April 15 is just around the corner — a day that strikes dread in the stoutest of hearts.  But it needn’t, for a variety of reasons.  Here at The PBEye, we’ve put together a list of pro bono tips to stop dreading tax day. 1.  Participate in an IRS-sponsored VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) clinic for low-income taxpayers, and help low-income taxpayers take advantage of tax credits designed precisely for them. 2.  Sponsor a year-round low-income taxpayer clinic, because the other 364 days get jealous. 3.  Sponsor a year round tax clinic for particularly vulnerable populations who are eligible for

The PBEye is pleased to learn about another exciting pro bono victory!  The New York Law Journal reports that junior-level associates from Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP* along with Yale University law students secured a $650,000 settlement for eight day-laborers who alleged they were the victims of racial profiling and anti-immigrant sentiment. The plaintiffs were among the “Danbury 11,” a group of day-laborers who were arrested in an illegal undercover sting operation in Danbury, Conn.  Michael Wishnie, Yale University Professor and part of Yale’s Worker & Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic approached Gibson Dunn to take on the case.  A team of junior-level associates at Gibson

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