Remembering a “Giant”
April 19, 2012
The PBEye and access to justice community mourn the loss of John G. Brooks this week after the “champion for access to legal services for the poor died Sunday at his home.” Brooks, who was the past president of the Boston Bar Association and partner at Peabody & Arnold, spent his career advocating on behalf of access to legal services. In a tribute to Brooks on its website, the Boston Bar Association notes: In the 1950s, he began a lifetime commitment to pro bono work to improve the delivery of legal assistance for the poor. He became intimately involved in the