Pro Bono Innovators 2022 Honoree Mayer Brown

Your firm’s work included a September 2021 win in the US District Court for the Southern District of California that held the United States has a duty to inspect and process asylum seekers at ports of entry. You also helped to evacuate 150 Afghan female students to the US a month earlier. How did your firm strategize on how to approach these matters? 

In the asylum access matter, we worked closely with the nonprofit organizations with whom we partnered to strategize about factual development and legal theories. Fact discovery was key to our success in establishing what the government had been doing at the ...