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Access to Justice Gala 2025

Save the date for LAFLA’s 2025 Access to Justice Gala, honoring community leaders who go above and beyond to provide justice and hope for all.

HONORING

Access to Justice Award

Paris Barclay

Emmy Award-winning director, producer, and writer

A preeminent force in television entertainment, Paris Barclay has directed nearly 200 episodes of television and was active as a Director/Producer for series including: Station 19, Pitch, Sons of Anarchy, In Treatment, Cold Case, City of Angels and NYPD Blue. He also has directed episodes of a wide variety of series including Scandal, The Good Wife, Empire, House, NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI, Lost, The Shield, The West Wing and ER. Along the way, he has served as the President of the Directors’ Guild, and done work for a wide variety of political and social organizations, including Liberty Hill, the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, and Aviva Family and Children’s Services.

Maynard Toll Award For Distinguished Public Service

Glenn Pomerantz

Glenn tackles some of the most complex antitrust matters in the country. He not only provides antitrust counseling to private companies in numerous industries and represents many of these companies in antitrust lawsuits, but he is also one of the few private lawyers who has been asked by the U.S. Department of Justice and numerous State Attorneys General to serve as lead trial counsel for the government in high-profile merger challenges, including the State of Washington’s recent successful challenge to the $24.6 billion merger of the Albertsons and Kroger supermarket chains.

Pro Bono SERVICE Award

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Look Back at Past Events

He earned two Emmy Awards and the DGA award for Outstanding Direction of a Drama Series for NYPD Blue, received seven additional Emmy nominations for both producing and directing, and garnered ten other DGA Award nominations for shows as diverse as Glee, In Treatment, The West Wing, and House. He was nominated this year for the “Silenced” episode of Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story. He was inducted into the NAACP Image Awards Hall of Fame in 2014.

A DGA member since 1992, Barclay was the first African-American and openly gay President in the Guild’s history. He was honored with the Robert B. Aldrich Achievement Award in 2007, which is given for providing extraordinary service to the DGA, and in 2021 was given the Honorary Life Member Award, the Guild’s highest honor for both service and career achievement. He currently serves as the Guild’s Secretary/Treasurer.

Most recently, Paris helmed episodes of AMERICAN SPORTS STORY: AARON HERNANDEZ, MONSTERS: THE ERIK AND LYLE MENENDEZ STORY and THE NIGHT AGENT. He also directed the pilot and executive produced DOCTOR ODYSSEY for ABC, starring Joshua Jackson and Don Johnson.

He also directed, co-wrote and produced a feature documentary about the famed musician Billy Preston, with interviews from Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, and Olivia Harrison among others.

Along with his industry honors, Paris has spent his entire career using stories to combat intolerance, support diverse families, and fight for social justice. This has led him to be honored by the aforementioned Liberty Hill, the Human Rights Campaign, GLAAD, Project Angel Food, the Pan African Film Festival, Extraordinary Families, and the Aviva Family and Children Services organization.

The proud parent of two adopted boys with his husband Christopher, his motto is: “What is the point of success if you don’t give back?”

Glenn has received many honors for his legal work. He has frequently been named to published lists of the top lawyers in California, the top antitrust lawyers in the country, and the top media/entertainment lawyers in the country. Chambers USA ranks Glenn in multiple categories and has described him as “particularly great at counseling on creative solutions to very complex problems” and as a “terrific litigator” who is “great in the courtroom and excellent at cross-examination.” He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America for his work on bet-the-company litigation, commercial litigation and copyright law.

Glenn received his A.B. Degree summa cum laude from the University of California, Berkeley in 1980. He received his J.D. degree cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1983. Following graduation from law school, Glenn served as law clerk to the Honorable David V. Kenyon of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

Glenn is active in a variety of professional and community activities. He has lectured on numerous topics, including antitrust, copyright, entertainment litigation, federal court practice, and trial techniques and strategies. He has served as a member of the board of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles (2001-2010 and served as President of the Board in 2008-2009) and Polytechnic School in Pasadena (2003-2012). He currently serves as a member of the board of the Western Justice Center (2008-present) and previously served as President of the Board.

Notice

All LAFLA offices will be closed on Friday, July 4, 2025 in observance of Independence Day.

Todas las oficinas de LAFLA estarán cerradas el viernes 4 de julio de 2025 en observancia del Día de la Independencia.

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该办公室将于星期五, 7月4日关闭。

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