of Michigan
Honored for its extraordinary institutional commitment to equal access to justice, adopted as a major goal of the entire organization, and for allocating substantial financial and staff resources to support activities in pursuit of that goal
Forsyth County Bar Association (NC)
Recognized for a creative program joining several strategic partners in a carefully structured program to establish and operate the Domestic Violence Advocacy Center
Dallas Bar Association (TX)
Honored for bridging institutional boundaries to undertake an effective joint venture -- a new alliance with Legal Services of North Texas to establish and operate the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program
1997 AWARDEES
Bar Association of San Francisco
Recognized for the Volunteer Legal Services Program’s efforts to assist immigrants, the disabled, the elderly, the homeless and families impacted by welfare reform and changes in Social Security
Gaston County Bar (NC)
Honored for its efforts to recruit more than 70% of the attorneys in the county to take pro bono cases through the Gaston County Volunteer Lawyers Program. In addition, the program dramatically increased the total pro bono hours contributed by over 60% over the average contributed during the previous five years
King County Bar Association (WA)
Recognized for their new initiatives and expansion of existing programs in response to federal funding cuts and restrictions
1996 AWARDEES
New York State Bar Association
Honored for developing an increased statewide grassroots lobbying effort for continued Legal Services Corporation funding and obtaining a substantial state appropriation for legal services while enhancing its strong pro bono activation effort
Philadelphia Bar Association
Recognized for their efforts in obtaining $2 million in state funding for legal services, sensitizing a key senator about legal services and developing additional funding sources for local public service programs
Jacksonville Bar Association (FL)
Honored for obtaining $150,000 in funding for legal services from the city government
1995 AWARDEES
Harrisonburg/Rockingham Bar Association (VA)
Recognized for the outstanding leadership and commitment given to establishing and operating an effective rural pro bono program
Virginia Bar Association
Recognized for its outstanding leadership and support given to establishing and generating the Pro Bono Hotline
1994 AWARDEES
York County Bar Association and the Asian-American Bar Association of the Delaware Valley
Honored for their enormous humanitarian efforts in providing legal assistance to incarcerated Chinese refugees
District of Columbia Bar
Recognized for re-evaluating and effectively redesigning its substantial effort to provide pro bono legal services to the poor
Minnesota State Bar Association
Honored for its exhaustive efforts over 14 years to improve the availability of legal services to low-income persons