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Street Law / Newsroom / Third year of Street Law’s Breakfast with a Legend™ program begins

Third year of Street Law’s Breakfast with a Legend™ program begins

Third year of Street Law’s Breakfast with a Legend<span class="Sup">™</span> program begins

Lloyd Hand, senior counsel at King & Spalding, chats with two students from J.C. Nalle Elementary School.

January 14, 2009 | Washington, DC

Street Law, Inc. is proud to announce the launch of the third year of its Breakfast with a Legend program. Beginning in January, 18 classes at seven D.C. public schools will participate in the three-month-long program that educates elementary and middle school students about the law through a series of visits with local legends — individuals who have contributed to the development of justice and equality in Washington, DC, and beyond.

The program has grown significantly and since last year has added:

four schools
eleven classes
nine Legends
numerous volunteer paralegals and attorneys
almost 400 fifth, sixth, and seventh graders

Participating students reap educational benefits such as active, participatory learning and enhanced reading and writing skills. Breakfast with a Legend is implemented at no cost to the participating schools and does not add to the workload of participating teachers. This is thanks in part to the generosity of the law firm volunteers.

Since its inception in the spring of 2007, over 600 Washington, DC, students have participated in the program.

One of the greatest benefits of the program is watching the children’s faces as they absorb every bit of information conveyed to them by the volunteers and legends. They demonstrate such energy and enthusiasm when their “new friends” visit. There is so much learning taking place and not just by the children. It’s great fun.
-- Deborah Foster, senior program director, Street Law, Inc.

2009 Participants

Bruce-Monroe at Parkview Elementary (5th graders)

The legends

The Honorable José M. Lopéz, presiding judge, tax & probate division, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
The Honorable Emmet G. Sullivan, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia

Emery Elementary (5th graders)

the legends

The Honorable Lee F. Satterfield, chief judge, Superior Court of the Districk of Columbia
The Honorable Karen A. Howze, magistrate judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia
Councilmember Mary M. Cheh, D.C. councilmember, Ward 3

Volunteers

Attorneys and paralegals from the Washington office of Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.

J.C. Nalle Elementary (5th graders)

The legends

Councilmember Yvette M. Alexander, D.C. councilmember, Ward 7
The Honorable Vanessa Hall, adminstrative judge, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

volunteers

Attorneys and paralegals from the Washington office of King & Spalding LLP

J.O. Wilson Elementary (5th graders)

the legends

The Honorable Ricardo M. Urbina, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia
The Honorable Reggie Walton, U.S. district judge for the District of Columbia