Six nonprofit groups will split $1.495 million in attorney fees stemming from a Weil, Gotshal & Manges pro bono victory, the firm said, with the money going to support legal education and other causes for Mexican Americans.
Weil won the fee award in 2017 after successfully challenging an Arizona state statute that would have eliminated Mexican American studies courses in Tuscon public schools. The firm is donating the funds to The Innocence Project, The National Latino Education Research and Policy Project, The Seattle University School of Law Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, The University of Arizona’s Center for the Studies of Higher Education “Semillas del Pueblo” program, and the University of Colorado Law School Leaders in Law and Community program.
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