Pro Bono Initiatives

Pro bono initiatives developed by Nixon Peabody over the past year include:

  • Election Protection: 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.
  • 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.
  • Guardianships: We are working on guardianship proceedings, referred by LSC, LACY or San Mateo Legal Aid, as part of our pro bono partnership with Intel Corp.
  • Asylum Project: in programs with PAIR, BC Law School, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights, we are helping refugees who have been persecuted in their home countries to win asylum in the U.S.
  • Helping Wounded Veterans: Al Jordan, retired partner in Boston, is spearheading a project designed to help wounded soldiers who have been unable to get proper medical care and disability benefits from the armed services and Department of Veterans Affairs. We had more than one training session for this project. Al is involving lawyers in our Boston, Providence and Manchester offices.
  • Domestic Violence Program: We have teamed up with WEAVE (Women Empowered Against Violence) to represent victims of domestic violence obtain, modify, and enforce restraining orders against their abusers. We provided training to several lawyers and many have taken on matters on behalf of victims of domestic violence.
  • 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.
  • CAIR Coalition: 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.
Boston  •  Chicago  •  Los Angeles  •  London  •  New York  •  Paris  •  Rochester
San Francisco  •  Shanghai  •  Silicon Valley  •  Washington  •  Albany  •  Buffalo  •  Hartford
Long Island  •  Manchester  •  Palm Beach Gardens  •  Philadelphia  •  Providence

Disclaimer | Nixon Peabody International | © 2009 Nixon Peabody LLP
This website contains attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome.