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Category: Law Firm Pro Bono

An Asylum Victory for Hunton & Williams

April 1, 2011

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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VIDEO: Judge Robert Katzmann- Pro Bono Visionary

March 16, 2011

In 1995, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Judge Robert A. Katzmann, then in his role at the Brookings Institution, published The Law Firm and the Public Good, a collection of essay compiled to examine pro bono in large law firms.  The book, a must read for the aspiring pro bono champion, looked to make both the moral and business cases for doing pro bono.  More than 15 years later, Judge Katzmann’s book is as relevant as ever as law firms think more strategically about their maturing pro bono programs. Judge Katzmann’s work and commitment to pro bono

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VIDEO: Why LSC Budget Cuts Will Hurt Pro Bono

February 28, 2011

The PBEye was troubled by a proposal in mid-February in the U.S. House to severely cut the budget of the Legal Services Corporation (LSC).  We were then dismayed to learn of House approval of a $70 million cut on Feb. 19, which would be certain to hurt legal services throughout the country. PBI’s President and CEO Esther F. Lardent wrote a column for the March edition of The National Law Journal, explaining how the cuts would have a cascading negative impact on access to justice.  The 136 local legal services programs that receive grants from LSC will have their funding

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VIDEO: Law Firms and Pro Bono Post-Recession

February 23, 2011

PBI is privileged to have such a knowledgeable and experienced lawyer as Jim Jones as chair of its Board of Directors.   Jones, who is senior vice president of Thomson Reuters and Chairman of the Hildebrandt Institute, has been a critical thinker in matters of pro bono and strong advocate in the fight to close the justice gap. Naturally, when Jones stopped by the PBI office for a visit, The PBEye had plenty of questions for him.  But in the interest of being timely (and keeping up with fast-paced online media) we asked him to talk a bit about the direction

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VIDEO: Signature Projects Done Right

January 12, 2011

Our friends at DLA Piper* have worked hard to perfect their pro bono program, and one aspect that they really have a handle on is signature projects.  The PBEye sat down with DLA Piper Pro Bono Partner Elizabeth Dewey to talk about their signature projects program and how it impacts the pro bono work being done by DLA lawyers. Want to learn more about signature projects and how you can implement them at your firm?  The Law Firm Pro Bono Project can help. YouTube Link *DLA Piper (US) is a Signatory to the Law Firm Pro Bono Challenge®

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