When Morgan, Lewis & Bockius agreed to represent immigrant families seeking a court order releasing them from detention facilities due to COVID-19, senior pro bono trial attorney Susan Baker Manning found herself jumping into the litigation as it was already speeding along.

The motion for a temporary restraining order in the class-action lawsuit was already filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, and the Morgan Lewis team was tasked with the bulk of the work in drafting the reply brief. The same day the brief was filed, Manning was among the attorneys on the phone arguing for the motion.