Holiday Greetings from Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP

As we head into the holidays, we want to express our gratitude for the wonderful clients and colleagues we had the opportunity to work with this year. The firm made charitable contributions to numerous organizations in 2024 whose work inspires us. Please scroll down to see the full list of organizations and events we supported.

Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger welcomed four new Fellows and a new Operations Coordinator to our team this year; worked with both new and long-term clients on a broad range of important issues including land conservation, renewable energy policy, implementing new state housing laws, providing housing for farmworkers, protecting environmental and cultural resources from development, and improving air quality in disadvantaged communities; and hosted or spoke at several professional conferences to learn and share new ideas and expertise. We also made time to gather with our colleagues here at the firm to have fun and build the connections that make life meaningful.

The team, hiking during the Yosemite Conference in September. Top row: Yochi Zakai, Sky Stanfield. Middle row: Kate Gaumond, Chloe Lew, Ryan Gallagher, Kevin Bundy, Gabe Ross, Tamara Galanter, Orran Balagopalan, Sarah Sigman, Richard Taylor. Front row: Jenna Archer

SMW team members gave four talks and moderated the California Council of Land Trusts conference in Sacramento in March. L to R: Vaneeta Chintamaneni, Gabe Ross, Jenna Archer, Sarah Sigman, Marlene Dehlinger, Chloe Lew, Tamara Galanter. Shasta Fields, Nardos Girma

SMW team members visited the SMW East Bay Pod in November, then gathered for dinner. Clockwise from bottom left: Yeji Jung, Osa Wolff, Bill White, Caleb Hersh, Sarah Sigman, Perl Perlmutter, Kristi Bascom, Gabe Ross, Jenna Archer, Caitlin Brown, Amber Frank, Richard Taylor, Catherine Engberg, Brian Nervis, Zeke Pasco, Seth Goldman, Oliver Goldman

The team got together for a fun day on the water this summer

Some of the SMW team hiked up Sentinel Dome this year. L to R: Richard Taylor, Sara Clark and son, Winter King, Carmen Borg, Catherine Engberg, Perl Perlmutter, Ellison Folk, Orran Balagopalan

Left: SMW’s bocce ball team: Top row: Brian Nervis, Zeke Pasco, Sky Stanfield, Adelaide Duckett, Lauren Lewis, Perl Perlmutter. Bottom row: Matt McKerley, Richard Taylor, Bill White. Right: Three SMW summer law clerks attended the annual trek to the Dahlia Garden at Golden Gate Park in August. L to R: SMW attorney Ryan Gallager; law clerks Adelaide Duckett, Julia Larkin, and Lauren Lewis; and SMW attorney Andrew Schwartz

 

This year the firm decided to focus our contributions on environmental justice, anti-racism, and get-out-the-vote organizations, especially those organizations working with traditionally under-represented groups. Here is the full list of organizations that received financial support from the firm in 2024. If you are in a position to give this year, please consider these groups as you make your year-end donations.

Law and Legal Services

• California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA)
• Centro Legal de la Raza
• San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association

Get-Out-the-Vote

• 18 By Vote
• Black Voters Matter Fund
• California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice (CCIJ)
• Chicanos Por La Causa
• Civic Influencers, Inc.
• Democracy North Carolina
• Democracy Works
• Fair Fight
• Florida Rights Restoration Coalition, Inc.
• Front and Centered
• Georgia Shift
• Head Count
• Ma Familia Vota
• Native American Rights Fund
• Promise Arizona
• Promote the Vote Fund, Inc.
• Rock the Vote
• Spread the Vote
• Stand Up America
• Vote Solar
• Wisconsin Voices
• When We All Vote