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Exempt Organizations partner Victoria B. Bjorklund received the 2010 Segal-Tweed Founders Award on December 13 from The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law for her outstanding pro bono service in the field of civil rights.  Victoria has served on the Lawyers’ Committee board for 25 years, succeeding Cyrus R. Vance and joining Conrad K. Harper as the Firm’s representative.  The Segal-Tweed Founders Award is named in honor of Lawyers' Committee founding co-chairs Bernard G. Segal and Harrison Tweed, two of the last century's most esteemed jurists.  This award is presented to a Lawyers' Committee board member who has displayed outstanding leadership and service in the cause of equal justice under the law.  Victoria was an early participant in and personally funded a significant portion of the start-up costs of the Lawyers’ Committee’s Election Protection program, in which the Firm has participated since 2006.  Since that time, Election Protection has provided nonpartisan pro bono assistance to tens of thousands of voters and voting officials.  The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law is a nonpartisan charity formed in 1963 at the request of President John F. Kennedy to involve the private bar in providing legal services to secure equal justice under law.