Pro Bono and Community Service

Community Service Highlights for 2008/2009

Calvo & Clark attorneys serve on the boards of directors and are actively involved in the following organizations:

  • Ateneo Center for Educational Development provides financial, educational and structural support to the Philippines Public Schools System.
  • The California State Bar Board of Governors is the governing body of the State Bar of California and responsible for admission and discipline of California's 200,000-plus attorneys.
  • Edward M. Calvo Cancer Foundation provides financial assistance to people in the Guam community who are fighting cancer and who need off island medical assistance.
  • Guam Bar Association is the governing body responsible for the admission and discipline of Guam’s attorneys.
  • Guam Museum Foundation is dedicated to preserving the culture, art and history of Guam.
  • Guam Territorial Law Library provides access to legal reference materials to the legal community of Guam.
  • Matibabu Foundation provides medical care, training and equipment to residents of Ugenya, Kenya, an extremely poor and disadvantaged area near Lake Victoria.
  • The San Francisco Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center, founded in 1916, provides free legal assistance to low-income clients of all cultures and backgrounds.
  • The San Francisco Law Library Commission provides the judiciary, the public, the bar, and government officials free access to legal reference materials.

Pro Bono Highlights for 2008/2009

  • Street v. Northrop Grumman Ship Systems, Inc. In coordination with the San Francisco Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center and the Mississippi Workers' Center for Human Rights, the Firm represents nine current and former African-American employees of the largest employer in Mississippi in an anti-discrimination action pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Mississippi. Trial for the firm's clients is currently scheduled for October 2008.
  • People v. Cepeda. The firm represents Franklin Cabrera Cepeda, Jr. in his appeal to the CNMI Supreme Court in Saipan seeking a reversal of his 2005 conviction of felony murder on the grounds that he was the victim of violations of his Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights.