OVERVIEW
‘What lawyering is all about’
Pro bono isn’t always warm and fuzzy. Sometimes the most important work involves unpopular causes and sometimes you lose, as happened in the case of Aaron Lee Jones, put to death while his pro bono counsel from White & Case frantically litigated a civil rights challenge to Alabama’s lethal injection protocol. Attorneys who take these cases say they do so because of their professional obligation to close gaps in the legal system and because they feel they have to take the long view, hoping that even a defeat can move the system closer to greater equity.
THE WINNERS
