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The American Lawyer

Firms Are Beefing Up Pro Bono Teams With Specialists

More Big Law firms are hiring lawyers to focus on specific areas of pro bono work, a move that makes the firms' priorities clear and offers a roadmap for growing other social programs.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

'Post-Pandemic Reset' Affects Pro Bono Hours in 2022

For the Am Law 200 firms that participated in The American Lawyer 2023 Pro Bono Scorecard, average pro bono hours per lawyer were flat.
7 minute read

Daily Business Review

Crowell & Moring's Pro Bono Fight to Free Crosley Green Faces 'Inconsistent' Parole Commission

Green's lawyers argue the Florida Commission on Offender Review improperly stacked cumulative offenses when determining Green's presumptive release date of 2054.
3 minute read

Law.com

Ukrainian NGO Urges Lawyers to Provide Expertise to Fleeing Civilians

"My experience is that lawyers often have the best qualifications and skillsets," said Rachel Jamison, director of Safe Passage 4 Ukraine. "We're trained to do a very difficult thing, which is to put aside emotion; to work in a client's best interests, and to put mission first."
4 minute read

International Edition

Trio of Major Firms Act Pro Bono to Defeat UK Government's Rwanda Deportation Plan

The Court of Appeal ruled on Thursday that the policy to send asylum seekers to Rwanda is unlawful.
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

How Weil Associate Josh Halpern Argued 4 Appeals in 6 Weeks

Over a six-week span in May and June, Halpern argued appeals in the Second, Fifth and Seventh Circuits as well as New York's Appellate Division, Second Department.
7 minute read

National Law Journal

A Decade After 'US v. Windsor,' We Cannot Relent

Given the current environment, we cannot turn a blind eye to the disturbing uptick in anti-LGBTQ legislation and rhetoric spreading across the country right now.
7 minute read

International Edition

Ukraine Turns to Freshfields to Create Post-War Development Fund

The advice to the government's Ministry of Economy comes after a series of moves by Freshfields to withdraw from Russian mandates.
2 minute read

The American Lawyer

Shook Launches Civil Rights, Racial Justice Pro Bono Practice

Shook, Hardy & Bacon hired a former civil rights division prosecutor in Houston to lead a pro bono practice focused on civil rights and racial justice litigation.
4 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

  On June 13 at 5:30 p.m., join HIAS Pennsylvania for a new volunteer information session. Learn more and register here: https://hiaspa.org/event/new-volunteer-information-session-june-2023/. …
1 minute read

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