The New York State Bar Association presents its 2007 President's Pro Bono Awards to 13 attorneys, two law firms, a law campus organization and two law students.

Winner of the large firm award is Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler.

Winners of the small to mid-size firm awards are Costello, Cooney & Fearon of Syracuse and Kaplan and Brennan in rural Hunter, N.Y.

The Student Hurricane Network, with chapters at 13 law schools in the state, will be given the campus organization award.

Olivia T. Nix and Willow F. Baer of Albany Law School's class of 2008 will be recognized for creating their campus Pro Bono Society.

Young lawyer recognition will go to Manhattan associates Adrienne D. Gonzalez of Kaye Scholer and Gail Rodgers of DLA Piper US.

Other individual attorneys receiving awards are: James W.B. Benkard, senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell; Michael J. O'Connor, a partner with the Albany firm O'Connor, O'Connor, Bresse & First; Martin L. Fried, of counsel at Hancock & Estabrook in Syracuse; James R. Franz, a partner with Hinman, Howard & Kattell in Binghamton; associate Jodie L. Ryan of Phillips Lytle, Rochester; Francis J. Offermann Jr., of counsel at Offermann, Cassano, Greco, Slisz & Adam of Buffalo; Edith Sullivan, a retired volunteer attorney for Legal Services of the Hudson Valley in White Plains; Lewis C. Edelstein, a Long Island solo practitioner affiliated with the Volunteer Lawyers Project of Nassau and Suffolk Counties; Regina Alberty, a Forest Hills solo affiliated with the Queens Volunteer Lawyers Project; and Benis Guzman, a Bronx County solo and volunteer with inMotion, a legal services program for low-income women.

Matthew H. Dwyer (1945-2003), a partner with the Lake Placid firm Smith, Dwyer and Bliss, will be given a posthumous award for his lifetime of public service.