In 2011, 67 percent of Reed Smith attorneys contributed more than 60,000 hours to pro bono work. In California, the firm’s pro bono practice includes impact litigation that protects and advances civil rights of marginalized communities and individuals. Additionally, Reed Smith founded the Legal Justice Center, serving the Oakland community, and it started a mentoring program at UC-Berkeley School of Law’s California Asylum Representation Clinic. Jayne Fleming is Reed Smith’s pro bono counsel and partner Jesse Miller leads pro bono efforts directed at veterans’ affairs. Both attorneys are in the firm’s San Francisco office.
In 2010 and 2011 Fleming led a national team that devoted more than 2,000 hours of work toward the Haiti Humanitarian Parole project. More than 50 Reed Smith attorneys were involved in filing humanitarian parole applications, permitting 10 women and children to escape from Haiti. All humanitarian parole cases involved victims of sexual gender-based violence. Additionally, attorneys in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and New Jersey lined up sponsors, doctors and host families for clients. The firm expects to file four more applications this year, two of which involve child rape survivors.
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