Guests submit auction bids at the 2015 Equal Access to Justice Dinner Thursday at the Ritz-Carlton in White Plains to support the Legal Services of the Hudson Valley, which represents lower-income clients in civil cases in Westchester, Rockland, Putnam, Dutchess, Orange, Sullivan and Ulster counties. The auction raised more than $85,000 for programs and services.

Former Westchester County Surrogate Anthony Scarpino Jr., a trusts and estates partner at Delbello Donnellan Weingarten Wise & Wiederkehr, and Boies, Schiller & Flexner received the organization’s Access to Justice Award. The Westchester Community Foundation and its executive director, Catherine Marsh, received its Advocate for Justice Award.