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Thank You to our Sponsors & Attendees
Please enjoy this wrap-up of the 2024 Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Gala and make plans to join us in 2025!
The 2024 CCPBI Gala was held Saturday evening, April 20, at the downtown Nashville offices of Bass Berry & Sims at the Pinnacle Building.
Individual Tickets
Individual tickets were available for $200.
Sponsorship Levels
Tennessee law firms and corporations were invited to support the Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative by becoming recognized sponsors for the 2024 Gala at the following levels:
$10,000 CCPBI Executive Committee
Executive Committee-level sponsors will receive verbal thanks & presentation during the Gala welcome, prominent recognition, and corporate logo in CCPBI Gala marketing, media & program materials, including a link on event webpage and in social media. Sponsors at this level also receive a benefit of two ads or professional announcements in one of TBA’s publications and 12 tickets to the Gala.
$5,000 CCPBI Board of Directors
Board of Directors-level sponsors will receive verbal thanks during the Gala, prominent recognition, and corporate logo in CCPBI Gala marketing, media & program materials, including a link on event webpage and in social media. Sponsors at this level also receive a benefit of one ad or professional announcement in one of TBA’s publications and 10 tickets to the Gala.
$3,000 CCPBI Shareholders
Shareholders-level sponsors will receive recognition in CCPBI Gala marketing, media & program materials, including a link on event webpage and in social media. Sponsors at this level also receive a benefit of one ad or professional announcement in one of TBA’s publications and 8 tickets to the Gala.
$1,500 CCPBI Supporters
CCPBI Supporters will receive recognition in CCPBI Gala program materials, including a link on event webpage and 5 tickets to the Gala.
To become a Gala sponsor, purchase tickets or volunteer for the event, contact:
Liz Todaro, Access to Justice Director
Tennessee Bar Association
Phone: (615) 383-7421
Email: ltodaro@tnbar.org
CCPBI Aids Pro Bono Efforts Across Tennessee
The Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative was launched as a joint effort by the TBA Access to Justice Committee, the TBA Corporate Counsel Section and the Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) to help foster a coordinated approach to pro bono work and support for the access to justice community by corporate counsel in Tennessee.
The Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative has raised over $600,000 over the last 16 years. This money has funded corporate counsel pro bono project grants across the state. The funded projects offer in-house and corporate lawyers specific pro bono opportunities tailored to their situations, skills and interests, and facilitate partnerships among corporate legal departments, law firms, access to justice entities and other community service organizations to help meet local legal service gaps.
Other projects include outreach events held around the state that offer in-house and law firm corporate counsel information about how they can become involved in pro bono work locally and networking opportunities for them to meet representatives from their local access to justice organizations as well as other law firm and corporate counsel as potential partners in pro bono projects.
Contribute to the Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative
Thank you to CCPBI supporters through the years.
- Adams and Reese
- Association of Corporate Counsel – Tennessee Chapter*
- Asurion
- Bass, Berry & Sims*
- Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz*
- Belmont University
- Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee*
- Bradley Arant Boult Cummings
- Burr Forman
- Butler Snow
- Caterpillar Financial Services Corporation
- Community Health Systems
- Consilio
- Counsel On Call Inc.*
- Dell Inc.
- Eastman Chemical Company *
- FedEx Corporation
- HCA
- Hilton Hotels Corporation
- International Paper*
- Littler Mendelson
- Mediation Group of Tennessee
- Medtronic
- Miller & Martin*
- Monogram Foods
- Nissan USA
- Riley Warnock & Jacobson
- SRVH Law*
- State Volunteer Mutual Insurance Company
- Stites & Harbison
- Sylvamo
- Tennessee Access to Justice Commission
- TBA Corporate Counsel Section*
- Thomas & Betts
- TruGreen
- Vanderbilt University, Office of General Counsel
- Vanguard Health Systems
- Waller
- Wyatt, Tarrant, & Combs*
*Sponsors with a 10+ year history of support for the Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative.
Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative Grants
CCPBI grants are awarded to Tennessee access to justice organizations and partnerships to help defer the costs of developing pro bono opportunities/projects specifically designed for corporate and in-house counsel.
In 2023, the Corporate Counsel Pro Bono Initiative established the Branham Grants to honor the legacy of Memphis attorney and access to justice champion Andy Branham. The Branham Grants will support pro bono projects designed to provide civil legal resources and support for people with, affected by or at risk for addiction in Tennessee and those in recovery.
Why Get Involved?
More than one million Tennesseans have incomes below 125% of the federal poverty level, and a recent legal needs study reveals that these poorest Tennessee families are experiencing between one and three civil legal problem a year. Legal aid programs around the state are unable to meet this overwhelming need with limited staffs, and pro bono programs trying to fill the gap simply do not have enough resources or volunteer lawyers.
Tennessee's corporations and corporate counsel can help make a difference by getting involved with CCPBI, via sponsorship and volunteering. Contact TBA to learn more about special pro bono opportunities for corporate counsel and help raise money to facilitate the development of new and exciting pro bono projects for in-house corporate counsel and their outside counsel around the state.