 | Mayer Brown Lauded By Seventh Circuit In Pro Bono Case
28 January 2008 - Associate Tom McGrath and Director of Pro Bono Activities Marc Kadish were lauded by the Seventh Circuit in a recent opinion in which the court reversed a district court opinion denying a petition to vacate the sentence of our client. Read >>
| | | Mayer Brown Lawyers Win Social Security Disability Appeal
In a case assigned by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Rick McCombs and Therese King won an appeal on behalf of an indigent, disabled woman seeking Social Security disability benefits. The woman, a life-long resident of Chicago, sustained severe back and knee injuries in a car accident while driving a van for her employer. Until the accident, the woman had worked steadily at physically-taxing jobs, such as mail delivery services, and had led an active life. After the accident, despite months of physical therapy, she was largely home-bound, unable to drive, stand or walk for prolonged periods of time. With no means of financial support, she relied largely on her family's kindness to survive. Read >>
| | | Pro Bono Efforts Ensure Effect of Voter Referendum
The Chicago Edgewater community was finally able to put into effect a "vote dry" that had been approved by a referendum vote in 2003, thanks to the efforts of Chicago counsel Patricia Sharkey. The vote dry prohibited the sale of alcohol in the community, except for incidental restaurant sales, and was intended to counteract crime and increasing problems due to public drunkenness, drug dealing, and prostitution that circled around the neighborhood's two liquor stores. Read >>
| | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw files amicus brief in al-Marri v. Wright on behalf of former senior Justice Department officials, including former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno
15 December 2006 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw LLP attorneys James Schroeder, Gary Isaac, and Heather Lewis filed an amicus brief in the Fourth Circuit in Al-Marri v. Wright on behalf of eight former Justice Department officials, including former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno and Mayer, Brown senior counsel and former U.S. Deputy Solicitor General Philip Lacovara, advocating against the government's indefinite detention of terrorism suspects arrested and held in the United States. Read >>
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