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'No Other Options': Atlanta Law Firms Take On International Child Abduction Matters

Nelson Mullins is among 60 law firms of all sizes in Georgia on a State Department-administered list of firms and lawyers volunteering for the program.
6 minute read

International Edition

Cost of Living, Legal Aid: The Year Law Firms Focused Pro Bono on UK Causes

The economic pressure felt across many households in the U.K. has had an effect on where law firms are dedicating their pro bono efforts.
8 minute read

New York Law Journal

New York State Bar Delays Study of Non-Attorney Counsel to Address Access to Justice

A the recommendation was placed on hold, failing to advance to the floor for a vote because Gross said "we met some degree of opposition" from bar leaders the previous day.
5 minute read

International Edition

Senior Legal Figures Encourage London Lawyers to Undertake Wide-Ranging Pro Bono Work

Lawyers from Latham & Watkins, Orrick, Reed Smith and Fieldfisher joined the Attorney General and Lady Justice Rose to kick-start Pro Bono Week 2023.
4 minute read

International Edition

The Best Law Firms for Pro Bono in the UK, 2023

Law.com International has analysed the numbers to showcase the firms with the most impressive pro bono offerings across the UK.
8 minute read

New Jersey Law Journal

Judiciary Honors 13 New Jersey Attorneys for Pro Bono Work

"Your work not only assisted people in need, offering them a voice, offering them hope, but it also enhanced our system of justice," Chief Justice Stuart Rabner said. "That is because you have served as role models to the entire legal community."
3 minute read

Litigation Daily

Litigators of the Week: A Bankruptcy Win for Sandy Hook Families Against Alex Jones

Lawyers for families of those killed in the 2012 school shooting won rulings finding that litigation debts Jones accrued through "willful and malicious injury" to their clients cannot be discharged through bankruptcy.
10 minute read

Daily Business Review

Balancing Law, Leadership, and Parenthood: Brigid Cech Samole, Chair of Greenberg Traurig's Miami Appeals Group

This year, Cech Samole and her team reversed a Palm Beach County trial court order denying The Palm Beach Post access to Florida grand jury materials involving Jeffrey Epstein.
6 minute read

Daily Report Online

Alston & Bird Takes 'Fresh Look' at Longtime Pro Bono Program

The Atlanta-founded firm has hired its first new manager in decades to help operate the pro bono program.
7 minute read

International Edition

5 DLA Piper Offices Back Peru Debt-for-Nature Swap

The pro bono effort involved advice to four environmental non-profits who helped redirect $20 million in sovereign debt payments toward conservation efforts in the Peruvian Amazon.
3 minute read

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