 | The List Project Goes Transatlantic
In April 2008, Mayer Brown partnered with The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, a non-profit organization dedicated to helping to resettle those Iraqis whose lives are at risk because of their affiliation with the US military and reconstruction effort in Iraq. One such Iraqi, Mr. O., fled Iraq and ended up in Belgium. Read >>
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| Mayer Brown Lawyers Participate in Brussels Seminars for EU-ACP Trade Negotiators
In November of 2008, Mayer Brown lawyers Paul Olivera and Charles de Jager participated in a series of seminars put on by TradeCom in Brussels, Belgium, and facilitated by Advocates for International Development (A4ID), a UK charity that facilitates free legal assistance to help achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals (http://www.a4id.org/default.aspx). Mayer Brown is a founding member of A4ID. Read >>
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| Crash Course in Trial Advocacy
20 November 2008 - In September of 2007, I was accepted into T-TAP, a trial advocacy program sponsored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association. The goal of T-TAP is to train attorneys and then refer them to local prosecutorial agencies to serve as pro bono criminal prosecutors. Read >>
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| A Different Kind Of Spring Break: Helping The Victims of Hurricane Katrina
I am a third-year student at the University of Chicago Law School and I will be starting as an associate in Mayer Brown's Washington office this fall. Thanks to the generous support of Mayer Brown, I was able to spend my spring break this year volunteering with the Katrina Recovery Office of the Mississippi Center for Justice (MCJ). Read >>
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 | Talking Pro Bono: Marc Kadish Interviews Jim Holzhauer
On February 25, 2008, Marc Kadish interviewed Mayer Brown Chairman Jim Holzhauer about Jim's views on the value and importance of pro bono work to the firm, its lawyer and the community at large, as well as about the changes to the firm's US pro bono policy. The interview appears in the spring 2008 issue of Pro Bono Update. Read >>
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| SKS Innovations Lab: Catalyzing Innovation for Microfinance
Paul Breloff (Real Estate Associate, Chicago)
I spent the last four months of 2007 seconded to SKS Microfinance to help design an "Innovations Lab" to develop new microfinance products and services, and to share the resulting innovations across the microfinance industry. Read >>
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| Advising Litigants with the UK RCJ Advice Bureau
Philippa Casey (Partner, Litigation and Dispute Resolution, London)
I have participated as an honorary legal adviser (HLA) with the Citizens Advice Bureau at the Royal Courts of Justice in London, for more than five years. The RCJ Advice Bureau is a member of the national Citizens Advice organization, which is one of the largest advice-giving networks in the UK, helping people to resolve money, legal, and other problems for free since 1939. Read >>
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| Elpidio "PD" Villarreal Immigration Speech
On October 26, 2006, PD Villarreal, gave a speech at the Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund Gala about his immigrant roots and his view of the "controversy" surrounding current Mexican immigration in the United States. This speech was excerpted in the spring 2007 Pro Bono Update and is presented in its entirety here. Read >>
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| Boosting Legal Aid to Katrina and Rita Refugees
Spring 2006 - The Texas Lend-A-Lawyer program coordinator will recruit the state's major law firms to lend associates on a rotating basis in 2006 to assist in staffing legal aid offices, hot lines and legal referral services in Houston, San Antonio, Austin, Dallas and other Texas cities. Read >>
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| A Conversation with Kara Harchuck
Summer, 2005 - Originally developed for a video interview, the following is a transcript of the discussion between Marc Kadish, Kara Harchuck, and Jewel Thomas. It follows the conclusion of the pro bono project that Kara worked on for The Harvard School in Chicago, IL. Read >>
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 | Philip Lacovara: Legend in the Law
4 January 2005, Washington D.C. - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Senior Counsel Philip Lacovara is featured in the Washington Lawyer's periodic series "Legends in the Law." Read >>
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| National Voices - Work on the 9/11 Commission
Summer, 2004 - Our D.C. partner, Richard Ben-Veniste, is serving on the 9/11 Commission. Richard spoke at last year's Pro Bono luncheon and focused his remarks on the Commission's work. The Commission's report was released on July 22, so we thought that now would be a good time to follow up with Richard for an early look back on the experience. Read >>
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