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National Law Journal

Global Pro Bono on the Rise, TrustLaw Survey Finds

A new survey by an international brokerage for pro bono legal work finds that many global law firms were engaged on refugee, immigration and asylum matters last year, with 41.4 percent of responding firms saying those issues were a major focus of their pro bono efforts, up from 28 percent a year earlier.
12 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Court Establishes Right to Counsel in Disputed Adoptions

The New Jersey Supreme Court has ruled that an indigent parent whose child is subject to private adoption proceedings has the right to court-appointed counsel if he or she has decided to object to the adoption.
9 minute read

Daily Report Online

Low-Income Tenants Need an Advocate in Eviction Court

John M. Moye of Kilpatrick Townsend explains how he helped a woman fight an eviction order, through his pro bono work with the Atlanta Volunteer Lawyers Foundation's Eviction Defense Program.
7 minute read

Litigation Daily

How a MoFo Partner's Pro Bono Murder Case Became Headline News--And His Client Went Free

Morrison & Foerster partner Carl “Chip” Loewenson Jr. worked for more than a decade to free Richard Rosario, who was serving a 25-to-life sentence for murder. How the case played out is a template for effectively using publicity, though on a scale that most lawyers can only dream of.
13 minute read

Daily Report Online

Lawyers Sue VA Over Bogged-Down Appeals Process for Vets

Two King & Spalding lawyers in Atlanta are leading an unusual and ambitious pro bono suit to try and force the U.S. Department of Veteran's Affairs to speed up decisions on veterans' disability claims.
18 minute read

Litigation Daily

In Parent-Trigger School Fight, Kirkland Lawyers Get an A+

Working pro bono, Kirkland & Ellis lawyers won another round in a long and controversial fight involving the so-called parent-trigger movement, which gives parents the power to force change at failing public schools.
12 minute read

New York Law Journal

Pro Bono NY Lawyers Train Kenyans to Better Prosecute Poaching

Two partners from Shearman & Sterling and a group from Wigdor LLP have joined a pro bono effort to help officials in Kenya prosecute poachers more effectively.
13 minute read

Legaltech News

Lawyers and Coders Agree: Collaboration Improves Access and Efficiency in Law

The first Code for Nashville and Music Legal Hackers meet discussed bridging the justice gap and the potentials of collaborating with today's law students.
11 minute read

Connecticut Law Tribune

Private Philanthropy and the Justice Gap

There is a role for private philanthropy to play in addressing the dire need for increasing the availability of civil legal aid as a complement to their support for other anti-poverty and social justice initiatives and programs.
5 minute read

Daily Report Online

$2.4M in State Grants Will Provide Legal Aid to Domestic Violence Victims

The Judicial Council of Georgia has awarded about $2.43 million in grants to eight Georgia nonprofits to provide civil legal services to domestic violence victims.
7 minute read

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