Press Release
| December 13, 2011
Dewey & LeBoeuf Receives Pro Bono Award from Legal Services NYC
(NEW YORK – December 13, 2011) – Dewey & LeBoeuf was recently honored with the Pro Bono Visionary Award from Legal Services NYC (LSNYC) in recognition of the firm's outstanding pro bono efforts and long-standing housing externship with South Brooklyn Legal Services, one of LSNYC's affiliate organizations.
The externship program with South Brooklyn Legal Services has been running for well over two decades, and three of the firm’s partners are past participants of the program.
The award was presented to Partner John Aerni, a former extern, and Scot Fishman, Director of Pro Bono, at LSNYC's annual Pro Bono Recognition Awards Reception. LSNYC also recognized the pro bono efforts of the following individual attorneys: Jeffrey Chubak, Nate Jones, George Mustes, Julia Pizzi, Hugh Sandler, and Joel Wertheimer.
This is just one of many pro bono recognitions Dewey & LeBoeuf received this year. The firm’s pro bono program was ranked #5 among the top 200 grossing law firms in The American Lawyer and was, for the second consecutive year, named as one of the Top Ten Pro Bono Firms of the Year by Law360. Just last month, our Warsaw office received the European Pro Bono Award from the Public Interest Law Network; Partners Junaid Chida and George Williams received the prestigious Cornerstone Pro Bono Award from Lawyers Alliance for New York; and the firm was recognized with The Legal Aid Society’s Pro Bono Publico Award.
To view an article in the New York Law Journal highlighting this award, click here
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