Revelations that a Pennsylvania judge was ­sending juvenile offenders to private prisons in exchange for kickbacks shocked the nation. Since 2009, Hangley Aronchick Segal Pudlin & Schiller has been part of a team of lawyers representing thousands of juveniles and their families seeking justice.

Last year, a federal district judge in Scranton, Pennsylvania, approved a $4.5 million settlement with the co-owners of the facilities, the latest in a series of multimillion-dollar settlements related to the scandal.