Five years after launching New Perimeter — a global pro bono affiliate of DLA Piper — firm partner Sheldon Krantz has accumulated a long list of international projects: combating politically motivated rapes in Zimbabwe; encouraging economic development in East Timor; and promoting the sale of carbon credits in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.
“We decided we wanted to create something that gave our lawyers opportunities to work in developing and post-conflict countries on really difficult issues,” said Krantz. When he started the group, Krantz was working pro bono with the Children’s Law Center in Washington, while he also maintained a white-collar criminal defense practice at the firm.
