AIDS Outreach
This committee is responsible for providing holiday gifts for families affected by HIV or AIDS by soliciting and matching firms and corporations with families. The committee also visits and assists the residents of Bering Omega House one Saturday in the spring.
Please consider supporting Omega House Hospice by purchasing items from their Amazon Wishlist.
The HBA AIDS Outreach Committee delivered meals, pies and flowers to residents of Omega House for Thanksgiving 2020. Pictured here: an Omega House employee receiving the donations.
Listen on Spotify to the Jackson Walker Fast Takes episode about Jamila Brinson, former co-chair of the AIDS Outreach Committee.
Thank you, 2020 Adopt-a-Family Participants!
75 law firms, legal departments, and individuals participated in the 24th Annual HBA AIDS Outreach Holiday Adopt-a-Family Project. In all, 108 families in need were helped by the holiday program. This includes a record 385 people/156 adults and 229 kids assisted, making it the biggest AIDS Outreach project to date.
Ajamie LLP
Bracewell LLP
Johnson, Trent & Taylor, LLP
The Sammons Family
Amaro Law Firm
Akerman LLP
The McLeroy Family
Harris County District Attorney's Office
Shook, Hardy & Bacon, LLP
Fringe Salon and Color Bar
Blank Rome LLP
Judge Leslie Briones
Rachel & Steve Kahane
Preston Towber
The Archer Family
Jenkins & Kamin
Mary Grace Bullard, Ashley Harkness, and Disco the Dog
Henneman Rau LLP
Thompson & Reilley, P.C.
Kristi Skillern
Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston
Boyar Miller LLP
Fogler Brar O'Neil & Gray
Denise Kurt
Judge Fran & Kim Watson
Littler Mendelson
Federal Law Clerks
Yetter Coleman LLP
The Amaro Law Firm
Ramsey Law Group
The Hamm Family
Blank Rome LLP
The HBA AIDS Outreach Committee would like to thank the following participants for helping make the holidays brighter for so many affected by HIV and AIDS:
Ajamie LLP
The Alvarez Family
Amaro Law Firm
Anna & Mike Archer
Anna Robshaw
Baker Botts L.L.P.
BakerHostetler LLP
Steven Beard*
Blank Rome LLP
BoyarMiller
Bracewell LLP
Judge Lesley Briones
Clouthier Law, PLLC
Collin Cox and Family
Coné PLLC
Kim Ogg/DA’s Office
Meagan DeKeyzer
DeRosa & Palleink Families
Law Office of Mynde S. Eisen, PC*
Joseph G. Epstein PLLC
Attorneys & Staff of Federal Public Defender
Fibich Leebron Copeland Briggs
Fogler Brar O'Neil Gray LLC
Fringe Salon and Color Bar
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP*
Jahan Guram
Stephanie Hamm
Ashley Harkness & Mary Grace Bullard
Henneman Rau LLP
Houston Federal Law Clerks*
Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Jenkins & Kamin LLP*
Johnson Trent & Taylor LLP
The Kahane Family
King & Spalding
Denise Kurt
Littler Mendelson
The McLeroy Family
Medina Law Texas PLLC
Clarissa Medrano
Moore & Associates
Judge Daryl Moore*
Munsch Hardt Kopf & Harr PC
Darcie Murray, Alan York, Julie Leucht, Chad Libertus, and Frank Lozano
MVO Resources*
Norton Rose Fulbright
Paul Hastings LLP
Kulcher Polk
Linda Price
The Prout Family
Brenda and Daniel Ramirez Family
Ramsey Law Group
Reed Smith LLP
Laura Sammons
Shook, Hardy & Bacon
Myra Siddiqui
Kay Sim
Kristi Skillern
Spencer Fane LLP
Stonewall Law Association of Greater Houston*
Judge Frances Stacy
Phileda Tennant*
Thompson & Knight LLP*
Linda A. Thompson, Attorney at Law
Thompson & Reilley PC
Towber Law Firm PLLC*
The Tyson Family
Judge Leah Shapiro
Marcela Varela-Sisley & Nicole Broeckelmann
The Vasquez Family & The Law Offices of Rudy G. Vasquez, PC*
Vinson & Elkins LLP
Judge Fran and Kim Watson*
Weycer, Kaplan, Pulaski & Zuber, PC
Emily Wyatt
Trey Yates Law
Yetter Coleman
*A special thank you to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP for adopting 12 families, Jenkins & Kamin LLP for adopting 5 families, The Vasquez Family/The Law Offices of Rudy G. Vasquez for adopting 4 families, and Thompson Knight for adopting 3 families, Also, thank you to Baker Botts LLP, Fran & Kim Watson, Houston Federal Law Clerks, Judge Daryl Moore, Law Office of Mynde S. Eisen, P.C., MVO Resources, Phileda Tennant, SLAGH, Steven Beard, Towber Law Firm PLLC for adopting 2 families each.
Two grateful recipients of Adopt-a-Family gifts
The Houston Bar Association partners with the following Houston social service agencies:
AIDS Foundation Houston (AFH/Project Friendly Haven)
Association for Advancement of Mexican Americans (AAMA, Inc.)
Harris Health System – Thomas Street Health Center
2021-2022 Co-Chairs:
Anna McMullen, The Amaro Law Firm
David Miller, The Amaro Law Firm
Hilary Tyson, BoyarMiller
For more information on this committee, contact Bonnie Simmons at bonnies@hba.org or (713) 759-1133.