Each February, the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area (LCCRSF) hosts the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Dinner, bringing together more than 600 leaders from the Bay Area’s legal, civic, business, and advocacy communities to celebrate Dr. King’s legacy and advance the fight for racial justice.

The event highlights LCCRSF’s impact through litigation, policy advocacy, economic opportunity initiatives, and direct legal services, while honoring outstanding Pro Bono Award recipients and other champions of civil rights.

Sponsorships are recognized in print and digital event materials and directly support LCCRSF’s year-round efforts to dismantle systemic racism, close the racial wealth gap, and expand opportunity across California.

The 40th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Awards Dinner will take place on Thursday, February 25, 2027, at the Hyatt Regency San Francisco. We invite you to join us in celebrating four decades of impact and investing in the work ahead.

For any questions or to make a sponsorship pledge, please contact Katie O’Neill at koneill@lccrsf.org.

Melissa Murray is the Frederick I. and Grace Stokes Professor of Law at NYU School of Law, where she teaches constitutional law, family law, criminal law, and reproductive rights and justice. She is a co-author of the New York Times #1 bestseller The Trump Indictments: The Historic Charging Documents with Commentary, and the author of the New York Times bestseller The U.S. Constitution: A Comprehensive and Annotated Guide for the Modern Reader. Murray’s writing has appeared in a range of legal and lay publications, including the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Law Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Atlantic. She is a legal analyst for MSNBC, and is a host of Strict Scrutiny, a Crooked Media podcast about the Supreme Court and legal culture. Murray is a graduate of Yale Law School and the University of Virginia. Following law school, she served as a judicial clerk to Justice Sonia Sotomayor, then a judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and Stefan Underhill of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut. 

Thank You To Our Generous Sponsors

Dinner Chair
Cooley LLP
Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation

Luminary Circle
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Honorary Circle
Orrick

Leadership Circle
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy, LLP
Fenwick & West LLP

Visionaries
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLP
Colleen Bal & Alexander Terry
Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP
Covington & Burling LLP
Everlaw for Good
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
David Lowe & Steven Murphy
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
Tom & Julie McInerney
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Rohit Singla
Jacob Sorensen & E. Anne Hawkins
Walkup, Melodia, Kelly & Schoenberger
Stacey Wexler & Michael Page

Champions
DLA Piper LLP (US)
Econic Partners
Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP
Alyssa Koo
Legora
Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein, LLP
Ogletree Deakins
Steno

Partners
A&O Shearman
Alston & Bird LLP
Bird & Bird
John Burris, Nisenbaum and Curry, LLP
Law Offices of Janice Cho
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Crowell & Moring
Dechert LLP
Farella Braun + Martel LLP
Folger Levin LLP
FTI Consulting
Jenner & Block LLP
PG&E
Reed Family
Rogers Joseph O’Donnell
Rudy, Exelrod, Zieff & Lowe, LLP
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, L.L.P.

Friends
Adler & Colvin
Altshuler Berzon LLP
Duff & Emily Beach
California Rural Legal Assistance
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dolby Laboratories
East Bay Community Foundation
Fragomen
Freshfields
Eric Gorovitz
Greenberg Traurig
JND Legal Administration
Nixon Peabody LLP
Olson Remcho
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Outten & Golden LLP
San Francisco Giants
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Sideman & Bancroft 
Simpluris
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Verita Global LLC
Veritext Legal Solutions
Thomas A. Willis & Julie A. Henderson
Bianca & Brian Sierra Wolff

Advocates
Kevin Budner & Mara Boundy
Katie O’Neill & Ryan Chakmak
Rafiki Coalition for Health and Wellness

Sponsors list updated 10/30/26