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The Legal Intelligencer

Beyond Pro Bono, Firms Put Do-Gooders in Top Positions

Keeping up with their corporate clients, large law firms have set their eyes on charitable efforts beyond the traditional pro bono commitment. And one firm recently put the leader of those efforts in the C-suite.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Few Legal Endeavors Are As Rewarding as Potentially Saving a Client's Life

One of the first things lawyers learn in domestic violence training at the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation is that intimate partner violence can occur in any relationship, regardless of gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, socio-economic status or education level. Two lawyers saw that firsthand.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

Atlanta Bar End of Summer Fundraiser Features Yacht Rock!

Yacht Rock Revue, the nationally known '70s and '80s tribute band based here in Atlanta, is taking the stage while LawJam, the homegrown battle of less-well-known lawyer bands, takes a hiatus this year.
2 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Texas Lawyers Win Asylum for Family Threatened by Taliban

Four lawyers from Dykema Cox Smith with no background in immigration law secured asylum for members of a family that opened co-ed, secular schools in Afghanistan.
5 minute read

The Recorder

Pillsbury Clinches Pro Bono Settlement for Solano County Drivers

Drivers in Solano County who can't pay their traffic fines will be less likely to have their licenses suspended, thanks to a settlement in a pro bono suit filed by Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman and several legal service organizations.
3 minute read

Daily Report Online

Major New Pro Bono Projects Help Imprisoned Immigrants, Struggling Students

Pro bono leaders from the city's big firms gathered at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton on Tuesday for updates from Dan Werner of the Southern Poverty Law Center and Michael Lucas of Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation on two ambitious new pro bono initiatives that are quickly gaining traction.
7 minute read

Daily Report Online

Troutman Associate Wins Asylum for Guatemalan Boy Escaping Drug Gang

Associate M. Buck Dixon helped a young boy from a region in Guatemala that produces many aslyum seekers overcome an "uphill battle."
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Buckley Sandler Leader Takes One in the Pie Hole for Legal Aid

Everyone has had a boss they wanted to pie in the face. But why get fired when you can do it for charity? Buckley Sandler helped raise $21,000 towards a record-breaking $1.79 million collected this year by the Legal Aid Society of the District of Columbia.
34 minute read

Daily Report Online

A Lawyer Counts the Victims in Family Violence Cases

Representing a survivor of battery can pose challenges that differ from other domestic litigation—including vicarious trauma and stres.
4 minute read

Daily Report Online

UGA Law Launches Clinic to Help Veterans Vie for Benefits

The University of Georgia School of Law is getting a new legal clinic to help veterans who've filed claims for disability benefits with the gridlocked U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, thanks to gifts from plaintiffs lawyer James Butler Jr. and four other Columbus lawyers.
15 minute read

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