| Our Los Angeles office's signature pro bono project is the Adoption Project, which was started in 2001. In partnership with The Alliance for Children's Rights, a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting abused and impoverished children who need safe and permanent families, healthcare and education, we have facilitated the adoptions of over 200 children in foster care.
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 | Adoptions
Spring 2007 - L.A. Office Helps to Finalize Foster Adoptions on National Adoption Day Read >>
| |  | California agency grants increased aid for foster care child with special needs
21 February, 2006, Los Angeles -- Chelie and Jose Middleton are the foster parents of a young child with significant health challenges. Despite the child's special needs, since early 2002, the California Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) has repeatedly turned down the Middletons' requests for increased foster care benefits to help them care for the child. Read >>
| | | Scenes from Our First L.A. Office Pro Bono Luncheon
8 July 2004 - The Los Angeles office held its first Pro Bono Luncheon in honor of its several pro bono initiatives. Several members of the Alliance for Children's Rights were in attendance, which is Los Angeles' only non-profit organization devoted solely to helping children living in poverty and foster care. Read >>
| | | Uniting Families
August, 2003 - Los Angeles associate Steven Rich has completed four adoptions in recent months, most recently that of Mason Banks, as part of the Los Angeles office's work on behalf of the Alliance for Children's Rights. Read >>
| | | Making a Difference in a Child's Life
December, 2001 - Incredibly satisfying. That's how former Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Los Angeles partner Todd Stark describes doing pro bono adoption work. "With a relatively minimum time commitment, it is an opportunity to have a tremendous impact upon children and their families' lives," says Todd. Read >>
| | | Family Law
March, 2001 - Teddy Bears and applause are not a Typical part of a court hearing. But they were part of the proceedings on 14 December in finalizing the adoption of 10 Los Angeles County foster children. Initially a few of the children and their adoptive parents nervously watched as Referee Steve Marpet presided over the adoptions at the Ed Edelman's Children's Court in Monterey Park. Read >>
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