Describe your firm’s philosophy on pro bono service.  Simpson Thacher lawyers devote thousands of hours each year to pro bono engagements ranging from major impact litigations to representing individuals in immigration, housing, criminal and family law matters. The firm also has a longstanding practice forming and supporting small businesses and nonprofit organizations. Simpson Thacher is as well known for achieving extraordinary victories that right long-standing injustices, as it is for advocacy on behalf of marginalized and vulnerable clients.

What are the two biggest cases your firm worked on in 2019? Tell us more about those cases and how you reached the outcome.  1) We secured a landmark, first-of-its-kind consent decree in Brown v. Madison County, a class action lawsuit filed by Simpson Thacher, the [American Civil Liberties Union] and ACLU of Mississippi, challenging racially-motivated policing tactics by the Madison County Sheriff’s Department in Mississippi. Achieved after 2½ years of litigation, the consent decree requires the department to reform its policies and practices with respect to checkpoints and pedestrian stops and is subject to verification by a community oversight board.