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Crime After Crime is a 2011 award-winning documentary film directed by Yoav Potash about the case of Deborah Peagler, an incarcerated victim of domestic violence whose case was taken up by pro bono attorneys through The California Habeas Project.
Mintz Levin's attorneys represent a wide variety of nonprofit organizations and devote pro bono hours in the service of many different causes—such as human rights, civil rights, natural disaster legal assistance. [18] [19] In 1989, the firm established a Domestic Violence Project, which has since become its signature pro bono initiative ...
Nixon Peabody has worked on behalf of a wide range of pro bono clients, including microfinance work [15] veterans' affairs, asylum and immigration cases, domestic violence matters and with various legal aid organizations on a wide range of matters, in some cases as part of a corporate partnership (the firm's Albany office partners with General ...
In its 2023 annual report, the attorney general’s Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board identified 2,241 domestic violence fatalities between 1998 and 2002. The board described the outlook in ...
Its single affiliate, Lawyers Without Borders UK, was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in London, having acquired UK charity status in June 2010. Lawyers from around the world are engaged as volunteers either individually or through their employers (usually either a law firm or an in-house department) who support LWOB as pro bono partners ...
He has received numerous awards for his work including The Pursuit of Justice Award from the California Women's Law Center, The Rollie Mullen Award from Stand for Families Free of Violence, The Domestic Violence Pro Bono Law Award from the Domestic Violence Practicum at UC Berkeley School of Law, the California Coalition for Women Prisoners ...
From 2002 to 2004, she was a staff attorney with the Safe Horizon Domestic Violence Law Project in New York City. From 2004 to 2006, Noti was a clinical law professor at Rutgers School of Law and director of a pro bono program for law students. From 2006 to 2010, she was a clinical law professor at American University’s Washington College of ...
Sanctuary for Families is a New York City-based non-profit organization dedicated to aiding victims of domestic violence and their children. Founded in 1984, its services include crisis intervention, emergency and transitional shelter, legal assistance and representation, adult and child counseling, and long-term follow-up care.