Lawyers from White & Case’s City office work to clear a man’s name in a 30-year-old murder case. Chris Johnson reports

In January 2011, White & Case’s London litigation head John Reynolds was perusing the weekend newspapers at his north London home. An avid reader of crime and detective novels, Reynolds was intrigued by an article in The Observer about the Innocence Project, a non-profit group dedicated to exonerating wrongfully convicted criminals through investigation and forensic testing.