of AIJA (Association Internationale des Jeunes Avocats). von Dietze are supporting various social national and international projects in their capacity as member of the board of local Rotary clubs. of a group giving free counsel and advice to founders in the IT area. President of the Harvard Club Hamburg and Secretary of the Harvard Law School Association of Germany. In both capacities he organizes numerous discussion circles and (partial) stipends for students at the Harvard University. works includes assisting a local dealer in a dispute with his new landlord on refurbishment work and related costs; representing the widow of an insolvent entrepreneur to the insolvency administrator; and representing an inventor without income against his licensee, a big machine construction company. goes beyond monetary donations to giving time and talent. For four years, the firm has sponsored Detroit Cristo Rey High School's work study program with an annual contribution of $28,000. This Catholic, co-ed college-preparatory high school on Detroit's southwest side offers a private school education to mostly minority students who could not otherwise afford one. Seventy-five voluntarily as the managing director of the Chinese European Arbitration Centre. Since 2004, Broedermann Jahn has actively contributed to the founding and development of CEAC, which was opened in Hamburg in September 2008. Other attorneys' efforts include: board of a foundation, established in operating a residence for elderly people with little income. in the parent's delegation of a local school and member of the board of a kinder garden. tests behind grade level in reading and math when they enter the school. The centerpiece of the Cristo Rey model is that each student is part of a team of four students who together fill a single, full- time entry level position at a sponsoring employer. Through the support of business, Cristo Rey has been able to send 100 percent of its graduating seniors on to college. In addition to providing the educational opportunity, the employees at Cardelli Lanfear interact with the students on a daily basis by mentoring, training and providing life skills advice to students who might not ever be given access to positive role models. At the end of her second year with Cardelli Lanfear, one student wrote, "Working at Cardelli has been a second home and another family to me. Even though I won't be coming back here to work next year, I hope we can still stay in touch. I need strong women I can look up to, so I can achieve my dreams, and not struggle like my family has in the past." benefited from the generosity of the law firm of Carroll & O'Dea and its attorneys is long. They include: Human Rights Committee for the Australian Lawyers Alliance, the Injury Compensation Committee of the Law Society and the Australian Labour Law Association. provides free legal advice to refugees, asylum seekers and recently settled migrants in the community. P.C. won the 2014 Primerus Community Service Award. This year's finalists are Broedermann Jahn of Hamburg, Germany; Cardelli Lanfear of Detroit, Michigan; Carroll & O'Dea of Sydney, Australia; and Kinnard, Clayton & Beveridge of Nashville, Tennessee. |