In 2025, Legal Counsel for the Elderly is celebrating 50 years of improving lives for older adults across DC. Thanks to the support of the DC community, tens of thousands of people have benefited from more stable housing, increased economic security, control of their future, and reliable health and safety supports.
Join us on November 6, 2025, to celebrate 50 years of championing the dignity and rights of Washington, D.C.'s elders by providing free legal and social work services to those in need – defending, protecting, and empowering vulnerable seniors.
About the Event
Join hundreds of committed community leaders on November 6 from 6:30 – 9 PM at the International Spy Museum (700 L'Enfant Plaza SW, Washington, DC) to celebrate 50 years of impact – while we also look boldly to the future. Enjoy food, drink, live music, and the company of Oscar-nominated director, writer, producer Lee Daniels.
If you are affiliated with one of our event sponsors, register here.
50th Anniversary Campaign
As we celebrate our 50th anniversary, LCE is completing a three-year campaign to raise $1 million from individuals to support LCE’s growing impact on DC’s older adults. Led by a Campaign Committee composed of LCE’s Board of Directors, Advisory Committee, Young Lawyers Alliance, and committed supporters, this campaign is building relationships with current donors and securing 1,000 new donors who share our vision for the future. Our campaign theme is Defend. Protect. Empower. This is the work at the heart of LCE, which is our focus for the next 50 years.
During our campaign, all first-time donations to LCE are being matched, dollar for dollar, up to $200,000, thanks to committed supporters. You can donate to our campaign at any time by clicking here.
Campaign Committee
Honorary Chair
Lee Daniels
Campaign Co-Chairs
Kevin Donnellan, AARP (retired)
Brenda V. Smith, American University, Washington College of Law (retired)
Campaign Committee
Morey Barnes Yost, Alston & Bird LLP
Daniel A. Cantor, Arnold & Porter
Karen Ellis Carr, ArentFox Schiff LLP
Kristin Dillon, AARP
Bill Isaacson, Dunn Isaacson Rhee LLP
Ross Handler, Perkins Coie LLP
Sara Kropf, Kropf Moseley PLLC
Elizabeth Mitchell, WilmerHale
Candace Moss, Cummins, Inc.
Darby Rourick, Covington & Burling LLP
Rhonda Cunningham Holmes, LCE Executive Director
Event Sponsors
Your sponsorship will help LCE provide life-saving and life-changing supports to older adults across DC. With your support, we will address the most important aspects of their lives: housing, economic security, self-determination, and health & safety. We are so grateful to our sponsors listed below, as of August 15, 2025.
For more information about sponsorship, contact Billy Fettweis at wfettweis@aarp.org.
$50,000 plus
AARP
Arnold & Porter LLP
Latham & Watkins LLP
$25,000 plus
Covington & Burling LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
WilmerHale
$15,000 plus
Mayer Brown LLP
Perkins Coie LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
$10,000 plus
ArentFox Schiff LLP
Groom Law Group
Kropf Moseley PLLC
The Morrison & Foerster Foundation
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
$7,500 plus
Alston & Bird LLP
Blank Rome LLP
Dechert LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
$5,000 plus
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
Eversheds Sutherland
Foley & Lardner LLP (recognized at $10k)
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
McDermott Will & Emery LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Nixon Peabody LLP
Sidley
Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
Williams & Connolly LLP
Winston & Strawn LLP
Zuckerman Spaeder LLP
$2,500 plus
A&O Shearman LLP
Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP
Caplin & Drysdale, Chartered
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper LLP
Exelon
K&L Gates LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
McCarter & English, LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Wiley Rein LLP
$1,000 plus
Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP
Cisco Systems, Inc.
Crowell & Moring LLP
Hollingsworth, LLP
Husch Blackwell LLP
Keller & Heckman LLP
Lowenstein Sandler LLP
McGuireWoods LLP
