Some lawyers have trophies and certificates from past victories lining their office walls from big paying clients. But Sheila Boston, a partner at Kaye Scholer, has something even better: a plaque from a struggling family whom she helped in a pro bono case years ago when she was a new attorney. It reads “In Appreciation,” and she gets teary-eyed thinking about it.
The case involved a Haitian mother of two who was suing her ex-husband for child support. The differences between client and counsel were hard to ignore. Boston describes herself as short and petite, while her client was more than six feet tall with a strong accent and a desperate outlook. “What’s an itty bitty thing like you going to do to help me and my children? I got to feed my kids,” Boston recalled as she attempted to replicate the desperate mother’s frustration.
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