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Pro Bono
New York City Pro Bono Training Calendar
New York Lawyer
By Thomas Adcock
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The Pro Bono Clinic, launched this spring at Brooklyn Law School, provides eight students the opportunity of working on a variety of cases with Holland & Knight lawyers who make up the firm's Community Services Team.
• Haitian victims of torture, arbitrary detention, extra-judicial killing and crimes against humanity. The victims shared a $4.3 million federal jury verdict. • Mohammed Odeh al-Rehaief, an Iraqi attorney who helped the U.S. military rescue prisoner of war Jessica Lynch in April 2003. He was later granted political asylum in the United States. A former partner in the New York office of Kilpatrick Stockton was named senior vice president of The International Institute for Conflict Resolution on April 15. In her new role, Lorraine M. Brennan will help advance the nonprofit institute to expand its role in resolving complex trans-border commercial disputes. While at Kilpatrick, Ms. Brennan directed the firm's international arbitration group. Previously, she was director of arbitration and alternative dispute resolution for the North American section of the International Court of Arbitration. Ms. Brennan is one of eight U.S. members of the North American 2022 Advisory Committee on Private Commercial Disputes, a member of the American Society of International Law and a visiting professor at Shantou University in Shantou, China. Another specialist in international commercial arbitration, Lucy Reed, was named president of the American Society of International Law, also on April 15. Ms. Reed, a partner with the New York office of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, said her top priorities as the society's 43rd president include "an expanded, continuing legal education program for the many lawyers who are grappling with the implications of a globalizing legal profession, and a project to strengthen understanding and protection of women's human rights." Ms. Reed served on the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission, co-directed the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, that nation's Holocaust tribunal, and was the first general counsel of the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization while serving in the U.S. Department of State as deputy assistant legal adviser for international claims. She succeeds Columbia Law School Professor José Alvarez. First-year students at U.S. law schools have until May 15 to submit application for one of six $10,000 fellowships offered by Reed Smith toward their second-year of schooling. The fellowships are designed for first years who have "demonstrated excellent scholarship while overcoming economic or social adversity," according to Tyree P. Jones, Reed Smith's director of global diversity. In addition to the money grant, the fellowships include paid summer associate positions at nine of the firm's offices - Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, Oakland, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Va., and Falls Church, Va. In applying, students must complete two personal statements: one describing how they overcame significant adversity, the other detailing their involvement in extracurricular and community volunteer work. Applications are available at >www.reedsmith.com. Grants of $5,000 each to five first-year law students under the Diversity Fellowship Program at Boston-based Fish & Richardson were announced late last month. The fellowships include mentoring by Fish & Richardson attorneys and a paid summer associate position in any of the firm's offices. This year's fellows include Diana Santos, a student at Fordham University School of Law who holds a master's degree in biotechnology from the University of Pennsylvania. She will summer at the firm's New York office. In addition, all five of last year's diversity fellows are returning to Fish & Richardson as summer associates, said Nancy L. Stagg, chairwoman of the diversity initiative. Ms. Stagg also said three fellows from previous years have joined the firm as junior associates. Public Interest Projects reports on volunteer projects at the law firms, and the lawyers and public interest agencies involved. Please submit items by e-mail to tadcock@alm.com.
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