Milbank LLP attorneys logged more than 54,000 hours of pro bono work across the firm's 12 offices worldwide in 2023, with 96% of its lawyers in the U.S. volunteering their time. According to Anthony Perez Cassino, the firm's pro bono counsel, it's a commitment to public service work that starts at the top.
Thanks to a technicality in the Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, thousands of youths are stuck in limbo, harmed by the process Congress created to protect them.
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Emma Cueto | January 24, 2021, 8:02 PM EST As the U.S. Supreme Court once again weighs cases involving juvenile sentencing and nonunanimous jury verdicts, Milbank LLP, in conjunction with the Louisiana Center for Children s Rights, has been working on the intersection of both issues in the Pelican State.
The law firm, in a broader pro bono collaboration with LCCR, has been pushing for new sentences for defendants who were given life in prison without parole as juveniles, a sentence the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled is unconstitutional. Milbank and the center have also developed a legal approach to try to void the convictions of juvenile offenders by nonunanimous juries.