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New Jersey Law Journal

Proposed Changes to Pro Bono 'Madden' Assignments Open for Comment

"The current 'Madden' system of random assignments to uncompensated counsel is not effective in matching willing and skilled attorneys with economically disadvantaged clients facing consequences of magnitude," a report and recommendations of the judiciary said.
4 minute read

Texas Lawyer

Hogan Lovells Puts Pro Bono Resources Into Trump-Era Immigrant Family Separation Suit

"Accountability matters. Imagine arriving in the U.S. to seek safety from persecution and having your children forcibly taken from you, not knowing whether or not you'd see them again," said Javier Hidalgo, interim director of litigation at RAICES.
4 minute read

Legaltech News

Innovating for Innocence Part 1: GPT-4, CoCounsel and the California Innocence Project

The California Innocence Project is utilizing CoCounsel, the GPT-4-powered AI legal assistant from Casetext, to help level the access to justice playing field on the back end by streamlining the process for exonerating the wrongfully convicted.
5 minute read

The American Lawyer

Crosley Green Returns to Prison as Crowell Pro Bono Team Holds Out Hope for Clemency

Green has always affirmed his innocence in a 1989 murder conviction that legal scholars have called a racial hoax.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

Public Interest Calendar of Events

Read about the upcoming public interest events in the Philadelphia area.
3 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

When a Name Is Not the Right Name

Without a name change, transgender individuals are forced to rely on identification that reveals their transgender status in innumerable everyday interactions and reduces their opportunities for employment, housing, travel, and medical care.
6 minute read

The Legal Intelligencer

'Best Interest of the Child' Standard Can Disadvantage Parents and Caregivers With Disabilities

The challenge in representing a custody litigant with disabilities lies in understanding and countering what many think they know when they see a person with disabilities caring for a child.
7 minute read

Law.com

'Exaggerated Response to Legitimate Objectives': Davis Wright Tremaine Leads Pro Bono Win in Battle Over Jail's Mail Policy

"Very few organizations can commit the time and resources to litigating these cases for the long haul to ensure the outcome and that the First Amendment's respected and that the court does the proper analysis. It's been a long time," one of the pro bono attorneys on the case, Caesar D. Kalinowski IV, an associate at Davis Wright Tremaine, told Law.com.
6 minute read

The American Lawyer

Down to 150 Lawyers, Boies Schiller Posts Best RPL in a Decade

With less than half of its 2018 head count, Boies Schiller is running lean and sitting on a pile of lucrative cases.
5 minute read

Legaltech News

Innovations in Pro Bono, Law Firm: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

"Legal innovation means a willingness to break the status quo, to see failure as success in progress, and to reimagine the way law can be practiced in a new light, and from a completely new angle," says Joanna P. Boisen, Chief Pro Bono & Social Impact Officer at Davis Wright Tremaine.
7 minute read

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