Richard Tobin and Richard Goldsmith will be honored as two of the Top 50 Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona for their commitment to pro bono service by the Arizona Foundation for Legal Services & Education on June 28, 2007.
Tobin, Of Counsel with Lewis and Roca’s Environmental and Natural Resources group, has provided over 400 hours of legal services representing abused, abandoned and neglected refugee and immigrant children. He is a co-chair of the Arizona-Mexico Commission Environment Committee and a volunteer at the Crossroads Legal Clinic. Tobin received his L.L.M. from George Washington University Law School (1993), his J.D. from the University of Florida School of Law (1984), and his B.S. from the United States Air Force Academy (1976).
Goldsmith, a partner with Lewis and Roca’s Real Estate group, has provided over 250 hours of legal services assisting with the Volunteer Lawyers’ Program (VLP). VLP's focus is matching legal personnel with low-income Arizonans in hopes to provide legal services to those who would not normally be able to afford. He is an active member of the American Arbitration Association, serving on the Arizona Panel of Commercial Business Mediators and the Large, Complex Case Arbitration panel and is currently a member of the Board of Trustees at the Phoenix Art Museum. Goldsmith received his J.D. from the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law (1973), his M.A. from the University of Chicago (1969), and his B.A. from Lawrence College (1964).