| In the Spring of 1999, we initiated our Seventh Circuit Project, accepting appointments from the Seventh Circuit to handle appeals on a pro bono basis. We recently expanded this project to include appeals from the National Immigrant Justice Center in immigration and asylum matters. To date, we have accepted appointments and referrals in over 100 cases, and donated more than 35,000 hours to the project. We believe that this project is a perfect example of the relationship between pro bono and training. Associates in all of our offices have handled these appeals, and we deliberately choose cases so that a lawyer will be able to write a brief and handle the oral argument. We assign an experienced brief writer to supervise, and each argument is "mooted" before a group of experienced writers. We also have a paralegal who works with the project and provides assistance throughout all stages of the representation.
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 | Seventh Circuit Report
The Seventh Circuit Project is Mayer Brown’s most significant firmwide pro bono litigation project. As of December 31, 2008, the cutoff date for this report, the firm had accepted 117 appeals in the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, which covers Wisconsin, Illinois and Indiana. Read >>
| |  | Mayer Brown Lawyers Demonstrate Deficient Performance of Appellate Counsel
Pro bono client Brett Stallings is headed back to district court for a possible sentencing rehearing thanks to the efforts of Mayer Brown associate Heather Martin, who received the case through the firm's Seventh Circuit pro bono project. Read >>
| | | Trial Permitted for Pro Bono Client Claiming Negligent Healthcare and Malpractice
29 July 2008 - Mayer Brown pro bono client Diego Gil, a federal prisoner in Oxford, Wisconsin, will be permitted to bring suit against a prison doctor, a physician's assistant and the United States for negligence and malpractice under the Federal Tort Claims Act and for the deliberate indifference of prison medical staff to his medical needs in violation of his Eight Amendment rights. Read >>
| | | Mayer Brown Wins Release of Wrongfully Incarcerated Prisoner
Thanks to the efforts of Mayer Brown partner Dan Himmelfarb and associate Andrew Brisker, on June 16, 2008, the US District Court for the Southern District of Indiana issued a writ of habeas corpus ordering the release of the firm's pro bono client, Angel Morales, who had spent almost 10 years in federal prison. Read >>
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