Yesterday we celebrated the DC Access to Justice Commission's third successful Raising the Bar campaign. It raised $4 million for legal services, a full million more than its first campaign. We snapped keynote Secretary of Labor Tom Perez with DC Superior Court Judge Jose Lopez.

The event, hosted at Arnold & Porter's 555 12th St office, drew a lot of judicial support. Here's Arnold & Porter's Mary Kennedy flanked by DC Court of Appeals Chief Judge Eric Washington, US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins, and DC Superior Court Judge Hiram Puig-Lugo.

Legendary Williams & Connolly founding partner Bob Weinberg is a past DC Bar president. We found him with the very first president of the DC Bar, Hogan Lovells' E. Barrett Prettyman, and Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless executive director Patty Mullahy Fugere.

We also spotted US District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Emmet Sullivan, with DC Access to Justice board chair Peter Edelman.

Here's Coffey Burlington's Andy Marks with DC Attorney General Irv Nathan. Andy's a DC Access to Justice commissioner and spearheaded the Raising the Bar campaign, coming up with a unique giving system that's structured as a percentage of revenue. This year, 43 firms participated.

Legal Counsel for the Elderly executive director Jan May, BuckleySandler founding partner Joe Kolar, and Legal Counsel for the Elderly development director Aaron Knight. Aaron tells us he met Joe a few months ago and they hit it off upon discovering they grew up a few miles apart in Eastern Iowa.