In 2000, matrimonial lawyer Christina Storm was watching television with her husband, James Byrne. “She stood up and said, ‘I’m tired of watching families tear themselves apart – I want to do some good in this world,’” Byrne recounted. So she started down a path that has become Lawyers Without Borders, the Hartford-based organization in which lawyers use their training to bring peace and justice, bit by bit, to distant lands.
One country that has received much of LWOB’s attention is Liberia, which has suffered through 16 years of civil bloodshed. One casualty of rebel uprisings has been the burning of books at the nation’s law libraries. LWOB volunteers, with help from law firms, contributed critical law books and other basic tools of lawyering, such as paper and office supplies.
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