Emmy award-winning journalist and attorney Manny Medrano’s keynote speech at the Justice Speaks event links today’s justice access issues with the late attorney who helped change his family’s life.
Read More »St. Louis pro bono opportunities hit your nearest online search bar
Thousands of St. Louisans call for pro bono assistance every month. Not all of them can acquire help, but attorneys in the metropolitan area can now meet those needs with a simple online search.
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Read More »BCLP attorneys prevail in Hague Convention case for pro bono client
Thanks to the pro bono efforts of a Missouri legal team, a single mom from Mexico was able to hug her kids again, nearly a year after their father transported them to Kansas City without her consent.
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Read More »‘Pro bono in your pajamas’
You don’t have to wear pajamas while volunteering on the website Free Legal Answers — but you can. And some Missouri attorneys do.
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Read More »Big-firm attorneys get pro bono win in insurance dispute
By the time the federal jury returned a verdict on Oct. 17, two large St. Louis law firms had expended hundreds of thousands of dollars in billable hours and approximately $100,000 in costs just to force an insurance company to ...
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Read More »Pro Bono: Tara A. Nealey
Tara Nealey followed an unlikely path to become a shareholder at one of Missouri’s largest law firms. Nealey graduated from Brown University in 1984 with a degree in biomedical ethics. After earning her Ph.D. in physiology and winning the Bartlett ...
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Read More »Pro Bono: Amy Rebecca Johnson
Amy Rebecca Johnson works in a punishing area of law. As a partner at Paule, Camazine & Blumenthal in St. Louis, she practices family law, encountering people during particularly difficult circumstances to navigate: divorces, contentious child-custody agreements, orders of protection. ...
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Read More »Pro bono attorney wins payment for deceased firefighter’s family
An attorney working pro bono secured a federal benefits payment of more than $300,000 for the family of a firefighter killed in the line of duty.
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Read More »New rule in New York allows out-of-state attorneys to offer free services
In-house counsel admitted to practice and in good standing in another state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia will be allowed to perform voluntary legal services on behalf of poor and underserved clients.
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Read More »Legal Services to honor 12 Equal Justice Champions
The 2013 edition of the For the Common Good Annual Awards Reception comes Aug. 28.
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Read More »Vietnam veteran receives long-delayed benefits
Now, after 46 years of trying, a Navy veteran, with the pro bono help of St. Louis attorney Terrence J. O’Toole, two months ago got $250,000.
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