Pro Bono Innovators 2022 Honoree Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld

Your firm worked on key matters such as helping Afghans apply for humanitarian parole, providing legal consultations to migrants at the US/Mexico border, and the remote clinic partnership with Mississippi Center for Justice in helping 50 citizens expunge their records. How did your firm strategize on how to approach these matters?

Our remote legal clinic strategy evolved as we gained more experience serving our client populations remotely. Our first remote effort was a pre-pandemic partnership with Mississippi Center for Justice, helping 50 nonviolent and first-time offenders expunge their records. We used lessons from that clinic to help us build a more expansive clinic ...