Cravath, Swaine & Moore has withdrawn as pro bono counsel for a convict who won a new trial on the basis of another man’s audiotaped murder confession that is now…
A group called the Election Protection Coalition will be dispatching lawyers today to take calls of voter complaints and go to court to preserve voting access.
The managing partner of Denver law firm Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck says he thinks community involvement helps keep lawyers happy. To that end, the law firm has created “karma committees”…
After a 12-year legal odyssey, a 29-year-old California man who has long maintained his innocence of a 1996 murder is free to move on with his life. In his future,…
When 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Chief Judge Dennis Jacobs made his “provocative” remarks regarding pro bono service at a Federalist Society meeting earlier this month, he may have…
Thirty-six delivery workers at a Vietnamese restaurant with two locations in Manhattan were awarded $4.6 million for wage and overtime violations in a suit handled pro bono by Davis Polk…
It may not have the sexy appeal of the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, but a new hottie lawyers calendar features photos that may be just as interesting, at least to…
Updated: As a longtime law professor and now dean, Erwin Chemerinsky is a regular on the pro bono scene. So when he read news reports that 2nd U.S. Circuit Court…
The chief judge of the New York City-based 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blasted pro bono work as “anti-social” and “self-serving” at a Federalist Society meeting this week.
A ruling yesterday ordering the release of 17 Chinese Muslims at Guantanamo Bay is a victory for two law firms: Bingham McCutchen and Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel.
When the German government announced a reparations program last year for Holocaust survivors who worked in Nazi-controlled ghettos, the Los Angeles-based legal services agency Bet Tzedek acted quickly.
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