Pro Bono

Our firm is committed to pro bono work on behalf of indigent clients. Our lawyers volunteer our legal services in a wide range of areas, with the same skill and diligence that define our representation of paying clients. Partners and associates participate, and the firm fully commits its support services and other resources.

Recent pro bono matters include:

• Our representation, in federal habeas corpus proceedings and a civil action brought under the Detainee Treatment Act, of two prisoners in military custody at the United States Naval Station at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We have made numerous trips to Guantanamo to counsel our clients.

• Our representation of a Columbia University graduate student who was stopped and detained by plain-clothes police officers who refused to identify themselves, and who was then indicted for multiple felonies after she tried to escape in her car. After a jury trial in Supreme Court in New York County, she was acquitted of the charges.

• Our representation of a prisoner in a Second Circuit appeal from the District Court's denial of a Section 2255 motion challenging his sentence on a Hobbs Act conviction.

• Our representation of an inmate before the New York State Division of Parole in connection with denial of his parole and any appeal of that denial to a New York State Court.