Wilson Chu of McDermott Will & Emery and Debra Wong Yang, partner with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. Courtesy photos Big Law Firms, GCs Form Pro Bono Alliance to Support Victims of Anti-Asian Hate
"Imagine you're an elder Asian American woman who gets attacked on the street, and all of a sudden you have a team of $1,000-an-hour lawyers representing you," founding alliance member and McDermott Will & Emery partner Wilson Chu said.
April 15, 2021 at 04:02 PM
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More than 45 law firms and 17 general counsel from Fortune 1000 companies have dispatched their pro bono programs to provide Asian American communities with legal support in the wake of a surge in reported hate crimes against a population organizers say is frequently marginalized in the legal system.
The Alliance for Asian American Justice went public Thursday morning, launching a nationwide coalition to provide "culturally responsive" legal support and advocacy to victims of anti-Asian hate crimes and harassment. The founding board members include lawyers from McDermott Will & Emery, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, White & Case and Norton Rose Fulbright, while a number of other Am Law 200 firms are on the list of members. The full list is below.
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3 minute readLaw Firms Mentioned
- Dorsey & Whitney
- Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- White & Case
- Debevoise & Plimpton
- Weil, Gotshal & Manges
- McDermott Will & Emery
- Goodwin Procter
- Winston & Strawn LLP
- Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
- Quarles & Brady
- Jones Day
- Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
- Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman
- Shearman & Sterling LLP
- Cooley
- Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
- Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP
- Alston & Bird
- Cravath, Swaine & Moore
- Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
- Covington & Burling
- Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP
- Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe
- Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
- Kirkland & Ellis
- Morgan, Lewis & Bockius
- Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
- Latham & Watkins
- Munger, Tolles & Olson
- Sidley Austin
- Reed Smith
- O'Melveny & Myers
- Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
- Dechert
- DLA Piper
- Norton Rose Fulbright
- Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney
- Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Warton & Garrison
- Sullivan & Cromwell LLP
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Davis Polk & Wardwell
- Amarchand & Mangaldas & Suresh A Shroff & Co
- Cahill Gordon & Reindel
- Bird Marella Boxer Wolpert Nessim Drooks Lincenberg Rhow P.C.
- Simpson Thacher & Bartlett
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