Lawyers for Literacy Committee
2017 - 2018 Book Drive Report
Committee Chairs:
Sarah Cabello
de Diego Law
Victoria Gipson
Attorney at Law
Gary Johnson
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Megan Prout
Plains All American Pipeline LP
Books Donated:
Adult: 12,955
Youth: 9,358
Other: 524
Total: 22,837
*Over 7,000 additional books collected lost in Hurricane Harvey
34 Recipients:
AIDS Outreach Adopt a Family Project
Antioch Baptist Church
The Beacon – Day Center for the Homeless
Bee Busy, Inc.
Big Brothers Big Sisters
Books Between Kids
Casa de Esperanza
Covenant House Texas
De George at Union Station Veteran Shelter
Emergency Aid Coalition
Good Steward Global Initiative
Harris County Department of Education: Head Start
Harris County Domestic Relations Office
Harris County Juvenile Detention Center
Harris Health System
Haven of Hope – Homeless Veterans Women
HAY Center
Houston Area Women’s Center
Houston Center for Literacy – READ Commission
Literacy Advance
Literacy Council of Fort Bend
Making it Better
MD Anderson Hospital
New Hope Housing, Inc.
The Pink Giraffe House
The Ryan Blackwood Foundation for the Oklahoma Aquarium Endowment Foundation
Santa Maria Hostel, Inc.
SEARCH’s House of Tiny Treasures
St. John’s Baptist Church
Star of Hope
Target Hunger
Texas Children’s Hospital
U.S. Vets at Midtown Terrace Veteran Shelter
The Women’s Home
116 Total Participants:
*not including those who had to cancel due to Hurricane Harvey
72 Firm Donors
Abraham, Watkins, Nichols, Sorrels, Agosto & Aziz
Ahmad, Zavitsanos, Anaipakos, AlaviMensing, P.C.
Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.
Alvarez Stauffer Bremer PLLC
Andrews Kurth LLP
Andrews Myers, P.C.
Baker Botts L.L.P.
Baker Hostetler LLP
Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz, PC
Beck Redden LLP
Berg & Androphy
Bingham, Mann & House
Blank Rome LLP
Bracewell LLP
Clark Love & Hutson, G.P.
Coats |Rose
Cokinos | Young
Copeland & Rice LLP
Doré Law Group, P.C.
Drucker Hopkins LLP
Dunbar Harder, PLLC
Foster LLP
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Hartline Dacus Barger Dreyer LLP
Hasley Scarano, L.L.P.
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Hoover Slovacek LLP
Hughes Roch LLP
Irvine & Conner
Jackson Walker L.L.P.
James E. Brill, P.C.
Jenkins & Kamin LLP
Johnson Law Group
Joiner Law Firm
Jones Walker LLP
Keever Law PLLC
Kirkland & Ellis, LLP
Law Office of Mynde S. Eisen PC
Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP
Liskow & Lewis
Matthews & Associates
McGinnis Lochridge
McGlinchey Stafford PLLC
MehaffyWeber, P.C.
Mithoff Law Firm
Nathan Sommers Jacobs
Norton Rose Fulbright US LLP
Olson & Olson LLP
Osha Liang LLP
Peckham Martin, PLLC
Phelps Dunbar LLP
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.
Porter Hedges LLP
Quan Law Group, PLLC
Reed Smith LLP
Schechter, McElwee, Shaffer & Harris, L.L.P.
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Simmons & Fletcher
Smyser Kaplan & Veselka, L.L.P.
Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Stibbs & Co. P.C.
The Barnett Law Group PLLC
The Ericksen Law Firm PLLC
The Nations Law Firm
Thompson & Knight LLP
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Wilson,Elser, Moskowitz, Edelman & Dicker LLP
Winstead PC
Winston & Strawn LLP
Wright & Close, L.L.P.
Zimmerman, Axelrad, Meyer, Stern & Wise, P.C.
8 Corporate Donors
BOK Financial
ConocoPhillips
Elite Marketing
Exxon Mobil Corporation
Kellogg Brown & Root
Nabors Corporate Services, Inc.
Port of Houston Authority
Tommy Moss Properties
1 Government Donors
Harris County District Attorney's Office
4 Courts
Harris County Probate Courts
Judges and employees of the US District Court of the Southern District of Texas Houston Division
The County Criminal Courts at Law
U.S. District Court
2 Organization
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Art
South Texas College of Law, Houston – Student Bar Association
Spring Branch Memorial Library
28Individual Donors
Morris Atlas
Karl Brandt
Tom & Susan Brandt
Sarah Cabello
Hon. Tracy Christopher
Karan Ciotti
Doug Craig
Jessica Creamer
Mynde Eisen
Todd Frankfort
Lynn Gagnon
Michael Gemignani
Dave Glikson
Jim Greenwood
Tara Grundemeier
Tom & Janet Harrison
Edward Lowenberg
Lan Nguyen
Dee Osborn
Tom Padgettt
Wally & Maureen Partridge
Nancy Polis
Emma Pond
Myron Sheinfeld
Kay Sim
Bonnie Simmons
Susan Soto
Michael Weaver
35Sorting Volunteers
Brian Bagley
Christy Bagley
Natasha Bahri
Pat Brown
Sarah Cabello
Joyce Ervin
Claire Frankfort
Lucy Frankfort
Todd Frankfort
Victoria Gipson
Tara Grundemeier
Lindsey Ham
Casey Holder
Mary Isensee
Mikaela Jernsletten
Gary Johnson
Dana Lizik
Mary Lowry
Mary Martin
Alyssa McCreight
Jackie McMillan
Shayne Newell
Parker Pritchett
Megan Prout
Valerie Ramirez
Judith Sadler
Meagan Scott
Cat Shannon
Kay Sim
Bonnie Simmons
Khiere Simmons
Rachel Smith
Sabrina Sotelo
Kara Stauffer
Mark Stout
Lawyers for Literacy Committee
2017 - 2018 Book Drive Report
The Committee would like to thank the following for their above and beyond support this year:
Linebarger Goggan Blair & Sampson, LLP
Gulf Coast: A Journal of Literature & Fine Art