Ways to support VLA
No gift is too big or too small. Donations of $25, $50, or $100 today really can make a difference tomorrow. All donations are tax deductible to the extent allowable by law. Your personal contribution to VLA will help us continue and expand our services:
- Legal services to low-income artists
- Legal services to arts nonprofit organizations
- Educational programming
- Scholarship programs for artists
- Outreach programming
- Maintain lower fees for legal services and educational programs
Organizing a fundraiser?
Whether you are coordinating a lecture, party, or concert, donating the proceeds to VLA is simple and guarantees the continuation of our services to the arts community. If you plan to support us with a fundraiser, please contact Kathryn E. Wagner, Esq., registrations@vlany.org.
CONTACT: 212.319.2787, ext.1
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Artist and Arts Organization Membership
Membership for artists and non-profit or for-profit arts organizations. Find out more about the levels and benefits of membership.

Attorney Membership
Membership for attorneys at any point in their career. Find out about the levels and benefits of membership, and become a member.

Institutional Membership
We extend special benefits for law firms and corporate donors. Click below for more information on corporate and law firm membership benefits.
Supporters*
Our sincerest thanks to all our supporters. VLA is a nonprofit legal service organization supported in part with public funds, by state agencies, and through generous gifts from all our wonderful supporters.
Institutional Members*
Benefactor Level
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLPDavis & Gilbert LLP
- Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- HBO
- Latham & Watkins LLP
- Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP
- Paul Hastings LLP
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
- Proskauer Rose LLP
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
- Troutman Pepper LLP
Sustainer Level
- Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
- DLA Piper
- Ernst & Young, LLP
- Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
- Haynes and Boone, LLP
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- Jenner & Block LLP
- Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
- Leichtman Law PLLC
- Loeb & Loeb LLP
- Lowenstein Sandler LLP
- Mayer Brown LLP
- Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
- Pryor Cashman LLP
- Seyfarth Shaw LLP
- Shapiro Arato Bach LLP
Foundation, Government, and Corporate Support
Foundation and Government Supporters
- BNY Mellon Foundation
- Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS
- National Endowment for the Arts
- New York City Department of Cultural Affairs
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
- The Cowles Charitable Trust
- The Lucille Lortel Foundation
- The New York Bar Foundation
- The New York Community Trust
- The Reed Foundation
- The Shubert Foundation
- The Venable Foundation
- The Victor and Clara C. Battin Foundation
- United States Patent and Trademark Office
Corporate Contributors
- Ballard Spahr LLP
- Crowell & Moring LLP
- Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
- Kilpatrick Townsend
- NBCUniversal Media, LLC
- Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
- The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation
- Withers Bergman LLP
*As of February 2021
50th Anniversary Gala Supporters
Founding Sponsor
- Proskauer Rose LLP
50th Gold
- Axinn, Veltrop & Harkrider LLP
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Gold
- Anonymous
- Boies Schiller Flexner LLP
- Jenner & Block LLP
- News Corp
Silver
- Davis Wright Tremaine LLP
- Endeavor
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
- Kelley Drye & Warren LLP
- Walden Macht & Haran LLP
- Winston & Strawn LLP
Bronze
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
- Allen & Company LLC
- Baker & McKenzie LLP
- Benesch
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP
- Consilio
- Davis & Gilbert LLP
- Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
- Dechert LLP
- Dentons US LLP
- DLA Piper LLP
- Ernst & Young LLP
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP
- Hogan Lovells
- Home Box Office, Inc.
- Leichtman Law PLLC
- Loeb & Loeb LLP
- Mintz & Gold LLP
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
- Morrison & Foerster LLP
- NBCUniversal Media, LLC
- Perkins Coie LLP
- Shapiro Arato Bach LLP
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP
Contributors
- Adria G. Kaplan
- Agnes Gund
- Allan G. Sperling
- Andrew Spurchise
- Anonymous
- Arnold & Porter
- Ballard Spahr LLP
- Berger Legal LLC
- Cliff Gilbert-Lurie
- Deirdre M. McDonald
- Deloitte
- Edward Copeland
- Eric & Lori Friedman
- Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP
- Gary H. Glaser
- H5
- Herrick Feinstein LLP
- Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP
- I. Fred Koenigsberg
- Joseph Tedeschi
- June M. Besek
- Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump & Aldisert LLP
- KP Public Affairs
- Melissa Golstein
- Michael Goldstein
- Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones LLP
- Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP
- Peter Stern
- Richard and Maryam Alsop
- Thompson Hine LLP
- Venchi
- Viv Eisenberg
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