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Stephen Davids is a partner at Dreyer Babich Buccola Wood Campora LLP and the immediate past president of CCTLA.
CCTLA’s Annual Spring Celebration Raises Funds for the Sacramento Food Bank by Stephen Davids
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May 21, 2015, the Sacramento legal community came together to support the remarkable efforts of the Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services. The Capitol City Trial Lawyers Association has hosted this “Spring Celebration” fundraiser for several years, and local attorney Margaret Doyle has been the driving force behind it. Approximately 150 people filled the capacious back yard of the dapper and gracious hosts, R. Parker White and Noel Ferris, who were also sponsors of the fundraiser. Thanks to the tireless work of Retired Justice Art Scotland, $55,000 was contributed from 55 individual and business sponsors. Donations came from several aspects of the Sacramento legal spectrum: sole practitioners, law firms, litigation support companies (including process servers), expert witnesses, the CCTLA list serve (several
Sponsors Jill Telfer & Noel Ferris (co-host of the event) get their smiles on
members contributed $1,400 to qualify the list serve as a sponsor), and a 7-year-old black-and-white Shih Tzu. In addition, approximately $16,000 was raised through a silent auction, with items contributed by the legal community as well. The Food Bank is now approximately a $20 million annual enterprise, and this Spring Celebration is its second-largest fundraiser after the Thanksgiving Day Run to Feed the Hungry. The Spring Celebration could not have happened without the tremendous dedication of Margaret Doyle, her daughter Brianne, CCTLA Executive Director Debbie Keller, Jill Telfer, and CEO Blake Young, Melissa Arnold, and Kelly Siefkin of the Food Bank. CCTLA is very proud of this event, and tremendously appreciates all of the donations to this worthiest of causes.
Justice Art Scotland (ret.) (co-recipient with Sue Scotland of CCTLA’s Mort Friedman Humanitarian of the Year award), with Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones & Dan Wilcoxen
Kelly Siefkin of the Sacramento Food Bank thanks Margaret Doyle (Chair of the Spring Fling fundraiser), while Food Bank CEO Blake Young looks on
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