While headline-making litigations like the Defense of Marriage Act case in the U.S. Supreme Court and work for economically challenged criminal defendants continues to hold the attention of BigLaw pro bono counsels, that doesn’t mean the legal industry isn’t finding new avenues for volunteer legal work.
Early this year, a pro bono team from McCarter & English LLP and nonprofit Volunteer Lawyers for Justice helped a woman forced into prostitution get her New Jersey criminal record wiped clean, the first such vacatur order issued since a New Jersey statute went into effect in 2013.