GE Business Achievements Benefit The Pro Bono Partnership Metropolitan Corporate Counsel Magazine April 2003   From left, Ben Heineman, GE; Richard Hobish, Pro Bono Partnership,and Robert Healing, GE. A highlight of GE’s annual Global Leadership Meeting is the Chairman’s Leadership Award ceremony hosted by Jeff Immelt, Chairman and CEO. This year, business leaders from all over the world received awards representing 14 different categories focused on performance, strategy and initiatives, and leadership and culture. Award winners receive a crystal Chairman’s Leadership Award and designate a charity of their choice to receive a GE grant. This year, in the leadership and culture category Ben Heineman, Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of GE, received an award for Public Image...Corporate Controllership and Governance. He accepted the award on behalf of his team, selecting the Pro Bono Partnership to receive a $12,500 grant. The Pro Bono Partnership has a long history of GE volunteer involvement and provides outstanding community service. Established in 1997, the Partnership was created with leadership from GE’s legal staff. Robert Healing, GE Corporate Counsel, serves as Chairman of the Board of the Pro Bono Partnership. The Pro Bono Partnership offers free legal services to more than 475 nonprofit organizations serving disadvantaged populations in Westchester County, NY, Fairfield County, CT and Northern New Jersey. These organizations offer programs primarily in the following areas: affordable housing, job training, neighborhood revitalization, hunger, domestic violence, education, childcare, youth development and HIV/AIDS. The Partnership helps these nonprofits by recruiting, supporting and super- vising a corps of more than 530 attorneys from the suburban tri-state area’s leading corporations and law firms. Working closely with Partnership legal staff, volunteers provide assistance on a broad range of legal matters such as community and economic development, corporate structure and governance, real estate, employment law, and regulatory compliance. In addition to direct legal assistance, the Partnership also offers numerous educational workshops for managers and directors of nonprofit organizations. Conducted in collaboration with banks, community foundations, United Ways and other organizations, these workshops teach nonprofit organizations how to respond proactively to important legal issues and avoid crisis management. For further information about Pro Bono Partnership’s business transactional pro bono program, please contact the Partnership at (914) 328-0674.