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January 16, 2024 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Wins Asylum for Widow and Young Child Who Fled Taliban-Seized Afghanistan
MoFo recently won asylum for an Afghan woman and her young son, after nearly a year of waiting for the Asylum Office to issue its decision following the asylum interview. The firm’s pro bono client is a widow from a religious and ethnic minority who
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November 01, 2023 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Wins Dismissal for Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness
By: J. Alex Ward, Haydn Forrest, Robin A. Smith, Krista A. Nunez, Roke Iko and Hannah Yang
Morrison Foerster secured a significant victory for its pro bono client, Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness (NMW), obtaining the dismissal of a mining company’s lawsuit that threatened to undo government efforts to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, a million-acre wilderness region known for
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October 24, 2023 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Assists UK Charity in Criminal Appeal to Overturn Wrongful Conviction and Life Sentence
By: Harriet Slater, Hayley Ichilcik and Jacqueline Lee
MoFo recently assisted APPEAL, a UK charity and law practice dedicated to fighting miscarriages of justice, in helping to overturn Andrew Malkinson’s wrongful conviction for rape, for which he spent over 17 years in prison. Malkinson was convicted in 2004 but always maintained his innocence. He
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October 05, 2023 - MoFo Life, MoFo Pro Bono
Doing Meaningful Work: Pro Bono at MoFo – Rodrigo Bermudez
Editor's note: Read about Rodrigo Bermudez, who participated in MoFo’s 2023 Summer Associate Program in our Boston office , in this installment of our MoFo Stories series. As a first-generation immigrant from Colombia, I am passionate about uplifting my community and being present and
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October 05, 2023 - MoFo Life, MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo’s Commitment to Diversity in Its Pro Bono Practice – Meelissa Tapia Cortez
Editor's note: Read about Meelissa Tapia Corte z , who participated in MoFo’s 2023 Summer Associate Program in our San Francisco office , in this installment of our MoFo Stories series. As part of MoFo’s Sponsors for Educational Opportunity program, I felt eager to
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June 26, 2023 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Provides Critical Support to Drag Artists’ First Amendment Right in Tennessee’s “Drag Ban” Ruling
By: Katie L. Viggiani, Victor Lopez and Rachel S. Dolphin
On June 2, 2023, a federal judge determined that a Tennessee law aimed at restricting drag shows is unconstitutional—a timely initial victory for MoFo, which played an important supporting role in the case, as well as for the LGBTQ+ community. The Tennessee statute, commonly
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April 26, 2023 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Team Unites as One to Win Decade-Long Case Against Human Rights Abuses in Haiti
After a decade-long fight for justice, MoFo recently secured a $15.5 million verdict, including $11 million in punitive damages, for our Haitian clients in the 2017 lawsuit Boniface v. Viliena. The high-profile human rights case holds former Haitian mayor and defendant Jean Morose Viliena
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February 27, 2023 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Miami Lawyers Secure Green Cards for Afghan Refugee Family
By: Giselle Caridad Sardiñas
Miami attorneys Giselle Sardinas and Leonela Vaccaro Padron, two volunteers of one of largest pro bono projects in the firm's recent history , successfully aided an Afghan refugee family of six in obtaining their green cards under the special immigrant visa (SIV) program for
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December 15, 2022 - MoFo Pro Bono
MoFo Gives an Assist to Soccer Player Fighting Sex Discrimination
By: Christine Y. Wong and Rachel S. Dolphin
As World Cup matches ignite the dreams of our country’s legion of young soccer players, we proudly share this news of player Noriana Radwan’s successful appeal of the dismissal of her case claiming sex discrimination by the University of Connecticut athletic department. Radwan's case
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November 16, 2022 - MoFo Pro Bono
Human Rights First Honors MoFo for Outstanding Pro Bono Asylum Work
By: Timothy J. Harris, Dorothy L. Fernandez and Jennifer K. Brown
Human Rights First presented Morrison Foerster with the 2022 Marvin E. Frankel Award at the organization’s recent Manhattan gala, recognizing the firm for its outstanding pro bono service to Afghan asylum seekers. MoFo was recognized for its contributions to Project: Afghan Legal Assistance (PALA). PALA
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Topic Archives: MoFo Pro Bono

MoFo Wins Asylum for Widow and Young Child Who Fled Taliban-Seized Afghanistan

MoFo Wins Dismissal for Northeastern Minnesotans for Wilderness

By: J. Alex Ward, Haydn Forrest, Robin A. Smith, Krista A. Nunez, Roke Iko and Hannah Yang

MoFo Assists UK Charity in Criminal Appeal to Overturn Wrongful Conviction and Life Sentence

By: Harriet Slater, Hayley Ichilcik and Jacqueline Lee

Doing Meaningful Work: Pro Bono at MoFo – Rodrigo Bermudez

MoFo’s Commitment to Diversity in Its Pro Bono Practice – Meelissa Tapia Cortez

MoFo Provides Critical Support to Drag Artists’ First Amendment Right in Tennessee’s “Drag Ban” Ruling

By: Katie L. Viggiani, Victor Lopez and Rachel S. Dolphin

MoFo Team Unites as One to Win Decade-Long Case Against Human Rights Abuses in Haiti

MoFo Miami Lawyers Secure Green Cards for Afghan Refugee Family

By: Giselle Caridad Sardiñas

MoFo Gives an Assist to Soccer Player Fighting Sex Discrimination

By: Christine Y. Wong and Rachel S. Dolphin

Human Rights First Honors MoFo for Outstanding Pro Bono Asylum Work

By: Timothy J. Harris, Dorothy L. Fernandez and Jennifer K. Brown