Sonia Gardner, president, managing partner and co-founder of Avenue Capital Group, center, was honored at the 2014 annual photography and auction benefit for Her Justice on Thursday at The New York Times Square Hotel.

Also pictured are Catherine Douglass, executive director of Her Justice, and Peter Pantaleo, a partner at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett who chairs the organization. Her Justice offers free legal services in family, divorce and immigration law. More than 1,000 people attended its benefit, which raised more than $2.2 million.