38 Lawyer’s Clearinghouse The Lawyers Clearinghouse is an organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to residents of homeless shelters and others in need in the Boston area. Mintz Levin is a partner of the Lawyers Clearinghouse, and for more than 20 years many Mintz Levin attorneys, project analysts, and summer associates as well as Mintz Levin in-house clients have contributed to the organization’s efforts by representing its clients in a wide variety of housing, immigration, social security, and other matters. Attorneys Kelly Frey, Samantha Kingsbury, and Colin Van Dyke coordinate Mintz Levin’s participation in the Lawyers Clearinghouse legal clinics, and dozens of attorneys, paraprofessionals, and summer associates participated this past year. Mintz Levin partnered with in-house attorneys from Liberty Mutual and attorneys from federal agencies in these clinics. Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation For 52 years the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation has honored marines by educating their children. The privately-funded, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization provides scholarships for post–high school education and career training to all qualified sons and daughters of marines and navy corpsmen. Particular attention is given to children with a parent who has been killed or wounded in action, and those who have demonstrated financial need. The Scholarship Foundation’s HeroesTribute Scholarship Program for Children of the Fallen provides up to $30,000 over four years to every child of a marine, or navy corpsman serving with the marines, who has been killed in combat since September 11, 2001. Since 1962, the organization has awarded more than 30,000 scholarships valued at over $80,000,000. For the 2013–2014 academic year, scholarships were awarded to 2,042 students, totaling more than $6,600,000. Mintz Levin provides legal services in a variety of areas, including trademark, copyright, data security, information privacy,insurance,trustandestate,corporate,andinvestment- advisor relationship matters. The firm’s legal support for the Scholarship Foundation was led by attorney Kevin Ainsworth (a director and general counsel of the Scholarship Foundation) and included attorneys Nancy Adams, Adam Gale, Cynthia Larose, Marty Lorenzo, Peter Miller, Justin Nahama, and Shoshana Speiser. Massachusetts Children’s Law Center/Equal Justice Works and Biogen Idec Equal Justice Works Fellowships provide lawyers with the opportunity to positively impact thousands of adults, children, and families in need in communities across the country. The program’s fellows design unique projects that serve and address a range of legal issues including domestic violence, homelessness, community economic development, immigration, civil rights, juvenile justice, employment rights, health care, consumer fraud, and environmental justice. In 2012 and 2013, Mintz Levin and Biogen Idec cosponsored Rajan Sonik, a recent Harvard Law School graduate who used his fellowship to advocate for low-income children with sickle cell disease. Currently, Biogen Idec and the firm are partnering to cosponsor a second Equal Justice Works fellow, Paul Eaton. Paul, a recent graduate of Boston College Law School, is developing a medical-legal partnership with the Massachusetts General Hospital–Chelsea Healthcare Center through his placement at the Children’s Law Center of Massachusetts to provide legal advocacy for children from Chelsea who are at risk for school exclusion or face barriers to educational access. Melanoma Education Foundation The Melanoma Education Foundation is a nonprofit organization devoted to saving lives by increasing awareness of melanoma, a common skin cancer that is often deadly unless detected early. Mintz Levin has provided pro bono legal services to the Melanoma Education Foundation since its inception in 2000, overseen by attorney Larry Schoen. During the past year, attorney Christine Baker of the New York office workedwiththefoundationonvarioustrademarkissuesrelating to the organization’s educational literature and materials.