Calvo & Clark LLP: Community Service and Pro Bono Highlights

Community Service Highlights for 2007

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.
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 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.
San Francisco Legal Aid Society - Employment Law Center, founded in 1916, provides free legal assistance to low-income clients of all cultures and backgrounds.
San Francisco Law Library Commission provides the judiciary, the public, the bar, and government officials free access to legal reference materials.

Marin Legal Aid Society– Lawyer Referral Work. In 2007 at the request of the Marin Legal Aid Society, the firm represented a domestic worker from South America in her claims against her employer for failure to pay minimum wage and provide meal and rest breaks. The case was settled favorably for the client.
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.
Sandoval v. Jordan. The firm represented an inmate in the California state prison system who alleged that he was stabbed by another inmate after the guards had been warned by another inmate that our client was targeted to be attacked by a gang, but that the prison did nothing to warn or protect our client.
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.