It’s not every day you come across a corporate lawyer who devotes two business days a week entirely to pro bono work — all pertaining to the representation of children or indigent parents — for three different legal aid organizations.
What’s even more remarkable is, in between that and serving as general counsel of LEGO Systems Inc. in Enfield, Conn., for the past 15 years, Peter Arakas used his spare time to create the state’s first Truancy Intervention Project. The program is designed for lawyers to not only represent children in truancy cases but also to serve as their mentors and stress the importance of education.
