Olga Akselrod, at left, the director of intake and evaluation for the Innocence Project, and two members of the Innocence Project’s board, Weil partner Steven Reiss and Skadden partner Vered Rabia, celebrated the elimination of the Innocence Project’s application backlog at an event at Weil on Sept. 6, 2019.
The two Am Law 100 firms and the Innocence Project are close to clearing the group's backlog of thousands of requests for assistance.
October 04, 2019 at 01:55 PM
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The original version of this story was published on The American Lawyer
The Innocence Project, an organization that uses DNA evidence to exonerate people who have been wrongly convicted, is close to marking a major milestone, clearing a backlog of more than 5,000 applications for help.
Playing a key role in the effort were hundreds of lawyers at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and Weil, Gotshal & Manges who have clocked 60,000 hours reviewing prisoners’ questionnaires over the past four years.
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