Pro Bono Initiatives
Pro bono initiatives developed by Nixon Peabody over the past year include:
- Katrina Fellowship: The firm is sponsoring an Equal Justice Works fellow, who is currently working at the Mississippi Center for Legal Services in two communities that were ravaged by Katrina. We also sponsored a conference focused on redevelopment issues after Hurricane Katrina.
- Cross-office initiatives:
- In in our New York, San Francisco, and Washington, DC, offices, over twenty of our lawyers staffed voter election hotlines during the November election and helped to answer legal questions of disenfranchised voters.
- Lawyers from several offices created a manual to help residents in the Gulf Coast region to better understand Mississippi’s Homeowner Assistance Grant Program.
- During the floods in upstate New York last summer, ten lawyers and paralegals from our New York offices created a legal handbook for flood victims.
- Micro-Entrepreneurship Programs: This initiative provides a great opportunity for our nonlitigators to do pro bono work. Lawyers from our Business, Technology, Intellectual Property, Real Estate, and Employment groups provide practical legal advice to low-income businesses struggling to get their businesses off the ground.
- Clinics: Our Trusts and Estates lawyers are now involved in wills clinics in Rochester and Boston, and several lawyers in Rochester and San Francisco are involved in housing clinics. In DC, many of our lawyers volunteer for the DC Bar Association Law Firm Clinic, advising low-income clients.
- Pro bono retired partners program: We structured a program supporting retired partners in providing pro bono services after they have retired.
- In Washington, DC, several lawyers are involved in the CAIR Coalition’s program representing immigration detainees in prison. We also developed an extensive affordable housing initiative.
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