| Although the image of pro bono work is more traditionally centered within litigation, we are consciously seeking to expand in this area. In the UK, transactional matters are referred by the Solicitors Pro Bono Group via its LawWorks for Community Groups scheme. In the U.S., we work with the Community Economic Development Law Project and Lawyers for the Creative Arts in Chicago and the Lawyers Alliance in New York, as well as regional housing initiatives in North Carolina and Chicago.
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 | Mayer Brown Associate Assists Web 2.0 Micro-Entrepreneur
1 February 2008 - Washington, D.C. associate Derek Schaffner helped a micro-entrepreneur husband and wife team launch an event notification and advertising-based web service. The clients were referred to Mayer Brown through the New York City Bar's Neighborhood Entrepreneur Law Project. Read >>
| | | Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw Pro Bono Client Featured In The Washington Post
Mayer, Brown, Row & Maw pro bono client Nadar Por Vida, and its founder Arthur Lopez, were featured on the front page of The Washington Post's Metro Section (March 18, 2007). Read >>
| | | Building Upon a Dream for a World Class Hospital in Nigeria
Spring 2006 - For more than 30 years, Chicago obstetrician Dr. Godwin Onyema has had a dream to return to Nigeria and create a world-class medical facility in his home state of Anambra, a region which is desperately poor and facing a growing health care crisis. Since immigrating to the U.S. in 1974, Dr. Onyema had been concerned about health care in his homeland. He regularly met informally with fellow physicians, conducted research into health care, and monitored Nigeria's volatile political situation. In 1999, Nigeria transitioned to a democratic government, allowing Dr. Onyema to accelerate his efforts. Read >>
| | | Mobility as a Philosophy
Spring 2006 - The Cambodia Trust was founded in 1989 to provide artificial limbs to Cambodia's thousands of land mine survivors-a common scourge in war-torn countries. In 1989 Cambodia, which is one of the poorest countries in the world, had just emerged from control by Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, and the resultant "Killing Fields," leaving approximately ten million land mines throughout the country, and thousands of amputees. Read >>
| | | Promoting Microfinance
Spring 2006 - Pro bono director Marc Kadish was leaving a conference on non-profit enterprises last July when he was "practically tackled" by Vikram Acula, founder and CEO of SKS Microfinance. Vikram had been trying to get in touch with Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw for a while. As one of the fastest-growing microfinance institutions in the world, SKS Microfinance needed legal assistance to increase SKS's balance sheet flexibility in the face of this unprecedented growth. As luck would have it, Kadish had been seeking out challenging pro bono work for corporate and finance attorneys. The timing was perfect. Read >>
| | | Moving Forward with Supportive Housing
Summer, 2005 - Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw's U.S. real estate, government relations, and labor practices have moved forward on a number of projects with the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH) since launching an initiative in 2004. CSH's mission is to help communities create housing with services to prevent and end homelessness. It provides funding for projects that include counseling, skills training, and other services for the homeless. Approximately 3 million to 3.5 million people are homeless during the course of the year in the U.S. About 250,000 of these are chronic or longterm homeless and the primary focus of CSH's work. Read >>
| | | Consumer Loan Watchdog
Summer, 2005 - Predatory lending practices victimize not only the poor but legitimate financial institutions as well, according to Jon Van Gorp, a partner in our financial services practice. In its attempt to protect vulnerable borrowers from the expansion of payday and predatory lending, the government often responds with overbroad constraints on the consumer credit market that choke off consumer credit. "The enforcement of these highly technical consumer lending rules is generally left to the plaintiff's bar," Jon explains, "which is truly the only beneficiary of increased consumer lending regulation." Read >>
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