When Ballard Spahr associate Jason Leckerman was assigned a pro bono asylum case involving a deaf Guinean refugee, the young attorney had no idea what he was in for. What followed was a long, arduous journey through a young woman's violent past in a war-torn African nation and an eventual victory that gave her a new home and a new opportunity to start over -- and earned Leckerman several pro bono accolades.
June 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
When Jason A. Leckerman was assigned a pro bono asylum case involving a deaf Guinean refugee, the young attorney had no idea what he was in for.
What followed was a long, arduous journey through a young woman’s violent past in a war-torn African nation and an eventual victory that gave her a new home and a new opportunity to start over.
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