Experience 

Marcia Tavares Maack is the Assistant Director of Pro Bono Activities for Mayer Brown LLP.   In conjunction with Marc Kadish, the firm’s Director of Pro Bono Activities and Litigation Training, and Julie Dickins, the Pro Bono Partner in charge of Europe, Ms. Maack is responsible for coordinating the firm’s pro bono program.

Ms. Maack acts as a liaison to the legal services and nonprofit community, develops and selects pro bono opportunities, and ensures a broad range of participation in the firm’s pro bono activities.  She also assists and supervises the firm’s attorneys with their pro bono cases.

Ms. Maack’s pro bono work is concentrated in the areas of international human rights, asylum, and refugee matters.  In addition to numerous other projects, she developed and implemented the firm’s partnership with The List Project to Resettle Iraqi Allies, an organization that helps Iraqi refugees whose lives are at risk because of their affiliation with the US Government’s military and reconstruction effort in Iraq.  Mayer Brown was honored with a 2008 National Law Journal Pro Bono Award for its work with The List Project.

Ms. Maack is a member of the Association of Pro Bono Counsel, and has been a speaker at public interest and pro bono conferences in Peru, Colombia, and Brazil, in addition to the Pro Bono Institute annual conference.  She is fluent in Portuguese and conversant in Spanish.

Before becoming the firm’s Assistant Director of Pro Bono Activities, Ms. Maack was a lawyer in Mayer Brown’s litigation practice group.

Employment 
Mayer Brown LLP, Washington, DC, 1999 to date  •  Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, 1997-1999  •  Staff Attorney, US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, 1996-1997  •  Council on International Educational Exchange, 1987-1992

Education 

Brooklyn Law School, JD, cum laude, 1996 • Cornell University, BA, 1987

Admitted
New York, 1998  •  District of Columbia, 2000