Day: April 1, 2011

An Asylum Victory for Hunton & Williams

Here at The PBEye, we love to hear stories of lawyers doing good, so we were happy to see this story  from the Dallas Business Journal come across our desks earlier this week.  It seems that Steve Leshin of Hunton & Williams LLP* recently represented a client from the Democratic Republic of Congo in an asylum case — and won. Leshin’s client was accused by Congolese government agents of being politically aligned with people from a province in the Congo who are hostile to the government of Kabila. The client was targeted because he hired people from this opposition province as

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